#eliot: uH

[juicywizards]

what if you watched a show and it was so bad and you never got over it

#the magicians #queliot #quentin coldwater #eliot waugh #text by @angstics #who made me think about these guys again for the first time since uh it happened #this is so target audience of 1 I'm sorry but like i read that and this came into my mind fully formed #fanart #the magicians fanart

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Rescue first, then bicker!

Leverage Redemption S02E07 The Big Rig Job.

#leverage #leverage redemption #harry wilson #eliot spencer #breanna casey #parker #noah wyle #christian kane #aleyse shannon #beth riesgraf #uh parker he definitely DOES listen to you #or are we forgetting your 'stop the truck' from the previous episode? #ghostly'sgifs

[chronicowboy]

underrated leverage moment is in the studio job when hardison's explaining his auto tuning device to parker and eliot and nate butts in to ask who he just called baby

#sami rambles #nate: who exactly did you just refer to as baby 🤨🤨🤨🤨 #hardison: it's the-the 😳 universal term for 😦 uh #leverage #parker #parker x hardison x eliot #alec hardison #eliot spencer #nate ford

[leverage-ot3]

no one:

me: let’s check the vibe of the leverage facebook group

(blurred out my name for privacy)

at first people passed the vibe check with heart/care reacts, thumbs up… and then the boomers came

a lot of people settled on it’s some configuration of parker/eliot or hardison/eliot give off sibling vibes and hardison is dating parker, but a fair amount of folks said they would accept or would like the ot3. one based guy was like ‘if it drives the story then power to them’. someone else just commented ‘till my dying day’, another said ‘I mean… they already measured his head for the robot bodies’. someone else said they like brother sister eliot and parker but queerplatonic with parker and hardison dating is still good to them.

and then there was one woman who basically said if you don’t want honest answers you shouldn’t ask the questions and then said eliot is a good friend/brother to them and love does not need to be romantic or sexual to be strong (girlie what do you think queerplatonic means 😭💀)

also JUST got this gem (and am going to report them)

edit with my response:

last edit: she was kicked out of the group after 💀

#it’s illegal to be mean to me on my birthday actually #jkjk #but fr fuck them I WILL make everything gay actually. out of SPITE #told my roommate and they were like jackie maybe you need to get off the internet #(I posted a pro palestine city hall gathering flyer in my towns facebook group monday and it. uh. had mixed results) #eliot spencer #parker #alec hardison #leverage ot3 #parker x hardison x eliot #leverage #leverage redemption #other social media sites #facebook #jackie talks #mine #for context: some of the recent posts were about eliot and sophie getting together and about parker and hardison #so I’m like sure. talking about ships is fine right. what could go wrong #famous last words #there’s a reason why I haven’t posted until now

[jellicle-chants]

totally forgot there's a moment in the lost heir job where eliot refuses to fight cops. your honor i don't know who that man is

#eliot 'i hate guns' spencer would NEVER #leverage #the lost heir job #eliot spencer #been rewatching old episodes bc i've been nervous about getting the trio's voices/characters right for a fic #but uh. even i would never make that mistake

[seawitchkaraoke]

no y’all don’t get it, the reason Jenna doesn’t connect the dots and figures out that Leverage is secretly being her guardian angels is that the dots connect to make an absolutely ridiculous picture!

Like! She’s very smart and very willing to throw herself into risky situations to do what she thinks is right and I love her, but no matter how clever you are “a bunch of super thieves/vigilantes are also trying to take this guy down and are now secretly helping me by making a bunch of random but not that incredibly unlikely shit happen” is just. like. c’mon. if you say you’d figure that out while in a ridiculously stressful situation in which you constantly put yourself at risk of worst case getting raped and best case losing your job and possibly getting sued, you’re lying.

Yeah the team’s cons are obvious to us! bc we know them! but normal ppl don’t connect “venue shut down bc food poisoning” and “randomly found a singer at a completely different venue” and “there was a fire alarm” bc all those things can in fact happen, for them all to happen in quick succession is random and lucky but it’s not “omg someone is spying on me and??? giving me?????? things i need?”

