"You take me off your call list the next time the ambulance picks you up and wheels you through that door!" BITCH YOU ARE OFF THE CALL LIST GUS GOT CALLED DURING THE BIKE ACCIDENT NOT YOU AND HE DIDN'T EVEN TELL YOU IT HAD HAPPENED WHEN HE ROCKED UP WITH A BUSTED LEG TO BUILD YOUR STUPID DOGHOUSE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HENRY SPENCER I HATE YOUR ASS
Shawn's drawing was rushed. So, it's not as put together as Lassie's. It's felt very stressed lately so I'm sorry his is so rushed. But enjoy some more Shassie art!! 💛💛💛
lassie is still my beloved.
(Totally am not working on more Cowboy shassie (maybe even Gus) to draw rn as we speak. Definitely not. I will also be sketching more House MD/Ethical Omens MD art. I’ve been all over the place. Lol.)
The like… main rift between Shawn and Henry is the Divorce and then kind of secondly Henry’s high expectations for Shawn (which again blew up in the Divorce)
Shawn feels he can’t ever be good enough, Henry knows how good he can be — but they are BOTH pretty allergic (in different ways) to expressing themselves (Henry is all Gruff Cop Dad and Shawn can’t be serious to save his life, sometimes literally)
When they’re together though, even from season 1, they…. Get along pretty well. They like each other even— Shawn jokes about it, you can tell in all the flashbacks and in present day Henry just likes his kid (which is different! Than love!)
Like did Henry get everything right??? Obviously not. And it’s understandable the ways he got things wrong— he doesn’t really seem to have a support system or a good model of fatherhood even— he’s doing a lot of this on his own and he has a (let’s be entirely honest) particularly difficult child - so like are there things he could have done better?? Absolutely. I think Henry would agree with that even!
But… the idea that he was …. Abusive … or shouldn’t be around kids… is … just not there for me
I do think it's funny that they thought they had to concoct Fake Reasons for Shawn to be put into a mental institution. First of all the Psychic thing alone would work, BUT aside from that there's
the complete and total disregard for personal safety that they can claim is passive suicidal tendencies (cough cough)
the obsessive lying that even people who don't know he's not psychic can see he engages in with enthusiasm
the Double Whammy Combo Daddy And Mommy Issues
the inability to comprehend what Boundaries are for both others and himself (seriously, is it possible to overstep with Shawn beyond literally actually being 1 second away from killing someone he loves? Clearly trying to kill him is not a disqualifier from friendship for him)
the inability to stop severely masking everything unpleasant/engage with his own strong emotions without something Severe forcing him to
The Manipulation and Puppermastering (how funny would it have been for Lassie to hear Shawn's "cover story" is that he's a genius manipulator and scoff about it because "Spencer just gets lucky," and then watch through the cameras and such as Shawn wraps the whole damn staff and patients around his finger but Lassie STILL CAN'T PROVE SHAWN DOES THAT TO FAKE HIS PSYCHICNESS BECAUSE IT MEANS ADMITTING HE'S A GENIUS)
The eidetic memory- imagine they put him in and don't tell him at first that there's cameras and such watching him and the staff hit Shawn with a "So we hear you can't forget anything and have witnessed multiple murders and are suffering from some PTSD because of it such as repression, dissociative episodes, disreguard for personal wellbeing..." and Lassie and Jules slowly realize watching "Oh shit wait... that's Real actually."
Anyway. We all know His Brain Is Fucked so I don't have to keep going on but I gotta say, I think a lot about how interesting it would've been for Shawn to be fighting to solve the case while avoiding being Actually Therapized For His Actual Issues as much as possible and Gus is kinda like "Shawn, maybe try to embrace this a little, they're not wrong."
"Gus, one of these people is working with a murderer to drug a witness!"
"But they're right about you hiding a lot of pain behind jokes-"