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#supernatural knew all the WRITERS#you'd know if an episode was going to be good based on who was writing it#that sense of dread when we found out Bucklemming got crucial plot episodes in s8 (x)
BUCKLEMING BINGO (est. Nov. 30, 2013)
if people know a showrunner by name then u just know they were committing war crimes throughout their shows
#i have to do everything around here#buckleming bingo#it's a tradition#est. after 9x03#9x09#counterpoint#many of us know the names john rogers + dean devlin + chris downey#from the leverage commentaries#what show has commentaries for every ep#mostly featuring writers + directors#sometimes actors but usually it was aldis hodge w/writers + directors#rogers did a q+a on his blog for most of leverage's run#later in the run they took questions from this new thing called twitter#and did a writer's room podcast instead of the blog q+a#go watch leverage#i#the bingo card turns ten#// lies down
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Leverage 3x15 - "The Big Bang Job"
#christian kane#leverage#eliot spencer#chapman#michael e. rogers#the big bang job#IMAGINE the hubris of watching all of that go down and still going‚ hmm he doesn't like guns‚ how could he shoot me?
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in the lonely hearts club job leverage asks the question "does romantic love exist?" and answers it by having eliot buy parker a venus fly trap on hardison's behalf, expecting no recognition and revealing eliot remembers a throwaway comment parker made on their second job together.
we all know this.
but was anybody going to tell me hardison already had a browser window open looking for restaurants to buy eliot in portland in response at the start of the episode immediately after that? or was i supposed to figure it out on a rewatch all by myself?!
#leverage#leverage ot3#eliot spencer#eliot#hardison#alec hardison#parker#ot3#leverage posting#jam posts#AND TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR. I *CALLED* THE BREW PUB AS A RESPONSE TO THE VENUS FLY TRAP IN MY NOTES. THE PHYSICAL NOTES I TAKE#WHENEVER I WATCH LEVERAGE. I JUST DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS THIS IMMEDIATE#my notes literally go girls/boys night out job 'parker is the only one playing 4d relationship chess so far. when does hardison join in &#what makes parker sure enough to push eliot more or is it just inevitable eliot's a part of the relationship conversation p&h have btween#seasons?' and then the lonely hearts job immediately afterwards is like. romantiv love exists. look at this very meaningful gesture eliot#made on hardison's behalf. answering the how does hardison clue in and what makes p&h confident enough to push question at the exact same#time. and then in the gold job. 'portland restaurants'. being searched. i swear to god.
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Rules: Make a poll with five of your all-time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite!
I was tagged by @suddenrundown, thanks for the tag! I was so tempted to put "eliot's baseball hair" but I resisted (also polls don't allow strikethroughs. sad). tagging @michinaranja, @vero-niche, @acidmatze and anyone else who wants to play!
#does bulbasaur truly count as a character? irrelevant. he is my boy i can't not include him#and judge me all you like for vriska but she's been a favorite character of mine for over a decade now#she means so so much to me. my horrible problematic daughter with so many problems and crimes to her name and also a spider theme#what more could i want! i'm kinda sad i don't talk about her as much anymore but she's always there. in the corner of my brain#anyways i know i don't talk about the apothecary diaries as much either but this is a formal recommendation to everyone to go watch it#it's literally about an aroace with drug autism. i feel so seen#i tried to get a decent spread of characters so honorable mention to tsukishima haikyuu and mithrun dungeonmeshi#who got cut so this list wasn't all anime because i don't talk about them much despite the brainworms sldkjfsl#i also kept it to just one character per media cause it made it easier to keep myself to just five lsdkjfslf#otherwise it would be half the cast of trigun and half the cast of leverage and-
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One of my favourite things on Leverage is when Eliot gets to grift and just plays the most unhinged guy and seems to have the most fun doing it
#watching the episode in redemption where he gets to be the beekeeper#like there was no need to go that hard#leverage#eliot spencer#leverage redemption
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okay I’ve seen a lot of posts about sterling just being crowley and. guys. the implications just hear me out 😭😭😭
bending lore slightly here BUT let’s say crowley’s body was once inhabited by a human and crowley is possessing the body (maybe he kills the initial inhabitant bc he doesn’t care)
but he still has the guy’s memories. he doesn’t bother keeping up appearances with his ‘ex wife’ because he is too busy building up his hell empire. BUT for some reason he can’t quite identify, he still feels something towards his ‘daughter’. he lets the divorce happen and doesn’t feel the need (or desire) to fight for custody, but he can never quite forget her, to cast her out of his mind for good
