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⌈ Secret Post #4430 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Maybe Shassie?

[(Anonymous)]

I was just thinking the other day about how the Psych setup is in a lot of ways another iteration of the Sherlock Holmes dynamic, and yet one of the only versions of that dynamic where Holmes/Watson isn't the dominant slash ship.

Re: Maybe Shassie?

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but I think the difference for me between the iterations of Holmes/Watson that I've seen and Psych is that GusShawn doesn't seem to have the same sort of... antagonistic relationship that ShawnLassie does?

And I like that antagonism. Like, I love Gus and Shawn too, but Gus always seems to go along with Shawn's shenanigans and it's a little too boring for me. If I enjoyed the BFFs4EVER dynamic in my relationships, they'd be totally up my alley, but I love the 'one or both are assholes to each other' dynamic more.

Re: Maybe Shassie?

[(Anonymous)]

I get where you're coming from, but for me personally, I think there's something really awesome about the dynamic where one character knows how stupid and reckless and shenanigan-y the other character is, but they still go along with all their ideas anyway. It's really great to me.

Re: Maybe Shassie?

[rosehiptea]

nayrt I think some of it was people liking the antagonism, and often there's a tendency to like rival/enemy ships over friend ones, but some of the fans didn't even think of Shawn and Lassie as that antagonistic and kept being disappointed that the show didn't make them friendlier. (I only saw the first three seasons I think, so I don't know where they went with it in canon.)

So I do think race played a part in why Shawn/Gus wasn't popular. That doesn't mean I think people who shipped Shawn with Lassiter were racist, or that I think anyone sat there thinking "Well I could ship him with Gus but I'd rather ship him with a white guy," but I think if Gus had been white the fandom would have been different. I've liked my own ships with their own issues myself, so I'm definitely living in a glass house here, but those are my two cents.