#Shawn Spencer

[is-that-sand-in-my-waffles]

There's "committing to the bit" and then there's whatever the fuck Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster were doing on television every week from 2006-2014

[carlton-lassie-lassiter]

[triplem-mmandm]

When I saw this Japanese meme I had to draw as Shawn.

[bilgisticallykosher]

Why does your style work so well for them, oh my god. Gus's expressions are so good, you captured those runs really well!

I never noticed Shawn's run. Gus's for sure. Also, the boneless bit is the stupidest bit, it's so dumb, and it kills me every freaking time, it's so funny.

detective activities

[assiraphales]

thinking about how shawn spencer literally had dozens of jobs and could have dozens more / could topple world governments or be a poker playing millionaire or a special agent / but everything is so BORING and NO FUN until he pretends to be a psychic so he can play detective every day of his life with his best friend and suddenly he is COMMITTED

[centipede-rain]

Okay, there’s quite a few posts about Shawn’s super obvious crush on Pierre Despereaux.

Which is awesome. But how come I never see posts about how much Pierre clearly loves the way Shawn feels about him?

He may not say anything, but his expression says it all. His self satisfied smirk whenever Shawn compliments him, calls him the coolest man alive or whatever other things his infatuated mind can come up with. The way he melts at the way Shawn looks at him, amused and flattered and so so appreciative.

And it’s clearly important to him too, not just a nice bonus. He wants, needs Shawn to adore him, to a point where he risks a lot to escape from prison for one more job. He doesn’t need the money, he’s filthy rich. It really is just to impress Shawn, to prove he really is all Shawn thought him to be. A goal he openly admits to Shawn, to his face. After having spent a lot of. money to have him come to visit him.

Now, yeah, he uses Shawn to escape from prison - but impressing Shawn is also the only reason he does that in the first place.

So - he might like to act detached, but Pierre is absolutely not normal about Shawn either. He is allowing and enabling Shawn’s teenage girl crush completely.

[pineapplepluto]

Psych 1x01 Pilot

They're paying you to play video games?

[redhoodmybeloved]

wait I've never actually seen this one because I used to be too scared and just recently started rewatching but HOLY QUACK AM I EXCITED

Tuesday the 17th is truly the episode of all time. Shawn, Gus, and Jules are having a wild fake-murder-into-real-murder summer camp adventure in the A plot while Lassie gets divorced in the B plot. There is no overlap between the two plots, no thematic ties that make it cohesive. Just a silly, wacky mystery that occasionally cuts to a sad guy sitting sadly at a table.

[t0ast-ghost]

Changed my background and I think it’s perfect

[kosmikowboj]

you know now knowing that as kids shawn played bassoon and gus played clarinet it’s truly criminal there was never an episode involving a local symphony orchestra. like, one of the principal musicians dies—call it the principal flutist—and foul play is suspected, so shawn convinces the chief to let them go undercover. gus is still using his old clarinet, but henry got rid of shawn’s bassoon like ten years ago so shawn makes the department rent him a really nice one. lassiter’s huge qualm this episode is that he thinks shawn and gus are making a mockery of the beauty that is classical music. shawn actually feels very strongly about the case because one of the pieces they’re performing has a majestic bassoon solo that he was supposed to play in the eighth grade until he got stiffed for first chair. gus and jules are the only ones being normal.

lassie and jules end up arresting the second chair flute player because it seems like a jealousy case, but shawn isn’t convinced. he goes down the rabbit hole and uncovers this crazy romance subplot about how the principal bassoonist and the principal flutist were sleeping together, but then the flutist slept with someone else in the orchestra—call it a percussionist (they’re always doing that)—and so he killed her. shawn claims he learned this through the instruments speaking to him. the high stakes moment of the episode is when the bassoonist tries to kill the percussionist, but our fave crew end up saving the day.

the episode ends with shawn and gus playing in the concert and shawn doing the bassoon solo since the principal was arrested for murder. biggest plot twist of all is that he actually sounds pretty good.

another random note is that lassie has it out for the second chair flute because he used to play oboe when he was younger and got relentlessly bullied by the flutes. shawn finds this out and forces bonding between the two of them by sharing his bassoon trauma. lassie does not seem to care. because the percussionist gets injured in the scuffle near the end of the episode, shawn convinces the orchestra director to let lassie play the triangle in the concert. later on in the series, there’s a throwaway line about how shawn can’t get ice cream with gus after a case because he’s busy. there’s a honk outside the psych office and shawn jogs out, gets in lassie’s car, and they go to community orchestra together.