some hijinks ensue with the leverage team. it’s mostly because even a grind culture demon wants some off time every once in a while, and for him the insurance investigator stuff is more of a hobby. interacting with the leverage crew is very low stakes for him, and honestly, quite amusing. they aren’t on his level power-wise, but that ford character gives him the mental exercise he hasn’t experienced in, well, he can’t even remember
he can feel their frustration and anger when they learn he has become employed by interpol and feeds off it. it’s great, and relaxing in a way he is never able to achieve while conducting hell-related business
one year he gets wind that olivia is in a really bad situation associated with his ‘ex wife’s’ new husband. he’s selling vital hardware to terrorists, and while that might actually be the kind of chaos he would normally support or be entertained by as the king of hell, something feels wrong about letting olivia stay anywhere near that man
he calls upon the body’s adversaries. he wouldn’t admit it, even under duress, BUT he feels slightly fond of them. nate for the three dimensional chess they play, sophie for her ability to charm and disguise, parker for her chaos and slightly unsettling nature (it’s the autism swag and being bad with human interaction but he doesn’t know that lol), hardison for his unapologetic intelligence and eliot for his hardened violent past and take-no-shit persona (he’s fun to tease)
they perform exactly as he expected, right into his carefully crafted plan. and then olivia is under his care and things get more complicated. he keeps her FAR, FAR away from anything related to the supernatural (heh). no one can find out about her, ESPECIALLY not those imbecile hunter brothers (if for nothing else than the embarrassment in revealing he has a weak spot)
not sure how to work it into this post but I also want to add that somewhere along the way he develops feelings for nate and sophie. the frame up job is near and dear to my heart and you can’t convince me that isn’t fighting as flirting behavior. his interpol persona is more of a side hustle so to speak, but he finds it fun (relaxing, even) to fill that role. there aren’t any obligations of other demons, bothersome hunters, or anything like that. nate and sophie are low stakes, except, they aren’t, really. they make him feel things he can’t ever really remember feeling. his heart beats fast when sophie sat in his lap and cradled his face, his hands sweat when nate gives him that certain smug look. he’s exasperated by the way they can run circles around him like no one else has ever before. they annoy him and get under his skin in a way no one else can and it’s infuriating. but also not, at the same time. maybe he likes it
and then the long goodbye job happens
hear me out and suspend your belief here for a second, because I can’t remember if crowley supernaturally knows when ppl die/are dead or not.
so nate is in interpol custody and the interviewer is obviously out of her depth. (most people are, when it comes to nathan ford.) he walks in and pours the man a drink, but he’s fuming. somewhere along the way he came to care about the team. hell and suffering is literally in his (official) job description, but he can admit (only to himself) that he admires what they do. it’s not for him, not anything close to where his passions and interests lie, but he respects their drive and purpose. he is also aware enough to acknowledge that they are a family, a group of misfits that never belonged quite anywhere except to each other.
and nate fucking blew it up, ruined it, because his vice is being so obsessed with the end game that he is apparently willing to let his team, his family, the people that anchor him to reality, die because the ends supposedly justify the means.
not this time. not to sterling crowley
he is enraged. he can admit within the confines of his mind that he cares for nate, for sophie, even for the other three (though nate and sophie have somehow made it a hierarchy where they are more important to him. which he will dissect later in private. maybe.)
nate let them die, he let sophie die, and for what? the black book? hell below, crowley would have made things easier somehow, if he knew that this was where nate’s sights had lied. he would have prevented this somehow. he wants to have prevented this. he doesn’t want any of them dead and is too afraid to check and verify because that would make it real. the idea of sophie (or any of them) somehow making it to hell instead of heaven would probably break something in him he might not be able to reapir fully.
he yells at nate- he’s angry. hellfire burning in his heart because everything is ruined. the deaths aside (however hard it is to set them aside in his mind), nate will not recover from this, not ever. this will be the start of the end, he is sure. a miserable, guilt-ridden existence where he drinks himself to death and nothing will save him. it plays out in crowley’s mind in a thousand different ways that are beyond painful to conceptualize, even in theory.