#leverage redemption #the belly of the beast job #someone was like why doesn't she recognize the sound of tapped phones? #uh? bc she doesn't know what that sounds like? she's a civilian as Eliot said? #would you recognize the sound of a tapped phone? #you sure you wouldn't also dismiss it with an ''eh probably the connection being bad for a second''? #i love her #she's young and bright and clever and naive to a degree too yeah #she thinks no i'll be careful this won't happen to me #and she's right bc she's being watched over #i don't think she's letting herself think about what could happen #she just runs and runs and keeps going and it's working! it's working! so she's really excited and can't really believe it #so she doesn't question it and she doesn't hesitate or waste time figuring out who tf that food truck woman is #she'll probably decompress and a few days after the events of the episode shoot up in bed and go #omg the woman in the how to crack a safe video was the waiter at that bar #and then she'll put all that energy into figuring that out #but in the moment? too much adrenaline

[wolves-in-the-world]

At least for the aspec part of the leverage fandom, I’m guessing it’s the heavy themes of found family between the entire crew and the queer platonic vibes of the OT3

yeah. yeah. oh man. like we have a story that prioritises relationships that aren't shown to us as romantic just as highly as the relationships that are, and we have parker who regardless of how you interpret her can be read as a-spec and loved and supported by the people around her and that's great, and we have a happy ending that says "actually, our tough guy (who doesn't seem to settle down with anyone romantically, though we see him date) would be most fulfilled with hardison and with parker, with no explicit romance, but with a lifelong promise of mutual devotion."

(it's a very important thing to me that the story works like that, with parker+eliot+hardison being totally platonic. I love other readings. I do. but what we were given, viewed through the least shippy goggles available, works. and it packs a hell of a punch.)

and listen, I've said it before but "my nana used to say that what's normal is whatever works for you" is such a beautiful sentiment to be applied to SO many things (gender, neurodiversity, queerness, polyamory, queerplatonic relationships, choosing a life of crime instead of a 'proper' career, etc), and it is lovely.

which is to say… yeah. agreed. it's great. and it does make sense. :D

#thank you and also apologies anon this is a topic I'm kind of always ready to go on #you were right and you should say it etc <3 #don't mind me #orig #ot3 thoughts #nana #folks forgive me for not acknowledging L:R much #the happy platonic ending thing is beautiful and right to me up until I try to square that away so I kinda don't #my ONLY criticism of the nana quote is like… I don't think it has to be normal to be good and okay. #but the quote is very… ''matriarch of a large family and deeply supportive.'' #it's ''I got the weird kids and dedicated myself to making sure they knew they were right just as they are'' #it's nana welcoming parker and eliot with open arms no matter how they're there. #it's nana raising breanna to be the person who could make the speech she did; heartfelt and open. #and I feel like maybe it's something she said to alec or others when they were upset about Not Being Normal #which seems like a v kind way to address it for an upset child. #''their definition of normal is the wrong one; the right one will always include what works for *you*. okay?'' #just... thank you nana hardison excuse me I need a sec <3 #also haha whoops fun way to find out I'd been slightly misquoting it #and also that the top search engine result for the misquote is. uh. my fic. #I have said enough in the tags now someone drag me out with a shepherd's crook please and thanks <3

[eyrieofsynapses]

…maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think I like Eliot's hand-to-hand fight scenes more than the ones in big-box movies.

see, I was rewatching a bit of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (yes I've seen some of the MCU, no I have not seen Infinity War or anything past it because I refuse to watch it without other people to cry with and my friends haven’t been available) before I rewatched Rundown. and guys, I adore TWS. easily in my top favorite films of all time. the fight scenes are fantastic! holy heck, the emotional weight! if you asked me which movies I love hand-to-hand in the most, that'd be at the top of the list, easy. Steve and Bucky in that final scene? ohhhhhh my gods.

