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being on tumblr for a long time but never reading homestuck like

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i’m watching an art theft documentary and they’re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren’t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like “this is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don’t say a word to anyone just nod if it’s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second” and then it cuts to the professor’s interview and he says “i wasn’t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens’s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little” and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like “i hadn’t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn’t leave” 

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Leverage textposts part 14/?

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Leverage textposts part 22/?

Shout-out to the lovely @lindseymcdonaldseyelashes for their help with the background screenshot for the Sophie one 'cause the episode won't download

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Leverage textposts part 23/?

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I have been thinking of this Canal+ ad with napoleon in it

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Okay, I don't know how many times I've seen the Leverage pilot episode but I just realized that Nate was in Illinois SPECIFICALLY to see Sophie's play because he doesn't live there. He was in the bar waiting to head to the airport, he's already divorced and jobless, so why was he there? He knew that Sophie was there. He saw her play the night before he was approached by Dubenich.

How did it take me this long to realize that? 🤦‍♀️

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Meanwhile, here are my other books so far (HONEYEATER comes out in September 2025...)

•Flyaway: an enchanted Australian Gothic story, set in Western Queensland (Tordotcom; Picador (Aus)).

•Travelogues: vignettes from trains in motion (Brain Jar Press)

•Kindling: stories (Small Beer Press)

Look what’s in the @torpublishinggroup’s Monthly Cover Round Up — and out on 2 September THIS YEAR!! (There’ll be an Australian edition too — same cover)

Honeyeater by ⁣Kathleen Jennings⁣ (me!)

Cover art by Lindsey Carr⁣

Cover design by Christine Foltzer⁣

Edited by Ellen Datlow

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Preorders: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250845887/honeyeater/

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'many scratched doors,' 1994 in sigalit landau - gabriele horn + ruth ronen (2008)

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The map's form: paper It shows: the beloved Its purpose: nefarious

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The house is offended. The housekeeper is ravenous. All the girl wants is a running start.

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working on cleaning / reorganizing some of my files so here's a bunch of eliot gifs

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i keep thinking about the knife scene in bring her back. i am not enjoying these thoughts.

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One of my favorite leverage team Found Family Things is the little background details…like the things you may not notice or pay much attention to but add so much meaning to the relationships. Take, for example, the one line in the Queen’s Gambit Job where Nate is in the chess tournament and Hardison is all “You’re good, but you’re not that good” and Nate says “I still beat you every time” like??? Nate and Hardison have played chess together in their free time? Multiple times??? Or the fact that Parker knows where the cereal is in Nate’s apartment and helps herself to it whenever she’s hungry. I know we all love the scene where Eliot and Hardison rescue a client from fake fbi agents and Eliot beats them up for spilling his coffee but we always overlook the fact that the two of them were just casually getting coffee together? It’s not like they were on a con or anything?? When Sophie meets up with the others at the brewpub for the first time and is all “ugh we’re moving to Portland, no warning” but doesn’t even consider choosing to Not move right next to her crew. They all spend Christmas together every year and got so extravagant with the presents that Nate and Sophie had to put a limit on the money they could spend? Eliot knows how Hardison likes his steaks? At the end of the Broken Wing Job they all sit down to watch a horror movie together (and it’s clear that’s not their first family movie night.) They just know each other So Well and they spend so much time together, they’ve worked together for years and they still choose to spend whatever free time they have together too. The Girl’s Night Out Job and the Boy’s Night Out Job is a great example of this, because they’re all like yeah of course we have friends outside of the team! Of course we hang out with other people! But Not Many and Not Very Often. It shows just how closely knit they are and they are so wholly a family and they can’t imagine caring about anyone more than they care about those four other people and they are literally the EPITOME of found family everyone just go WATCH LEVERAGE

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PARKER & ELIOT Leverage 1.09 (1.04) — “The Snow Job”

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can't stop thinking about the dalemark quartet