devil-with-a-soul

[devil-with-a-soul]

“I just want…”

You, I think.

You.

You.

You. Say it.

[devil-with-a-soul]

The Many Flirting Styles of Eliot Spencer

Leverage 1x1- “The Nigerian Job”

Leverage 1x9- “The Stork Job”

Leverage 1x11- “The 12 Step Job”

Leverage 1x12- “The First David Job”

Leverage 1x13- “The Second David Job”

Leverage 2x2- “The Top Hat Job”

Leverage 2x7- “The Two Live Crew Job”

Leverage 2x10- “The Runway Job”

Leverage 3x4- “The Scheherazade Job”

Leverage 3x5- “The Double-Blind Job”

Leverage 3x6- “The Studio Job”

Leverage 3x11- “The Rashomon Job”

Leverage 3x11- “The Ho, Ho, Ho Job”

Leverage 4x8- “The Boiler Room Job”

Leverage 4x9- “The Cross my Heart Job”

Leverage 4x11- “The Experimental Job”

Leverage 4x14- “The Boys' Night Out Job”

Leverage 4x15- “The Lonely Hearts Job”

Leverage 5x6- “The D.B. Cooper Job”

Leverage 5x11- “The Low Low Price Job”

Leverage 5x14- “The Toy Job”

Leverage: Redemption 1x7- “The Double-Edged Sword Job”

Leverage: Redemption 1x8- “The Mastermind Job”

Leverage: Redemption 1x12- “The Golf Job”

Leverage: Redemption 3x2- “The Digital Frankenstein Job”

Leverage: Redemption 3x3- “The Scared Stiff Job”

[devil-with-a-soul]

I think Leverage has a really neat take on the concept of revenge.

Because a lot of times, revenge gets framed as this inherently immoral act, like it doesn't matter how evil the person you want revenge on is, it doesn't matter that stopping them is a net positive for the world, revenge is just bad and wanting it makes you bad.

But I think that a lot of the problems with most revenge narratives come from the fact that the person/people seeking revenge put too much importance on getting revenge, but there's not enough catharsis in the actual act of taking revenge. They end up left with a whole lot of left-over righteous anger, and no acceptable targets left to vent it on. That way lies the bloodline ending feuds of greek tragedy and the like.

But Leverage says "No, actually you're right, that guy is absolutely terrible, he does need to be stopped and his victims should be awarded the catharsis of revenge." But then, instead of taking the easy way out of having Hardison siphon all the money out of their accounts, or sending Elliot over to their house with a baseball bat, they complicate the revenge plot. Instead of walking the easier path of the quick and unsatisfying revenge, they insist on poetic justice and dramatic irony and the complete and utter, very public destruction of the worst people in the world.

That's why I think Leverage feels different to, say, The Count of Monte Cristo, or other revenge-centric stories. They go the extra mile to tailor their revenge to the target, and give them Exactly what they deserve.

[devil-with-a-soul]

Leverage (2008) // parker on the grift

[devil-with-a-soul]

there's that Girl's Night Out Job deleted scene that I just can't stop thinking about at the moment.

"Tell me about the first thing you stole." "Mr Bunny. Yeah! He's my first friend."

parker was so alone, for SUCH a long time. and both the nigerian job and the stork job are pretty clear about the fact that she was beaten and starved as a kid. 12 step tells us that it was pathological neglect that drove her to kelptomania; boost job fills in some of the gaps as to how shitty foster parents ended up leaving her as a street kid with a record. she got lucky in picking archie's pocket, but this is still someone who blew up a house aged... what, nine? archie says that when he found her she was "A danger - to herself and to others." which, yeah, no shit.

parker absolutely was half-feral when the team found her, and even if archie had tamed her a little from when she was a kid, it wasn't exactly like he did a great job at teaching her to integrate with society.

instead, that's… what sophie did, and hardison, and to a lesser extent nate and eliot. her family. that she found, that she made, that she grew up into a place at. she tried to be something she wasn't for them, and they made sure she knew it was okay to be who she was. but at the same time there's a lot of unhealed trauma in her.

to an extent i think there always will be.

her brother died. she didn't even talk about it for two decades. she's fine with jumping off a building but she's terrified of loosing the people around her.

