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Hello! Well… somehow I ended up revealing that I'm Korean… but it doesn't matter!

To answer your question, Shameless isn't all that famous in my country. It's somewhat known among fandoms that are specifically into foreign shows and movies, but that's about it. And Gallavich is even less known than that. I'm not gonna lie, I might literally be the only person in my country stanning Gallavich this intensely right now… lol.

I think there was a decent amount of fans back when the show was actually airing. But right now? Yeah, there's no one… There are a few people who might say "I like Gallavich" and mention them occasionally, but I'm the only one who has my life completely mortgaged to them like this. That's actually why I came to Tumblr. I saw other people talking about Gallavich, and I just desperately wanted to talk about them too haha.

As for how I discovered them… one day, out of nowhere, I just really wanted to watch some queer media. So I was digging through OTT platforms like Netflix, and I found a show about "King James I's male lover and his mother," and watched a bit of it. (I don't remember the title..) But it wasn't really my thing so I turned it off pretty quickly. Then I went to a Korean community for foreign entertainment fans to search for that show, and somehow? I stumbled upon a promo post for Gallavich in a "Let me pitch my ship to you!" thread.

The keywords in the post were things like: enemies-to-lovers, younger top/older bottom where the younger one literally grows up and gets way bigger, pretty top/feisty bottom (with their dynamics reversing later), and "they get married."

and after seeing gifs like the one above, I got so intrigued and looked into them. I thought there was no way this wasn't my exact type, so I started watching the show with a light heart. (Thankfully, it was available on a local streaming service.)

But as I kept watching, I realized watching it "lightly" wasn't an option at all lol. Honestly, I've never been this obsessed with a couple from an American show or movie before… Anyway, this and that happened, and that's how I ended up on Tumblr. Honestly if there had been a solid Gallavich fandom established in my home country I probably wouldn't have come as far as "writing posts" here. (I probably would've just lurked.)

Actually, way before any of this, when I knew nothing about Shameless, I had seen a gif from the show that went viral as a meme in Korea. Looking back while watching the show myself, I realized it was that scene where Frank comes in for a counseling session because of Carl's school bullying. During its original run, I think random clips like that floated around a bit as memes. And after Gallavich became endgame, there was definitely a bit of a fandom here. But right now, there's practically no one, which makes me sad too!