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Oh Leverage <3s my OT3… posted because trailofdesire needs to see this vid. Also because everyone else out there who’s fond of Leverage should as well.

galaxystew

thingswithwings is a GENIUS.

tanoraqui

btw can anyone prove Parker can’t teleport?

thegoldenstitch

So that scumbag Martin Shkreli (you know the one who raised the price of an infection fighting aids medication from $13.50/pill to $750/pill a couple of months ago and bragged about it) was arrested today by the FBI on Fraud charges.

I think we all know what really happened…

rembrandtswife

My thoughts exactly….

rembrandtswife

Suddenly, a Wil(d) Wheaton appears!

I get it now. Leverage was created to make jobs for former Star Trek actors. I’m cool with that.

kryptariaparker

*cackles* Yes!

grrlinthefireplace

In the course of my rewatch-all-5-seasons-of-Leverage binge over the past few months, I’ve realized that my favorite long-running gag is Eliot choosing the wrong thing to get mad about.

Sophie accuses him of sleeping around with waitresses and stewardesses? “FIRST OF ALL, THEY’RE CALLED FLIGHT ATTENDANTS”

Hardison denies stealing Eliot’s sandwich and says “you probably ate it yourself and forgot about it?” “OH, MY SANDWICH IS FORGETTABLE????“ [launches into insanely detailed cooking techniques of what, to be fair, does sound like a bonkers delicious sandwich]

Hardison announces that he’s bought a brewery in Portland where they can hide out slash take cases slash brew their own beer? Everyone else is like “why the eff did we have to move to this new town with no warning” and Eliot is LIVID that Hardison is underestimating how hard food and beer pairings are. “THE BREWPUB MENU IS THE HARDEST KIND OF MENU TO DESIGN!”

I literally never get tired of it. I could watch Christian Kane get offended at implausibly bizarre perceived insults ALL DAY.

bonehandledknife

You know what though, like, to me what’s glorious about Elliot is that, to me, he’s always choosing the RIGHT thing to get mad about.

1) ignoring the sex shaming because he’s not gonna dignify that with a response but standing up for how the women choose to identify themselves.

2) attacking the most obvious lie because it has been established that Hardison appreciates the Elliot!food (a squeeze of lemon) and how dare Hardison not only lie so obviously but also choose to call into question all of Hardison’s appreciation of what Elliot had made in the past. I mean he might as well have called Elliot himself forgettable, which is a LOW BLOW, especially for a man who recognizes and makes an attempt to remember what makes things distinct.

3) Everyone else is being upset that the team is together (in a new location) but Elliot has already accepted that the team is together. And is going to be in it, for better or worse.

In sickness and in health; and through bad beer and difficult to pair foods.

‘Til his dying day.

(But that doesn’t mean he’d not gonna have old-married-couple fights about the details.)

thathealeygirl

OOOOH I like this interpretation a lot.

letsgostealaleverageblog

kryptariaparker

The world needs a Leverage shifter’verse, but Eliot isn’t the shifter. Oh, no. It’s Parker. Because Parker getting bitten on a job and then spontaneously wolfing out whenever she feels like it? F’n awesome.

letsgostealaleverageblog

kryptariaparker

This is VERY IMPORTANT TO PARKER.

letsgostealaleverageblog

shellygurumi

I feel like the Leverage fandom is a secret, underground organization. You don’t know it, but we are actually everywhere. Just waiting for a turn of phrase or a little wink wink, nod nod in the right direction. We drop little lines that you wouldn’t even know were quotes. But they are. And we all know it. We are a small community and if you post something about our team, we will all eventually see it. When you discover Leverage for the first time and start posting about it, other fans come out of the woodwork and you realize all these people you’ve known for so long are actually fans of it, too.

It’s a perfect little show that lasted 5 years on the small screen but will last forever in our hearts. They hooked us with the long con. We fell in love with Nate’s hats and Sophie’s acting. Eliot’s flying tackles. Parker’s quirks and Hardison’s sass. We found the people we belong with. We found a family. We all changed together and made a very distinctive fandom. And whenever we meet someone who doesn’t understand our references but we know will enjoy the show, well then:

We provide….. Leverage.