#nathan a collins

[theacstories]

No falling asleep, because chapter 19 of Jiangshi X by Norihiko Kurazono will be sure to wake you up!

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

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?

[maspers]

I understand why they couldn't bring him back, but let's be honest a version of Leverage Redemption with Nate still around would have been an absolute joy to watch.

He'd take one look at Breanna and be like "who's this sassy lost child?" And he'd roll with it but he'd also just completely and possibly deliberately fail to explain ANYTHING to her. Breanna would call Hardison like every other day to complain about how Nate is a complete disaster of a man and Hardison would be like "Yes, I know, we all know, welcome to the club".

Meanwhile Harry Wilson would manage to spend the bulk of the season being even more confused than he already was in canon. Like. That's Nathan Ford??? I know about Nathan Ford, he was a legendary insurance agent! He went rogue and became one of the most successful criminals in the business! How is he A COMPLETE MESS??? Nate for his part is at first very untrusting of Harry and spends the first few episodes subtly manipulating the poor man into unnecessarily weird situations just to see what he'll do. Sophie chides Nate for being mean.

The schemes get changed, naturally, since Sophie is perfectly fine with letting Nate continue to be all Mastermindy, and the end result is very bizarre season that follows the same plot beats as the Canon one but in an inexplicably different way.

To make matters worse, when you have Nate around inevitably Maggie and Sterling show up (Sterling is oozing villainous enthusiasm at the chance to match wits with Nate and a slightly new Leverage Team, Maggie on the other hand does not want to be here but has accepted this is just a recurring part of her life now) and both of them arrive at the worst possible moment for everyone (except possibly Nate, who planned for this). Breanna immediately starts complaining about the sexual tension between Nate and Sterling, causing Hardison and Maggie to bust out laughing. There's a nonzero chance Harry ends up low key flirting with Maggie since Sophie's with Nate here, but it never goes anywhere.

Naturally the Mastermind Job gets significantly more bizarre than it already was. Everyone gives Nate a hard time over it. EVERYONE. The man never catches a break for the entire thing. They don't even let him run the con, partially because they're a bit mad but mostly just to troll him. Eliot grabs Nate and shakes him sternly at least once. Actually probably many times, throughout the season, as things get weirder.

Harry leaves at the end of Redemption Season 1 and Nate just nods knowingly and instructs Hardison to open a betting pool for how long it will be before Harry comes back. Parker wins, successful guessing it down to the exact day. Eliot accuses her of cheating.

Then in Redemption Season 2 Tara Cole shows up and everything gets worse.

[missfisherandjack]

Elsie: “Hello, Jack.”

Jack: “Elsie.”

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) ↳ 1x11 Blood And Circuses

[misswhateveryouwant]

This picture is absolutely MFMM - nowhere else you will find a woman sitting in her nightrobe on the bed, while three other people fully dressed (including two police men) are standing right in front of her, pretending this is the most normal thing in the world - and keep on talking about about her diaphragm with which she just caught a spider. And all this takes place in the 1920‘s…

I think that‘s the reason why I‘m so obsessed with the series 😂

[ohsnapitzmarvel]

So no cable, russell, or domino?????

[bloodismymedium]

Ur urbanspook headcannons? brava. Spectacular give me 15 more of these

Your wish is my command anon🫀🫀🫀

🦷 Mona’s favorite holiday, predictably enough is Halloween and she loves the autumn season in general. Bill meanwhile, as a stark contrast, REALLY gets into Christmas.

🦷 Mona is touch starved and she doesn’t know it. She completely melts when Bill runs his fingers through her hair or touches her for any reason but she tries to hide these reactions since she doesn‘t want to come off as “weak”.

🦷 Nathan Cole was Bill’s partner and the more level-headed of the duo, being the one who had to reel Bill in whenever he got “overzealous” during police work. Nathan’s a legit good cop and generally nice guy while Bill was an asshole who was the epitome of police brutality.

