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“Post-apocalyptic Western” is and will always be one of the best twists on the genre because Westerns are, underneath the trappings, already apocalyptic. Smaller communities being swallowed up by the encroaching American government, industrialization outmoding extant ways of life, the eradication of entire species of animals, behemoth societies leaving scars on the landscape itself - the Western, particularly the Revisionist Western, is about the death of existing orders and their consignation to history. “My town is dying.” “My family is gone, and without them, I don’t know who I am.” “My home and my past are no longer mine.” “The world has changed irrevocably, and I’m left with a vague memory of what it was.” The themes of apocalypse stories and the themes of modern Westerns are similar at minimum - more frequently, they’re identical.

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Lock. Pick. Key.

I am clearly excited about Leverage: Redemption a very normal amount. I am definitely excited about the return of the best OT3 in the business + Parker and Hardison’s new necklaces a very normal amount too.

Not 100% positive Eliot’s (/ Christian’s) necklace is exactly accurate, but I think it’s certainly in the spirit of it. At least I hope it is. I did my best! 

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PS UHHHH QUICK UPDATE

MY ETERNAL LOVE AND GRATITUDE TO MR. DEAN DEVLIN

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Leverage: Redemption Episode Descriptions 1-8

101 - The Too Many Rembrandts Job

When the team comes together to help Sophie, they intercept guilt-ridden corporate fixer Harry and decide to help him take down an evil billionaire making money on the back of an opioid crisis.

102 - The Panamanian Monkeys Job

With a new team member on board plus the arrival of Hardison’s genius foster sister, the team heads to Panama to pull an elaborate heist before an evil billionaire can get his money and flee to a non-extradition country.

103 - The Rollin’ on the River Job

The Leverage team takes on a greedy riverboat casino owner, before he can bulldoze the homes of longtime New Orleans natives for his planned expansion.

104 - The Tower Job

One member of the team seeks redemption and justice by convincing Leverage to con a developer out of an entire luxury apartment building.

105 - The Paranormal Hacktivity Job

When a woman believes she is being haunted and runs from her home in terror, Sophie leads Breanna and Parker through a con to convince the two real estate scammers responsible to target Leverage HQ.

106 - The Card Game Job

The Leverage team dives into the world of a high fantasy collectible card game with a devoted following to take down a pharmaceutical bad boy who is price-gouging drugs to fund his own house of cards.

107 - The Double-Edged Sword Job

The team takes on a brilliant software developer who is selling a groundbreaking facial recognition system that threatens everyone’s privacy except his own.

108 - The Mastermind Job

Sophie must keep her feelings in check when she discovers that someone has written a memoir of the team, casting himself as Nate – which leads an exiled criminal to kidnap Harry and “Fake Nate,” forcing the Leverage team to pull a heist.

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@siancrosslin‘s post here (x) about leverage and the old anti-piracy ads has been making me laugh all day and it led to this nonsense, please enjoy. (Warning: it flashes quite a bit at the end) 

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The funniest thing about this, to me, is that Conan Doyle loved occult stuff, and Sherlock Holmes hated it. So you get two scenarios:

1. ACD is obsessed with the idea that Mori can do magic because he thinks clairvoyance is magic. Mori tries to explain that clairvoyance is more like a medical condition, and is met with a complete stonewall of disbelief.

2. Sherlock Holmes doesn't think clairvoyance is real because it hasn't been scientifically proven. In fact, all the way up to the events of Pepperharrow, he thinks that Mori must actually be a Mycroft-level master of deduction who just prefers to keep his powers obscured by a veil of mystery. Mori tries to explain that clairvoyance will be scientifically proven, it just hasn't been yet, and is met with a complete stonewall of disbelief.

In both cases, Mori is so annoyed that he restructures his life so they never run into each other again.

Sherlock Holmes and the Watchmaker of Filigree Street are both set in London in the 1880s, please steal my crossover fic ideas

Option 1: Mori and Thaniel meet Arthur Conan Doyle. Mori says something cryptic like what he tells Dolly Williamson at the end of Watchmaker ("You think you're dying, but you aren't. You need to eat some proper fruit and go to the sea"):

ACD: how could you POSSIBLY know this secret fact about me

Mori: I.....deduced it from context clues

Thaniel, internally: Keita no one is going to believe that you can just DEDUCE something like that

ACD: how absolutely fascinating, tell me more

Thaniel, internally: screaming

Option 2: Post-Watchmaker, Mori and Thaniel meet Holmes and Watson. The opportunities are truly endless but here are some ideas:

The four of them are somehow connected to the same case. They meet and Holmes and Mori start arguing very politely and very stubbornly. Thaniel and Watson inadvertently exchange the exact same long-suffering glance. Each spends the rest of the meeting absolutely terrified that the other has discovered their Big Secret

During the case, Mori sets up a convoluted plot to get Holmes to overhear Thaniel playing piano. Holmes and Thaniel's budding musical friendship is almost ruined when Holmes discovers that Thaniel actually WORKS FOR Gilbert and Sullivan, those uncultured crowd-pleasers who are ruining the London music scene

Thaniel pulls Watson aside. Excuse me, is Mr. Holmes, er, you know...? Watson: I'm not SURE what you're trying to IMPLY. Thaniel: I meant is he also a [whispers] clairvoyant? Watson, sweating bullets: no he's not a clairvoyant, what an absurd thought, he's just really fucking good at his job, hahaha next question.

