TrekScribbles

Current hyperfixations: Leverage, Librarians, Almost Paradise

[trekscribbles]

Introducing Tennyson, the MMC of my Heart of the Con series. He may look a little familiar to my Leverage friends 😉

I can't wait to draw him in his masquerade outfit. For the literary version of that scene, check out book 2 of my series (Forged in Secret by Ripley Lynn), which came out this week!

[the-hwaelweg]

The more Leverage I watch, the more I feel like it’s fanfiction of some alternate Leverage show. Like someone was like, “I love this show and these characters so much, and I need a college AU and a music star AU and an Office crossover and I want them to solve a mystery at a murder mystery party on a spooky island and and and…” I love it so.

[trekscribbles]

Leverage is fanfiction of every heist and action trope written by people who deeply love the genre (and who are even more deeply pissed off by current events.) And that's why it's perfect.

[relatedworlds-deactivated201402]

Leverage 30 Day Challenge | Day 22: Favorite Eliot fight

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Almost Paradise S02E08 Uncoupled.

[trekscribbles]

So... I wrote a book inspired by one of my Leverage fics. It's basically Leverage plus White Collar, in the style of Janet Evanovich... and it comes out on February 9th.

Tennyson Stone, once a decorated Marine, now uses his skills in the service of Bastian Harlow, a man who targets and breaks apart corrupt businesses. He does the things nobody wants to do: the intimidation, the theft, the fighting. The killing. His position is necessary to keep others safe, and if he has to sell his soul in exchange, so be it. Louna Despereaux came from nothing, but she never believed she was meant to stay there. She taught herself art, fashion, culture, languages—anything she could learn to help her climb out of the life she never wants to go back to. Now, she's a respected member of one of the most prestigious fine arts museums in Paris, with contacts all over the world. She's also one of the best art forgers in Europe. And she has her own way of handling corrupt businessmen. When a chance encounter between Tennyson and Louna inspires a newly "discovered" master painting (whose main figure looks suspiciously like Tennyson), Harlow orders him to get rid of the painting before it can be unveiled at the Valentine's Day Gala in Paris. If Tennyson fails, he'll have to do whatever is necessary to keep Louna from creating any more paintings. If he succeeds, Louna could lose everything. Including her heart.

It started as an Eliot/Sophie AU, but it's turned into a whole new story all its own. And as you can see, there's lots of fun Easter eggs in the names 😂

It's available for preorder on the Zon. Currently only as an ebook (because I'm doing the cover design and formatting myself), but it will eventually also be a paperback. Books 2 and 3 are projected to come out summer and fall of this year!

And then I'll get back to my fics 😌

[trekscribbles]

Guess who's about to publish book 2!

- Inspired by Leverage and White Collar

- Eliot/Sophie vibes

- They have to rescue an ex-best friend from a Transylvanian dungeon

- Whump. So much whump.

- Hurt/Comfort

- Literal cliffhangers

Available for preorder now, release date July 14th!

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watching almost paradise interviews with christian kane and they're all literally just him going "do you know dean devlin he's so amazing, he's so smart and funny and good at everything" and then "do you know sam richelle she's so talented and beautiful" and "do you know art acuna he's the coolest guy ever, he's so great" and "everyone on this show is the best and i just want people to enjoy everything about it"

and then the interviewer will go "hey you also work with some of them on leverage" and ckane goes "omg do you know about the people who work on leverage??? they're so talented and cool and amazing and hey I have this friend named dean and--"

indefinitely. and it's beautiful.

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In case anyone thought I was exaggerating about these two.

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HONESTLY YOU TWO

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Oh look, another one.

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It's that time of year again!

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Still going!

[vickyvicarious]

Hey, I'm Piper and I have the most ridiculous amounts of story ideas/outlines for Leverage fic, but it's been a ridiculously long time since I was active in the creative side of fanfiction. (I'm talking way back to the fansite blackout in 1999!) So I was hoping you'd be able to help me out as I have no idea where to look or really how a lot of modern fan connectivity works anymore. Many, many thanks, Piper

Hi Piper! Seems you've been inactive since way before I was even aware of Leverage, haha! I didn't know that it existed until years after it had aired, and only even first properly spoke to other fans about it here on Tumblr in the 2020s when I did a rewatch and basically liveblogged it. In fact, my personal experience of fan connectivity usually just boils down to this site, at least for the last decade or so. That and AO3, but that's more for when the fic is done than ideas and outlines.