but then I bounced over to The Rundown Job and just… y’know the bit where Eliot takes out the guys after Hardison signals him at the elevator? it feels so much more fun. I can't pin down exactly why, but it feels closer, more personal, more impactful. probably some of it comes from how Eliot is having--maybe not exactly fun, but how he likes doing his job. there's something about it.

and it's not just TWS that I can compare this back to, either. off the top of my head, I love it more than The Batman's hand-to-hand combat (which is admittedly rough because it's early-years Bruce, but still) and probably most anything else I've seen out of the MCU. animation isn't live-action, obviously, but I've seen some really solid combat in DC's animated work too. like, I haven't seen a ton of hand-to-hand work (it seems the film industry is understandably more fond of sword fights and such), but personally I find that when it comes to sheer fun, Leverage is really hard to beat.

now I'm not gonna compare it to sword-fighting or things like that. that's another ballgame. but hand-to-hand specifically… I'm not a violent person, but I dunno, y'all, there's just something about how Eliot fights that makes him fun to watch in a way I'm not sure I see elsewhere. probably it's partly that I'm just ridiculously fond of him. it is absolutely in large part because Christian Kane a) does his own stunts and works with the choreography, b) actively integrates Eliot's character into his work, and c) is just an all-around fantastic madman of a person.

but! they get so very clever with it! all the different things he'll grab to improvise with! I mean, where else do you get somebody who uses umbrellas, pipe organ pipes, whisks, screen doors, golf clubs, appetizers, literally anything to take opponents out on a regular basis? hauling people up over his shoulders and his back to toss them into dumpsters? comments like "if I'm not honest with you, you can't improve"? counting every single dude in a massive ship and then counting down as he takes each one out? barreling out of nowhere to tackle a dude? who else gives us lines like "that's what makes it fair" to the dude who laughs at him for not carrying a gun?

and it's hardly like we don't know Eliot's going to win--Eliot always wins--but there's still tension to it. he's not so good as to be perfect. he struggles, he comes back with bruises and cuts and the occasional broken rib, it's not like there's nothing at stake here. we've seen him have to let somebody go or otherwise mess up. too many opponents or too much muscle make him wary. he's competent as all hell, but he has to be sly and tricky and clever about how he fights as much as he has to deliver enough force. Eliot doesn't just fight well, he fights smart. he uses his surroundings and knows when to play possum and how to target an opponent's weak spots.

like. goddamn. I can watch him versus Roper in The Carnival Job a hundred times, and it still shakes me to the core to see him go down for that brief moment. in that second, you can believe he's in real danger. and he does come out of it hurt and limping and covered in blood. but we still have no doubt that he's an absolute badass!

oh yeah, and also: he has fun. there's always that little smile he's got when he's about to take down a bunch of unwitting thugs. laughing at Quinn when he's got bruised ribs and bloody teeth. looking at the pipe from the pipe organ in Van Gogh in surprise when it rings when he hits a guy before giving it an appreciative grin. sizing up Mikel and running through each situation (and, you know, that little make-out in the basement). staring at the dude in Lonely Hearts and going "fisticuffs? seriously?" with that tone of amused disbelief before flipping the guy into the harbor.

it's his job and he's not fond of hurting people, exactly, but he takes pride in it and he enjoys proving himself over and over. he enjoys the challenge. and it's kind of impossible not to love watching him beat it every. single. time

anyway yeah, if you ever ask me "who's the most fun to watch fight hand-to-hand?" it's probably always gonna be Eliot, tbh.

#leverage #eliot spencer #and I couldn't find a spot to add this thought in here BUT ALSO #these scenes aren't all about Emotional Tension Release #they're not Big Dramatic Moments for the most part #there is no heft dramatic music or seriousness to it #nah--Leverage just wants us to have fun #these scenes are crafted to be FUN TO WATCH #we're meant to enjoy the grins! we're meant to laugh! #we're meant to be impressed by Eliot's ingeniousness of course #but we're also just... here to enjoy the ride with him #yes I absolutely love big dramatic fighting moments #they can be great on a character development level and just in general #but there's really something to be said for when they're developed #with the specific purpose of entertainment and such #also: I'm saying hand-to-hand SPECIFICALLY #because uh. you really really REALLY can't beat Princess Bride's swordfighting #or the hilarity of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl #and there's also lightsaber battles to be considered #also magic and ATLA and those sorts of things #and you really absolutely cannot beat the sheer fun of Cap's shield #however: hand-to-hand is QUITE different in comparison to those #now I adore Nightwing's sass mind you and plenty of others #but when it comes to sheer 'aw hell how'd they do five season's worth of this #and it STILL never ever gets remotely boring or stale?!' factor #Eliot beats out... pretty much everything I can think of

