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i feel like a lot of the time fatphobia tends to manifest as a similar phenomenon to the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" thing especially among older people. sooo many people who have gained weight with age see themselves as temporarily embarrassed thin people. like 60+ y/o people who have not been thin since their 30s but they still keep going on diets. it sucks to see cause it reads like such a clear expression of self-hatred to me, like they're punishing themselves for their bodies developing in ways that they probably in reality had very little control over. fatphobia is such brain poison dude

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I wish it wasn’t a hot take that a story in which two characters of any gender prioritize their purely platonic relationship over any other romantic or sexual interests they might have is a textually queer story

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Math

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I think he must have had it at home, because I'm convinced that Eliot would be too discerning to find eyeliner that is up to his standards at any old drugstore. I think he would wear some fancy-shmancy waterproof hypoallergenic stuff or whatever. I believe this in my soul.

So do we think eliot had the eyeliner at home already or he stopped in a cvs before the con?

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Okay!!! Yay!!! I'm just going to copy-paste this from when I did the math for a prompt.

Breanna Casey's age

Based on the rough timeline of Leverage: Redemption, Breanna was born sometime from 1997 to 2001.

In Redemption 1x03 "The Rollin' on the River Job", she states her first memory is of 9/11. This suggests she was two to four years old at that point. Two years old would be a bit young, but 9/11 is not a mundane first memory, and the memory of learning about it could have been traumatic, repeatedly reinforced by the adults around her recounting it, or even reconstructed more than genuinely remembered. Thus we can consider it plausible for Breanna's earliest memory to be at the younger end of that range, especially if she was more around two and a half years old. This would place her birth date between 1997 and mid-1999.

If we interpret her statement to mean her first memories are of an immediately post-9/11 world, then 2000 might also be a plausible birth year. Even if Breanna's memory of 9/11 is not a true memory, it is unlikely that she would name her earliest memory as an event she was not yet alive for. Hence, September 2001 would be the absolute latest Breanna having been born. (It is also close to the latest Breanna could have been born and be a legal adult by the time Redemption started.)

In Redemption 1x02 "The Panamanian Monkey Job", Breanna states that Parker taught her to tail people when she was eleven. Assuming this is accurate, the absolute earliest she could have been eleven years old would be 2008, when Parker and Hardison first met, placing her birth year in 1996 or 1997. It is more likely that she is a bit younger given that Parker would be unlikely to have met Hardison's family so soon, and isn't even aware that Hardison grew up in foster care until mid-season 1 in "The Stork Job". Thus, I think 1997 is a generous early limit of the range for possible birth years. Parker hasn't yet met Hardison's Nana at the beginning of season 4 of the original show. She says, "I should meet your nana," to Hardison in 4x01, "The Long Way Down Job". If we take this to indicate she also wouldn't have met Breanna yet, Breanna was not 11 until at least season 4 of the original show. That took place around 2011. This would make her earliest birth year of 1999 or 2000. Accounting for Breanna potentially misremembering how old she was for this event, I would keep 1997 as a plausible early limit.

Thus, Breanna's birth was somewhere in between January 1997 and September 2001.

Personally, I would place her birth somewhere between January and April 1999, assuming she was on the older end of 11 or actually slightly older when Parker taught her to tail people, and that her memory of 9/11 is mostly reinforced because the adults around her recounted it repeatedly in the years following.

For more details:

My full explanation/comparison for all this is in the prompt I copied the above information from, in my prompt collection. Be forewarned that the premise for the prompt is that Breanna is around the same age as Sam Ford would have been, had he lived. Probably even a bit younger. (Sorry for the angst. But I do think that is such a fascinating little detail with a lot of potential. And Leverage is one of my favorite shows to analyze timelines with because the original show is just so connected to the context of the year it was released.)

watching leverage redemption and at the end of 1x07 The Double-Edged Sword Job, Breanna says that she was responsible for stealing three thousand tons of maple syrup. this was a real heist in Quebec between 2011 and 2012 and that would have (assuming they’re using Aleyse’s real age as Breanna’s) made her 15/16 when she pulled it off!

really following in Hardison’s “I hacked the bank of iceland to pay nana’s medical bills instead of going to prom” footsteps 😍😍

biiiiiiig sibling energy

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(And like Sir Gawain, it's also true for most other prominent characters in the canon, and about ten times worse for the female characters.)