I am sure there are Leverage discords, and I know Tumblr communities are... a thing that exists? Never touched 'em. But honestly, my 'in' to the creative side of a fandom has always been just blogging on my own. I post whatever I've been thinking about and tag it, then people interact and we start talking (definitely would suggest just posting to the tags, people will respond to you). I follow/interact with people whose posts I like, either by reblogging with my own thoughts or sending in an ask, then it tends to grow from there. The usual Tumblr deal, basically. I can share some blog recs of folks I've talked Leverage with, if you'd like!

Sorry, this is almost certainly not the only or maybe even the main way, but it's all I've got. I've never really branched out to other social media much.

[beautifulscreaminglady]

fanfiction: Leverage on AO3, Leverage Redemption on AO3, Fanfiction.net (kind of dead but it's kind of fun reading older fanfics from the early days of the show)

(It sounds like you might be into writing fanfic? If so, I would recommend posting to AO3 and then sharing to Tumblr.)

Fanart: @lemissingmask , @leveragecentral also regularly reblogs older fanart

gifs: @ghostlyarchaeologist @lindseymcdonaldseyelashes

multi-blog tags: Leverage textposts, incorrect Leverage quotes

You asked about Tumblr communities. I believe @@we-provide-leverage is the only open Leverage one.

Where to watch episodes:

Youtube, Electric Now website, Leverage deleted scenes and gag reel

Leverage scripts:

Leverage pilot script

Leverage: Redemption (2021) Episode Scripts | SS

Leverage: Redemption (2021) Episode Scripts | SS

other random fun stuff:

John Roger's blog: https://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/

@gnar-slabdash / gnar-slabdash's true crime book reviews

@laser-tripwires / laster-tripwires playlists

MY (@beautifulscreaminglady) Sophie playlist

@worst-mark-tourney - vote on who the worst of the Leverage marks is

@best-alias-bracket - vote on which Leverage team alias is the best

Eliot's sandwich recipe

Leverage fashion and Leverage Redemption fashion

@trekscribbles totally-not-Leverage-fanfiction-with-the-barcode-filed-off (affectionate) Actual Published Romance Book

TL;DR? track the Leverage tag and reblog and follow whoever sparks your interest

[secularbakedgoods]

it never stops being funny that BBC Sherlock blew so much of its astronomical budget on overproduced filmmaking gimmicks and meanwhile Leverage managed to look easily 10x more interesting and dynamic with a budget of $7 and one steadicam operator named Gary

[trekscribbles]

Hey, Leverage friends. I know I've been absent lately, but it's for a good reason! In addition to working on my original fiction, I've also been picking away at a few new fanfics, and working on a new project that I'm super excited to share:

The Podcast Job: Life Lessons from Leverage

My friend and I (the one I convinced to watch Leverage for the first time last year) have been discussing the show in our daily phone calls since she started the pilot. A few weeks ago, we thought "hey... why not record it?" Each week, we'll go through the lessons we've learned about writing and about life in general, and we'd love to share it with other fans. Questions, observations, favorite lines—we want to discuss it all!

We've recorded to first few episodes, and I'll start posting them on Podbean, Spotify, and Apple podcasts when I have them edited. We can't wait to share them with you!

Because in this podcast, we'll provide.......

..... literary analyses 😎

[beautifulscreaminglady]

me: ugh this is kind of a big ask but can you tell me what euphemisms people were using for menstruation in the 1940s

google: here's a study from 1948!

me: fuck, really? cool!

(if the link ever breaks, it's The Vernacular of Menstruation by Natalie F. Joffe)

[beautifulscreaminglady]

these are my favorites:

Irish: flowers

Polish: to read a book

Yiddish: my package of troubles

German: "several commonly used terms are men's names or other references to male person"

Italian: the magnificent marquis

French: tomatoes

American English: riding the cotton bicycle, the chick is a communist

[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.

[trekscribbles]

I have a really strict publication deadline that I absolutely cannot push back and I'm only about halfway through my draft.

Seems like a great time to start an Eliot-gets-captured-on-a-date-with-Ivy-the-receptionist-and-Harry-has-to-team-up-with-her-to-rescue-him fic, amiright?

[jourke-rourke]

Eliot Spencer // Leverage (2008) & Leverage: Redemption (2021) Audio: Get Off My Back (Bryan Adams)

sometimes, midway through a project, I realize I’m falling into the sunk cost fallacy, but I also know I’m actually right about it this time. upon which my choices are, to quote my friends, 'hit the bricks' or 'die a martyr' and as far as I'm concerned the decision is obvious. so anyways here’s the full version of that Eliot edit.

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[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Almost Paradise 1x10 - "Something Walker This Way Comes"

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

The ol' butt tap!

The Librarians S02E01/Almost Paradise S02E02.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Almost Paradise S02E02 Breaking Badminton.

[hawkster359]

Can you imagine if Breanna had ever met Nate tho

That man would not survive contact with Gen Z