mags

she/they | fan of too many things do i know how to use tumblr? not really

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

reblog to reassure the next person who reads this that everything is going to be okay and it’s all going to get easier soon

[fuck-customers]

[leverage-zine]

Let's Go Steal a Zine: Official Interest Check

Hi!

I made this post a week ago, and with the results of that in, I've decided that I will in fact be doing this!

Please fill out the form below if you're interested in contributing!

Let's Go Steal a Zine: Interest Check

Welcome to the Leverage Zine interest check! Please fill everything out and there will be a post soon with contributor applications.

[worst-mark-tourney]

Round 4, Poll 4

Joseph Cheng (The Double-Edged Sword Job) VS Travis Zilgram (The Experimental Job)

Worst Mark?

Joseph Cheng

Travis Zilgram

Voting ended onJun 29

Propaganda:

Joseph Cheng: Invented an AI that could identify people from just a fraction of their face, could "predict" crime, and could notify police officers of the location of anyone suspected of a crime. Also put those trying to escape abusive cop ex-partners in serious harm.

Travis Zilgram:

Long version: Rich asshole college student who offered homeless veterans a chance to make $50 a day if they underwent an experiment to live in basically a prison for a week with extremely loud music, below 0 temperatures, a professionally trained interrogator, and guards with tasers. He caused a man to have a heart attack and then threw his body in the river. Also made Hardison run around campus in his underwear and arranged for one of his goons to kidnap him and hit him with a stick.

Short version: Attempted to create new methods of causing PTSD by kidnapping homeless vets and forcing them to live in inhumane conditions. Hazed Hardison.

[appendingfic]

Nate: This con requires someone to play The Most Annoying Man Alive Nate: ...my time has come

[vintricles]

free my girl she did all that and that’s what makes her such a compellingly complex character. that’s her essence

[dgalerab]

honestly my favorite thing about hardison is that he has no real tragic backstory, he's just like "i am very smart and therefore i should be allowed to do crime" and he's entirely correct

[dgalerab]

i love everyone reblogging this going "yeah! soft boy!" in the tags bc that's my other favorite thing about hardison (i have many) and that's that he's never particularly treated as morally grey bc he is constantly so kind and loving and good and also he enjoys some crime

[dgalerab]

parker: i have severe psychological trauma and i steal things to cope bc i don't know how to relate to people

eliott: i have a tragic history being entangled in the mafia and even now i could kill the most dangerous fighters without firing a gun

hardison: if money is fake, why not for me and my grandma who i love? :)

[polytropic-liar]

Yes!! I love Hardison's orientation towards right and wrong, in part because it's such a fun, powerful contrast with other members of the team.

You have Parker, who has been designated as bad and wrong since she was a very young child and who has let go of any expectation of being anything else, so that identifying and doing what she thinks is the right thing is consistently an overwhelming and scary experience for her;

Then there's Eliot, who can point to exactly when and how he became irredeemable in his own eyes and whose highest ambition now is to do the wrong thing for the right people this time at least;

Nate, who is clinging to all of these ideas about morality and legality and good and bad that are completely inconsistent both internally and with his behavior, because his very normative view of the world was shattered and he never put the pieces back together in any kind of coherent way;

Sophie, who sees right and wrong as primarily about relationships between people, like she does everything else: right and wrong is in how you engage and who you hurt interpersonally, anything more abstract is irrelevant. But within that, there's also this weight to how she engages, this sense of regret at how she's treated people in the past that we never really see the full scope of;

And into this morass of regret and alienation and self-doubt, beautiful sunshine child Alec Hardison sails with this completely coherent, straightforward understanding: he's doing the right thing. He understands the systems creating and maintaining inequality and he's winning against them. He doesn't feel bad at all about breaking the law because he doesn't respect it as having any moral weight, and why should he? He's right. Y'all I love him so much.

[magsintherain]

Alec “I never do anything my nana said don’t do” Hardison my beloved

[magsintherain]

I'm obsessed with fics about Grace's students, and I also have a deep love for fics written in unconventional formats and for school newspapers, and those things all rattled together in my brain and this is what came out. My first venture into the PHM fandom <3

Selected articles from the Grover Cleveland Grenquirer (2416 words) by magsintherain Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ryland Grace & Ryland Grace's San Francisco Students Characters: Ryland Grace's San Francisco Students, Original Characters Additional Tags: Newspapers, Unconventional Format, POV Outsider Summary: It has now been one month since everyone’s favorite science teacher, Mr. Grace, disappeared abruptly, and there has still been no official word from the school administration on what happened. Seventh grader Jack S. says, “The first few days after Mr. Grace left, we all assumed he was just sick or something. But it’s been so long, and no one’s sick for that long. Even if he was, Mr. Grace would have said something.” As far as the Grenquirer is aware, this is the longest any GCMS teacher has been gone in recent memory without warning. When an English teacher (who we have been asked not to name) left abruptly last year, the rumor mill was pretty sure she was fired; but that happened immediately following winter break. By contrast, Mr. Grace left/quit/was fired abruptly on a Tuesday in the middle of the year. or: Project Hail Mary, as told by the middle school writers of the Grover Cleveland school newspaper

