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Ms. Rickards, why are you trying to kill us?

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A series of Olicity sexy moments: 6x0 Reversal (part I).

Part II

Requested by @snorlaxishere

(via mrbrianfirenzi)

…………………….they knew exactly what they were doing

mandatory disclosure that i do think this site sucks but……..tumblr’s kinda nice in that its less like……public facing than twitter fb insta etc? more like how the Old Internet used to be where u had your own little niches…idk i feel like that’s harder to find now

All those places you have to do the equivalent of brushing your hair and putting on make-up for. Tumblr’s more like everyone hanging out in their pajamas and passing a bucket of popcorn around.

actually in one of my lectures, we had a guest speaker who told us that the anonymity of tumblr is why so many lgbt people use it. so they dont have to be so open about their identity and can feel safe and interact with other people under this blanket of anonymity

Do you ever just see the first sentence of a text message and just think “oh fuck no I do not have time for this shit”

(wakes up at reasonable hour) (stays in bed for two more hours)

(goes to bed at a reasonable hour)(stays awake for two more hours)

I can’t wait for the fic that I’m going to write after this fic I’m not writing because I still have to finish another fic (which I can’t seem to focus on).

Felicity Smoak - Overwatch

Character A tilting Character B’s chin up to get a better look at their face and the evidence of the fight. A delicately thumbs away the streak of blood by B’s mouth, saying nothing as they examine it. After a brief pause, B’s heart skips a nervous beat as A looks them dead in the eyes. Their voice is quiet and tense, their anger barely restrained.

“Who did this to you?”

an evening walk (endless summer) for the Olicity Summer Sizzle 2019

“Wait, didn’t they try to kill you once?”

The suspicion in Felicity’s tone takes Oliver by surprise. Not because he’s certain that no one’s trying to kill him because that’s usually happening at any given time, but because he’s pretty certain no one’s trying to kill him here. Bloomfield is a quiet, sleepy settlement at best and their neighborhood, in particular, is as peaceful as it gets. 

So he’s pretty shocked to know he’s potentially a target. Again.

“Who?” he asks casually.

“The couple at number twelve,” she murmurs suspiciously. “I swear, we’ve seen them before.”

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tbh the real advice I’d give to anyone is, do shit alone. go to a museum & go at your own pace & leave the instant you’re done. go somewhere you’ve never been and just wander around, duck into & out of places as it pleases you. linger as long as you’d like.

Dude, Leverage follows that storytelling advice that everything should either advance the story or the characters, and it follows it scrupulously.

Even something as small as why Eliot doesn’t like baseball (until he plays it): “I don’t like any game you can’t win on defense.”

“Winning through defense” (both as in sports and as in defending others) / “aggressive defense”? That’s how Eliot lives.

There are a lot of reasons why Eliot doesn’t like guns, but I bet this is one of them too. You can defend someone with a gun, but it’s always an offensive action, not a defensive one. You can guard, you can react, you can frighten away, but you cannot shield.

Anyway, nothing seems to be wasted on this show, and it’s fantastic. As a viewer I’m enjoying it, and as a writer I’m going “!!!!”

My roommate describes Leverage as “the only show that never let me down” and she has high standards. It’s not a perfect show, but unlike many (most?) multi-season TV shows, it never has a sudden dip in quality that makes people wonder what went wrong. If you like it, you’ll keep liking it all the way to the end. And it’s one of the only shows that has an ending I really like, too, which I’m pretty sure is because the showrunners had it in mind for a while and didn’t just pull it out of their asses at the last minute for shock value and plot twists. Ahem.

John Rogers has said that they ended every season in a way that would be a satisfying place to end the show, but left just enough hanging that they could pick it up again, and it works brilliantly. I wish more showrunners would do this instead of cliffhangers and endless escalation

John Rogers is legit one of my writing *heroes* he’s amazing. His disdain for TV cliff-hangers is definitely part of why. (Paraphrased mightily, but: IF! Your characters are not interesting enough that people want to come back to see more of them, YOU HAVE FAILED AT YOUR JOB, and a plot cliff-hanger that may come back to bite you in the ass because TV production is the most fragile of businesses WILL NOT SAVE YOU.)

I remember when Leverage first aired I kind of lost track of it during s3, partly because of the schedule of my life at the time, but also partly I *thought* they were doing something dumb with one of the characters; when I finally got around to rewatching it once it was streaming where I could see it all in a row, I realized that what seemed like sloppy production at first (because in *any other show* it would have been) was entirely on purpose and tied into the season’s over-arcing plot and it was BEAUTIFUL.

Leverage is still my favorite TV show ever.

what if writers did streams like artists did

I think it was a Monty Python sketch that showed an author writing with a commentary like a sports commentator.

“And he’s started writing… no, he’s just written his name at the top of the page. He’s written ‘the’, a very strong opening, used in several of his books. Oh, no, he’s crossed it out again.”

Em Bett - Instagram Story (06/19/19)