#it's all a grift

[lilithsaintcrow]

"All these authors with different names and different series, with similar cover formats, styles, and the same audiobook narrator, who isn’t real?"

[soupforsoup]

One thing about Eliot is he's gonna go so in on a grift. A wedding caterer? Get the fuck outta his way he's got two hundred guests to cook for and these canapes aren't gonna plate themselves. A baseball player? Fuck the con he gets a damn sandwich named after him. A supermarket worker? He's doing his full day of work AND THEN starting a union uprising first chance he gets. Sophie is "the grifter" but Eliot is the one who can match and beat her freak for commiting to a character so hard it becomes your new personality for the next week

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"Not only did you and Lampard ruin my friend Toby's life, but you ruined the lives of the kids he was trying to help."

Leverage S05E04 The French Connection Job.

[aardvaark]

im so glad that we never get a clear picture of sophie’s background in leverage & i hope we never do. however i also really like making up various, often conflicting backstories for her in my head. perhaps they’re all backstories for an alias of hers, ones she laid to rest back in season two.

[saintmeghanmarkle]

OMG! OMG! OMG! Seriously OMG! Singer Jaguar Wright who has been calling out Diddy for years alleges (in no uncertain terms) that Meghan and Harry were at Diddy freak-off parties and were taped. Says they need to come clean. by u/Positive-Vibes-2-All

OMG! OMG! OMG! Seriously OMG! Singer Jaguar Wright who has been calling out Diddy for years alleges (in no uncertain terms) that Meghan and Harry were at Diddy freak-off parties and were taped. Says they need to come clean. Jaguar Wright a singer has been calling out Diddy and his criminal behaviour for years. She's been part of the hiphop for several decades and has so much tea. For years many dismissed what she was saying and now she has been shown to be truth teller and a very brave one. Anyway the following yt short is her naming people she alleges were at Diddy's freak-off parties and were taped.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bEFuPd5GEdE post link: https://ift.tt/vizHshC author: Positive-Vibes-2-All submitted: September 27, 2024 at 05:40AM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[xmascritter]

Conmen conwomen solidarity

[sergle]

I hope you tell them to kill themselves more

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

So-Ho takes Nigeria on Mother's Day & w/the deception of duper's delight tried to SPIN the reality of 2 scamming grifters into a narrative that it's actually appropriate for her NOT to be mothering her caucasian invisibles in America because it's better for her to be at HOME in the MOTHERland. Only a master manipulator like THE Meghan Markled could contort so many lies into such a stupid explanation for her grifting lifestyle. 🤡

"...and although we are missing our children----we are missing our babies..."

"...it feels very appropriate to be in the MOTHERLAND..."

"...and amongst family..."

"...we cant wait to come back"

[tanadrin]

Fell down a rabbit hole reading about what various white supremacist and alt right shitheads have been up to since 2017 or so, and it’s darkly amusing to me how often they imagine their enemies to be the grand communist conspiracy and not. Like. Normie liberals who hate them just as much. Feels a bit like the thing where communists call all their enemies fascists, but even then communists seem considerably more self aware that often the people they are scrapping with probably don’t think of themselves as fascist.

Turns out weird anti-masturbation cults and angry dipshits who give off Most Divorced Man in the Universe energy are not the foundation for political success.

[yellowocaballero]

thinking about roleswap kakashi fucking around in the akatsuki and stalking obito is very funny cause I just know he's making so many problems and dealing with literally none of them.

King you are literally so fucking right. Rin has an actual life. She's checked in on Tobi enough times to see that Konoha was being awful to him, but that he was doing relatively fine and was better off in his home than kidnapped by her nuclear disarmament squad. Kakashi? He's a trophy husband, he runs her errands, he has the kamui that Obito does not even know he has, you know he's fucking stalking. His only hobbies are terrorizing his coworkers, gaslighting Yahiko, making bentos for Rin with onigiri that look like little turtles, and creeping on Tobi.

I don't know if he and Rin know that Obito's faking it (or 'faking it'). Extremely funny if part of Rin's ethos is to make a safe world for Tobi, at which point Obito no longer has any idea how to break the news to her that she's trying to genjutsu the world for somebody who is technically made up by him. Also extremely funny if Rin and Kakashi figured it out and they just, like, don't care. Doesn't change anything. Create a better world for Obito AND Tobi. If you're, like, doing this for fun, Obito, you can keep doing it, we support you. Our coping mechanisms are moon genjutsu and stalking, we don't judge. Obito 'Hypocrite' Uchiha thinks this is an insane stance, but better than the alternative.

