Tag: leverage

norcumi:

Last night I made a bit of a blunder. I wanted something short and
ridiculous to watch on Netflix, and instead I ended up watching The
Princess Switch. Now, it wasn’t spectacular, but I found it
entertaining (the second-hand embarrassment wasn’t even crippling,
just existent enough for regular pauses). I was however rather
cheesed off that there was one character who was some kind of
background helper figure, implied to be either Santa helping everyone
achieve their Christmas wishes or some kind of benevolent angelic
figure.

Old white dude.

Old white dudes and predestination crap pisses me off, especially
when they’re not clearly coded as Santa or benevolent supernatural
being. Otherwise it’s just creepy.

I was musing about that more this morning, and my brain coughed up a
random comment about how the only old white dude I’d be comfortable
as the mastermind behind a romance is Nate Ford –

then I flashed to @dharmaavocado’s brilliant Star Wars/Leverage crossover
fic (here, here, and here!), and then THIS happened.

Under a cut due to spoilers for The Princess Switch (which you don’t have to know, and if you’re inclined to watch the trailer you’ll basically see all the major scenes inspiring this). Also Rex/Obi shenanigans, and Cody/Vos because that was somehow a thing that happened?

Keep reading

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athelind:

tygermama:

dogmatix:

Watching Leverage can be a trip and a half. Especially because, like, how do all these people even find them?  I mean, it’s kind of handwaved as Hardison’s computer algorithms and stuff finding them, but even so.  And then! several people don’t want money, they want things like a horse, or even immaterial things like getting someone their self-esteem back.  That’s some next-level shit right there. 

Like, making deals with with the Fair Folk or demons type stuff.

Which means that the Leverage crew would be the demons/Fair Folk/supernatural entities having desperate people summon them, probably as a last-ditch desperation move they didn’t think would work.

Sophie is some sort of UnSeelie. She follows her rules and values manners and dispenses her kindnesses as she sees fit. Do not test her. You will not win.

Parker is a changeling, maybe. Or Seelie. Or maybe she’s just Parker, the only one of her kind. She hasn’t decided yet.

Nate is Human. An almost priest who hates himself and all his flaws and weaknesses while at the same time completely convinced of his own superiority. In the beginning anyway.

Eliot would have died years ago buy some unkind spirit liked his anger and blessed him and now he’s this sort of proto-god of soldiers who’s countries used them up and betrayed their ideals. He just doesn’t know it yet.

Hardison is something new. There is no word for him. He’s making a new world in which he will rule and he has no need at this time for a name or title.

When you cross the Threshold, you become something Other. 

Fair Folk? Demigods? Archetypes? Perhaps.

The Threshold is always different. But when you return from it … you never really return. You are always Other. You are always Outside.

For those five, the Threshold was the warehouse explosion in the first episode.

And on the other side … no more petty cons and grifts. No more squalid thuggery. They have crystallized, become Archetypes: Grifter. Hacker. Hitter. Thief. Mastermind. Small gods? Perhaps, but most certainly Powers, dancing with ease on “alternative revenue streams” and even weirder magics.

Listen to their catch phrases. These are conjure words.

Strange promises, barely comprehensible to their beneficiaries, whispering of justice in an unjust world, payment deferred or refused, because the true coin of their trade is payback. 

“Let’s go steal fire from the gods.”

Oh my stars and garters, how much do I love the idea of the Leverage crew as small gods???  It is perfect and glorious! 😀

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kane-town:

Christian Kane Interview on Dragon Con

TMSM: With The Librarians being cancelled is there any possibility of it being picked up?

Christian:
Not quite sure about a possibility of it being picked up. People have
moved on to different stuff. There is always a possibility. Dean is
talking about doing something. I know Noah has expressed his interest in
doing a movie. I don’t know if it would be a movie of the week or on
the big screen. The Librarians is 12 years old. Noah created it so I
don’t see it going away.

TMSM: Is there any possibility of seeing Leverage return?

Christian:
Leverage is actually closer to being a reality than The Librarians.
Everyone is kind of in on it. I just had dinner with Tim Hutton, he
wants to do it. Dean wants to do it. The whole cast just got to dinner
the other night. We all sat down and were all talking about it. It’s
such a huge possibility. I gotta be honest with you, at some point it’s
gonna become a certainty. There is no way that’s gonna disappear.

I teared up. I need more Leverage in my life.

Leverage is what 2018 needs. And probably 2019, too. Desperately.

Let’s go steal the remainder of a decade.

Let’s go steal us some goddamn HOPE.

Trope Mash-up: Leverage, Hardison/Parker/Eliot, 1 & 67

judayre:

Historical AU/Character in Peril

So it’s the mid 1800s. Hardison is an exceptionally smart free-born black man in the North. A group of Southern assholes who want to profit from his intelligence and also show the (racial epithet) his place kidnap him into slavery in the South. 

They hire Elliot without telling him much. When he finds out they want him to break a slave, he’s pissed, because that’s not what he does. When he finds out Hardison is a kidnapped free-born man he decides the group isn’t making it out of this.

Meanwhile, girlfriend Parker has been tracing her kidnapped boyfriend and finally finds him. Cue fight scene, because she initially thinks Elliot is one of the bad guys and she tries to kill him. Hardison stops her and she plans their revenge.

The group is taken down in the most public and humiliating way possible, and all the victims are set free with a considerable sum of money and tickets as far north as they want to go. The trio also has a considerable amount of money and decides to go free slaves that the Underground Railroad can’t get to, incidentally ruining lots of rich slaveholders and distributing their land to poor people of multiple races (for a very small landlord cut).

And they lived happily ever after.

*rolls about in feels and glee* YES! This is awesome!

bairnsidhe:

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316: The San Lorenzo Job

I love that this is basically the same as the “We have a Hulk” scene in Avengers (and came out before it) but that in terms of the Leverage Crew, the Hulk, who you’d think would be Elliot (rage, not good with talking out his emotions, Mr. Punchy) is actually Hardison (that cheerful grin, the sass, the neverending well of love and joy).  Because the truth is, Elliot can’t do that always angry thing.  He can’t sustain his anger, he can only sustain his pain.  He can’t simmer for ages, he has to get in there and Do Something when he gets mad.  He’s Steve, to be honest.  But Hardison?  Hardison who hacked a foreign bank on prom night to pay back his Nana for all the good she did her foster kids?  Hardison who buries himself in games and toys and gummy frogs and orange soda because that’s what people expect of the “geek”? Hardison who grew up poor, and orphaned, and black, and oh so incredibly smart?  Hardison who is so constantly afraid, of dust, of small spaces, of high places, who loves a vent-crawling building jumping thief like she’s the sun?  Who had to hold Parker’s hand as she panicked about foster kids in Eastern Europe somehow ending up broken like her?

Hardison is angry.

He’s always angry.

And no puny evil like Damian Moreau can stop him.