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The Hollow Knight people
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Some STP meme redraws for funzies!
___Originals below___
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Slay the Princess in a Nutshell
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Slay the Princess in a Nutshell
You know, I appreciate The DB Cooper Job more with each passing rewatch. Wasn't my favorite at first, idk
The Van Gogh Job? Always been the best and gets better each time
Next time I rewatch leverage I'm make a complete list of each character's known languages.
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top tier leverage dynamic is nate trying to teach the rest of the crew morals even though his own moral compass is a jeopardy wheel so even though he constantly lectures them on bad behavior it comes with a huge moral caveat of "but remember anything is okay so long as it fucks with rich people"
I don't get how ppl can love leverage (OG) but hate Nate. Fundamentally it was *his* story, it was about anger and the complexity of a brilliant but terrible man who was a mishmash of gray morality and doing good things for the wrong reasons and healing back little bits and pieces of his soul while at the same time breaking and sliding deeper into this game he's playing and becoming addicted to his role as avenging angel. He was never meant to be a good person, and if you think he was, you weren't paying attention. But leverage as a team, the individuals, and by extension the whole show, are all a reflection of him, his experience, his crimes for the betterment of good, honest people. He is the foundation of tboh the show's themes and narrative, I feel like you can't love those without appreciating him.
#leverage#nate ford#please i want to understand the hate#obviously the show is about more than that- im just talking about the fundamentals#and I'm not one of those people#his story was told and finished and he doesnt have much of a place in the new narrative#but hes just a very... well written and nuanced character#and ppl disliking him becauss hes not nice or w/e are like. well you can like what you want but it feels juvenile and out of place in lev#hes not supposed to be nice#or good#people arent always. and you cant be if youre gonna be as ruthless as this team was if youre tryna be Nice#this show wouldnt have worked if he was outwardly kind or less arrogant or were gentle with the team#idk#me ending a deep essay post with 'idk' moments#idk why my tags are getting messed up#im NOT one of those ppl who thinks they shouldve brought back nate in lev:red. tumblr stop messing up my tags challenge
Writing a leverage episode in my head. It's wonderful.
#that kind of label#one foot in one foot out#and what word is that?#yknow.. theres a lot of-#-a lot of us out there. just gotta know where to look#us#soooooo... you-#Dont#oh-kay#eliot has a former male love interest from his military days he never told anyone about#lots of conversation around Dont Ask Dont Tell#and how it extends to the hitter field. how (Eliot's words) will follow you around#btw all of this amid Eliot's ongoing relationship struggles arc and realizing that he has all that he needs already#but still struggling to fully commit even as parker and hardison are patient#by the end of the episode they figure out that this is why Eliot's always been so (parkers words) about this#they talk about this but leverage never needs words to convey relationships like this. so it ends with Eliot holding both of their hands#a biiit more focused on hardison because the writers would leave Eliot and Parker's relationship ambiguous and up for interpretation#maybe a later episode has sophie asking eliot about them being a proper thing now#and it leads to Eliot saying 'we never put a word on it before. dont make it any less real'#sophie smirking#and eliot just gives a cheeky smile and walks off#this is redmption era btw just pretend Hardison's home#i want a conversation with him and Breanna and hes clearly uncomfortable using labels or anything but#breanna says shes glad he could talk about it. how you dont get to hear these stories a lot#and eliot gives her a (brief hesitation)#emphasis on#and because harrys the only one we havent covered; his heartfelt conversation starts with him VERY awkwardly going#and eliot just cuts him off.#shuts up and nods.#end of conversation
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I’m trying to work out why I haven’t enjoyed the latest season of Leverage Redemption as much as I enjoyed the original Leverage. It’s still a fun show but it just feels like it’s lacking… something. And I’m not sure what.
It’s missing Hardison. The fact he was barely in most of it was definitely a shame, but he wasn’t in large parts of the first season of LR either.
