they’re still together in my head :,)

You know, in all the posts I've seen about how great Leverage is (which are the posts that got me to watch the show!) there's one part of it that doesn't really come up. They take down the bad guys, and that's really cool, and the characters are incredible, and that's also really cool.

What gets me the most though? Is the jobs where they make things better.

The jobs where they do still take down the bad guys, give them their due, stop the harm. But they also make things better.

Sometimes it's small things, like the Tap Out Job where the guy they help gets to run the boxing club going forward, keep his people safe. The checks they sometimes give at the end of an episode, with a suggestion of what to use it for, fall into this theme.

Slightly bigger, you get things like the Underground Job where the mine will have proper safety equipment now and an owner who will keep it that way. Or the Blue Line Job, which comes with a show of solidarity between the guys that fight each other on the ice - but not when it could kill one of them. Not once they know. And now they'll make sure no one faces that risk again.

On a personal level, there's the Carnival Job, where a father ends up connecting with his daughter again by the end.

And then there's the episode that got me thinking about this.

The Gimme A K Street Job.

For once, they're doing a (mostly) legal job. And the end goal is simple: get laws into place so teenage girls won't get hurt from the lack of safety regulations.

And they do it.

And going forward, no more teenage girls are going to break their bones because they landed on a mat that doesn't give anything except the illusion of protection.

Leverage is different from the typical crime solving show because of the robin hood angle, sure. But it's also different because every now and then, they don't just catch the bad guy. Every now and then, they make things better.

im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities

I am not blorbo’s apologist, I’m blorbo’s defense attorney. And baby, we are going for a plea deal cause he absolutely did that shit.

In loving memory of the Boops, you will be missed

HERE COMES THE BOOP TRAIN!

So Bail, get this, Bail Organa sends some ships to an Imperial-controlled planet. And those ships get stolen by The Rebel Scum. Bail goes ‘how dare you let my ships get stolen I demand full compensation’ and the Imperial Senate goes ‘ohhhHH of course of COURSE we are SO SORRY here are your credits Mr. Senator Organa sir’ and Bail, get this, Bail uses those credits to buy MORE ships and send them on Relief Missions to planets Suffering From Rebel Presences and those ships get STOLEN right out from under the Imperials’ noses. How could this be??? The INCOMPETENCE. In THEIR GREAT EMPIRE.

And Palpatine, who knows Bail had tea on the weekends with Obi-Wan Kenobi, has seventeen different reports on his desk every week telling him that the Empire is compensating Alderaan for losses sustained on Imperial planets and he’s seething as he signs them because he just KNOWS it’s never an accident and he’s actually funding the Rebellion but he can’t do anything about it because Bail, when asked about it, just presses a dramatic hand to his own heart and says, ‘why, Emperor, I have NO IDEA how The Rebel Scum keeps acquiring my vessels. Maybe if YOUR security forces were more effective we wouldn’t be in such a TRAGIC situation so often. Sign here.’

I guarantee you it’s some random Imperial admiral signing the checks thinking Bail’s just claiming fake losses and pocketing the money himself like any other self-respecting senator who has the good fortune to be married to a planetary head of state would do, so he doesn’t ask questions but Bail’s just SO goddamn popular with the Empire’s dedicated grifters. They’re in awe of him. He’s legendary. Mercy missions! Fleet after fleet getting “captured by Rebels.” The sheer NERVE of the guy to risk admitting to bad news like that, again and again! And he gets points for “honesty” every time, because who would willingly cop to losing ships to the Rebellion when there’s convenient pirates and criminal underworlds to be blamed? Bail Freakin’ Organa, that’s who!

Every grifter and self-enriching con artist in the Senate, the Navy, and anywhere else in the Imperial bureaucracy wants to be like him. He’s got the trust, the courage, the reputation of a saint, he even courts suspicion of Rebel sympathies—freakin’ TREASON—as his decoy vice, and he keeps disappearing entire fleets to line his pockets with the insurance money!

The efforts of Vader, the ISB, and even the Emperor himself to nail Senator Organa for treason just fizzles away to nothing, every time, because the Imperial machine they depend on to do the heavy lifting is like 85% grifters and embezzlers and thieves all the way down and none of them will entertain the notion for even a second that he’s ACTUALLY funneling all this wealth to the Rebellion.

Hey guys, I just found out it's been five years since the miette post

Happy fifth Year of jail for mother. 995 more to go.

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 3.05 | Homecoming

she is actively making fun of his sonic

I bring a real "many female characters also have these traits you love male characters for" and "many of your fave male characters have done the same things you hate female characters for" vibe to the conversation they female character haters don't enjoy

this ramadan we pray for peace and aid for the people of palestine. this ramadan we remember the previous ramadans, where thousands of palestinians were massacred. this ramadan we honour palestine, and may we see a free palestine next ramadan

Jar (Our Greatest Enemy)