the story starts to unravel and there is a game afoot. a solemn, miserable, infuriating game because the con is still in session because parker is alive and in the building- which sets another fire alight in his chest. ‘parker even know you got hardison killed?’ he rages for her grief when she finds out. he knows it will double when she finds out eliot has perished, too, because he isn’t fucking blind.
but nate is a brilliant man, lest he forget too quickly. they are all alive, and somehow still the entire crew slips through his fingers. he’s not even angry (he never would have been- he doesn’t actually try too hard to catch them. it’s about the game, not the consequences). he lets them keep the black book because he’s fucking exhausted and honestly, they more than earned it.
‘now we’re even. tell sophie to drive carefully’. they will never be even, not really. crowley would never admit or agree that being human is the superior state of being, but that have made him feel human in a way he doesn’t actually mind. they keep him on his toes and match him in a way unique to them, they remind him that there are other things than the realm of hell. not necessarily bigger than hell, but maybe just as important in a different sense.
watching the van drive away, something inside him settles. when he walked into the interrogation room that day he thought this was the beginning of the end. it’s not the end at all, not an end to anything. it’s a continuation of their story. maybe, he thinks, a beginning to a new era in it
#before anyone says anything YES I KNOW HOW SPN LORE WORKS I WATCHED IT FOR MANY YEARS#I am just making this silly post for my own (and possibly your) amusement#I’m not digging too heavily into spn plot because I haven’t watched in forever and don’t trust my memory to make accurate commentary lol#also I know it’s probably layed but lied looked better somehow don’t worry about it#sorry this is so long I wasn’t sure where to break it to a read more bc all of it was too important to me 😭💀#tell me in the comments if you’d prefer a read more and where you think it should go#I haven’t been into spn for years HOW DOES THIS AU HAVE SUCH A CHOKEHOLD OVER ME#eliot spencer#parker#alec hardison#leverage ot3#parker x hardison x eliot#(background)#nate ford#sophie devereaux#jim sterling#nate x sophie#nate x sophie x sterling#crossovers#leverage x spn#leverage x supernatural#supernatural#crowley spn#crowley supernatural#crowley#leverage#mine#not even queueing this I need it posted immediately. instant gratification#pls like rb comment etc I need the validation#I ended up putting a read more for the long goodbye job
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Not Nate calling out Hardison on referring to Eliot and Parker as "baby" in The Studio Job😭😭
#Nate: uh🧐 who exactly did you just refer to as “baby” 🤔🤔??#Hardison: it's like-😳 the universal😳😳 term of b- 😳😳 baby#leverage#leverage ot3#re-watching leverage is going great if you interested#parker leverage#eliot spencer#alec hardison#nate ford#the studio job#ot3: hitter hacker thief
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'now you. you're different. you fight like something's trying to get out of you.' read for filth?????????? possibly read for filth by the mark?????????? Eliot?????????
#tv: leverage#leverage#leverage s2#the tap out job#the tap-out job#local gay watches Leverage (or their first American series in fucking years and gets a shiny new OT3 to show for it).txt#i tapped out (pun not intended) after that sorry i had to get up and walk around quietly in the dark so no one hears me and sit back#down with my sh*tty backup computer since now my tablet keeps going in and out of maintanence and hey. who gave him the right#to say that. who told him that was even remotely ok to consider i'm not normal about this
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I hate the Leverage finale. I hate the way it breaks me. I hate the way I cry. I hate the way it destroys me. I hate the way they die. I hate the tears in Nate eyes. I hate saying goodbye.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate it, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.
#leverage#season 5#the long goodbye job#nate ford#sophie devereaux#eliot spencer#parker#alec hardison#you know what I really hate?#every time you get to the last episode#it tears you up so well#you instantly want to start the show over#I've watched this show 3 times now#i don't need to watch it again#trying to go on with my life#and yet#as soon as I finish the very last episode#i want to start it over#10 things I hate about you
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A Standard Story (2011)
#a standard story#beth riesgraf#aldis hodge#edwin hodge#am i a chaos gremlin who thrives on sowing momentary confusion within the leverage fandom?#...mayyyyybe#you know you love me#anyway go watch this its 7 minutes long on youtube and its a trip#ghostly'sgifs
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Thinking today about Parker in “The Inside Job” and her hearing Hardison and saying she messed up and his already here and guiding her to Eliot who’s waiting for her and just how happy she was to hear and see them.
