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To make up for my last Psych fic, this one isn't depressing. Crack-y, more like. In my defense it seemed like a good idea at the time, which was very early in the A.M. (it usually is.)

As I said before, I'm all about the gen in this fandom. But this...might be slash. Or maybe it isn't. You'll have to ask Gus. No slashers were harmed in the making of this story, and any resemblance to any real persons or fictional stories is entirely coincidental. --Really; I haven't read much in the way of Psych-slash at all.

...Unlike Gus. Much to his chagrin.

Psych: Read Between the Lines; or, Slash and the Modern Psychic Investigator {3,659 words}
PG-13 for. Er. Suggestive imagery.
Shawn Spencer will break down the fourth wall with a laser printer to get what he wants.

Read it on AO3
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I laughed so hard

Date: 2007-09-19 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] belladonnaf66.livejournal.com
I was late picking up the kid from school!!!

Re: I laughed so hard

Date: 2007-09-19 06:18 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Please give your kid my apologies. And please accept my thanks! XDDD

Date: 2007-09-19 05:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merendiel.livejournal.com
I would comment... but I'm laughing too hard. Break that fourth wall more often!

Date: 2007-09-19 06:18 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
As far as Shawn's concerned, smashing it down is what it's there for...

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From: [identity profile] merendiel.livejournal.com - Date: 2007-09-19 06:58 pm (UTC) - Expand

Date: 2007-09-19 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] koznem.livejournal.com
that was the best 'the characters find out we're writing about them' fics i've ever read!

Date: 2007-09-19 06:19 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (Default)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Heee, thanks! I've always had a fondness for the...genre? But Shawn would take it with more equanimity than most - as he does everything!

Date: 2007-09-19 06:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mapanda.livejournal.com
XDXDXD Oh jeez, I laughed so hard it hurts.

On a side note, I have had a friend tell me it would require rehab to get me off slash. I told her that only works if you want to give it up. (The innuendo was on purpose. That's how we roll.)

Date: 2007-09-19 06:20 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Thanks! XD

Yeah, it's a terrible addiction! Something must be done! Save the fangirls! (but we don't wanna be saved~!)

Date: 2007-09-19 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alessandriana.livejournal.com
That is HILARIOUS. Oh my gosh, I had the worst time not just bursting out laughing right in front of the whole class... This is just classic.

Date: 2007-09-20 04:21 am (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Heee! The dangers of reading fic in class - I'd say I hope you learned your lesson, but I never did, sooo... XD

Date: 2007-09-19 06:42 pm (UTC)
naye: A cartoon of a woman with red hair and glasses in front of a progressive pride flag. (XD)
From: [personal profile] naye
UM I WHA GAW BWAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

Oh, neechan. *hugs tightly* You are such a brilliant crazy genius-type, you know that, right?

I just took one little peek, to check out what you were up to this time, and I couldn't stop reading. I couldn't! Not even to go see if the potatoes were done in the kitchen (I hope they're not getting too mushy now) and - oh. OH. It's BEAUTIFUL and I love the summary like BURNING, and it just gets BETTER from there. Heeeeeee~!

Much, much love for Shawn and Gus and slash fangirls everywhere. ♥♥♥

And for you and J-chan, of course. *hugs*

Date: 2007-09-20 04:25 am (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych fun)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Heee heee heeeeee! So glad you read it & so glad you enjoyed it (& so glad you liked the summary, I was kinda partial to it myself XD) Hope your potatoes survived it! (mmm, potatoes...)

Shawn & Gus are love, no? Have you watched any yet? How much? do you like it? Is there any way I can make you like it more? ^^

*hugs hugs* & thank you for reading, you know how happy that makes me! <3

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From: [personal profile] naye - Date: 2007-09-20 09:23 am (UTC) - Expand

Date: 2007-09-19 08:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dogwoodblossom.livejournal.com
That was awesome.

