#eliot CAUGHT

[sumbacky]

“i miss him” “i know... me too”

#i caught up on redemption n i know how the last ep went but like the ot3 angst tho...... #leverage ot3 #parker #eliot spencer #leverage #leverage fanart #my art #come back down to earth hardison pspspsps we miss u

[irritablegallowglass]

Gifs of Eliot that no one asked for but I made them anyway (4/?)

Swishy Hair

#Leverage #Eliot Spencer #christian kane #swishy hair #how cute is he #Alec Hardison #Parker #It was going to be another whump one tonight but this one caught my eye first

[geekynightowl1997]

I just want to say; I appreciate that The Team is literally friends with a top FBI agent.

#leverage #leverage redemption #nate ford #sophie devereaux #eliot spencer #parker leverage #alec hardison #agent mcsweeten #they are a bunch of criminals who have ties to the fbi #i'm pretty sure that's scary to think about #they just hand things over to the fbi and wahs their hands from all the trouble #mcsweeten sees they got caught and is just like #oh #no #they are good bad guys #they helped take down d.b cooper #we are besties

[yardsards]

hello I am a random stranger who saw your lovely cat - I am absolutely fascinated by her little face speckles, I'm really curious if that's caused by something in her past/sun freckling or if she's like, perhaps some kind of very genetically odd tortoiseshell pattern with ULTRA ORANGE everywhere but those tiny spots on her face, very fun look either way!

good observation; she DOES indeed have freckles! it's a harmless skin condition known as lentigo simplex, which gives her black speckles on her skin (mostly her nose, mouth, and eyes, but a bit on her paws too).

it is known to only occur in cats with at least one copy of the orange gene (which also includes calicos and torties). so the fact that she has two copies of the ginger gene might make it twice as likely for her to have it? i'm not positive there tho

here's some closer looks at her speckles

#eliot posts #julia cat #also the reason her mouth looks a lil funny in the 1st pic is bc she's missing one top canine now #and sometimes her lip gets caught on the bottom one #she's 16 years old so her teeth have seen better days lol #cats #orange cats #ginger cats #lentigo simplex

[skullcandy11111198]

Leveragetober23 Day 6: caught

Harry Wilson is not…the best thief. That was never really his job, he was a lawyer. He can do lawyerly things. Subpoenas. Cease and desists. Nondisclosure agreements. Lawyerly stuff! So being in a situation like this? He had no frame of reference. Does he tell the truth? Does he lie? Does he stay quiet?

This wasn't like it was a criminal investigation where he was in a police station's interrogation room. In that case, he would do what every defense lawyer ever wanted to say to their client's face -- he would shut the fuck up. In a situation like that, yeah, he was not the lawyer. He was not so foolish as to act in his own defense, he would leave that up to the high paying lawyers he kept on retainer for exactly that purpose.

But, like he said, this is not that.

Therefore, the best he can do is hope the team gets to him before the sodium pentothal did. Otherwise, RIZ was gonna learn a lot of things in a really short amount of time. Eliot had given him "training" one day (read: he forcefully sat him down with the power of his glare) and told him in explicit, gory detail what to do if he was ever tortured through physical, mental, emotional, and/or chemical methods. But now that he finds himself tied to an uncomfortable metal chair smack-dab in the middle of a big, empty warehouse, he finds that he is unable to remember any of what he was supposed to do. The only thing his brain can currently come up with is fake it 'til you make it and filibuster with whatever he can think of in the moment (which is currently the effects of Buck v. Bell on human rights, for some reason?) and just try to distract/annoy whoever comes to talk to him. Is it the right move? Who's to say. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah…he's just gonna sit here and hope that the team gets to him before his interrogators do.

#leveragetober23 #leveragetober #leverage #leverage redemption #harry wilson #caught #Eliot spencer mention

[brattybottomdyke]

god i can’t forgive the magicians for what they did to quentin 😭

#and eliot 😭 #you couldn’t even let them reunite??? #fuck i knew this was coming but i was still caught off guard #bottom.spm

[coreofgold]

@purelybilateral for Eliot 

“What can I get for you ?” Jaskier, the bartender, asked.  He’s surprised it’s not busy today but it is still the middle of the week; the weekends get more action. 

