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ive heard of em

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Kids are a very understated but still important aspect of Leverage. There's no "kid" character because that would be ridiculous and hard to take seriously but great emphasis is placed on how much the crew care about kids. If a child is in danger, they will drop the entire con to help them. Entire subplots will be dedicated to a member of the crew helping a child with something unrelated (Eliot in the Order 23 Job, Sophie in the Fairy Godparents Job). At one point, Eliot and Hardison are in a stolen police car and respond to a call because they're the closest and there might be kids involved (there weren't).

In Leverage, children are very important.

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Could just start pronouncing every th sound in english as f purely to fuck with people.

saying shit like "whefer", "worf", "brofer", and "anyfing" and nobody can say shit because either I have a weird accent or a weird speech impediment and in both cases commenting on it is rude.

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I cannot emphasize enough how much of a life hack it is to exclusively be friends with, date and marry people who are not constantly mean assholes to you.

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By all accounts, Hardison pretending to be a trans man in The Cross My Heart Job shouldn't work. I should be like "Wow, this is really insensitive." But, and this is obviously up for debate, I think it does kind of work. Cause the point isn't to make fun of trans people. Hardison doesn't pretend to be some caricature, he just pretends to be a trans man. And it also serves a purpose in the plot. The only ID they could get for him belonged to a woman so he's pretending to be a trans man to get past security, with the comedy of the scene largely coming from the security guys' brains short circuiting upon being loudly accused of being transphobic, allowing Hardison to basically speedrun through the whole encounter while the security guys frantically try to cover their asses.

It also, oddly enough, kind of has a pro-trans message in it. Cause Hardison doesn't just pretend to be a trans man, he pretends to be a proud trans man who will not have you questioning his identity. He is a man and damn you if you think otherwise.

Leverage really did say "trans men are men." They said it through a character pretending to be a trans man, but they did say it.

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Sketches 🕊️ °˖➴

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i need a brave knight to slay the scary dragon on my princess tower :(

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Bank Vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) by phil winter on Flickr.

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Requested by meepmonstare

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I want to explain how weird dolphins are...

In anticipation of being able to clean a dolphin skull I’ve been thinking a lot about how completely FUCKY dolphins and other cetaceans are anatomy wise… Like they are some of the strangest, most alien mammals out there. Specifically their skulls and heads. 

So this is your typical dolphin, a smooth round head with a cute smiling beak. You would think their skulls would be shaped like their heads, that’s usually how skulls work. Something like this….

But In reality their skulls actually look like THIS flat alligator thing…

I’m sure you are thinking… “Where is the forehead”??? What if I told you that entire big lumpy forehead isn’t actually its “forehead” but rather something called a “melon” which is actually part of the NOSE or nasal apparatus.

Its essentially just a big gross fluid/jelly blob masquerading as a decent forehead. The melon has evolved as a way of amplifying and detecting vocalizations used in echolocation. Other terrifying facts:

They have no ear holes, most sound is picked up by a combination of the melon and vibrations through the jaw bone. 

They can’t breathe through their mouths. There is something called a  laryngeal plug completely separates the respiratory and digestive tracts. Cetaceans have been known to drown if their blowhole is obstructed.

Their breathing is not automatic. They must constantly think and chose when to take breaths. 

Sperm whales (Also cetaceans) are the loudest animals on earth. If you were to swim right next to their giant heads as they released a sonar pulse the shockwave could cause internal bleeding and nerve damage. Partially thanks to their giant “melon” amplifying and directing the pulse. 

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To the Grand Line!!!

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This happens every time they see each other again no doubt.

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it’s fucking wild because one day you’re like i guess i’m not dying tragically young and you go to the store and you buy dental floss, ingredients for soup, and a bath mat