You can never have enough precision in your soup

slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand

Like I have no issue with Trevor as a character and I think he would have made a great friend for Ian, I think Ian really could have used some queer friends, especially whilst trying to rebuild his life post-diagnosis and post-mickey's imprisonment but the second Trevor and Ian got romantic????

Trevor never understood Ian.

I keep thinking about how Trevor defended Monica and acted like Ian's attitude towards her wasn't deserved. I keep thinking about how Trevor called Ian a twink, like it was nothing, almost like it was an endearment.

Ian was preyed upon by older men. Ian became a sex worker because he was hypersexual and unmedicated/undiagnosed. Monica encouraged that behaviour.

And Mickey beat the fuck out of a guy who called Ian a twink. Mickey said "is that all you think he is?". Mickey knew it was too much to handle alone and Ian needed professional help when he learned Ian did a porno.

Mickey stopped Ian from killing Kenyata and that priest, despite the fact Mickey comes from a family who don't shy away from murder and he wanted to kill them himself. He stopped Ian because he knew it wasn't what Ian really wanted.

Mickey always tried so hard.

He wasn't always right. He was often overwhelmed and stubborn and ill-informed, but from the second he committed to Ian, he always considered Ian's feelings and what Ian needed.

Lip said Ian went crazy when Mickey was around. Fiona said Mickey would set a match to his life.

But canonically Mickey has acted as Ian's impulse control more than anyone else. Ian's most extreme episodes and lowest points have occurred when Mickey wasn't there to help.

After Noel's exit from the show, they tried to paint Mickey as abusive, despite the fact Ian almost always threw the first punch or goaded Mickey into a fight after he'd tried to walk away.

I will always be bitter towards the writers for how they tried to demonise and erase Mickey as if he isn't an essential part of Ian's narrative.

If the bias wasn’t there they would have had a scene with Debbie ,for example, giving Ian a different perspective and telling him to run off. I mention her because she seems more the type to value romance in that way.