Today is the last day of 2017. Everyone born in the 1990’s are now adults, there are no more 90’s kids.

Ugh my heart ... 💔

if i see another post about b99 getting cancelled i will throw myself into a fire

THAT IS NOT A THING THAT CAN OR WILL HAPPEN SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP IM NOT CRYING YOURE CRYING

↪The Maltese Falcon Job

imagine danny devito but like 6 feet tall

hey do you accept constructive criticism on posts?

absolutely not

This is the moment I truly fell in love with Sophie Devereaux. Her instinctive reaction to Parker (whom she hardly knew at this point) saying she was sick was to check on her, to offer a caring touch that Parker may not have felt in a very long time. I was surprised. I mean, femme fatales I know. Maternal figures, I know them, too.  But a femme fatale with a motherly side? I sat up and took notice.

That’s how Leverage got me. It took all these tropes, shook them all up, added a pinch of this and that, and somehow gave us complex human beings we’d want to get to know and understand. So we got a femme fatale who mothers everyone, an emotionally intelligent tough guy, a charming and outgoing geek, a mastermind whose own life is out of control, and a childlike innocent who is perhaps the most dangerous member of the crew. And by the time the show’s over, not one of them has remained the exact same person we met in the first season—they’ve all changed and grown, as a family and as individuals, they’ve let their edges melt and overlap into each other while settling more comfortably into themselves. And we saw it happen.

What a joy to have seen it happen.

Ok, ALSO.  ALSO ALSO.  Parker is just the sort of character that someone else would have saying things like, “I don’t like other girls” or “I’m different than other girls” and have Parker NOT liking the other two more feminine women (Sophie and Maggie).  

BUT NOT ON LEVERAGE.  On Leverage one of the most interesting things has been seeing Sophie and Parker become friendly and develop this deep friendship and also Parker LOVES Maggie and rather than thinking her not being a criminal makes her less than thinks that Maggie needs hugs and an emergency bag and okokok.

ALL MY PARKER FEELINGS.

Reblogging because awesome comment is awesome. And also true. Either Parker or Sophie could’ve been written as disdainful or dismissive of each other for having a different kind of femininity, but they weren’t. Instead of Parker disliking Sophie for being “too girly,” and Sophie disliking Parker for not being girly enough, we see them settle into a mutually affirming, accepting, supportive relationship.

And the Sophie and Maggie dynamic–that could’ve been a catfight, but amazingly, wonderfully, thankfully, it wasn’t. And Tara, can we talk about Tara? The team distrusted and struggled to accept her at first, because they missed Sophie too much for different reasons, but not because she was overtly sexy and assertive. And honestly it feels kinda weird to have to be thankful for portrayals of women showing basic decency towards each other, because tbh this is just how the girls I’ve known in the real world interact, but in the twisted Hollywood fantasy land shaped by white male writers who write what they imagine women are like, Leverage feels like a window into reality, something refreshingly recognizable and real.

In the deep shadow of the porch A slender bindweed springs, And climbs, like airy acrobat, The trellises, and swings And dances in the golden sun In fairy loops and rings.

~ Susan Coolidge

Parker is Everything

Everyone is so into Eliot and obviously I adore him too but Parker is the one who breaks my heart because she’s the one who didn’t get a choice.

The rest of the team had other options and chose to be criminals, but Parker was just a little girl trying to survive. And then she met Archie, and even though he didn’t think she was good enough to take home ‘like a real daughter’ she’s still absolutely loyal to him because it’s the most anybody has ever done for her before she meets Team Leverage.

And yet she’s still capable of caring about all these people and wanting to help them. Sometimes she’s even the one on the team who cares the most. No one ever taught her how to be a good person but when she’s given the option she is and I LOVE HER SO MUCH!

Like, as much as she loves Christmas, that’s how much I love Parker.

The reason why Charlie tells his story to Parker is because he can tell that she is the “Charlie” character in the love story of her and Hardison.

She’s the one who can take care of herself. She doesn’t dream, she plans. She even has a way with languages (see: “you speak Spanish?” *shrug*)

Hardison is the one who’s like Dorothy. He’s the loyal one. He’s the one who’s always finding homes for the team. He’s the one who waited.

So the reason Charlie tells his story to Parker - the reason he tells her to “not waste time” - is because he sees himself in her. He can tell when someone’s found their home, their family, and he knows that she shouldn’t let that go.

If I was a ghost I wouldn’t waste time haunting people, I’d go exploring jungles, desert plains, caves and oceans without the fear of dying.

You know you’ve either made it or messed up really bad if you have a Wikipedia page on yourself

I want one.