LapsangSouchong52

Leverage & Leverage: Redemption (ok ok, mostly Eliot Spencer) fan blog. Find me on AO3!

[lapsangsouchong52]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66286177

Second Eliot/reader smut offering, kinky, hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did imagining it, etc....

[teh-nos]

this fic is so good i hope i write it

[transisstor]

Reblog if you think fanfiction is a legitimate form of creative writing.

[natalieironside]

There's always a moment of intense cultural whiplash whenever I realize I'm talking to someone who thinks "legal" and "illegal" are meaningful categories and ascribes innate goodness to following the law. It's like meeting a space alien.

[lapsangsouchong52]

- Parker, probably

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[lapsangsouchong52]

The heisty bits are the most difficult bits for me to get my mind around while writing. (Yeah yeah, you all know it's just the bare-bones framework upon which the smut will drape itself. But still - we have Standards.)

[fallout-lou-begas]

Leverage is not a "drama" or a "crime show." Its genre is actually "Columbo-like," wherein every episode a rich asshole that you already know Did It gets not just caught but absolutely lit the fuck up by our hero(es) at the end of it

[cutecipher]

whether or not men benefit from feminism has no bearing on whether feminism is worthwhile

[cutecipher]

put another way. i dont care about how men are impacted by feminism

[cutecipher]

already have people mad about this. okay here's another take. men should be feminists for no benefit.

[mantis-lizbian]

just as white people should be anti-racism for no benefit, and cis people should be pro-trans for no benefit. the only "benefit" that should be required is the creation of a more just world, not because you, personally, actually do get something out of it.

[and-then-the-dragons-arrived]

It occurred to me today that if Terry Pratchett was still around, we'd have a brilliant book about AI by now.

They would build a new machine standing next to HEX and HEX would be... not jealous, of course, why would you think a machine would be jealous? But still HEX would randomly start responding to someone who would spend more time with that new machine.

I'm 100% positive that Dibbler would be mass-printing generated bad romance novels and selling them for profit. All of them would have titles like "A Necklace of Pearls and Flowers" or "A Menace of Dragons and Swords", depending on the audience.

People would buy dis-organisers with new features and the imps would give VASTLY inaccurate answers ("No, dragons don't breathe fire, this is a myth, you are safe!") that would put them in danger - and yet would still refuse to get rid of them. (Maybe Dibbler would sell those advanced dis-organisers, too, sounds like something for him.)

The Watch would have their hands full saving people from said danger. Vimes would never trust this new invention and would get extremely angry at anyone suggesting he bought one, too.

Dwarves would be very anxious because, as our dear Blackboard Monitor already knows, Words Are Important. And if those words come from gods know where, that's really bad. I can actually see the plot where they can actually team up with Blackboard Monitor to destroy those "machine" words at the end.

All that generated rubbish would put L-Space in the danger of collapsing. Because there are books that no one should have written.

[best-alias-bracket]

Round 1, Poll 36: Roy Chappell vs Debbie Dreiling

Roy Chappell Episode: 2x14 The Three Strikes Job Character: Eliot You got drafted in the sixth round right out of high school. Had a cup of coffee in the royals organization. Then you bounced around the minors, you bounced around the world, and, as we can see here, you made a very popular commercial for an energy drink in Japan.

Debbie Dreiling Episode: 2x02 The Tap-Out Job Character: Sophie Say what you're saying is true. What exactly are you telling me? That you don't need him. He's a middleman. You need me. My, my, what a little shark you are. Are you sure we didn't have lunch at the Ivy last week? Just trying to make you feel at home. Little Midwestern hospitality and all. You hungry? Because they serve a mean chicken-fried steak here. No. I'm fine.

Best alias?

Roy Chappell

Debbie Dreiling

Remaining time: 5 days 3 hours

[lapsangsouchong52]

YOU ALL KNOW WHAT TO DO ❤️

[skyrimhusbandmaterial]

when you find someone who's equally unwell about The Character

[lapsangsouchong52]

I love you ALL you who y'all are 😅 ❤️

[red-eye-radio]

So I thought y'all would like this too This great white comes to the jersey shore every year and this year they named her and have been tracking her hella so this is Mary Lee and she decided to show herself under this rainbow for pride month A true gay icon

[victoryyodel]

#This is the representation I’ve been looking for

[ariesrin]

I love characters who would die for each other but will not, under any circumstances, communicate a single honest feeling.

[lapsangsouchong52]

"Whaddya mean, 'punching bad guys who want to hurt you,' isn't a love language?" - Eliot Spencer, probably

[raisinchallah]

i feel like im pretentious about repression or whatever like oh they can identify and name their repressed desires thats like the boring level one repression wheres the level of repression where they cant even begin to contemplate their own desires because contemplating them is a slippery slope to actually having desires which is a slippery slope to everything

[lapsangsouchong52]

Nate Ford coded posts 👀

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

frankly love that there is a niche literature side of tumblr where people are just writing full shakespeare essays for fun with cited sources, all lowercase sentences, sixteen exclamation points. tags are getting peer reviewed. takes are getting nuanced. best reading you’ve ever heard of the odyssey is suggested in a post by someone with an avengers profile pic with zero punctuation and ended with “screaming crying throwing up.” it’s like role playing academia in an online jungle gym

[lapsangsouchong52]

I love you tumblr and tumblr frens and tumblr posters of Discourse 📜📃📑🥹✨

[prettyscully]

[mapsontheweb]

Map of regional rug patterns of Iran.

[matarsack]

This map is actually accurate. If you go to its source, WikiRug and click on each province, it will direct you to a wikirug page about that particular rug.

[lapsangsouchong52]

Very! Distinctive! Patterns! How much you wanna bet Eliot knows alllll about this? That there's a job involving super expensive rugs from Iran that Hardison is like "So in Iran, each region..." and Eliot just. Finishes his sentence like.."...has its own distinctive pattern unique to the region. In fact..."

[the-gummy-worms-have-me]

Idk if its not that deep btw. I have a shovel and too much time on my hands, so its as deep as I want it to be.