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"I did it for you" has gotta be my favorite form of betrayal. You gave me a gift I never asked for, and now I have to look around at the world you destroyed with the knowledge that it was gift wrapped and addressed to me.
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if vampires can't come inside without permission does that mean that you can just keep riding that thang and they can't um . yknow
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Leverage (2008) // Eliot + Parker
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leverage rewatch: s1e1 "the nigerian job"
- i love that nateโs very first line is threatening to punch this guy in the throat, said while day drinking alone in a bar. really sets the stage for how broken up he is at this moment.
- on the opposite end, hardisons first line is insulting the tech for this heist lol. immediately clear this team is gonna be a problem (affectionate) for nate.
- eliotโs first line is said to somehow both commend and mock hardison ("youโre not as useless as you look") and that is a pretty good look into their dynamic for the whole series lol.
- hardison and parkerโs very first on-screen interaction is hardison being enamored with her (and eliot teasing him about it) <3
- hardison telling eliot "i donโt even know what you do" is a fun little line because it starts to show how much the team actually know about each other before this heist. like, nate knows a decent amount about all of them, and they know a bit about nate. but hardison knows nothing about eliot, and eliotโs (previously mentioned) first line also implies that if he does know anything about hardison, itโs probably not much either. im gonna elaborate on this in a separate post before i get off track lol.
- parkerโs first *mention* comes before sheโs actually on screen, when nate is looking through the files of the team heโs gonna work with and says that "parker is insane". people have pointed this out a bunch of times before but this is a really perfect first mention of her because we will spend most of her arc throughout the series showing that this isnโt really true! by season five, sheโll get to finally "respond" to that introduction of hers - "they said i was crazy, but i never was. i never was". and itโs really interesting to see nate go from being the person who calls her insane to fully trusting her with leading the team when heโs gone.
- i still think about the giant sheet of glass that parker lets fall to the ground in the first heist lol. are the people on the street okay
- also love the "why the f-" [cut off] line that parker gets. i think that's the closest we get to one of the main characters saying fuck?
- nate calling them children in the first episode. ironic for a guy who did NOT set out to be a father figure to these weird criminals who are gonna follow him around for the next five years.
- parker being the one to introduce the chess metaphor my beloved <3 shes very perceptive! and she also just knows that "crime is fun" and nate's bound to enjoy it lol.
- hospital scene from the extended pilot <3 how come eliot's chained to a chair instead of a bed like the rest of them? anyway, i wish more people watched the extended pilot because in the season 1 finale when eliot shoves the hard hat on hardison's head, you should know that he's getting petty revenge for when hardison shoved eliot's head into the roof of the cop car in this scene.
- nate saying there's "payback, and if it goes right, a lot of money" for eliot and "a lot of money, and if it goes right, payback" for parker, he's got their (current) motivations nailed already.
- parker and hardison being like "yeah sure lets go get whatever a 'sophie' is" vs eliot asking lol. but he also evidently follows regardless. yeah thats pretty much how nate's gonna be, sorry eliot, you'll get used to this.
- i find nate and sophie's first scenes so sweet. he watches her terrible acting but from his expression you'd think she was gonna win an oscar. and when she sees him in that alley, she's trying to continue being the cool and mysterious femme fatale but she's clearly so happy underneath - he came and found her! he sought her out! he's playing her side now, and that changes everything! (and one day soon she'll realise - oh shit, this changes everything. but tonight she's just over the moon). i know they're very much not the fan favourites, but u gotta admit that their interactions in the pilot... chefs kiss!!
- in the next scene at hardison's apartment, (btw, rip hardison's awesome pilot apartment which we never see again), sophie is dressed down and intently listening and taking notes which is fairly unusual for her. but not out of character necessarily - when she mentors parker in grifting later, she encourages parker to take handwritten notes.
- "that's an odd thing for you to know" "that's an odd place for you to be" (eliot and sophie's lines). he picks up on her suspicious knowledge and she challenges him right back. and he immediately knows to only trust sophie about as far as he can throw her.
- i wish we got to see a little of sophie meeting the others! but there's no time and it would be an unnecessary scene. i like that their introduction to sophie was her awful acting though, because that will always be their first impression - not of an incredible grifter, but of a much sillier and more genuine version of sophie than we otherwise see for most of season one.
- parker laughing at hardison's joke is also adorable.