Date: 2007-09-20 04:25 am (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Hee, thank you! ^^
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Date: 2007-09-20 04:25 am (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Thank you! ^_^

Date: 2007-09-19 10:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nonymoose.livejournal.com
That was AWSOME. I started reading it in my school's library and had to stop and finish at home because I was too close to bursting into laughter. XD

Date: 2007-09-20 04:26 am (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Heee hope I didn't get too many librarians riled up at the noise! Maybe I should've put a library warning... XD

Date: 2007-09-19 11:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] airairo.livejournal.com
HEE!

I'm nearly going to be late for class, I hope you know! *shakes fist* But this is brilliant and I love it and I hope you keep writing Psych because I could totally get used to this *_*

Date: 2007-09-20 04:29 am (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Thank you~! & sorry if you're late (well. a little sorry. but I'll take it as a compliment :P)

...as for Psych, errrr well it's vaguely possible I am actually writing more at this very moment. Though this is the exception; I'm seem to be reverting back to my gen h/c roots. As usual. (love the show but Shawn does not get hurt enough, dangit! ...eheh. Fangirl issues much?)

Date: 2007-09-19 11:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] counttoeight.livejournal.com
The ending? Yeah, definitely the best ending ever.

I applaud you. I even de-lurked for you.

Date: 2007-09-20 04:30 am (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych fun)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Heee so glad the ending worked for you! XD And extra thanks for the de-lurking, I really appreciate you letting me hear the applause! ^_^

Date: 2007-09-19 11:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] auberus.livejournal.com
There is *no way* for me to express the love I have for this fic. I just can't. The awesomeness has overwhelmed me. I laughed so hard my stomach hurts, and my girlfriend came in to see what the *hell* I was up to.

Date: 2007-09-20 04:31 am (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Heee, thank you! (eee your icon is much Crowley/Aziraphale love! <3)

Date: 2007-09-20 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lastscorpion.livejournal.com
This is hilarious! So many terrific lines! I was highlighting my favorite to quote back at you, but I kept finding an even better one -- the last was This is because in seventh grade he learned how to entirely block his nasal passages when swallowing

Date: 2007-09-20 04:33 am (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Heeee thank you - I'm so glad you liked it! Comedy comes to me once in a blue moon, so I'm always thrilled when it's successful...

Date: 2007-09-21 04:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-nightkind.livejournal.com
I burst out laughing soooo many times and had a constant grin. My face hasn't hurt this much from smiling since I saw SuperBad! Comedy may not be your typical avenue, but you DEFINETLY have a flare for it. I'm a huge fan of fourth wall destruction and characters reading fanfic about themselves (though none take it as well as Shawn! XD) This was perfect. Hilarious and in character. i'm not even a Shawn/Gus fan and I dug it! *huggles*

H&Ks

Date: 2007-09-21 01:36 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych fun)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Heee - thank you so much, so glad I got laugher! Bashing down the fourth wall is always fun...especially when it's Shawn, who really doesn't mind things as much as maybe he ought to; and Gus who minds things more than he should...

Date: 2007-09-21 05:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vegas-nolan.livejournal.com
This fic was awesome. I love reading Shawn/Gus, and there just isn't enough of it out there. Plus, Lassiter just makes my entire body go dry. I can't explain why.

Date: 2007-09-21 01:36 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! I might read more Psych-slash myself if there were more Shawn/Gus...

Date: 2007-09-21 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stitcher2ficcer.livejournal.com
Even not knowing a single thing about Psych or Shawn and Gus (You migrate from one fandom to another WAY to fast for me to follow!), I thought this was hysterical. You seem to have been enjoying the excuse to write more purple prose. ^_~

Date: 2007-09-21 03:59 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (Default)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
...yeah, whoooops, I really didn't intend to get into another fandom. I'm beginning to think you need to embroider me a "road to hell" hanging for all my intentions ^^;
And yep, the purple slash was much fun!

Date: 2007-09-21 03:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kattahj.livejournal.com
Hahahaha! This was an unusually brilliant version of the "our characters find slash" story type. I think the main reason it worked so well is because Shawn is having so much fun messing with Gus's mind over this. As a result, I had great fun reading it!