#LISTEN LISTEN#this girl yea had Archie but essentially had no reliable and consistent family#and even at this point in the show is still adjusting to asking for help because when she went in she went in alone#and didn’t even consider asking for help when she had already been working with a team for so long#so to hear her scared yet then realize her relief when Hardison says we’re already here#I scream every time#this just#ugh this show#leverage#the inside job#inde rambles about leverage#imma go home and watch this episode tonight#leverage ot3#ot3: hitter hacker thief
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Love Eliot being like “Parker it’s a steam vent that shit gets too hot for people” and Parker’s just like “and your point is?”
#eliot spencer#parker leverage#I have a feeling she’s gonna be going through the steam vent and it’s gonna be a piece of cake for her at some point this episode#the san lorenzo job#anarchy watches leverage#leverage
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Anyways since I am now deep in both Ted Lasso feels and Leverage feels, one more thing and then I will stop Leveraging my Lassos and go back to being a Ted Lasso blog-
Anyone else remember that time Eliot ‘second chance at life’ Spencer almost ruined a con because a kid was being hurt and he decided that the appropriate response to the situation was to go confront the kid’s abusive dad and hang him over a stairwell?
And then it turned out that the kids dad knew all the cops in town, so at the end of the episode he sicced the FBI on the situation? And then it was just Eliot sitting ambiguously in his car watching the kids dad and we were all like 👀 ‘Mr Showrunner did you mean to imply that Eliot killed that kids dad’ and John Rogers was like ‘I mean?? No, because Eliot doesn’t do wetwork anymore, but I guess we did leave it a little open to interpretation so, you know, just know Eliot would do whatever he thought was necessary’
Amazing. Cathartic. Say what you will about the cheesier moments in that show but they did not come to fuck around when it came to saying ‘actually some people suck, and here’s why’
#imma go watch that episode while poking at my TL fic#and imagine how cathartic it would have been if just one person had told Jamie#‘would you like me to kill him for you? because I would kill him for you’#just anything to let him know they were on his side#sorry guys I have been Salty these past 24 hours and I’m not sure why#ted lasso#leverage#two delightful shows that could learn from each other
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I can't think of a better sales pitch for classic Leverage than the companion Girls Night Out and Boys Night Out jobs in season 4
These episodes have everything from espionage that turns out to just be a thief and bombs and feel-good happy endings for the little guy (GNO)
And moral philosophy, sobriety, and the complications of healthcare for-profit with a similarly happy ending for the small guy (BNO)
We've got a discussion about why the church basement is or is not consecrated (no it's not firm either way), we have Parker? The Parker?!!?, we have "How Do You Know The Boy Scout Law?" 'We All Had Dreams Once, Liam'
Nevermind the character beats between teams, the recurring characters from previous episodes, and the continuing competence of the team generally mixed with Hardison just flat going "I'm A Dirty Cop!" in the course of his grift
They're also common episodes in the sense that when watched in either order you can still follow what's going on and get peeks into what the next episode holds with the lil flashes to the other group
It's got Everything Ok
(I can't emphasize enough that Hardison says I'm A Dirty Cop multiple times to sell his grift ok! Also - "Rapture?")
#leverage#literally just give these a go#i recommend the original order but even the reverse wouldn't necessarily hurt if you wanna get right into#the nitty gritty theological discussion of check basements as consecrated-ground-or-not#church*basement#also i would only caution that if watched in reverse you get the Full Happy Ending before you find out what the fuck the Girls did by w/e
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i think its weird that i have to make this disclaimer but the internet is crazy so wtvr,, anyway,,
if i say i dont like something, that doesnt mean "that thing is bad and nobody should post it.."