[thundergrace]

WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS MY FAVORITE TELEVISION SERIES OF ALL TIME (it's not out yet)

[memories-of-ancients]

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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[motherfuckingnazgul]

oh this is extremely fun. i did NOT do all that well but i can see myself getting good. i will be doing this regularly.

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[greaseonmymouth]

Anthropeum.com · Jun 9 2026

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63.577 · top 52% of players today!

I definitely shouldn’t have second guessed myself on a few of these. What a fun game though! I’m bookmarking this

[bebs-art-gallery]

“BACK WHEN TIME DIDN’T MATTER” — AN OIL PAINTING BY RIONA

[thebiballerina]

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.

[krakenartificer]

The bit about fixing other fandoms literally made me laugh out loud. Maybe more of a cackle. I love this show so much

[waywren]

Parker: *to the heartbroken or otherwise traumatised characters of other franchises* You are suffering under a tremendous weight. We provide… leverage.

[no-stabbing-wednesdays]

Eliot busting in to fix your canon

[worst-mark-tourney]

Round 3, Poll 2

Darlene Wickett (The Grave Danger Job) VS Carl Bishop (The Golf Job)

Worst Mark?

Darlene Wickett

Carl Bishop

Voting ended onJun 15

Propaganda:

Darlene Wickett: Scams users of her funeral home out of their money as well as takes their deceased loved ones' identities to use for identity fraud, sells those identities to the cartel, and to top it all off, instructed the cartel to bury Hardison alive.

Carl Bishop: Kept immigrants under his thumb by holding their passports and green cards hostage while he forced them to work at his nail salon under inhumane conditions. Partook in human trafficking. Plays golf. Blackmailed a young man into cheating at golf for him.

[toolusingmammalgirl]

This is 100% the gay supervillain music video I’ve been waiting for.

I love campy gay villains, but gay villains of this type are amazing too and sorely underrepresented.

[psshaw]

…Oh, so by “gay”, you mean. Actually gay.

[groovy-bastard]

I don’t usually reblog stuff like this but tbh this is the kind of content I live for.

[spockvarietyhour]

Happy 10 year anniversary to these two, specifically

(single dropped Dec. 3, 2015, music vid hit youtube Jan 12, 2016)

[the-august-one]

Happy Pride Month!

[magsintherain]

me: I wonder if anyone-

ao3:

10/10 good job crew

[toolusingmammalgirl]

This is 100% the gay supervillain music video I’ve been waiting for.

I love campy gay villains, but gay villains of this type are amazing too and sorely underrepresented.

[psshaw]

…Oh, so by “gay”, you mean. Actually gay.

[groovy-bastard]

I don’t usually reblog stuff like this but tbh this is the kind of content I live for.

[spockvarietyhour]

Happy 10 year anniversary to these two, specifically

(single dropped Dec. 3, 2015, music vid hit youtube Jan 12, 2016)

[the-august-one]

Happy Pride Month!

[magsintherain]

Every time I watch/rewatch an action movie of a certain type I start thinking about Leverage crossovers, and today’s lucky victim is Die Hard.

Now I think it’d be really fun for the Leverage team to just be casually undercover at the Christmas party - maybe they’re trying to take down the Nakatomi corporation, actually, since even in canon they could easily be interpreted as big evil corporation - when all the shit goes down, and their influence could pretty easily save some lives. Sophie trying to negotiate with Hans Gruber, Hardison listening in on the radio frequencies, Eliot teaming up with John to fight some terrorists, Parker figuring out what they were trying to do with the safe, Nate… doing something… or alternately have Parker and Hardison outside the building come in as FBI Agents Hagen and Thomas. Could be beautiful.

Die Hard does pretty canonically exist in the Leverage universe (see: The Radio Job), but that’s not actually the biggest problem; the issue I’m looking at is that Leverage takes place twenty years after Die Hard, and even if you hand wave the timelines, the technology is pretty different, so you’d either have to make Hardison work with 80s technology or bring Die Hard forward in time and figure out some way to keep the existence of cell phones from messing with the plot.

Anyway there are only two Leverage/Die Hard fics on ao3 and there’s so much potential there…

[kettle-bird]

I reached into the void, and the void gave me a fist bump