Date: 2007-09-21 04:01 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Hee - glad you enjoyed it! Yep, Shawn has way too much fun with poor Burton's fragile state of mind. And by "fragile" I mean "normal." Poor, poor Gus.

Date: 2007-09-24 10:21 am (UTC)
ext_108: Jules from Psych saying "You guys are thinking about cupcakes, aren't you?" (fandom psych: sweet-talk like a cop)
From: [identity profile] liviapenn.livejournal.com

And Gus says, "Good," and leans over between the chairs, and kisses his best friend.

And then, dude! Bow-chicka-wowow!

Eight times!


LOL!

Awesome story. :D

Date: 2007-09-24 02:39 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Hee, thanks! ^_^

Date: 2007-10-05 02:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] utopiantrunks.livejournal.com
How wounded doesn't become apparent until the next day.

—dripping like maple syrup sap from the head detective's impressive Irish wood—


Made me giggle aloud. In a very manly way. *cough*


This, however, is completely unbelievable. "Your 'playful smile hides untold pain and anguish'?!"

"Of course it does," Shawn says. "Dude, I'm deep!"


*snork* I can hear this in Shawn's voice, too.



It's not just gratuitous sex. There are plots. Deep plots.

Deeply, deeply terrifying plots.


Eeheeheeheehee. Yes, yes, they are. Especially if they involve you.


"Oh, Gus," Shawn says fondly. "They don't want you dead. They just want me to experience the pure catharsis of soul-rending grief. And to have hot sex with Lassie."

Nyaha.


Then he kicks the can over and picks it up again, so Shawn will notice the dent and won't remark on the different configuration of garbage.

Ooh, Gus is getting smarter from dealing with Shawn's detective work!


Though he might guess anyway. Shawn's annoying like that.

Aww, poop.


"Slashersayswhat?"

Okay, I seriously laughed aloud. OMFG. I'm going to have to greet you this way from now on.


She's too nice. He has to be wrong about this; she's far too nice to want to knock him off, even for the sake of Shawn's cathartically soul-rending grief.

Oh, it hurts... it hurts... Please don't be Juliet! Even though... Gus, you just don't understand fangirls!!


"—What is—who wrote this? How do they know—"

Shawn wrote it!! *stifles self, waits*


Okay, soooo... if every line beginning with a "--" after He has a good reading voice, when he wants to. is Shawn reading, does that mean that they actually do kiss? I hope so. ^^


Ohhhhh, man, this is awesome. Half-meta, all hilarious. Poor, traumatized(, slowly brainwashed and converted) Gus. This fic is pure glee. ♥ "Slashersaywhat?" FTW.

Date: 2007-10-05 04:56 am (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych fun)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Heeeeee! So glad you liked it! I can't always pull off humor...luckily these boys are so inspiring. And that I like writing over-the-top purple fake-slash as much as the real thing ^^;

The worst (best) part is right at the time I posted this, on the psych-slash comm there were two different 'Gus dies & Shawn hooks up with Lassie' fics posted. (and then I'd killed Gus myself, though not for slashing purposes. Poor, poor Gus.)

The very end is Shawn's fic, though maybe it's reality, too - life imitates art? and the whole story's a fic anyway so - I ain't saying XP

Slashersayswhat?

Date: 2007-10-05 07:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daikenpriestess.livejournal.com
I gotta say, I checked out the show because of your stories. *Shakes fist* Damn you! iTunes gets enough of my money but now...>.> Payday I'm so subscribing to season 2. I hope you're proud of yourself! *grin*

Date: 2007-10-07 05:42 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych fun)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
*laughs* Yes, I'm very proud! XD But hey, isn't it a fun show? ^_^

Date: 2007-10-10 05:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pkai7.livejournal.com
Hi. I found you through a community discussion about how there is a lack of Shawn/Gus. Anyway.

I read "A Whisper to the Living" the other day. I cried 3 times. I still can't stop thinking about it. Shawn losing Henry and Gus at the same time and his guilt. You broke me.

