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And if you look to the right, you'll see Shawn Spencer displaying a sobering blend of fear for his best friend's safety + disappointment that he can no longer daydream about climbing Tommy Nix like a tree without feeling even weirder about it than he did already.

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concept:

When Abigail said this,

she wasn't joking or teasing them. Everything did make sense. At last, there was a good explanation for why Shawn would make such an elaborate performance of hitting on her, only to vanish at the last minute. Not a good explanation in the sense of a moral excuse, of course—he still hurt her, which was wrong—but a good explanation of cause and effect. If he was attracted to a guy (or guys) and/or not attracted to girls, and he was trying to hide that from himself and/or others, hitting on a girl was a good way of doing that, but actually dating a girl could have felt like a step too far, so that could be why he chickened out.

But then they immediately told her they weren't actually dating, so she was back at square one, in which Shawn was just a callous dickhead for standing her up.

Okay, now we've gotten the sincere analysis of canon events out of the way, let's move on to the wild imagination portion of the post.

Before Shawn explained what had really happened, this was Abigail's thought process:

She knows that it's not nice to use people like that, but she does understand why you would do it, because she's been there. She does like guys, but she's been in a position before where she was worried people would figure out she didn't only like guys, especially when she had feelings for a specific non-male individual. There was a lot of pressure to pick a boy and put on a show of being attracted to him, and even though she knew it wasn't fair to the boy in question, it still felt safer than doing nothing.

She had been repeatedly tempted to do that in high school. She had even considered using Shawn for it, because it wouldn't have taken much effort to give in to his enthusiasm and just play along. It would probably even be fun! It wasn't that she wasn't into him at all, because she was, but somebody else was at the forefront of her mind. Eventually, she had to accept that the other person was out of the picture, so there was no longer any reason not to explore her feelings for Shawn. Then he stood her up, which completely fucked her self-esteem.

Fifteen years later, after they finally gave it another shot and eventually went their separate ways, she was glad for the closure. If she could go back to 1995, though, there were a lot of things she would have done differently.

tl;dr i'm gonna write abigail lytar/trish connors fanfic and nobody can stop me

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my thesaurus search history after writing psych fic

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*You're: extended version

The original story, as posted on AO3.

"Dad, there's something I should tell you," Shawn said. He leaned forward, elbows resting on his knees, clasping his hands. "I'm bisexual."

Henry scoffed and turned the page of his newspaper. "Sure you are, kid."

"I didn't want to say anything for a long time, because I didn't think it was anyone's business, but—wait, what?" He frowned. "You don't believe me?"

"Of course I do. Why shouldn't I?" Henry said sarcastically. "You've never said anything to me as a joke, or as a trick, or because you think it's true right now but five minutes later you change your mind."

"Dad, I'm not joking," Shawn insisted. "I'm trying to come out to you and you're turning it into a roast? What kind of parenting is that?"

"Shawn, I've already accepted that whatever kind of parenting I tried with you must have completely failed. I mean, look how you turned out."

Shawn exhaled sharply. He thought he was past caring about Henry seeing him as a disappointment, but that still stung.

After a few moments of awkward silence, Henry sighed and put the paper down. "What makes you think you're bisexual?"

Shawn raised an eyebrow. "Uh, it's pretty straightforward. No pun intended," he said. "I like women and I also like men."

"Really? How come you've never dated one?"

"Who says I haven't?" Shawn protested.

Henry gave him a challenging look. "Have you?"

Shawn deflated slightly. "No," he admitted. "But that's not because I'm not interested."

"Interested," Henry repeated, scoffing. "Because that's not vague at all. Look, Shawn, the reason I don't believe you is because I don't think you actually know what you're talking about. I mean, listen to how you're phrasing this. You like men? You're interested? Newsflash, kid: men can be interesting. Men can be attractive. I've liked plenty of men, sometimes just as much as women. It doesn't mean anything." He picked up the paper again.

There was a long pause.

"Dad, there's something else I should tell you," Shawn said.

(continued)

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Update on the Remington Steele/Laura Holt-inspired Shawn/Despereaux drawing: still needs a lot of work, but it's coming along nicely.

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Excerpt from Better Load the Dice: Psych casefic

It’s not easy to pass as a pure and pious churchgoing virgin, but Shawn needs to pull it off to stay undercover, so he tries to brush up on scripture for inspiration. He texts Gus to share what he’s learned. (Transcript of texts under the cut.)

Shawn Dude why did no one tell me there was a book of erratic poetry in the bible Gus Erratic poetry? Shawn You know Sexy times Gus EROTIC poetry??? Shawn If u want to use the British spelling i guess Gus There is no book of erotic poetry in the Bible, Shawn Shawn Cmon Gus Don't be the leg room on a budget airline "My beloved thrust his hand thru my latch-opening" ??? Gus That's not in the Bible! Shawn My heart began to pound for him I arose to open for my beloved & my hands dripped wtih myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts!! LOL Gus Okay, apparently that is in the Bible. But you're still being ridiculous. How did you misspell "with" but you got "myrrh" right 3 times?

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Hoping to protect his reputation, a mysterious client is offering an enormous amount of money for a private detective to steal an incriminating picture back from his ex. It sounds an awful lot like the premise of A Scandal in Bohemia, but if Shawn is Holmes and Gus is Watson, who is Irene Adler?

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The Fascinating History of Gin and Tonic: From Medicine to Mixology