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Courtney, 35, Canada. Lesbian, Animal Lover, Gamer, Huge Dork. Forever in love with Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow and Alycia Debnam-Carey. Lover of all things Dragon Age and Mass Effect. My main ships are Clexa, Bechloe & Avatrice. TERFs stay the hell off my blog.
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I just want to remind everybody

Leverage gave us a middle-aged couple who impetuously fell into bed and had hot passionate sex, then cleaned up their acts emotionally before committing to each other in marriage.

Leverage gave us a young black man gently, wisely courting a non-neurotypical blonde white woman.

Leverage gave us a young black man whose two white male best friends both describe him as the smartest man they’ve ever known.

Leverage gave us a guitar-playing country boy, an ex-hitman and army vet, who puts his life in the hands of a geeky black man and his blonde girlfriend (till death do them part).

Leverage gave us Parker, Sophie, Maggie, and Tara; it also gave us female villains with as much cunning, ruthlessness, and agency as any man’s. 

Leverage gave us villains who were rich, powerful, greedy white people who had to have just a little bit more, and a clever, cunning, usually compassionate, occasionally terrifying white guy who beat them at their own game and robbed the rich to help the poor.

Leverage, gentlefolx.

Leverage also gave us a black man who was the computer nerd and not the muscly grunt.

Leverage also gave us an Alpha Male™ who unashamedly loved to cook, despite it being a classically feminine skill.

Leverage also gave us a discussion about faith, which was not used to bash the atheists for being non-believers, and was not used to bash the theists for not believing in science. Leverage gave us an interfaith relationship between a Catholic and an atheist.

Leverage also gave us a small, sexy, blonde woman who was not used as a sexual object, who was never told she screwed up when she couldn’t play that part, and who developed not into the sexy distraction, but into the team leader.

Leverage is amazing.

Leverage showed us an autistic woman surrounded by people who understood what she was, and didn’t try to make her change more than she was able to. Leverage showed us this woman grow and change AND FAIL and succeed. Leverage showed her grappling with emotions she didn’t know how to handle, and while not pretending this didn’t make her a pain in the ass to be around, didn’t make her the villain for being insecure.

Leverage showed us a man who fell in love with her including-and-not-despite the crazy, and showed that man recognize that he didn’t need to push.

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