At the end of the case: Holmes: so, Mr. Steepleton, I see that you and Baron Mori adopted a child to help with your work, she seems marvelous. Watson: do NOT get any ideas

Option 3: Before Thaniel and Grace's marriage, Grace decides to bring The Case Of The Potential Clairvoyant (And Is My Fiancé In Love With Him Or What) to that detective she read about in the newspaper

Holmes: ah yes, he's in my notes as "Baron Mori, that asshole who is somehow connected to a lot of shit I can't prove." Grace: this feels right

Holmes thinks Grace must be joking when she says she's a chemist, because Women Can't Be Real Scientists. He tests her by saying something condescending and complicated that he thinks will go over her head. She replies with "oh, I just read an interesting monograph on that reaction, but the experiment's design clearly had some fatal flaws." Holmes reevaluates everything he thinks about Grace in 15 seconds. What if he showed her that current experiment on sulfer dioxide...Half an hour later, Watson kicks Grace out of Baker Street before she and Holmes blow something up.

Holmes meets Matsumoto and hates him on sight. That afternoon, to Grace: "Why are you getting married again? You're both obviously in love with other people, this seems avoidable. Also, your future husband is beyond irritating but he seems to genuinely care for you." Grace: excuse me. you dare. you presume.

"So as far as I can tell, Mori hasn't committed a crime, but I did uncover this plot to assassinate a prominent Japanese minister." "But does Mori have something to do with it?" "Probably."

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yes i’m a gatekeeper and a hater. i’m also God’s favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world

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In “The Witch in the Glass”, Austin and Jack talk about being careful in formulating the fictional laws during the game, because a line from the previous recorded game of The Tower that represented the hero’s failure as a hollow and exploitative motivational quote that still had power over his mind has found a new life in the fandom as a genuine motivational quote.

You could say that quote became… “An Animal out of Context” out of context.

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drew the chime for #secretsamol over on twitter woohoo!!! (check reblogs for the image description)

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my secret samol for this year- a boat ride in aubade

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How poetic of you,” Remus says. “You’re a Yeats in the making.”

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Sherlock Holmes and the Watchmaker of Filigree Street are both set in London in the 1880s, please steal my crossover fic ideas

Option 1: Mori and Thaniel meet Arthur Conan Doyle. Mori says something cryptic like what he tells Dolly Williamson at the end of Watchmaker ("You think you're dying, but you aren't. You need to eat some proper fruit and go to the sea"):

ACD: how could you POSSIBLY know this secret fact about me

Mori: I.....deduced it from context clues

Thaniel, internally: Keita no one is going to believe that you can just DEDUCE something like that

ACD: how absolutely fascinating, tell me more

Thaniel, internally: screaming

Option 2: Post-Watchmaker, Mori and Thaniel meet Holmes and Watson. The opportunities are truly endless but here are some ideas:

The four of them are somehow connected to the same case. They meet and Holmes and Mori start arguing very politely and very stubbornly. Thaniel and Watson inadvertently exchange the exact same long-suffering glance. Each spends the rest of the meeting absolutely terrified that the other has discovered their Big Secret

During the case, Mori sets up a convoluted plot to get Holmes to overhear Thaniel playing piano. Holmes and Thaniel's budding musical friendship is almost ruined when Holmes discovers that Thaniel actually WORKS FOR Gilbert and Sullivan, those uncultured crowd-pleasers who are ruining the London music scene

Thaniel pulls Watson aside. Excuse me, is Mr. Holmes, er, you know...? Watson: I'm not SURE what you're trying to IMPLY. Thaniel: I meant is he also a [whispers] clairvoyant? Watson, sweating bullets: no he's not a clairvoyant, what an absurd thought, he's just really fucking good at his job, hahaha next question.

At the end of the case: Holmes: so, Mr. Steepleton, I see that you and Baron Mori adopted a child to help with your work, she seems marvelous. Watson: do NOT get any ideas

Option 3: Before Thaniel and Grace's marriage, Grace decides to bring The Case Of The Potential Clairvoyant (And Is My Fiancé In Love With Him Or What) to that detective she read about in the newspaper

Holmes: ah yes, he's in my notes as "Baron Mori, that asshole who is somehow connected to a lot of shit I can't prove." Grace: this feels right

Holmes thinks Grace must be joking when she says she's a chemist, because Women Can't Be Real Scientists. He tests her by saying something condescending and complicated that he thinks will go over her head. She replies with "oh, I just read an interesting monograph on that reaction, but the experiment's design clearly had some fatal flaws." Holmes reevaluates everything he thinks about Grace in 15 seconds. What if he showed her that current experiment on sulfer dioxide...Half an hour later, Watson kicks Grace out of Baker Street before she and Holmes blow something up.