“He would not fucking say that” is a Schrodinger’s phrase when it comes to Batman. There is probably Batman run where he would say that. There is also probably a run where Batman would kill the other Batman for saying that.

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Really putting the 'knight' in "The Dark Knight" with this Sir Gawain-esque characterization.

“He would not fucking say that” is a Schrodinger’s phrase when it comes to Batman. There is probably Batman run where he would say that. There is also probably a run where Batman would kill the other Batman for saying that.

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She might have been even younger, probably around 14 years old. Hardison may have skipped high school prom for crime, but Breanna went ahead and did it in middle school, like some kind of overachiever. Which is… absolutely little sibling behavior, LOL.

(I don't think they are using Aleyse's real age because it doesn't match the rough timeline given by statements in Leverage: Redemption, particularly that Parker taught her to tail people when she was 11. As far as I can tell, Breanna was born sometime from 1997 to 2001, and I would personally argue for 1999-2000. I can elaborate if you want; I have done way too much math on this because it was a perfect set-up for the angst I wanted.)

watching leverage redemption and at the end of 1x07 The Double-Edged Sword Job, Breanna says that she was responsible for stealing three thousand tons of maple syrup. this was a real heist in Quebec between 2011 and 2012 and that would have (assuming they’re using Aleyse’s real age as Breanna’s) made her 15/16 when she pulled it off!

really following in Hardison’s “I hacked the bank of iceland to pay nana’s medical bills instead of going to prom” footsteps 😍😍

biiiiiiig sibling energy

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I'm sorry how does nobody in Santa Barbra know of Psych like they're in the paper basically every other week, they're on the most popular radio station, and had possibly the funniest mayoral campaign ever

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I've been seriously injured in the pursuit of bagels before, so I think all bagel-related injuries can be romanticized through our unbreakable bond. ❤️

yknow kinda something special about the fact that i got a cut on my left hand ring finger while working on someone’s christmas present. that’s gonna leave a scar. every time i look at my ringfinger i’ll be reminded of it. the “wedding band” finger… kinda more intimate than marriage…

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Source

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love triangle to ot3 not as in "i just think these characters should kiss" but as in there is a special bond between two people who love the same person more than themselves, more than anything else and eventually the rage and possessiveness will evaporate, you can't be scared and snarling forever, and when it does they will be left with the understanding that this is maybe the only person on earth who gets it. who gets what it means to be utterly consumed by this person, to love them so much you would open a vein at their request. this person, your "rival" perhaps understands you more than even the object of your affection. they have felt the same longing and the same fear and the same anger and the same desperation as you. they will go to the same lengths to keep your mutual beloved safe. and isn't that a little bit like looking in a mirror. isn't that a little bit like love.

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If you have a friend who is in that fandom that you know nothing of the source material for, you can make a game of it! I like to call it "fandom exchange student". You read a bunch of fic or consume other fanworks for that fandom (how the works are chosen can vary), and then describe to your in-the-know friend what you have deduced must happen in canon.

It is most fun when your friend is simultaneously doing this for one of your fandoms, or within a larger group exchange.

It's always interesting, and usually hilarious.

Until pretty recently, I had never read fic for a fandom I had never dipped into. It got me thinking about why people read fics for stories they've never followed. Sooo...

*not even 1 episode. None of the book. No more than the movie's trailer. etc.

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They call me e the way I <3. Also because I use Spivak pronouns.

They call me 2 the way I <3

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tis the season

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Love it when you thread a needle with dark-colored thread and set it down on a light-colored surface and it just fucking vanishes into the shadow dimension the instant you take your eyes off it

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mutuals can always dm me but be warned i talk like your coworker who is trying too hard to get to know you and my response times are akin to the response times you might get if we were communicating by letter