- no comments on the eliot + nate pool table scene, because @laser-tripwires has already written an incredible analysis of that interaction here. :) !!
- actually the only thing i will mention is eliot saying that they all know about nate's kid dying - that's very important. nate wouldn't want them to know his vulnerabilities. even if they just pity him... well to him, that might be worse.
- eliot saying "incoming" about sophie walking over is also really funny to me. referring to her like she's something dangerous, and he's joking but he's not wrong!
- okay where did sophie get the "black king, white knight" line from? she was not there when parker said that. maybe everyone speaks in chess metaphors in the leverage Crime World.
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i hurt myself with Big Jack by Pet Foolery (can find on instagram) again and no one seems to have posted the whole comic so. here. someone reminded me of it and i tracked it down. gonna go cry in a corner now.
did not know part 2 existed, here you go. another stab
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I humbly suggest that true crime freaks should get into learning about scammers instead of serial killers. I LOVE reading about fraud and grifts and pyramid schemes. true crime ppl have all this paranoid energy about murder, which is rare in the grand scheme of things.....maybe instead that could be channeled into some productive rage toward capitalism.
And u know a side effect of learning about scam artists is that you start to understand certain things about economics, and just how STUPID these systems are and how easily they are taken advantage of....and I'd much rather people gained a passing familiarity with economics than whatever armchair psychologist shit these true crimers get on. We need fewer people who think they're experts on "sociopaths" and more people who understand how people like Elizabeth Holmes and the WeWork guy were able to do what they did
Here are some of my favorite books about financial scams:
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (about the 2008 stock market collapse).
The Caesar's Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Corruption of the Private Equity Industry by Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap. (I admit I've never finished this one; the writing is hard to read.)
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, by Zac Bissonette. I bought this book because of the subtitle and I have never regretted it. You must read it.
Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale. They turned this one into a movie! The book was very different and is worth reading.
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion, by Elliot Brown and Maureen Farrell. I haven't read this one yet, but it's on my tbr pile!
Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, by Gareth Gore. I'm reading this one right now. The author is a financial journalist who stumbled onto this story by unraveling a bank failure in Spain.
And here's a list of more non-fiction books about fraud and financial scams. The first book on this list is about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, which I also haven't read yet.
Enjoy!
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Anonymous asked:
You seem like you would know the answer to this question, are Jack Harkness and John Constantine the Same Guy? I know they're from different things and only have the vaguest dashboard osmosis idea about either of them but the instinct is so strong. What is causing this? Help
you've osmosed them into a single slutty bisexual disaster man that doesn't mind his own business and refuses to die
Reblogged hiveswap
I know a bunch of people are into this as a kink thing, but as a person who is really into survivalism, this is so cool.
Strap them on like backpack
writers take note if you have a scene where a character needs to move someone
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Ow oof ouch ow
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RIDE THAT AIR KIRBY!!
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catch that warp star!!! ๐โ๏ธโจ
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lil fairy friends
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For the little kids whose brains couldn't handle so much pain so they blocked out the memories of their abuse: you are valid. What they did to you was real even if you can't feel it like that. You are a real victim who deserves real justice. I love you so much. My inbox is always open for everyone who needs it.