And I think it was just that the plans felt more clumsy. The crew made mistakes that felt amateur. Like, they were breaking a guy out of prison and just wandered way ahead of him in a way that let him get caught, or Harry having a loud panic attack in the vents. The vents one in particular I think was meant to be funny but it just made me wince because it just felt bad.
In the original show, they sometimes made mistakes but they felt understandable. Like, in the one with Santa, Chaos had been planning that con for weeks in a way deliberately designed to fool them and they had a few hours to plan - so they fell for it. Or maybe one of the crew would be emotionally compromised and slip up - like Eliot seeing an abused kid in the hospital and going to threaten the dad and getting distracted from the con they were meant to be on. Or sometimes they got in trouble by being too good - like Hardison getting kidnapped because he played the part of a jewel thief too well. Or sometimes things went wrong on a con for a reason that none of them could have seen coming and the peril felt fair.
The mistakes in LR felt clumsy.
In the original, sometimes they had to make up a cover on the fly and improvise, but now Sophie goes under cover in an MLM company and doesn’t bother to read some of the recruiting material to know what their key buzz words and inspirational phrases are? No. Her being put on the spot like that wouldn’t have phased her in the original because the team would have done the research to prepare for that sort of basic information.
I mean, it’s not a bad show. But it’s like you’re expecting high-end, restaurant quality food and someone hands you a lukewarm microwave meal. I’ll take it, but I was expecting more.
#THIS#this is one of the things that I loved most about the original. competency porn#I think I reblogged a post about it like circa 2017#there dont have to be elaborate planned heists every time if thats not what they wanna go for but they need to still be competent#and related: it doesnt feel like theyre properly using each member to the best of their abilities#og leverage could make sure it always did probably because of the elaborate heist-planning
Next time I do a leverage rewatch I'm gonna count which languages each character speaks
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You guys went all in on becoming better people and you brought me along for the ride.
#til the day I die#I appreciate the opportunity to be useful#you are Leverage#this made me so mad#theyre really trying to convince me that eliot went from to ?????#not to mention the COMPLETE lack of subtlety in LRs writing#guys you dont have to namedrop Redemption every episode (AND drop the hoakiest in the same ep)#and you dont need Eliot to say it outloud that he doesnt think he can be redeemed (nevermind that fact that his arc moved past this already#they shoved a whole character arc into one explicit coversation thats fucking DUMB#i liked redemption at first but i cant take it anymore scoob
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Leverage ot3 - Sleep
So the jist is that Hardison has sleep apnea so has to have one of those like BIPAP machine things at night. Has anyone has ever had to sleep with someone he has one of them knows they’re not exactly quiet. I mean they’re not the worst my thing in the world. He likes sleeping in the middle because he finds it comforting and safe to be held between the two most important people of his life. 
Elliot gets migraines probably because he’s had one too many knocks to the head. One thing that’s a trigger is him being tired. So it’s important to make sure that he gets his 8 hours of sleep a night. However Elliot gets frequent nightmares that prevent him from sleeping. Despite how much he thought Harrison‘s machine was going to keep him awake at night he quickly discovers that the sound of the machine it’s weirdly reassuring.  you seem to get a lot last night mares and on the rare occurrence that he does he finds the sound of the machine grounds him quickly reminding him that he’s somewhere safe with Hardison and Parker.  without him really realising it gets to the point where you can’t sleep without it and when Hardisons way Parker sets up a hairdryer a vacuum or something in the corner of the room.
Parker also gets nightmares but not as bad as Elliot. She can’t sleep in the middle because it makes her feel too trapped but she needs to be near one of the boys so that when she does wake up from a nightmare she can reach over and assure herself that other out there okay. She also breathes really quietly when she’s asleep and on several occasions Elliot and/or Hardison have up and thought she was dead. 
(Just as a disclaimer sorry if this doesn’t make much sense I’m literally writing this half asleep because I’m trying to get to sleep I miss her come on just came to me and I wanted to get it down before I went to sleep so I don’t forget. I might delete this later.)