Now.

This one? I couldn't stop laughing. The ending was perfect. Just subtle and feel just right. :)

The way you switched between the two extremes. I'm still a little broken over "A Whisper to the Living", but this one helps.

Thank you for writing and sharing such awesome fics!


Friending you! Hope you don't mind.

Date: 2007-11-19 04:09 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych fun)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
(apologies for the late reply!) So glad you enjoyed both of the stories, and that this one helped make up for "A Whisper to the Living" - I did feel a bit guilty for writing that one, so this one was restitution to the characters, of a sort. In my head they always get the happy ever after, even if I occasionally dip into the angst for kicks...

And I never mind friending - welcome aboard, the more the merrier!

Date: 2008-01-05 07:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elspethdixon.livejournal.com
Ahahaha, this is awesome. It could practically happen in an episode (well, minus the "bow-cjicka-wowow" at the end). I'm not sure if the best part is Gus's paranoid reaction ("omg, who at the station is writing this? Is it Juliet? Please don't let it be Juliet!") or the actual fic excepts themselves, or Shawn gleefully announcing to Gus that there is a fic where the two of them have sex eight times.

On second thought, the best bit is totally Gus being able to swallow while blocking his nasal passages.

*shifts feets* I've totally been lurking and stalking you since, like, that Saiyuki fic where Goyjo gets hypothermia. But didn't review because it was ff.net and I never review on ff.net, but then I found your lj through stalkerness and the Clex fic was so awesome. So. *shuffles feet more*

Date: 2008-01-12 01:50 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych fun)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Hee, thank you! I had so much fun with this, I gotta admit; these chars practically write themselves, when you throw them into such a mess. Plus, hey, all the slash and none of the calories! Poor Gus, though. If only he weren't so entertaining to torment...

--And thank you for coming out of lurking! I can be terrible about commenting myself, so I know what it's like to stalk and say nothing. I really appreciate knowing you're out there, enjoying my stuff (really gotta get back to the Clex sometime...)

Date: 2008-01-11 09:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shadowpoet89.livejournal.com
Holy mother of all things good. This is brilliant. So brillaint that I'm left laughed out and mildly incoherent. Fantastic, I'm telling you. All-time favorite, definitely. <33

Date: 2008-01-12 01:51 pm (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych bunny)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Hee - thank you so much! ^^

Date: 2008-03-07 04:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beth-green.livejournal.com
I saw that your other Psych story had the double "D" label - death and depressing - so I've given it a pass (for now. You're a good enough writer that sooner or later I'll no doubt give it a look.)

I knew as soon as I read the first scene that I'd picked the right story for this evening. Too funny! There's still a big smile on my face as I type this. You've brought back fond memories of a MediaWest Con panel that I attended on slash. Part of the discussion was regarding the physically uncomfortable or downright impossible sex scenes in some of the fanfic stories.

Anyway, a bored Shawn is a dangerous thing. He absolutely would delight in his new-found discovery of slash as a means of torturing Gus.









Date: 2008-03-07 05:32 am (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych fun)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
(Yeah, I've been told "Whisper" isn't as depressing as it could be, but then other people say it makes them cry...to be honest I can't stand reading deathfic myself (why do I WRITE them? I don't know!), so I totally understand you giving that one a pass for now!)

But I'm so glad you enjoyed this! I'm a big fan of slash but I like to laugh at my own obsessions sometimes, and there is a lot of silliness in slash fandom. And Shawn torturing Gus will always be fun ^^

Date: 2008-10-30 05:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rockinhamburger.livejournal.com
"And besides, she didn't react when I almost kissed Lassie, either."

I actually laughed out loud at that. Great fic!

Now, uh... Any plans to write more Psych slash? Like the bow-chika-bow part? Eight times!?

Plzkthx.

Date: 2008-10-30 06:52 am (UTC)
ext_3572: (psych fun)
From: [identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com
Hee, glad you enjoyed it!

No plans to write more at present, but I do like these boys, so ya never know!
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