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A friend has once again brought it to my attention that it is unusual to have an intact chronological memory of life prior to age 12 and you know whatโs weird to ME is that the rest of yall forgot how to sing the clean-up song
Other shit:
- The crotch-and-chin destroying hell of a toddlerโs carseat
- How fucking scary stairs are when you JUST figured out walking. โYou can stand upโ nah fuck that these steps go up to my knees and Iโm top-heavy Iโm gonna scoot down on my ass thank you
- Walking alongside fucking giants whose legs are bigger than your whole fucking body and trying to keep up
- Not knowing how to blow your nose and everyone expecting you to just figure it out by holding a tissue and saying โblowโ like WHAT DO YOU MEAN CLOSE MY THROAT? Just an absolute snot waterboarding
- People describing how to make sounds with your mouth but you canโt see inside their mouth when they do it so you kind of just guess over and over while they tell you you still donโt got it
- Not having a full grasp of language but fully understanding CONCEPTS so you say shit like โare we going to the park later?โ When you mean TOMORROW but all you can come up with is shit like โthe next time we have lunch, not today but after today, after thatโ like a fucked up game of verbal post-brain injury Pictionary where people wonโt let you get mad about it
- Just. Mucus. Mucus and chapped skin, all the time, chin and upper lip. And youโre not supposed to lick it cause the spit is the PROBLEM but itโs fucking OBNOXIOUS. โJust keep the skin dryโ wow thanks Iโve been aware of this mechsuit for about ten minutes and still havenโt fully mastered not falling into the toilet but yeah I know how to stay on top of that, cool
- FALLING INTO THE TOILET
- Trying to eat at a table where the surface comes up to your chin but not being able to get high or close enough cause you canโt scoot your chair in and your hands still donโt coordinate good so you end up just spooning tomato sauce onto your lap like an asshole. Like yeah mom my bad, have you considered though that I ALSO donโt want me to be covered in sauce? Cool
- Adults being WAY too excited about shit that straight up is not worth the hype
- Carpet burn. Constant carpet burn. Crawling, tripping, shuffling between toys on the floor. So much goddamn carpet burn
- Knowing exactly what youโre talking about and zero people understanding because they think youโre too dumb for what youโre trying to communicate
- Being told to wave at or hug complete strangers. And they always smelled kinda weird but you werenโt supposed to say it
- The feeling of meeting an older kid and they act like theyโre your manager or something
- Encyclopedic knowledge and name of every single person in your grade 1 class, and their interests
- Stroller rides. You could zone out at the ground for hours I swear to god
- Dropping something while buckled into a carseat or stroller and not being able to get it and just resigning yourself to a life in hell
- Dropping something while youโre in a carseat and it goes UNDER YOUR ASS and you canโt fucking GET IT
- Other children getting away with just absolute war crimes. Imagine if Sharon showed up to the office potluck and offered you a cookie and after you ate one revealed that she licked it. Imagine if Gord took your stapler and put it down his pants so you couldnโt get it back. Imagine if for no reason at all your coworker told you your dad was stupid and then put your laptop in the garbage
- Not remembering what different foods are called and getting pressured into agreeing to food you were NOT FULLY AWARE OF. How the FUCK is a chicken wing different from a chicken strip you ask? โWell, one just has a bone in it!โ You fool. You fucking idiot. They might as well be from different animals entirely. But now you gotta eat it cause we donโt waste food (hell)
Yes Iโve talked about this before and yes Iโm going to talk about it again because every single person on earth should be fully and viscerally aware that being a kid feels like every description Iโve ever read of recovering from a stroke and we all grow up and forget and talk about childhood like it was magic.
Yeah some of it was fun and all but donโt you remember FALLING DOWN CONSTANTLY? You donโt remember needing help putting a shirt on cause you got your arm stuck and couldnโt get out and panicked so bad you started crying? You DONโT remember being just CONSTANTLY STICKY? Ohhh my good, pissing yourself. Pissing yourself was the worst. Christ alive, and being put in the playpen with a weird kid
Why were you falling into the toilet?
I WAS LIKE TWO FEET TALL
what's weird about my brain is that i have extremely bad *voluntary* recall but if someone else can prompt me, it turns out that more often than not, the memories are still on file
i would like to also add:
-being a nervous kid means living in silent hill permanently forever. there are monsters. they WILL get you. you can't predict when. no one thinks this is noteworthy.
-some foods make you sick. somehow this doesn't mean you can just not eat them. being sick is really inconsiderate of you, too.
-sticky crumbs are the worst.
-kids cooler than you hate you. kids weirder than you are even more unpredictably violent.
-no one understands your creative vision. 'house' would be so much better with a dragon. why does this require extensive debate.
-the assholes who never put the play dough caps back on the tubs should get their hands unscrewed.
-that one girl who can't tell a story but cries if you interrupt whatever boring thing she was failing to say
-boys are allowed to kill any creature they want in front of you specifically to hurt your feelings and you're the bad guy when you bite them???
-rose petals should taste good but don't. WHY.
-that one church lady who thinks screaming in a shrill and pathetic way at the rude boys is going to work THIS time. what the fuck is wrong with her
-snail slime washes off but slug slime is forever. i still don't understand this one.
-if there are millions of grownups in the world why can't they replace the one currently fucking up being in charge of you and the six boys who like to to torture you. like there's lots more teachers. can't you get one who is trained in not letting kids get tortured? no one in the room has been sneaky about the torture thing. come on.
-clay soil should taste good. look at it. deeply unfair that it doesn't.
-you will never regret putting a small smooth rock in your mouth.
-you chewed too much string and are having an unprecedented bathroom situation.