no wonder she had a crisis over the status quo changing. no wonder she was so lost as to who she is, and where, and why. because she knows and feels that darkness in her but she can never be quite sure if who she is is who she is or if she's just a product of the good and bad influences around her. that's half the question she sets out to adress in the side job.

and.

i dunno.

i just keep coming back to that deleted scene, that one line. to the image we get in the nigerian job of a little girl clutching a toy rabbit, her only friend in the world.

to what she says in the side job, about being so hurt as a child.

parker will always have a warmth and an innocence to her that the rest of the team won't. she'll always be the one who believes in santa and is afraid of horses and thinks fall damage isn't real. there will always be an innocence to her. but that innocence will always have an edge, because... "She was broken. You understand that? Parker was broken."

and she found a family, and she tried to be a better person for her family, but it never quite fully clicked. of course she couldn't trust that it did. that darkness, that pain, it's not gonna leave. but neither will the little girl clutching the stuffed build-a-bear toy, because they're one and the same. she's not crazy. she never was.

i don't... have a point here, really. but since watching the side job - and season three of redemption more broadly (a bunch of this post is cribbed from stuff i said @aardvaark a couple of months ago) it just feels like so many thoughts about parker are echoing around in my head. if r1 was harry's redemption and r2 was sophie's, then r3 is parker's - but i love that we never got a single solid conclusion. it's just. yeah.

and i can't stop thinking about that deleted scene.

[devil-with-a-soul]

SUPERNATURAL 1x02 / THE WINCHESTERS 1x13

[devil-with-a-soul]

Leverage: Redemption 3x1 - "The Weekend in Paris Job"

Leverage: Redemption 3x2 - "The Digital Frankenstein Job"

Leverage: Redemption 3x3 - "The Scared Stiff Job"

Leverage: Redemption 3x9- "The Polygeist Job"

Leverage: Redemption 3x10- "The Side Job"

[devil-with-a-soul]

every single day I think about how american black vultures are known for engaging in interspecific allopreening (preening between different species)

and they have a specific relationship with crested caracaras, in which the black vultures assist them by not only preening them after meals but also leading them to food in the first place, while the caracaras assist the black vultures by acting as a warning signal in case of danger

and while this is more typical of black vultures, this is not common at all for any member of the falconidae family— it’s a special bond!

yet another post in favor of vultures everyone , hope you enjoy:) and I implore you to do some more research on these incredible birds !!

EDIT: I meant interspecific allopreening! excuse my typo!

EDIT 2: black vultures do not have a superior sense of smell to caracaras, sorry for the misunderstanding!

[devil-with-a-soul]

Nothing wrong with this cat at all. It's just orange 🐱🐱

[devil-with-a-soul]

[devil-with-a-soul]

eddie diaz has the sluttiest waist of all

[devil-with-a-soul]

DC Pride #1 - "Master Planner" (2025)

written by Jenny Blake art by Sara Soler

[devil-with-a-soul]

Messy hair, arms out, favorite ratty Tshirt, 🌈 belt peaking out…. Misha… the hooah that you are.

[devil-with-a-soul]

# Sophie Devereaux: number one Mr Wilson hypeman ✨

[devil-with-a-soul]

I do think Lara is Sophie's "real" (birth) name, not because Gina confirmed it via Twitter, but because it seems clear to me that she writes Lara on the napkin she gives Nate for Christmas at the end of The Ho Ho Ho Job, after he gives her the "your name here" pendant. Her Christmas present to him is her "real" name. Still, when he uses it in his proposal, she tells him it's not her real name, because it's not anymore. Because Sophie is Sophie's actual real name. That's the name she uses with the team, her family, it's the name she marries Nate under, and it's the person she chooses, every day, to be. Whoever she was in the past, however many aliases she went by and characters she built, all the lives she lived, she is Sophie now.

[devil-with-a-soul]

I can't get over how deep Eliot and Parker's relationship is.

Everyone else asked. They let her duck around the situation. "Something like that." "Something like that." "Something like that."

Not Eliot. He didn't ask. He didn't need to. He understood.

They went up that mountain together. They changed together, but they didn't change from who they were fundamentally. They always remained the two people on the team who do what the others can't... won't.

Sophie wouldn't have understood if she killed the mark. Harry wouldn't. Breanna wouldn't. Hardison wouldn't.

But Eliot would. Does.

[devil-with-a-soul]

So anyway, some Leverage Redemption background insight from John Rogers today in the wake of LA today. (x)