I'll just be in my little corner, don't mind me :)

[beautiful-wickedness]

Gus: What's your blood type?

Shawn, bleeding out: How would I know?

Gus: How would you not?

Shawn: Who am I, Karl Landsteiner, discoverer of blood groups?

Gus: You don't know your own blood type but you know who discovered them?!?!

[bubblymochicat]

There is no one who hates a locked in Shawn Spencer more than Burton Guster. Every time Shawn is serious about something Gus is just in the corner like, "Heeeeeey buddy, heeeeeey 🥹. You wanna go get some tacos? Tacos might make you feel better. Heeeey buddy it's okay 🥹," he hates when his bestie isn't acting silly

[ghostflorist]

Psych 2006 is a beautiful beautiful thing because I can get my fix of silly buddy cop procedural without the usual guilt of copoganda because the police in psych can’t get anything done right without their manic pixie dream psychic and his tap-dancing best friend

[assiraphales]

the thing that anyone who shawn & gus date need to realize or the relationship will never work is that they will always come second to whatever it is that these two got going

[msjademarvel3]

[mycroftrh]

I could write a dissertation about this and instead only have time for a few paragraphs but. Looking back on Psych with more knowledge about neurodiversity and how people feel about actually being around folks with neurodiversity-related traits…

I have a LOT of feelings about how Gus has so many of the autistic (and some ADHD) traits that people find annoying and grating and get pissed off about (correcting people, infodumping, dropping special interests into unrelated conversations, rigidity in folllowing rules, etc) and Shawn has so many of the ADHD (and some autistic) traits that people find annoying etc (physical and verbal hyperactivity, jumping between tasks and jobs and so forth, habitual lying, interrupting in conversation, etc), BUT

With each other they sort of… build their relationship around those things, instead of treating them as Problems. Gus corrects incorrect things and Shawn forgets correct things (or habitually lies or etc) so they build an entire recurring bit around the situation where those traits intersect (“I’ve heard it both ways”) that turns it from a source of conflict into a shared in-joke ritual. When Shawn starts up one of his elaborate lies Gus immediately swings into commit to the bit back-up mode. Shawn treats Gus’s infodumping as a social strategy.

They balance each others’ extremes without genuinely resenting each other for needing that. Gus is overly rigid about rule-following, Shawn is overly impulsive about rule-breaking, and they pull each other towards a more sustainable middle ground. Gus is overly fond of routine and risks stagnation, Shawn is overly prone to starting and then abandoning things, between them they’re able to form a life that’s interesting and includes novelty but isn’t unlivably chaotic. (We see what happens with that one when they’re not together to balance each other out! During the time they were apart, Shawn had a jillion jobs and quit all of them, while Gus became a dead-eyed pharmaceutical salesman with zero, like, Upward Mobility.)

And then of course there are the traits they share! They both clearly have echolalia and a drive to stim, for instance, and instead of policing each other they just periodically break into random dances and vocal exercises and “singing” and general sensory-seeking nonsense together, matched to each other.

I just??? The fact that they visibly display all those autistic and ADHD traits that drive other people crazy but instead of being a wedge between them that’s exactly why they’re perfect for each other… and how it’s not that it doesn’t ever cause them annoyance because they’re just like naturally soulmates who never get annoyed by anything about each other, but that they’ve worked out rituals and strategies so that what maybe bothered them in the past now instead is a shared bonding activity, or acts to balance their weaknesses against each other…

Just. Got Dam, that’s the dream

[we-r-robin]

Love Psych for having Shawn Spencer be both a fake psychic and raging skeptic.

Like in the span of ten minutes he goes “OH THE SPIRITS ARE TELLING ME HER SOCKS WERE BLUE” and then tell Gus that ghosts aren’t real and he’s being hysterical.

[starfish-spencer]

They just don't want him getting left out 🥺

[morphean42]

I have a lot of feelings about Psych. A black male lead that doesn’t fall into stereotypes. A cop-adjacent show that doesn’t prop up the police as infallible or even necessarily good. A genuinely compelling m/f romance that wasn’t forced. Not textually queer but the undercurrent of queerness isn’t treated like a joke (mostly). A complicated father-son relationship that doesn’t paint either party as irredeemable. A cast of main characters that are clearly neurodivergent but are accepted with love. A comedy show that doesn’t shy away from serious emotions when it needs to.

I have a lot of feelings about Psych.

[theboost]

The great thing about Gus is that he perfectly oscillates from playing the annoyed straight man to Shawn’s general insanity to yes-anding to an insane degree. For every moment where he says no Shawn, you did not hear that both ways there’s a moment where he, with no prompting, claims that his fictitious grandmother with a broken hip was teaching a line dancing class. For every time he says Shawn, stop messing around at work, there is a time where after Shawn says he’s been “looking at the man in the mirror”, Gus, in a move that never ever fails to make me laugh, with a completely straight face and no impact on the conversation, does the Michael Jackson “he-he”. He’s insane. He thinks he’s normal. He does 11 point turns. He’s a sympathetic crier.

[sidlingmooselike]

"I asked ChatGPT"

Well I asked Shawn Spencer and he pressed his fingers to his temples and said he was getting a vision

[plasticlibrary]

One of the benefits of watching psych (2006) is that in most shows with a weird protagonist you find yourself asking why are you like this but in psych you don't do that because you just saw. You just saw 10 minutes ago at the start of the episode when Henry was putting him in a trunk

[waldos-art]

From @tentakrool: simon and ryland cuddled up in a bed reading a book about ocean creatures <3

Ugh I love them being cuddly and cute! Maybe don't read that chapter aloud though, Ryland....

[djpachipikachu]

sickening… hashtag when you autisticallt infodump and then your boywhatever the fuck is so overcome w/ adoration for you he HAS to interrupt you to do something gay. tch…

close ups below

[egg-ify]

oh to be looking longingly into ryland graces eyes

[deermus]

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[fourdogsinatrenchcoat]

Drew something really fast about Gimli’s hair turning white but Legolas still likes it 🙄 whateverrrr 🙄🙄🙄 don’t care about them 🤢