[lilithsaintcrow]

“Meanwhile, tech companies break into hives at the thought of getting a human to do a job. Their ethos is that if a human can do a task, a machine can do that task better, and not cost them anything such as salary, pensions or or a basic level of respect."

[fictional-men-enthusiast]

Old Flesh + The Parliament is conservatism.

I said what I said and I’m not taking it back.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

“It was the bees! The bees told me to do it!”

Leverage Redemption S01E10 The Unwellness Job.

[aardvaark]

i think hardison would be in lost media recovery communities online but he’d also be trying his hardest to make all recordings of a certain country singer named "kenneth crane" become lost media, and feel really kinda bad about it

[saintmeghanmarkle]

I get a bee in my bonnet when I come across comments about Meghan and Harry needing to make a full public apology before any reconciliation. by u/Positive-Vibes-2-All

I get a bee in my bonnet when I come across comments about Meghan and Harry needing to make a full public apology before any reconciliation. Any apology would be a smokescreen. A leopard cannot change its spots.They might for a few weeks/months behave if such an apology led to reconciliation but it'd be just a matter of time before before Meghan and Harry would be seething with envy and spite and subterfuge would begin anew except now they would weaponize their kids, they would complain their kids were getting the short end of the sticks, that other kids in the extended RF weren't treating them as equals, they hurt their feelings., that KC and QC aren't as nice to them as to the others etc. This would happen if it was just Harry who was reconciled because he has shown us what he is truly like and a leopard cannot change its spots.So imho the notion of a full public apology needs to be thrown out the window as any apology from these two, no matter how abject, would be meaningless.edit typo post link: https://ift.tt/ojHNEMV author: Positive-Vibes-2-All submitted: July 25, 2024 at 07:15AM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[agirlinthegalaxy]

It's been rolling around in my brain the last few days for some reason, but I still hate the family backstory reveals for Sophie and Eliot. I've seen some of the meta for it, but quite frankly, it still makes no sense. If it had been something actually thought of and intentional in the original, I think it could have been so fascinating. I mean, Sophie's willing abandonment of Astrid to contrast with Nate's loss of Sam or Eliot's adoption in contrast with Hardison's and Parker's? Could have been excellent! But they came out of nowhere in Redemption and don't work with these characters.

Sophie was still actively using the fucking alias that she met Astrid under! She met with someone from her past on the show! Like. Quite frankly, that one is unequivocally bullshit that they made up and threw in and pretended could fit with the established canon. (And I'm sorry, but the idea of Sophie abandoning Astrid and never telling Nate about her just... So much of Nate's trauma was rooted in the loss of Sam, and I think that introducing this element after he's gone and unable to respond to it taints Sophie and Nate's relationship in a way bc I'm not exactly sure how Nate would've responded to learning about this but I think that it's something he'd have needed to know. I don't know how to fully express my thoughts on that but yeah.)

As for Eliot, I don't like the adoption aspect literally at all. The way that he would interact with his family and the memory of his family would be different, and I think that it's flat out ridiculous to think that he'd have never mentioned it to the team in the original show, especially when dealing with the kid cases. (I also dislike the biracial adoption as its own element because if Eliot was actually raised by Black parents in the... idk what 80s/90s? That just. doesn't feel congruent with how they write Eliot interacting with PoC, not necessarily in a bad way, but babe, he's written like a white southern man raised in a specific kind of culture that does not jell with that. It also makes Eliot look... really bad that he was apparently raised with the knowledge of how fucked up the military was and his parents' history and made the choices that he did.) Like the show may not have explicitly stated it but the implication of that relationship was vastly fucking different throughout the original show.

Just. These were not backstories that were congruent with their depiction and characters in the original show, and they're also just moves that I don't particularly like or find interesting directions for those characters. There's also something to be said about how it was apparently unacceptable for a woman to not have kids or someone not reconciling with their biological family when that was something that the original show handled a lot better. Out of all the directions to take Sophie and Eliot's stories, that's just not really one that I think was a good idea.