#Did you know I caught an arrow with my own hand It's the truth I swear! (Jaskier interacts) #purelybilateral #muse: eliot

[1derfulmadness]

Man Darlene sleeping with Dominique to get what she needs for the plan feels sooo much worse than when she slept with that random guy in season one. Like I know as fbi she’s the bad guy, but she’s so lonely and awkward I feel bad for her.

#I saw a gif of Dominique saying ‘you ruined my life’ and I was wondering what that was about #now I see where it’s going and I feel bad for her 😭 #but Darlene is just trying trying to make other things right and fix her relationship with Eliot 😭😭😭 #mr robot #darlene alderson #dominique dipierro #edit: Dominique caught her oh noooo

[firebirdsdaughter]

Small but meaningful…

… Nate and Eliot moments I would gif if I could part 1 of ?:

In the Wedding Job:

Their honest conversation about food and assumptions.

Nate grabbing Eliot’s arm to stop him from going after Heather w/ the knife and Eliot not even trying to shove him off and listening to him.

Nate calling the meeting out of concern for a dangerous assassin recognising Eliot and wanting revenge on him.

Eliot immediately going/trying to go whenever Nate asks him to get somewhere, despite being in the middle of cooking.

Nate going to Eliot to move the bag of money and his quite tame reaction to Eliot taking out the Butcher w/ devilled eggs.

Eliot just quickly double checking that Nate really wants him to put the money in that car, then immediately doing so without further question when Nate confirms it.

When the others join them in the kitchen, Nate is pouring a drink but Eliot already has one, indicating Nate poured him a drink first. Probably for killing the Butcher w/ an appetiser.

#Leverage #they're really in the nuances but I'm love them #this is not gonna be in order I'm just looking for these moments now #bc like get me started on Eliot's immediate reaction to the robbery in the Bank Shot Job #but it's stuff like Eliot only going 'this car?' and then doing it when Nate confirms #he doesn't bring it up to the others he doesn't question #he had food cooking but he came to the meeting when Nate called #also Eliot Hates Being Touched confirmed by the writers not immediately shoving Nate off when Nate caught his arm #I think this is the first time we see Nate pull Eliot back and he goes #it happens a few times later on as well but this is the first moment and it's already so just normal #Eliot steps back bc Nate prompts him too #also Nate pouring him a drink first is just funny Xd #man's an alcoholic but they clearly both need it so here you go #also I do think another reason Eliot chooses to cement himself in Nate's corner #is that Nate… doesn't react w/ disgust or horror to what he's done or what he does #even later when the Moreau thing comes up Nate's more angry Eliot didn't tell them than fussed about Eliot's specific crimes #Nate doesn't treat him like a monster Nate just kinda goes '… huh' and moves on #and I think that means a lot to Eliot #which is one of my nitpicks about the over focus on Hardison and Parker #I saw someone say Parker primarily taught Eliot to not think of himself as scary and that's super not true #she had a part but it was all of them and I absolutely think Nate was a major part #Nate respects how dangerous he is but Nate never treats him like any especially horrible monster #he regards Eliot's actions w/ a similar eye as he does Parker's and Hardison's #Nate never makes a huge deal about Eliot's past as an assassin/mercenary and never asks too many specific questions about it #he doesn't ask Eliot what he did for Moreau he asks why he didn't tell them #it's implied Eliot was willing to kill Moreau to keep him away from Nate and the team #and on top of this Nate puts himself between Eliot and killing people/never asks him to do so #listen I love them #Literal Crime Family

[united-under-skyfall]

leverage is so fucking funny. man manages to find the most mentally ill and neurodivergent group of thieves on the market + an even more mentally ill guy whose literal job description was trying to chase all of them, and forces them into a found family speed-run by trying to blow them all up. they lowkey stage a full fucking country wide coup and are like eh 🤷 just another wednesday. this might be a fun place to vacation tho i guess. sophie shows up to her own funeral twice. they're so good at convincing people of their shit that they make a guy's body start reacting to an illness he doesn't have because it isn't real. go completely out on a limb and basically hand this one guy a new password for his computer so they can get into it and he goes with it. parker and hardison have straight up just "fake it 'till you make it"d into the fbi without even attempting to cover their tracks beyond just These Two Guys. half their clients never asked to be their clients and don't know they're their clients, and the other half are random people who find them who fuckin knows how, meanwhile no government agency can track them down without selling their soul to sterling. they make a point to have a dramatic scene w a Big Bad Shadowy Government Guy who doesn't actually get caught or brought to justice or anything telling them he's going to hunt them all down, and in any other show this would probably earn at least a minor arc later on but he literally never shows up again. an entire season finale hinged on a cake and a bunch of clams. they accidentally made eliot a celebrity not once, not twice, but three times. parker blew up her foster parents' house when she was like. nine. and it's hardly a footnote. hardison is just casually an artistic prodigy but it's only ever brought up for the most background of background gags. eliot's biggest beef with parker and hardison for like two and a half seasons is that they won't stop making weird food with lasers and refuse to realize they can't make a decent beer to save their lives. sophie's immediate response to being shot is to call her shooter a wanker. there's a character who has literally killed a man with a mop and they had the audacity to only put her in one episode.