Holmes meets Matsumoto and hates him on sight. That afternoon, to Grace: "Why are you getting married again? You're both obviously in love with other people, this seems avoidable. Also, your future husband is beyond irritating but he seems to genuinely care for you." Grace: excuse me. you dare. you presume.

"So as far as I can tell, Mori hasn't committed a crime, but I did uncover this plot to assassinate a prominent Japanese minister." "But does Mori have something to do with it?" "Probably."

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From the Electric Entertainment website.

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me when my students need help logging onto whatever godforsaken digital platform we're using for remote school this week

Gandalf is done ™

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whenever you have problems with writing and worldbuilding for stories, just remember COCK

C- Does it have Creatures?

O- Does it Offend the church?

C-Is it Completely unhinged?

K- Does it Kick ass?

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Femmefest 2020: Reveals

Dear writers, artists, commenters and other femslash enthusiasts! We are excited to reveal the works from this year’s fest. ♥

We want to give an extra special thanks to lash_larue, ayebydan, digthewriter PaulaMcG, LadyBrooke and flipflop_diva for pinch hits and community gifts!

Thank you for participating, we hope to see you again next year!

FIC

A New Area of Study — A Gift for Nearlyconscious by Melacka | AO3 | Daphne Greengrass/Hermione Granger Behind This Mask (I Stand Here Waiting) — A Gift for The Community by flipflop_diva | AO3 | Hermione Granger/Pansy Parkinson bound by a fraying thread — A Gift for flyingharmony by flipflop_diva | AO3 | Narcissa Malfoy/Andromeda Tonks Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows — A gift for Kiertorata by Hippocrates460 | AO3 | Ginny Weasley/Gabrielle Delacour Dedication - A Gift for Maraudersaffair by lash_larue | AO3 | Hermione Granger/Pansy Parkinson heartbeats get in the way — A Gift for Melacka by icarusinflight | AO3 | Pansy Parkinson/Ginny Weasley I Fell Apart (And I Felt Free) — A Gift for flipflop_diva by bluemermaid | AO3 | Daphne Greengrass/Pansy Parkinson I’m With You — A Gift for Evening12 by letsdothepanic | AO3 | Ginny Weasley/Luna Lovegood Look for Laughter — A Gift for the Community by PaulaMcG | AO3 | Luna Lovegood/Cho Chang Look In, Seek Out — A Gift for theskyisgay021 by ayebydan | Livejournal | Dreamwidth | Nymphadora Tonks/Fleur Delacour Love Me Like We Choose It — A gift Letsdothepanic by Chromat1cs | AO3 | Fleur Delacour/Tonks no grave can hold my body down (i crawl home to her) — A Gift for Lejic by theskyisgay021 | AO3 | Luna Lovegood/Ginny Weasley Something Tragic About You (Something So Magic About You) - A Gift for Hippocrates460 by flyingharmony | AO3 | Narcissa Malfoy/Daphne Greengrass The Curiousness of Books - A Gift for Nosignofwings by LadyBrooke | AO3 | Cho Chang/Luna Lovegood to live is an act of courage — A Gift for the Community by ayebydan | Livejournal | Dreamwidth | Nymphadora Tonks/Ginny Weasley when it’s not enough - A Gift for the Community by Evening12 | AO3 | Ginny Weasley/Pansy Parkinson Work for Me — A Gift for the Community by maraudersaffair | AO3 | Pansy Parkinson/Hermione Granger

ART

Better Than Magic — A Gift for icarusinflight by nearlyconscious | AO3 | Ginny Weasley/Pansy Parkinson First and Only (Love) — A gift for Chromat1cs by digthewriter | AO3 | Ginny Weasley/Luna Lovegood In Shining Armour — A Gift for tonftyhw by kiertorata | AO3 | Angelina Johnson/Katie Bell, Ginny Weasley/Luna Lovegood Innocent Prank & Afternoon Tea — A gift the Community by Lejic | Livejournal | Dreamwidth | Hermione Granger/Ginny Weasley and Ginny Weasley/Luna Lovegood Kisses — A gift for Digthewriter by tonftyhw | AO3 | Luna Lovegood/Ginny Weasley, Pansy Parkinson/Parvati Patil Never Know What to Say - A Gift for the Community by nosignofwings | AO3 | Cho Chang/Fleur Delacour Wedding Date - A Gift for the Community by digthewriter | AO3 | Pansy Parkinson/Hermione Granger

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