i swear literally every time i even mention that i dislike something, people will go "wow does that mean u fucking hate me cuz i post that thing? ur a fucking stupid bitch and all ur opinions r wrong" LIKE ?? er.. no. just because i say i dont like certain characterizations of certain characters (the saiki k fandom is CRAZY about this cuz i can state an opinion on literally any character and a group of people will still go 'well only we're allowed to post our opinions about them because we're always right!1!1!'), or certain ship tropes (mentioned my hatred of toxic yaoi maybe once or twice on here months ago and people STILL get mad at me as if i said toxic yaoi lovers r evil or something), or certain ships, or WHATEVER, does not mean that i HATE the people who are posting them or that i think they shouldnt post them at all, NO, im just posting about my personal tastes on my personal blog and it would be extremely weird and hypocritical if i decided that i was the ONLY person that was allowed to do that,,
i think the only reason people assume that is because there are a lot of other people on here who ARE like that, and a lot of people toe the line between posting that they dont like something and posting that they think everyone who likes that thing is stupid, annoying, and wrong,, so i guess all i can say is, sorry for whatever made you make these assumptions but they arent true about me so plz leave me alone ʘ‿ʘ ur doing the same thing to me that ur accusing me of but i didnt do it in the first place so ur just actively being a dick for no reason
#crazy that the mindset some people on here have is that theyre the only ones allowed to post their opinions#ive repeated this a lot on this blog but i rlly think people forget that the person on the other side of the screen is in fact a person#if ur harassing people and publicly making fun of them then ur just as bad as any real life bully#that shit isnt as funny or harmless as u like to pretend it is#not once have i ever targetted anyone or went on someones blog to harass them over my opinion#yet people think its fine to do the same to me and treat it as if its like. revenge or something#like ? me saying 'i dont like toxic yaoi' is not equivalent to someone going on someone elses page and going 'how tf do u like toxic yaoi'#I DONT CARE !! all ive ever done is sit in my own little bubble and had opinions and that makes people mad#honestly though the people who will publicly talk and post abt it are significantly meaner#and i want to act like im not bothered by it because i know most of them r just angry that someone has a different opinion#and they want all their followers to bandwagon off of them (idk why maybe for validation or whatever-same reasons anyone would bully)#but seriously if u actually do think that something i said was out of line and crossed thise boundaries- just fucking tell me ?#im a person bro. ur solution to disagreeing with me shouldnt be 'lol im gonna post abt this and make everyone harass them'#have a conversation with me dude i dont bite ? if u cant talk to me like a person then just dont fucking say anything wtf#its so cowardly to be like 'well no i didnt wanna say anything to u cuz i didnt wanna be rude.. so instead i publicly made fun of u!'#LIKE WHATTTT STOPPPPP </3333#ok anyway this post wasnt supposed to get THAT serious.#MY POINT IS just be considerate of other people and dont base ur hatred off of assumptions#ur deflecting the blame onto someone else because u dont want to admit that ur just a fucking bully lol#being inconsiderate on here is something ive also been guilty of back when i first joined the fandom and was clueless#but grown ass adults who have been on here way longer r still doing that shit which is crazy#and i cant say anything because they have so much leverage over me and idk if its on purpose or if they dont even realize#ok im putting fandom tags cuz i want people to see this sorry. this is my one post thats actually targetted but its at a lot of people#so if u look at this and think 'hey i do that' pls evaluate urself<3#i mean its also targetted at everyone who does this anonomously so i dont know who it is OKOK IM DONE BYE SORRY HOPE THIS IS UNDERSTANDABLE#watch nobody read this fr#saiki k#tdlosk#the disastrous life of saiki k.#meows post
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leverage tv/cinematic universe where there are different shows following the different leverage international teams when
#there’s the og. there’s the koreans. there’s the nigerians mentioned in one ep#there’s the longin crew mentioned in the last ep#give me all of them#(give me london crew with eve and an alive villanelle who is making amends and doing crime for good)#dean devlin hire me pls I have so many ideas#leverage#leverage redemption#leverage international#also many of the crews have polyamorous dynamics i don’t make the rules crime is just Like That#mine#although I’m not sure I trust ppl to do a leverage movie on the big screen idk#don’t talk to me about the warrior nun movies that shit has jaded me#(pls talk to me about it I’m stressing and no one in my life has watched the show and knows my pain)#me: explaining that the saved warrior nun franchise is now going to be led by misogynists and have none of the og cast or crew#my roommate working on a puzzle: that’s rough buddy
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