#leverage my beloved <3 #ramble #leverage #i also feel the need to point out that. while yes sophie did show up to her own funeral twice. she also technically was the driver to bring #her own ''corpse'' to wherever interpol was sending it lmfao #re: eliot being made a celeb 3 times bc some people are confused—country singer; baseball player; hockey player #didnt count the knockout job bc i think that was p local focused? could be wrong #re: character who killed a man w a mop = mikel dayan (hitter from the two live crew job) #this post is getting people interested in leverage lets goooooooo #this post has also officially surpassed the number of people i expected to ever know or care about leverage by several thousands #bc even though logically i know it aired as an actual tv show over several years and a lot of people probably saw it #that does not compute in my head #leverage spoilers

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

By now, the authorities have surely caught on and noticed that where there's suspicious activity, a Brick & Basil food truck is never far behind. The problem is that it's a legitimate business and that's there's so damn many of them. Plus, they're all managed by veterans who know how to handle themselves. In the training manuals, on top of proper care of the vehicles, and sanitation guidelines, and delicious recipes, Eliot has left them very clear instructions on how to get out of a bind if they're ever pulled over without just cause. Many cops have already (deservedly) lost their jobs over unlawful search and seizure related to the chain, so the ones that know what's good for them don't even try anymore.

#leverage #leverage redemption #eliot spencer

[caseys-breanna]

My favourite Parker episode has always been The Inside Job, y'know why? It's not just what Parker does, but rather what the others do FOR Parker.

Parker has 4 safe houses in the city, but Nate and Sophie know her well enough to know where she actually stays when she's away from the team

Parker's security code. Do you understand the level of trust someone like Parker will have to have to use their name as her security code? To the place that's her own personal sanctuary? Sophie EARNED that level of trust.

'The Sterenko can't be cracked-' 'Can you do it?' 'Nate, it can't be-' 'For Parker. Can you do it for Parker?'

This. Just this.

'I made her. I trained her, and I released her into the world.' 'She was broken! She needed you!'

This stood out so loud to me, because it's not Hardison or Sophie (the more emotionally intelligent ones of the team) saying it. Because it's NATE. It's Nate, the man who couldn't say I Love You to Sophie for so long. The man who got so caught up in his son's death that every job involving kids or medical malpractice he nearly went out of line. NATE, who pushes and pushes and is ruthless and so cold at times.

It's Nate protesting for Parker, standing up FOR Parker, and y'know why? Because Parker doesn't know what she got deprived of. Parker doesn't feel that loss because you can't grieve something you aren't even aware you could've had. But Nate does. Nate saw her injustice and loss of childhood and spoke up, KNOWING she'll never know about him defending her.

'Hardison I screwed up.' 'We're already here mama.'

Do you understand the level of trust and vulnerability it requires for her to say those words? She's never gotten anyone's help after a screwup, she's had to take care of herself on her own. And there's Hardison, right there, not upset, not angry, not disappointed. A right straight - I'm here and we'll get you out.

'Let's get our girl home.'

Do I even need to say anything.

'It's not what we do, we don't get involved!' 'No, that's what YOU do!'

Parker is not Archie Leach's protege anymore. She's Parker. She's the greatest thief in the world. She's the one person to get the entire Leverage Inc breathing down your neck to save her. She has a family who got her back. She has a life and friends and people who may not understand her always but will always support her and be there for her, no matter what, without changing any aspect of her or forcing her to change either. And she saves people, because that's what they do.

'It's your play Parker.'

The explicit trust Nate displays in her. For someone like Nate with control issues and need to be the guy calling the shots, this is practically an all out notice saying 'she's my people, she's my family, I trust her with my life, more than that I trust her with my family and our jobs.'

