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Leverage + Troubled Birds-Miscellaneous 1

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hi, sorry, I just wanted to ask, and this is prolly going to sound super dumb, are authors chill with people commenting on their old fanfics and stuff?

just want to make sure that I'm not inadvertently being annoying

I believe I speak for most authors when I say they’ll never be annoyed by any positive comments from their readers

authors, reblog if you love receiving new comments on your old works

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let's do crime with mama

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I need to be locked in a room with Nate Ford while we argue about something we are BOTH clearly wrong about until he punches me. I think that’d fix me.

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Anyone: *is watching Leverage for the first time*

Me: have you heard about watch order? Do you know the watch order? Hey. Hey. Are you aware that season one is out of order and requires a specific watching order. Hey. Hey. Hey. Have I told you about watch order yet?

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funniest moment in leverage is when sophie has to remind nate that he never actually cheated on his wife with her. and he's like. not convinced. like bro you were there

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Extremely good that the first trick the crew sees Sophie use (meets two parties and each thinks she works for the other)...

is also the trick Tara uses on them.

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I feel like we don't talk enough about how sometimes Don't Create the Torment Nexus is actually Here's an Exaggerated Version of Something Fucked Up We Do Already, For Real, In Real Life, So You Can Understand What's Bad About It and people will STILL look at that and be like yeah you're right the exaggerated version is much better. we need a real life Torment Nexus.

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well that’s the thing about him. he’s broken. badly. (You have become my family. My only family.)

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Never done thinking about The Rashomon Job. Because ok, I think that, on balance, we can assume Eliot and Sophie spent a not insignificant amount of time at that museum gala flirting aggressively with each other (Nate's careful excision of this from his reconstructed version notwithstanding).

We also know that Sophie clearly did not remember/recognise Eliot until he pantomimed his behaviour and accent that night. This tracks for Sophie; she's not a faces person. She notices actions, tones, accents, and above all she notices physical signifiers of social relationships (class, professional, personal etc.). She can be pretty confident, from her own grifting experience, that that's all most other people notice too.

Eliot, on the other hand, is absolutely a faces person. It's something of a recurring bit. There's at least one occasion where he IDs a guy he saw for three seconds. He's a hypervigilant observer with a detailed and well-trained memory ("it's a very distinctive..."). That's part of what gives him an edge (and also must make the occasions where he briefly becomes famous deeply stressful).

(The bit in the opening episode of Redemption S3, were they walk into a party and Sophie notices the decor and dress and Eliot notices all the armed and dangerous security is such a good example of their respective ways of seeing the world.)

Taking all this into consideration, I think we can fairly happily imagine the following: that Eliot Spencer walked into a theatre in LA with an alcohol-soaked insurance investigator, an annoying hacker, and a disconcertingly odd super-thief, and was absolutely baffled to find someone he recognised from that deeply frustrating attempt to steal the dagger of Aqu'abi doing the world's worst Lady Macbeth.

And then she clearly hasn't recognised him, and he's not going to bring it up, because it's just a one time job, and also there's her whole thing with Nate happening right in front of his salad. And then eventually it becomes "wait, this is gold", and he's just sitting on this reveal until that night in the bar.

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Hat Bracket is going to take a million years specifically because a lot of people didn't include screenshots which means I have to go through and find them, which is NOT the problem, the problem is as soon as I open an episode to go through I think "Oh I like this episode maybe I should just watch a few minutes of it...... oh but I also like this other part in it so maybe a few minutes more....." And of course I am like this about every single episode

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I'm hurt you'd think that I didn't understand Nate Ford :P jk obviously that is so so so funny XD

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BTW when you encounter a character and think "What's this guy's fucking problem?" that's your body trying to give you an out before you fall into obsession.

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POV: You're a Leverage bad guy.

Leverage S03E13/S04E15

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everyones fave thieves