#we provide leverage

[saiditallbefore]

What do you think the meeting between Astrid Pickford and Jim Sterling is like? At what point do you think Sterling realized Astrid is Sophie's stepdaughter? How do you think Sterling sums up how he knows Sophie to Astrid? Do you think Astrid tells him that Parker is her nemesis?

What do you think this special task force gets up to???

[typewriterchan]

The three distinct types of found family:

Commits crimes together.

Fights crimes together.

Constantly switching back and forth between the other two at a horrifying speed.

[saiditallbefore]

Okay, given that she apparently based her entire life philosophy on this song, HOW is there not a Sophie Deveraux fanvid set to The Gambler by Kenny Rogers? Or is there one and I just haven't found it?

(I have too many projects and my computer is shit I cannot also learn how to vid on top of everything else someone please realize this vision for me)

[apollabarnes]

Ofc 🚁🚁🚁🚁 however Leverage will always have a piece of my hear so 💰💰💰 too!

make me write

we have ended up with two snippets where tommy gets a ride! this amuses me

🚁 - we’re crashing that helicopter, folks

Sal hopped out of the driver's seat and waved at Tommy. "Oh man, next time you get injured please make sure it's an injury that means you can fly," he begged. "It's gonna be eleven hours back to the city." "You're not going to do that all in one day, are you Tommy?" Sharon asked, coming out onto the porch. "Pleasure to meet you, Captain Deluca." "Pleasure's all mine, Chief. Thanks for putting up my wayward partner until I could get up here." "No, we'll probably stop in Sacramento for the night," Tommy reassured her. "Sal, we'd have to still work at the same station to be partners." "Nah, first partners are still partners. Just ask the Chief." "Mmm, true enough. I married mine," Sharon agreed, grinning behind her cup of coffee. "Can I get either of you boys anything before you get back on the road? Are you good to leave right away?" "Yeah, the flight up here was on time. Even a little fast." Sal grinned at them. "As long as Tommy's ready to go, we can hit the road and I can make him listen to six hours of the best banjo country ever created." Tommy groaned. "Never mind, I'm good here, you can fly home without me."

💰 - we provide… emergencies (meet tommy’s bff eliot spencer)

Getting handcuffed and put in the back of a police car could definitely stay at the bottom of the list of things that Tommy enjoyed doing with his free time. That the person putting him in the back of the police car was his ex-boyfriend's stepmother was the icing on the cake. Next time he was going to make them check Athena's schedule before they started. "Mr. Kinard," she said frostily. "Sergeant Grant," Tommy replied. "You want to tell me what you were doing taking a helicopter on an unapproved flight plan and landing on a building that was not expecting any visitors today?" "I'll let my lawyer handle that." "Mm-hmm." Athena frowned into the rear view mirror, putting her sunglasses back. "Guess we'll hope there's a phone available when we get back to the station." "Great." Tommy settled back against the seats, wincing when Athena took the corner a little too tightly and he nearly smacked his head on the window. "Whoops," Athena grinned wolfishly at Tommy. Tommy sighed.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

How to easily distinguish the Stone triplets from one another:

Eliot:

Jacob:

Alex:

( Inspired by this post.)

[coquelicoq]

i canonly rewatch lever age when im sick because otherewise i get too frustterated. it's inconherent...these people loves cops more than any criminals i ever heard of

[ofcrowsanddragons]

I really need to scream about the Lucanis prequel story in Tevinter Nights.

(Spoilers under the cut)

VENATORI MAGE: "Right and wrong are a matter of perspective!"

LUCANIS [to himself, annoyed]: If you're going to do something terrible, own it.

THE DEMONS LUCANIS UNLEASHED ON THE PARTY: [attack everyone]

From "The Wigmaker Job" by Courtney Woods, part of Tevinter Nights.

[lordstormageddidnt]

[saiditallbefore]

Picked my Leverage re-watch back up and I never noticed the implication that Tara is an ex-FBI agent before. That's fun!

[apollabarnes]

Hiiiiiiii back for more snippets 😁😁😁 some 🚁🚁🚁🚁 and 💰💰💰💰💰 please!

make me write

hi friend! i didn't forget about this (i wrote too much and had to select parts)

🚁 - we’re crashing that helicopter, folks (bucktommy post-breakup)

"Right, were you unconscious for the week before that? Or…" Sal looked over at him. "Because I'm really interested in the reason I didn't get a call as soon as you woke up. Or one from the goddamn ambulance." "Sal," Tommy sighed. They'd had this fight before, after the mall explosion when Sal had swapped off with Howie and wondered why there was no one there to see him. Explaining that he didn't have an emergency contact had set something off in Sal's eyes — Tommy was pretty sure the only time he'd seen him look like that since had been Captain Number Four after Cook, just two before Nash, when they'd tried to send Howie into a building on his own and Sal had lost it. "Start talking or start walking." Even knowing that the threat was empty, Tommy caved. "I swapped it to Evan a few months ago," he admitted. "Haven't got around to changing it back." "That explains why the hospital didn't call me. Why didn't you?" "What were you gonna do, Sal?" He sighed. "I was just killing time until they said I could go home." "Well I would have made sure you didn't have to rely on the kindness of fucking strangers while I busted my ass to get up here and pick you up," Sal muttered, shaking his head. "You think I don't need to brush up on my gin rummy skills? Gina's mom murdered me last month at game night." "I've told you before, you've got to stop letting her pick gin ru—" "Tommy," Sal looked over at him, his lips pressed together. "Next time you run into trouble, you give me a call right away." "You've got a station to run, Sal." "If you weren't injured I'd be giving you a beating right now," Sal snapped. "You call me. I'll come get you. End of story."