'No.' 'What do you mean no? This isn't time for crazy, Parker! Come on!' 'No! I need to go back. I need to put the vial back.'

Do you understand what it feels to have someone like Parker, who is practically a ghost and the prospect of getting stuck somewhere is unthinkable, to refuse an escape route? And that too because she wants to help people and not be used to hurt them? In the face of someone who brought her up to only steal? Now that's growth.

Now this is a callback, but when Sophie and Nate first enter her safehouse, Sophie says something that foreshadows the ending. She says 'Look at this. It's methodical. This could be one of your plans, Nate.'

This is a personal choice, but god it's so good when authors and writers and creators give you hints and foreshadow and reward your intuition at the end, rather than changing endings for shock value. Because Hardison isn't ruthless, Eliot isn't striving for control, and Sophie is dramatic, not clinical. None of it would have been worth it unless it went to Parker, which it did.

Man, this fucking show I swear.

#leverage #parker leverage #sophie devereaux #alec hardison #nate ford #eliot spencer #jace.txt #i fucking love this show #the inside job #archie leach

[gnar-slabdash]

I suddenly woke up stupid early on my day off with multiple weird random aches and pains and a revelation about the Leverage chess metaphors.

They’re all wrong.

Look, I obviously adore the white knight/black king motif, and it works really well for that very specific discussion of Nate’s shift in morality and position at the opening of the series. But the show as well as I and other fans have then tried to take that equation and apply it to other jobs and to the crew as a whole. This is fun and awesome, but I believe you’re going to get it wrong every time if you start from the white knight/black king line. 

Because in all other situations, Nate is not the king.

Couple important things about kings in chess: 1. They don’t move much. They can only move one space at a time, and for most of the game they stay in their own little box, well guarded by other pieces. This is because 2. When the king is checkmated (threatened with capture and no possible escape), it’s game over. There is no more hope. This is the sole requirement for losing the game. No matter who else is in play, if the king is down, you lose.

This is NOT how Nate operates. Yeah, he makes the plans, but he doesn’t just hide in the office while everybody else carries them out. He’s almost always right up in there playing the most obnoxious guy you’ve ever met or smashing windows or something. And if Nate gets captured, it’s not game over, in fact, it often isn’t even a PROBLEM. Let’s look at a few times that happens, just for fun: - In The King George Job, Nate’s getting beat up and Eliot slightly panics and is about to run to help, when Sophie says “NOPE, don’t do that, I can fix this without blowing our cover” and saunters in at her leisure. The jig isn’t up and she’s not even particularly concerned about him getting punched. I love it. - In the Maltese Falcon Job, Nate sacrifices himself to save the team. This is a classic thing to do in chess and chess metaphors, but, I cannot stress this enough, you cannot sacrifice your king. That’s just called LOSING. -In The Long Goodbye Job of course the whole con is structured around Nate getting caught. I guess this one kind of makes sense because the whole point is to look like they HAVE completely lost, but then at the end it appears that Nate’s going to secret prison and everyone else is escaping WITH the black book, so they STILL would be losing Nate but winning the job. 

So if Nate isn’t the king, who is?

Hardison.

Let’s look at our points about kings again:

1. Doesn’t move as far or as quickly: Yes, Hardison ALSO gets out there and participates in the cons, everybody does. But Hardison does stay in the background more often, because that’s where his power is. He does the behind the scenes tech stuff and the remote stuff, he can wreck your shop without showing up through the power of the internet. He also does the forgeries of identities and objects, which are also done in his own space. At the same time, he has less physical power and less range -- you don’t want him in a fistfight, or a gunfight, and his grifts are notorious for being a little. . . uh. . . interesting. So he has limited physical range and power but at the same time. . . .

2. The game is over if you lose him. That far-reaching behind the scenes power is absolutely vital for 90% of the jobs. He does the massive amounts of research and hacking legwork needed just to START a job, even before you get to actually completing the job. You are pretty much dead in the water without Hardison. But that’s just from a practical standpoint. Losing Hardison is also a crisis from an emotional standpoint. He’s our moral compass and our sweet baby brother and when Hardison gets in trouble there is no “well he’ll be fine for a few minutes” and no “well he kinda had it coming.” No, when Hardison is in trouble everything else grinds to a halt and everyone comes running. (See: The Experimental Job, The Grave Danger Job, The Long Goodbye Job.)

