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once again i am so in love with the way that leverage treats parker. because oh boy, the grave danger job. hardison is buried alive, he's freaking out on the phone, and parker feels like she can't help him, she's not good with emotions in this way, not like sophie, so she says that hardison needs sophie. but sophie knows that what hardison needs is to hear parker's voice, that whatever is going on with those two, parker is the person who will be most reassuring for hardison right now, but she also knows parker won't be convinced by that, and she needs parker to feel confident. so she speaks parker's language. she gives parker a reason for why parker is the best person for this job - not he loves you, not you love him, not even he just needs to hear your voice it doesn't matter what you say, none of that will land with her. sophie says, parker, you've spent more time in air ducts than anyone. if anyone knows how to hold their breath it's you. that's what hardison needs right now. she gives parker a job: help hardison breathe. she doesn't try to push parker, she doesn't make it into some more profound thing that parker might not be ready to hear or able to understand at that moment; she takes stock of the situation and knows (1) hardison needs to hear parker's voice right now and (2) parker needs to feel confident and useful right now and she feeds them the answer, because she loves them exactly how they are. i can't put it into words any better than this but i just love that over and over leverage says "you can be loved and love in return without trying to be different than you are" and never more than with parker.

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he pulled up to the hospitalllll with buck in tow for some reason and his aunt said "who is this?" and eddie went this is Buck. the guy i work with at my new job i started like maybe a month ago. and she pulls buck aside and says "eddie cannot keep raising that child alone" and buck is like. ok i Understand. and I will be the child's stepfather. of course i will do this for Eddieguyijustmet.

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your writing does not have to be outstanding or exceptional. seriously, I read books all the time with just average writing, maybe some of the minor characters are one dimensional and cliched, maybe the dialogue is a little cheesy, maybe the plot is a little shaky, but the characters and their dire situation have hooked me. your story doesn’t have to be 5 stars to be worth writing and sharing and it will find the people who will love it.

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The circumstances around Sam Ford's death really seem like IYS's worst-kept secret. Sure, people within the company, like Sterling, know what happened, but so do complete strangers like Eliot and Dubenich. Makes you wonder what lengths Nate went through to ensure that Maggie didn't find out.

Especially because Maggie's smart. She had to have her suspicions.

Did she ever catch black market smugglers or forgers in the act, only to find them strangely sympathetic and gentle with her during their arrests? Yes, she'd lost her one and only child, but did that explain why they'd always look at her with such pity when they were the ones who were being hauled away by the cops?

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Ok, while I'm on my "911 callback" kick, another scene I'd love to see. Hear me out.

Emergency at a drag show and Chimney gets confused because as soon as he introduces himself everyone is, oh, YOU'RE Chimney! And everyone seems... Relieved to see him?

And he's like. What.

Until one of the drag queens takes pity on his confusion and is all, "yeah, we were at your bachelor party and your brother in law kept talking about you! He was so worried about where you were! When he wasn't draped all over his hot boyfriend and yapping in his ear of course!"

And Chimney is all, ok, mystery solved though maybe don't mention the boyfriend to him they broke up.

At which stage the drag queen looks over to where Buck and Eddie are BuckandEddieing and goes, wow, really? They don't look broken up...

BONUS: it's a drag ON ICE show so we get Bobby reliving his skating days *and* Buck Bambi-ing all over the ice and falling on his ass again.

I need my 911 hijinks people the world is on fire.

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now 2 beanie baby dragons are crossing your dash together :3

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I love you beanie baby dragon

beanie baby dragon is crossing your dash

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imagine dealing w an international crisis involving precious artifacts and someone is like ‘don’t worry I know a guy’ and it’s a dorky connecticut college professor named henry who slips into his slutsona and suddenly he’s capable of saving the world w the power of his whip & fedora

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absolutely robbed of a scene where dean realizes that cas LETS him hold him back

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Head bonk (affectionate): Joe and Nicky

Head bonk (derogatory): Joe and Merrick

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I literally lol

what if sam just thinks that salt burns everyone a little bit

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Respectfully, Ireland is the best country on the planet

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I know the answer is basically that Patrick Stewart gif "acting!" but I find myself persistently amazed by the fact that Assad Zaman is SO, SO, SO very good as Armand in all his tortured and manipulative glory then you see him being interviewed and he's just... This super sweet, goofy guy.

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As someone who mainly watches this show with no shipping agenda - I love the canon couples (though - give us more Henren! Also please let Tracie Thoms sing!) and think it would make sense at this stage to make Buddie canon if only to save the women of LA from Eddie Diaz - I've definitely been won over to the idea that they just took the "yeah we're gonna play it that way anyway" John Boyega / Oscar Isaac route. And consciously or not Guzman leaned the fuck into that.

Because - controversial opinion please don't yell at me Buck fans - I'd argue a lot of the Buck moments can, if you really, REALLY insist, be viewed through the lens of platonic because Buck is big hearted and canonically Loves, and is messy with his emotions. If Hen was shot instead of Eddie, he's still gonna cry, gonna try and save her, yes? If it was a different hot guy arriving on day one, he's still gonna do that weird attraction/ jealousy/ dick measuring thing (see also: TK in the crossover). He's still going to get over-attached and try to help even if there's nothing more than friendship there. And Of course he's gonna love his friend's kid and do everything he can for him. He's a giver!

So if you're really committed to the "they're just friends why must you sexualise male friendships!" bit - which to be clear I am not, go drink your juice, shippers, joy is in short supply in the world don't deny yourself yours- I wouldn't want to fight you on that. You can argue it's platonic.

(Ok, re: the constant unnecessary touching and bumping into one another when they walk - you are firefighters how is your spacial awareness that bad?! - and his reaction when Eddie was buried - I've got nothing for you, platonic truthers, I'm with the Buddies on that one).

But Eddie? I am rewatching the show in dribs and drabs and I just find myself going, SIR YOUR FACE at regular intervals because Eddie "I'm gonna be a little bitch about it" (affectionate) looks at precisely two people with that level of consistent fondness and one of those is his kid. And *nobody* looks at their friends like that all of the time.

I don’t know what I’m more obsessed with, that Eddie knows how long Buck was dead down to the second, or that Eddie would take Buck to a poker game. Buck! Who has no poker face! Truly this is just an excuse for Eddie to dress his boy up in fancy velvet and show him off to his bosses. The FACES he is making behind Buck’s back. The man is smitten. Completely smote.

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you know who’s gay? paul the real estate novelist who never had time for a wife and davey who’s still in the navy and probably will be for life

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hey, I was just at "things got better" island and everyone there is talking about how excited they are to meet you