💰- we provide… emergencies (meet tommy’s bff eliot spencer)

"You want to see his dating profile?" Hardison gestured expansively at his laptop screen. "Meet Firehose, lady and gentlemen." "Is it active?" Tommy asked, grimacing to himself. This was the opposite of not getting involved. "Never mind. I don't want to know." "I'll tell you if it's active," Hardison bargained. "If we can put it up on the big screen." Tommy stared at the three of them. He knew — he knew — that it was a trap. There wasn't an answer that would get him out of this without being roasted to hell and back. He should have left the room the second Hardison mentioned finding something on Evan. "Fine," he sighed, waving a hand. He might as well understand all the references later when the three of them started teasing him. "It's not like I can stop you anyway." Hardison pressed a button with a flourish and Evan's dating profile whooshed up onto the big screens. Tommy wasn't sure if he wanted to laugh or not. The photos were obviously old, though there were a few of him in uniform — Tommy figured that was his probie year, based on some of the photos Evan had shown Tommy of him and Maddie when she'd first moved to L.A. It was probably a good thing that Tommy had transferred when he had. "Did he change the name when he got the job as a firefighter?" Eliot asked mildly. "No sirree, that is the name that he signed up with six years prior to being accepted to the fire academy." Hardison said, his voice purposefully bland. "I would assume that it's a reference to his…" "It's not inaccurate," Tommy conceded, doing his best to not stare too hard at Evan. He was thinking about a lot of things, and there was no good place for them to go to. But getting hung up on the number of tattoos Evan used to have and the number he had now was… one of the safer things for him to think about. "A reference to his…" Parker tilted her head, considering the photos. "Huh. Yep. I can see it." Hardison started coughing and Eliot whacked him in the back, laughing. "Y'all are nasty," Hardison managed, after he'd finished choking on his coffee. He scowled at Tommy and hit another button, switching from the dating profile to a series of news articles.

[theweirdmasquerade]

So far Act III has been a lot of breaking and entering Break into some rich fucker's house to steal his shit after he was rude to refugees? Check. Break into the basement of a church to help solve a murder? Check. Break into a mausoleum for some friendly grave-robbing (and to look for Orin's people)? Check. Break into an underwater prison to release the prisoners? Check. Break into the newspaper offices to switch out the plates for the next day's top story? Check.

[typewriterchan]

Let's go steal some mental health.

fucking adhd. I have to run a con on my own brain to get anything done.

[magdaclaire]

Sometimes you just gotta have extroverted Tumblr mutuals because otherwise no one would be friends

(token of friendship, have a picture of my cat)

fucking incredible thank you for this little angel, elliot. what's the kitty's name??

[bananonbinary]

Crab Day

okay, so here's a new info post from the top.

the problem: tumblr is extremely extremely in debt. the current model is not profitable. this is why they are trying to turn the site into a shit clone of every other social media site, so they can attract new users and their money.

solution: not a ton of people can afford a long-term subscriptions like ad-free. however, many of us CAN afford $3 to inflict crabs on another unsuspecting user. (and those that can't, can still enjoy crabs everywhere)

the idea: in the grand traditions of mishapocalypses and goncharovs and tumblr users' obsession with [random inconsequential thing] Days, we create a fund drive/holiday on July 29th, dubbed Crab Day. buy your friends crabs. buy your enemies crabs. blaze posts. post memes. change ur icon. whatever. actually put your money where your mouth is and show @staff that there actually IS profit motive to listen to the current users about what we want this site to look like. (and yes, that means accessibility features too. we currently have zero leverage to demand these features. let's change that.)

i don't know if this will actually go anywhere. worst case scenario, a few of us have fun, tumblr gets a small amount of money, and nothing changes. best case though, we actually provide incentive to keep our stupid hellsite unique.

[chronicowboy]

started my leverage rewatch and never has a pilot episode piloted so hard. it genuinely feels like walking into a room of old friends you haven't seen in about a year. they work alone, they always work alone. parker? she's insane. what're you gonna do when she finds out you live with your mom? age of the geek, baby! twenty pounds of crazy in a five pound bag. boys are on their way. what is it that you do? that's what i do. are we gonna talk about how hard we rocked last night? one show only, no encores. it was kinda cool being on the same side for once. i don't like guns. my money is not in my account that makes me cry inside in my special angry place. eleventy million dollars. that's a computer thing i told her to say that. so this time you really are inside my head. i'm just very good at what i do. somebody kiss this man so i don't have to (🤨). bad guys have money. we work on an alternative revenue stream. we provide... leverage

[typewriterchan]

Eliot is definitely the squirrel matador.