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welcome back shawn and cory

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BMW x The Pact crossover where cory doesn't manage to talk Shawn out of going through with the job for the mob, so Shawn eventually gets a more important job in the mob and they start sending him out to do more stuff. Then, he and Cory eventually drifted apart and altogether stopped talking. Shawn stopped going to school and stopped coming home from 'work.' Blah blah blah stuff happens AND THEN Shawn gets another job, one in Canada, where he has to find out the identity of a boy who his boss wants killed. Then the pact happens =D

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shawn/cory + textposts

inspo this post by @merry-melody

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I love ur banner omg =000

AHAH thank you!!!! I remember seeing it and literally cracking up because it is so, so perfect. I'm glad other people like it, too!

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So, I don't like C0rpanga. In fact, they're probably one of my least favorite canon ships of all time. However, I think that in seasons 1-4 (s1 especially) they weren't that bad of a ship. This can, in my opinion, be attributed to one thing: they worked a lot better as narrative foils than as each other's perfect match. When weird, feminist, hippy s1 Topanga was on screen, challenging Cory's stagnant ways and showing him there was more to life than status or whatever else middle school society was obsessed with at the time, I was absolutely rooting for them. It was super compelling and would've made for a great opposites-attract slow-burn if they'd continued it into the later seasons. Instead, they decided that that was just too interesting. Which is how we ended up with: A) ultra-conservative-no-real-personality Topanga, B) annoying Cory who whines about his girlfriend not having sex with him so much you wish he'd lose the ability to have it at all, and C) an extremely boring relationship that reads more as heteronormative America's wet dream than, y'know, 2 people with actual romantic chemistry.

One thing I do think is interesting, though, (while still on the note of C0rpanga being better as opposites rather than love-at-first-sight) is the idea of Shawn assuming the role of Topanga as Cory's narrative foil. S1 Topanga came from an unconventional background, opposed Cory's standard middle-class lifestyle, etc. S1 Shawn, on the other hand, was middle class like Cory (albeit a little bit poorer) and held most of the same viewpoints that he did. But in the later seasons, Shawn became the one to serve as Cory's antithesis (poor/ considered trailer trash, somewhat "unorthodox" interests—such as poetry and photography, and generally holding different perspectives to things in life than he did)—all the while, Topanga became increasingly more normal and more conservative, until she didn't oppose Cory in any meaningful way anymore. (Which is also why I think s1 is Shory's weakest season, because while they're great there, I do still prefer the later seasons' dynamic).

Anyway, I have a few more thoughts. But this is disjointed enough already, so I'll just leave it on that for now. If anyone has anything else to add, please feel free to do! I am dying out here.

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made a blog to post my bmw thoughts in our lords good year of 2025... I've officially lost it