So like, yes Nate is in charge. But the king isn’t in charge on a chessboard, the king is just a piece with a very unique role, which Hardison fills much better than Nate does. So, now that we have our real king, who are our other pieces?

Queen: Parker. This has nothing to do with her dating Hardison. The thing about the queen is she can do a little bit of everything -- she can move in any direction, making her the most dangerous piece on the board. Parker’s whole character arc is about learning all the different roles and how to access the whole playing field. She’s the only one who plans and executes an entire episode-length job by herself (okay, with a little help from her girlfriend). Plus, the other cool thing about a queen is she has a built-in transformation story -- a pawn that crosses the board can become a queen, which Parker mimics by initially being dismissed as “the crazy one” and ultimately becoming the mastermind.

Knight: Sophie. I know, I wanted Eliot to be the horsie too, but this makes more sense. The knight’s deal is that it’s sneaky -- it’s the only piece that can turn corners -- and it can jump over obstacles. Sophie’s whole philosophy of grifting is that she shouldn’t need to know about safes or security systems, she should be able to bypass (jump over) all that by insinuating herself with the mark (being sneaky by playing a character to get behind enemy lines)

Rook: Eliot. This is the straightforward one -- it goes in a straight line. It also literally represents the castle walls. It’s also so, so fucking helpful to have around, I fucking hate losing my rooks. It’s your solid right hand man, basically. Is this a little reductive of Eliot? Absolutely, but I’m jamming five complex characters into five predetermined boxes, it’s not all gonna be nuanced. And I think Mr. Punchy would like being seen as the fortress that everybody depends on, and to let all the nuance go under the radar. That’s where he likes it. 

Bishop: Finally, here’s where Nate is hiding. While the rook can only go straight (lol), the bishop can only go diagonally. Nothing can be straightforward for the bishop, he always has to come at things from an angle. Like, you know, constantly looking at all the different angles of a situation and finding the right angle to come at a mark from. Also, the bishops sit right in the middle right next to the king and queen. I don’t know that this is historically accurate, but when my dad taught me to play he told me that was because the bishops were important councilors to the rulers, they were the ones who had important wisdom that would tell them the best plan of attack. So the king here isn’t necessarily the one making the plans -- that’s the bishop. And finally, apparently the bishop is called lots of different things in other languages, but we’re operating in English, which means it makes Nate a priest, and that makes me happy.

#leverage #nate ford #alec hardison #parker leverage #eliot spencer #sophie devereaux #chess #seriously what kind of divine intervention happened in my sleep #i feel like some god beat me up and then threw the manuscript of this post at me before disappearing #is this an odin thing #might be an odin thing

[yaeggravate]

GUYS GUYS!!!!

you know anfortas, our best friend anfortas alberich, the regent king of khaenri'ah whose fate remains a mystery? anfortas is the name of the fisher king in arthurian legends, the one who guarded the holy grail.

apparently t.s. eliot wrote a poem titled the waste land that combines the legend of the holy grail and the fisher king. what caught my eye here is the footnote he made:

The Man with Three Staves (an authentic member of the Tarot pack) I associate, quite arbitrarily, with the Fisher King himself.

A TAROT CARD WITH THREE STAVES

WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THREE STAVES BEFORE: ON THE HARBINGER CONSTELLATION WHEEL

by process of elimination the three staves should belong to

CAPITANO

#AAAHHhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHH #kaeya alberich #lore bytes #HHHHHHHHHHHHHH #h. #incoming kaeya voice: did you fuck my grandfather varka #.txt

[yardsards]

fucking PISSED

#eliot posts #he had to go to the vet today #got some shots #and got a cyst on his chin examined #they had to shave it #and i failed to make him eat his sedative pill beforehand (he's very wily and caught onto all my tricks) #so he went through this experience completely sober #he did not like any of this experience one bit #the brown things near his tail are treats that i tried to use to bribe him to get into the carrier #that didn't work. i had to chase him into it. #at least he didn't accidentally claw me open in the struggle this time #vincent the cat

[4acesofspades]

One of the best parts of leverage is when they get distracted from the job because they're watching their teammates be good at something.

Like when Hardison is playing the violin, or Eliot is singing. Sophie goes full Mom mode, and the other kiddos are mesmerized, sometimes to the point of getting caught. It's adorable.

#leverage #leverage tv #eliot spencer #nathan ford #sophie devereaux #parker leverage #parker #alec hardison