🦷 The Gimp seen in HELL was Mark, as in “Mark The Machine” who was a blogger/YouTube personality who covered real crime and serial killers and was documenting Mona and Bill’s murders for years, which piqued Mona’s interest in him as she believed he genuinely appreciated her “art”, resulting in her stalking him for a while until finally kidnapping him and turning him into a pet, which is the full extent of her showing any actual affection towards someone. The title of Mark’s “portrait” is a reference to his background as an Internet personality and how Mona has managed to break him down to essentially just a machine, a toy for her to use as she pleases.

🦷 As mentioned before, Mona has an extreme allergy towards sunlight and photosensitivity that makes direct contact with sunlight very painful for her. As a result, Mona only goes out late at night or very early in the morning when the sun isn’t up. On cloudy days she’ll wear a “disguise” composed of a sun dress, opera gloves, stockings, a sun hat, a tattered parasol and a pair of sunglasses, allowing her to comfortably be outside during the day while also protecting herself from any potential rays that may be peaking out.

🦷 Mona is double jointed and is extremely flexible as a result. Her flexibility and ability to contort herself comes in handy in her murders as she is an expert in hiding and breaking in and out of places and she can squeeze herself into tight spaces quite easily as well. This talent of her’s comes in handy on nights when she and Bill get naughty 😏

🦷 Mona does not care for personal hygiene, she likes being a decrepit, stinky girl. However, if there is one form of self care she actually likes it’s brushing her hair because she finds it soothing and she likes her hair in general. Bill is tasked with brushing her hair and has a tendency to smell it while he does.

🦷 Mona has a bit of a hoarding problem as she is an avid collector of many things ranging from knives and human bones/skulls to dolls/stuffed animals and many of her hideouts boasts some impressive collections she has amassed over the years.

🦷 Mona also has an interest in entomology and mycology and boasts some fairly impressive knowledge on the subjects as a result. She’s got some nice bug and mushroom collections as well but she keeps them hidden because Bill keeps trying to eat them.

🦷 Bill loves coffee while Mona is more of a tea gal. Bill prefers iced coffee over hot and Mona prefers hot tea over iced. Also, Mona can take or leave coffee, Bill meanwhile HATES tea.

🦷 Bill loved breakfast foods, eggs & bacon, pancakes, waffles, donuts, you name it, he was also a fan of eggs in general and isn’t too keen on sweets most of the time. Mona is a MEAT girl, any kind of meat will do but human meat/organs is her favorite.

🦷 Mona dislikes guns because she finds them to be an incredibly boring and “impersonal” way of killing someone that doesn’t inspire her much, preferring a more “hands on” approach to murder. Bill meanwhile doesn’t just like guns, he practically worshipped them and was a typical second amendment, NRA type before meeting Mona.

🦷 Mona’s favorite genres of music are Industrial, Alternative Rock, Grunge, Horror Punk, Goth Rock and Dark Cabaret, her favorite artist is either Voltaire or Tom Waits. Bill’s favorite genres are Hard Rock, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Nu Metal, Groove Metal and Psychedelic, his favorite artist is either Rob Zombie or Disturbed.

🦷 By far, the worst thing Mona has ever done was when she blew up a daycare on Christmas Eve, collected the charred remains of the infants, stitched them back together as macabre flesh dolls and sent them to their parents in gift boxes on Christmas day. Even Bill was kinda shocked when she did this and genuinely didn’t think she could get anymore depraved until she did it… which only made him love her even more in the end.

🦷 Mona’s choice for a final meal would be brown sugar glazed pork chops with colcannon and roasted asparagus, filet mignon with lobster tail, black pudding, a slice of spiced apple cake with french vanilla ice cream and a cup of earl grey. Also if given the choice, Mona would choose to be executed by firing squad. Bill’s final meal would be two pounds of fried chicken with a pound of fried shrimp, scrambled eggs, roasted potatoes, a pound of strawberries and a bottle of fireball whiskey. Bill wouldn’t care how he’s executed, just as long Mona is there to see him off.