-why does your friend's mom smell so bad? bad-smelling moms seems like it should be against the rules.
-why does your other friend's mom smell so good? can you get your mom to smell like this?
-extremely specific pretend game scenarios you revisit over and over until your friends are exasperated and ten years later you go OH SHIT as you understand some very embarrassing things about yourself.
-rolling down a grassy hill was such a fantastic combination of chaos and freedom and safety. it's still fun as a grownup but my joints don't agree.
-the utter devastation of squishing a bug you were trying to save. you go from disney princess to warcrimes mcbloodhands in one irreversible second.
-sometimes the free lollipop is just kinda mid. and they don't give you another one to make up for it. and you can't even get THAT mad because mid is still better than nothing.
-mom tells you to clean your toys up but you only have one basket for your stuffed animals, who are currently having a civil war. not good.
-being small enough to climb into a box full of packing peanuts. incredibly good noise. incredibly good texture.
-do you also remember unspooling a tape measure allll the way out, confirming to everyone that the metal end bit COULD rip your eye out, then dropping the tape measure and running out of range before the tape respooled?
-pissing your pants sucks so bad. it stings. and it seems to take so much longer to dry than a water spill does
-you're still a person, every year of your life. everyone says you'll be different when you grow up. and every grownup is so strange, so distant, so unsympathetic and illogical and dismissive and alien. you wonder what could ever make you that different. you wonder why no one can explain.
The โextremely specific pretend game scenariosโ turned out to be an early sign that one of my BFFs was a lesbian, but since I myself am straight, I didnโt understand why she was so much more into Princess Leia than I was (my bae was Han Solo) until much later. ๐
If I may:
- The absolute betrayal of someone trying to put stuff in your stroller. Thatโs MY space! Iโm not trying to wedge MY wallet uncomfortably against YOUR ass.
- Having an adult jump to swipe something away from you and thinking, offendedly, โI wasnโt going to eat it! I was just smellingโ (detergent, candles, etc)
- This scraped knee is actually literally the worst thing that has ever happened to me so can you give me a minute here??? (scraped my knee as an adult two years ago and it sucks worse than you remember)๏ฟผ
- Mistaking someone else for your parent/neighbor/etc because their legs look the same and thatโs just about all you can see from the ground ๏ฟผ๏ฟผ
- Adults having no idea what you know or donโt in general (explaining that youโre not a baby and you know how to tie your shoes at 10 actually). I had a lot of adults assume I didnโt know what figurative language or sarcasm meant because I started using them super early so I ended up patiently explaining to adults that โgone to the dogsโ was whatโs called a โfigure of speechโ and what that meant. Made an annoyed and embarrassed teacherโs aide sit through this after she patronizingly sneered โooooh, did SOMEone see a PUPPY?โ
- The voice adults use to patronize children that sounded like nails on a chalkboard to me even when I was a children deserves its own bullet point
- Why does every adult immediately ask me โhowโs school?โ Canโt you talk about anything else? Plus maybe I donโt like it that much! I donโt ask you howโs traffic or your jerk coworker. Ask me my favorite animal or something.
- Lots of adults have no idea how to talk to kids part II: did anyone else have a fairly obvious physical characteristic that adults loved to comment on? Tall, ginger, freckles, green eyes, etc. Even if it was a compliment, it got super old having your dentist/pediatrician/summer camp counselor/new teacher all say almost the exact same thing.
- The helplessness of having to kill an afternoon going places that really have nothing for you (bank, car dealership, etc) because the big people couldnโt find a sitter/didnโt try
- Climbing up on the counter to get things from the cabinets because your head barely reaches the counter and thereโs no stepping stool๏ฟผ
- Why do adults think that Iโll automatically like playing with so-and-soโs kid just because weโre the same age? He plays really rough and shoots down all my ideas for games. Can we leave???
- Why are there no good snacks in this house? I donโt WANT -5 calorie fat-vaporizing diet popcorn I want REAL FOOD.
- Especially around age 12, trying not to mention or allude to the fact that you know what sex is (adult stuff! Forbidden Knowledge) in front of adults โฆ which your best friendโs parents find hilarious because they definitely know what sex is. ๏ฟผSee also: knowing swears and censoring yourself in front of the adults so you donโt get in trouble in a weird mirror image version of not swearing in front of the toddler ๏ฟผ
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Part Two of This
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Willing sacrifice~