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[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage: Redemption 1x7- "The Double-Edged Sword Job"

[draconym]

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

[draconym]

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

[ahmnorhein-zkn]

Repost, now do your honors.

[jkl-fff]

Trans people just existing is no more sexual than when cis people just exist.

[yeehawpim]

I can be the ship and its sailors

[ladylaetitialade]

So Leverage, as a whole, is pretty body chaste (probably not the right word? maybe body neutral is better), in that characters aren’t just randomly getting undressed or wearing revealing outfits so that they can be sexualized by the audience. Each and every time someone takes off clothes or wears revealing clothes, it is for a reason related to plot or character development.

Parker’s habit of taking off clothes in front of people is there to show that: a) she’s bad at social norms (at least the first, maybe second time she does it), and b) it’s completely not sexual at all–in fact it’s uncomfortable for, notably, men, which is the complete opposite of what media usually portrays.

And Sophie’s “sexy” clothes are specifically a tool against the weaknesses of the marks, so there is a disconnect between the audience seeing Sophie in small, fitted dresses and seeing Sophie in small, fitted dresses as sexual.

Tara does the same thing with her clothes, as well when she drops her towel, although this is the second time the other main characters sexualize one of their own (the first being when Nate and Eliot think Parker kissed Sophie, which is a hideous “men get stupid over two women kissing” trope). I think this is supposed to reinforce that she is sexually aggressive, but character development and plot-wise I’m not quite sure why Eliot is still in a “saw a naked woman” haze in the hotel room afterwards.

(Overall, though, the women in Leverage are only sexualized when they choose to be or by bad people.)

The only time undressing gets close to equaling sexualization (from the audience’s gaze) is during Mikel and Eliot’s fight. Intellectually, yeah, fighting in wet clothes would not be so fun, but not only does both of them stripping signify that the fight is like 60% flirting, it also signifies that they’re stripping down until they’re equals. Even in just a bra, Mikel didn’t seem any less dangerous or less capable than she did with her shirt on, and what ended up being highlighted in that scene (even through the kissing) was the pure physical strength both Mikel and Eliot possess.

(As an aside, Eliot’s undershirt is totally implied to be equal to a bra not just in the fight with Mikel, but also when he and Parker are changing clothes together, and I have a lot of feelings about that, like, Eliot you complete old-school proper Southern boy.)

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"Hey, we’re thieves, man, and we’re good at what we do, but this is way, way out of our league. And you expect us to go catch some psycho with a city killer? A country killer?"

Leverage S05E09 The Rundown Job.

[ju-nebugg]

something about “we’ve done this dance before”

[mrowsterr]

Legend of Aang Zuko 💝

[superbabetotherescue]

i love the little detail of adrian taking his glasses off right before the prison fight

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month to all of my fellow aces!! 🖤🩶🤍💜

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage: Redemption 1x6- "The Card Game Job"

[gnar-slabdash]

They're so deliberate about showing that Eliot is not playing a role when he's The Chef in French Connection. He doesn't use an alias, he doesn't restrain himself from being harsh or from being sincere, his food speeches to the class are very similar to the ones he gives Parker, he bickers with Hardison just like always --- he's just being himself.

And then in the end, the "head on a platter" conversation just as directly tells us that he is playing the role of The Hitter. He's not being himself, he planned and considered how to act the part. If only for one episode, he got to feel like The Chef was the real him and The Hitter was just a character he played.

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JASKIER 🔥

↳ THE WITCHER | 4.08 “Baptism of Fire”

[chaoswiththeprettyspine]

I'm baaack >:)

[prettyasapic]

One of the many, many, things I love about Leverage is how often they can just make shit up because the mark is some CEO/business bro who never bothered to actually learn the field they’re fucking up. It doesn’t matter if they just string together vocab words and Wikipedia subheadings, the only person who knows less about this than them is standing right in front of them and if they were capable of listening to experts, the team wouldn’t be there!

[tiredandoptimistic]

What makes Leverage a great show is that Nate has your standard Catholic guilt, Sophie is a chronic liar who struggles with genuine vulnerability, Parker and Eliot invent eighteen new types of repression with every episode, and Hardison is just trying to make a group hug happen.