[the--anarchists]

WHY do people not like mirror mirror??? It has Julia roberts, it's so hilarious, and it has actual little people who all have their own characters and personalities (and are honestly the best part of the film, seriously, they're all so funny). AND Nathan Lane! Seriously, people need to start appreciating this movie. Please. It's so good.

[taylitruther]

Maggie reflects on it all, after the dust settles from the whole ordeal with Blackpoole and the Davids. Should she have recognized them, her husband’s team of career criminals? She had never seen their faces, true. For her, they had always been names on pages and reports. She wasn’t the one chasing them down, that was her husband.

He was the one that got to gallivant across the world, tracking down stolen IYS insured art based on info she provided him. Tracking art cases Maggie had handpicked because she thought Nate would enjoy the chase.

Some common themes came up, because Nate always seems to enjoy those chases. A lone wolf thief who has a penchant for tricky grabs. A retrieval specialist who never seems to keep the items himself for long so you’ve gotta get him in the act. Even a hacker a few times who seems to try to take just to see if he can. And of course, a grifter who seems to be popping up anywhere and everywhere, especially where IYS art is.

And then Sam got sick, and Maggie took a leave of absence and took care of him while Nate threw himself into the job. He was gone longer, going on riskier missions. And that grifter had kept popping up.

And then her son died, and everything went to shit. She went back to work but her husband lost it, quit his job, became a raging alcoholic. She has to serve him with divorce papers. She wondered if he was going to go chase that grifter, Sophie, with all his newfound free time.

Even now, even after running into him and learning about his team, she doesn’t really know what to think about him and Sophie.

Then she starts to wonder how different their lives would be, if her birth control hadn’t failed. If Sam had never been born in the first place, rather than dying too young. They had always wanted kids, but getting pregnant when she had had put her behind on the organizational ladder, left her husband to be promoted to a position to be a field investigator before her.

Would they have gone across Europe together? Chased these people, who have become her former husband’s new family?

Without Sam’s death Nate probably wouldn’t have changed sides. But now that she’s seen the injustice, she sees why he did. She did, for a while. She even entertained the idea for a moment, just one moment, of joining them. Would she and Nate have seen those injustices, changed sides themselves? Joined a crew?

Would she have that family too?

Maggie Collins takes a long sip of her wine in her empty apartment with her laptop open in front of her. No use wondering about the past. She closes out of Facebook, saddened by looking at the old, happy memories. She drains her wine, and opens up a job application she has bookmarked for a traveling art appraisal job.

There’s really nothing left for her in LA.

[velvet4510]

I Finally Figured Out the Fox X-Men Continuity

OK, here's my attempt at making sense of it all - like it or not, I'm convinced this is what's going on. I'll try to make it as clear as possible; hear me out.

In my mind, the Fox X-Men film series depicts 2 different universes:

UNIVERSE 1: All the films with X-Men in the titles, as well as The Wolverine

UNIVERSE 2: The Deadpool films (which will be from now on abbreviated as DP) and Logan.

This explains why Wade is the same age in DP1 (set in 2016) as he is in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (set in the 1970s or 1980s). Logan's X-Men: Days of Future Past time-traveling to 1973 couldn't possibly have changed Wade's Origins birth date, which must've been in the 40s or 50s. This also explains why Colossus has an American accent in the X-Men films and a Russian accent in the DP films. Therefore, the DP films are a separate universe where Wade was born a few decades later and Colossus was raised in Russia.

This also explains why there are many young mutant children at the school in the final scene of DOFP (set in the year 2023), whereas no new mutant children have been born in 25 years in Logan (set in the year 2029). They are separate universes.

Within these 2 universes are multiple timelines, caused by the fact that each universe has a different methods of time-travel:

In UNIVERSE 1, Kitty Pryde's time-traveling of Bishop's and Logan's consciousnesses into their younger bodies in DOFP rewrites timelines.

