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The Power of Leverage
Hey, so many of you are familiar with fix-it fanfiction, the superglue which holds together the hearts canon has shattered, right? Well, I have a point to make. As of right now (1-28-2020), there are 6,659 fanfictions in the Leverage category on AO3. You know how many of those are fix-it fics? 25. A measly 0.38% of Leverage fanfiction is tagged as fix-it. For comparison, 2.20% of MCU fanfiction and 1.25% of Supernatural fanfiction are fix-its.
So yeah, Leverage is so amazing that hardly anything needs to be fixed. But we already knew that. No, it gets better. Of those 25 fix-it fanfictions, 16 (64%) of them are actually fix-its for OTHER fandoms. Leverage has been used in fix-its for White Collar, The Walking Dead, Coupling (UK), The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Kings, Person of Interest, Pacific Rim, Once Upon a Time, The Losers, Merlin, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the actual 2016 US election (yeah, that).
The point here, being, not only is Leverage’s own canon one of the most perfect to grace television, it is so brilliant that it can literally bust in and fix everyone else’s canon as well.
The bit about fixing other fandoms literally made me laugh out loud. Maybe more of a cackle. I love this show so much
Parker: *to the heartbroken or otherwise traumatised characters of other franchises* You are suffering under a tremendous weight. We provide… leverage.
Eliot busting in to fix your canon
It’s a very distinctive skill-set
The eunuch: Keep your head down in his majesty's presence.
Fan Xian the entire time:
The eunuch: Kneel down in front of his majesty.
Fan Xian:
The eunuch: Never touch his majesty's bows and arrows.
Fan Xian:
It's a known fact Zhang Ruoyun is a great actor but I just want to praise this man more now that I'm rewatching JOL because he's absolutely fantastic as Fan Xian.
In the scene when FX goes to meet Lin Ruofu for the first time after Lin Gong's death, the way he went from pretending to be innocent with puppy eyes and a slightly airy high voice so he can make Lin Ruofu believe that he knows nothing about Lin Gong's death, to the sincere voice and calculating eyes that show nothing of what he's thinking when Lin Ruofu mentions taking over the Lin family and taking care of Wan'er and Dabao. A+++ acting.
I love the way ZYR did this scene because Lin Ruofu who's meeting FX for the first time doesn't know what he's like, but we the viewers know when he's pretending because we know his actual personality. And I swoon at how he was so clearly bluffing with his "wow Lin Gong's handwriting is so much better than mine", "*gasp* why would Lin Gong want to kill me" but then he immediately got so serious as if a switch got flipped, the moment Wan'er was brought up in the conversation.
There is so much to JOL's plot but this right here is a summary of the drama.
Teng Zijing was only the beginning because hundreds of "nobodies" continue to die in both seasons and it's an uphill battle for Fan Xian combing through complex braids of schemes and trying to uphold justice.
The siblings as a trio are underrated imo, in fact the whole Fan family is so underrated. A step-mother who is not villainised, a father who actually acts like a dad and dotes on his kids and listens to them, a way-ward spoiled brother who is well-meaning and gets character development, a witty intelligent sister who is a tyrant with the youngest but is the right hand man of the eldest, and of course Fan Xian. This family deserves to have many appreciation posts.
white people are so fucking annoying like i’m still so mad about that person calling sinners “het slop” like, to watch sammie and pearline fall in love in a night and be separated by death within hours and then later see he named his bar/band after her all those years later
to see delta slim, who met sammie HOURS PRIOR and gave his life to make sure sammie was able to live and shine with his gifts forever
to see smoke and annie, separated by love and grief over the death of their infant daughter and united by the same things
to see stack and mary separated by the racial dynamics of their time and the dangers of society, given a second chance in death to walk the world together forever
to see grace fucking chow!!!! literally kill her husband and go down with him in flames because of the love for her daughter
to see sammie! sweet sammie moore the preacher boy who only wanted to play his music and let his light shine, unknowingly piercing the veil between life and death, inviting the ancestors and descendants to every party he plays, who was willing to die for the love of music and his freedom! who defeated the evil with the power of music and ancestry and got to LIVE!
to see smoke die in acceptance after slaying the kkk after fighting off vampires for the entire night and having to stab the love of his life in the chest, to see him reunite with her and their child after a night of horror
to see smoke and stack lovingly embrace and try to build a communal space for their community and family to be free of all struggles just for a few hours and be torn apart
to see ALL OF THIS and reduce the movie to, “het slop” is just insane and racist like there’s no other way to slice it
I did some studies of some glassware pics after a very long drought of no drawing at all. pls enjoy
Obligatory truck I don’t trust reblog
Statement from the Fire Brigades Union on the transphobic EHRC code of practice 🔥🔥🔥
You're too adorable. I couldn't hold it.
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the idea that hollander "tamed" rozanov is really funny to shane because like. ilya finds it hot and is always going along with it, yes of course my husband is so sexy why do you think i moved to this boring fucking city. for dick. meanwhile shane knows the truth which is that ilya tamed himself. he herded shane like a sheepdog until he was exactly in the right position for ilya to flop down at his feet and say i love you, i am a one man guy, sleep with other people if you want but you are it for me, so shane is always there like ??? ilya. what are you talking about. i was literally prepared to be a secret slot on your roster for the rest of time without even admitting that i was gay until you decided to have me over make me lunch and say my name while you come like a love confession and ilya goes lyubmiyy. shut up. i was untamable you tamed the untamable and so shane has to be like yes, baby, i worked so hard, i used all my tricks but he's rolling his eyes because ilya wants to be a wolf shane coaxed inside to sleep on the hearth but instead he's a cat who snuck through the window and fell in love with his prey. self domesticated. and this is just one of the many perfect games they play
You do believe people can change... don't you, John?
just. please know. that giffing scenes like that is a fucking nightmare labor of love.
to wit:
bottom's the raw capture, middle's just flat curve correction to make the footage visible, top is the final coloring with /counts seven adjustment layers to add back in Literally Anything But Yellow
every giffer i know does it out of love for the game, but for the record it's not... easy. it's not just slapping the footage in a cap grabber and posting whatever it spits out. "professional" lighting and color grading has only gotten waaay murkier and flatter in the fifteen years i've been giffing on here, so uh. don't repost gifs, please!
I thought the bottom was a black bar. I didn't even realize that was footage.
Everyone say thank you to your neighbourhood GIF maker! Giffers are so important to the fannish ecosystem, but to so many people the amount of work involved invisible.
rip bialar crais he was in many ways the worst to ever do it. second-rate villain, redemption arc that no one really believed right til the end. dad who stepped up to the experimental living weapon it turned out he created in the first place. maybe one person in the entire galaxy could tolerate him and he accidentally killed her mum in front of her. nothing ever went right for him and he didnt even get a funeral when he died in a blaze of glory. im gonna miss him so much
john + playing with aeryn's hair