oh also the henry subplot of the episode is that he and the director of the orchestra go way back for some reason and that’s the only reason that shawn and gus are allowed to go undercover. shawn is pissed at henry for getting rid of his bassoon and henry tries to turn it into a lesson about responsibility that is immediately undermined by the department renting one for him.

do you see my vision

[wood-row]

THANK YOU!!! abuse is non linear! also building on that shawn would not have been in a position where he needed the car trunk knowledge if henry hadnt been Like That!

imagine sucking all the fun out of your childs life; teaching them rigorously how to be a cop, only to ruin their ability to be one to "teach them a lesson!" of course shawn gets himself into situations because henry burned the Thirst for Justice into shawn and then took away all the safe, legal options for him to pursue that.

also... humiliation. henry cares for shawn and loves him but he is CONSTANTLY putting shawn down, thrashing him in front of his peers. no wonder hes so dramatic about everything, hes dying for positive reinforcement!!

Just saw a post that I otherwise loved but it ended with “[Shawn Spencer’s] tragic backstory is that his parents got divorced” and. No. His tragic backstory is that he was abused.

I can absolutely see why a lot of people wouldn’t get that, because

a) Henry is a main character on the show and largely a protagonist and is, like, engaging and often likable, and the cognitive dissonance of all that being true, while it is also true that he abused another main character, is… a lot.

b) He clearly genuinely cares about Shawn, and if you don’t have personal experience with the complicated dynamics of abuse, that can easily make you assume he must not have been abusing him.

c) Henry genuinely does think he’s doing this for Shawn’s own good (note: this is a very common thing for abusers to think).

d) The way that he abused Shawn isn’t the way we’re used to seeing abuse portrayed in fiction, which can make it harder to recognize.

But, like, they do occasionally do things to remind you that while this isn’t how you’re used to abuse looking, it is absolutely abuse. Remember him stuffing Shawn in a car trunk, while a neighbor looks on horrified (and it being indicated that he did this repeatedly)?

(That episode’s a great example of points a, b, and c at the same time, though, because in the same episode as we see something that’s quite recognizably and blatantly abusive, we see Henry as an action hero rescuing Shawn, very clearly caring about Shawn’s well-being, and the abuse being retroactively justified by Henry and the narrative because it taught Shawn how to do action hero things.)

But the thing is, like, this is actually pretty important to know for real life: abuse can look a lot of different ways; abusers often genuinely believe they’re doing it for the victim’s own good; abusers often genuinely care about their victims; abusers are often otherwise good people and often likable and often people you know and don’t think of as Bad Abusive Villains.

And that doesn’t make it not abuse.

[autogen-brainrot]

i love that for as weird and fucked up as Woody can be, he is canonically a genius in forensics.

Like this pan, poly, cuckholded, pathetic, lives in a trailer, flirts with his boss (whose long term marriage and pregnancy he was supposedly fully unaware of for like 2 years), absolute mess of a man really is the best corner one could ever possibly get in California.

This man is so good someone committed murder and framed someone else just to try to prove they could be as good as him, not even better than him.

TLDR; i love you Woddy, even with your 356700 metric tons of kinks and baggage

[likeafantasy]

PSYCH REWATCH — 1.11 He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead! ❝We're gonna roll up our sleeves, we're gonna get a little bit dirty, and do some old fashioned police work.❞

[shawnaise]

how long do you think shawn spends crying on gus’ shoulder due to self-worth issues from henry? how many times has gus deconstructed unhealthy thinking patterns shawn developed from constantly being told that he wasn’t enough or wasn’t trying hard enough? sad part is, I’m sure shawn finds himself defending the mannerisms and teachings of his father that’s he’s unknowingly adopted because it’s all he’s ever experienced. to have something like that be inherently wrong in your core developmental years? it changes you. it makes you lie, it makes you loud, it makes you act like somebody you’re not because you’ve been told your whole life that what you are isn’t enough. i think gus has to hold him together for hours in a gentle hug just to make sure the pieces stick together. i think even then, he’s not sure how many more times shawn can take being belittled before he’s unrecognizable.

[sirtristan74]

I feel like Juliet and Shawn should be on here too

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