In UNIVERSE 2, Cable's device in the DP films causes timeline-branching.

Therefore:

UNIVERSE 1 first has its timeline rewritten at the beginning of DOFP, when Kitty sends Bishop back. It is then more fully rewritten, starting in 1973, by the ending of DOFP. The last we see of the OG timeline is when the Sentinels are about to wipe out the last X-Men, then that reality is erased. The last we see of the new timeline, and that universe in general, is Logan waking up to the new, happier future - and that's the end of OG Logan's story.

UNIVERSE 2 is not rewritten, but branched several times.

It gets its 1st branch from Cable when he first time-travels; he comes from a point in time several decades after the events of Logan and after Laura is pruned by the TVA.

It then gets a 2nd branch when Cable saves Wade.

It then gets a 3rd branch when Wade saves Vanessa. During the events of DP&W, Wade is living permanently in this 3rd branch, where Vanessa never died. This is not the same branch as the events of Logan. However, all the branches are within the same universe - which is why the events of Logan cause the TVA's plans to affect Wade's reality. And this is why Laura is able to stay in Wade's reality at the end of DP&W without causing a paradox - she comes from the original timeline of this universe, then relocates to its 3rd branch.

Side-note 1: In the infinite multiverse, many universes are extremely similar with one key event that causes it to unfold differently than another. In the case of UNIVERSE 2, it clearly has similarities to UNIVERSE 1 - in Logan, Charles references the Statue of Liberty incident that happens in X-Men 1, indicating that the events of the OG trilogy in UNIVERSE 1 also happened in a similar way in UNIVERSE 2. But the difference between the two universes unfolds in how mutants are wiped out:

In UNIVERSE 1, Trask develops the Sentinels and then the timeline-overwrite causes mutants to finally be accepted.

In UNIVERSE 2, Transigen develops the mutant-suppressing poison which is mixed into widely-consumed food, impacting mutations and stopping mutants from being born after 2004. (This is why Russell is 14 years old in the year 2018 in DP2; he was one of the last mutants to be born in 2004 before the poison started suppressing the X-gene in pregnancies in this universe. This is also the cause of the Westchester Incident in Logan; Charles is not affected by a regular human disease, but rather by the mutant food poisoning that only exists in this universe that has made his mutation unstable, and is further inflamed by the emotional after-effects of Erik’s sudden death from said poisoning).

Side-note 2: Cable's device also enables universe-hopping, as seen when Wade briefly visits the MCU and talks with Happy, then goes home, in DP&W. Clearly this is an ability that was engineered within the 6 years that pass between DP2 and DP&W so that Wade could reach the MCU, and in general do some reality-traveling without continuing to affect his own reality; he certainly wouldn’t have wanted to risk any meddling that would’ve jeopardized Vanessa’s salvation in the branch he created.

Side-note 3: You could also view Wade killing Weapon XI at the end of DP2 as another bit of universe-hopping, and possibly creating a branch in UNIVERSE 1. Or, you could view it as an unserious meta-joke that doesn’t actually have timeline implications, just like the X-Men somehow appearing young - including McAvoy!Charles - in the year 2018 in DP2, which is flat-out impossible in both universes and clearly only a joke.

[theacstories]

Chapter 10 of Jiangshi X by Norihiko Kurazono is quick and intense! Enough said!

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage + Mirrors

1x13 - “The Second David Job”

4x2 - “The 10 Li’l Grifters Job”

4x6 - “The Carnival Job”

4x18 “The Last Dam Job”

[thingsasbarcodes]

Deadpool 2 (2018)

[missfisherandjack]

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) ↳ 1x04 Death At Victoria Dock

[not-psycho-sparkle]

Russel’s story has a very special place in my heart. On that note- CHARLES WHEN I CATCH YOU CHARLES HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY NOT SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO THESE KIDS THROUGH CEREBRAL BUT CAN EASILY FIND THE ONES YOU TAKE TO YOUR SCHOOL!??

[phantomstatistician]

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