[mazojo]

#stooooppppppPP that one speech game be Eliot from ph flashbacks #your life matters’!!!! 💀💀💀💀 deseased gotta be my favorite trope #please tell me he is alive and well pleASE #hey uH I started trigun and I am on ep 6 and woah I see the hyperfixation coming fellas😀😀😀 they make me 😀😀😀😀😀 #so many thots head so very empti rn #trigun stampede #Nicholas #vash #the animation is so pretty too!! #I just KNOW he is gonna die he is giving me Eliot vibes and I know how this ends please hell me i a wrong

[trivalentlinks]

My friend occasionally volunteers as a teacher's assistant in a small midwestern town, and in a sixth grade (11 year olds) class she was volunteering with, they did a career day, where they asked parents to come in and tell the class about their careers.

One parent they brought in was a hostage negotiator for (adult) US citizens kidnapped abroad, mostly in Latin America

Apparently, the US government has a list of entities that US citizens are not allowed to make payments to, including pretty much all foreign hostage takers, so when an American is taken hostage abroad, their family has to pay ransom through a foreign entity

They usually hire a hostage negotiator to talk to the kidnappers and arrange the ransom payments through the foreign entities, etc

So anyway this guy's talking about his job, the way different hostage-taking entities tend to demand different numbers of cash drops (somewhere between 4 and 10 usually), but a good hostage negotiator knows what to expect, since they've dealt with those entities before, and how to tell when things are going normally vs when something is going wrong, and how to respond when things feel weird, etc

At some point, to check if the kids are following, the guy asks

"so if someone you love has been kidnapped, what would you do?"

But the kids were apparently not following, because the only kid who raises her hand goes,

"call the police?"

And this guy's just standing there gobsmacked, and after a moment where nobody else has any better ideas, he's like,

"... okay, but what if the police are the ones who kidnapped your loved one?"

... the kids had a lot of trouble wrapping their heads around that one

Also, at some point, the guy played an audio file of a typical hostage negotiation, which started with an (adult) victim's mom on the phone with the kidnapper. the mom's crying, and the kidnapper chides her for being overly emotional and tells her she needs to have someone else speak for her if she can't calm down

then the negotiator handles the rest of the interactions, multiple cash drops, each for less money than the previous, with the kidnapper saying each time that this was definitely the last one and then they would let the victim go (this is par for the course, apparently)

The kids were fascinated, but the teacher (who was also a mom) said afterwards that she was never inviting a hostage negotiator for career day again

#hostage negotiation #tw: kidnapping #hostage situations #i recently re-read the part of my longfic where eliot and quinn do a job 'negotiating' a hostage release #and uh. yeah. no part of that plan would have worked

[yardsards]

seriously tho like HOW do those brown parts of amity's hair work???

in some screenshots, they look like streaks

in others, it looks like the under-layer of her hair is brown. and in some cases it seems like said underlayer is the same length as the purple. in others, it looks like a hidden undercut type of deal???

and the new promo art just brings further questions

personally i choose to believe hidden undercut theory because the idea that her hair would be as much of a fluffy rat's nest as her dad's if she didn't keep half of it shaved is very funny

#too lazy to pull up the screenshots for this post but yknow #eliot posts #toh #the owl house #amity blight #i used to want an undercut to thin out my thick hair when i was a teen #but i was pretty sure i wouldn't be allowed to #bc my parents (specifically mother) had a rule that i couldn't get anything cut shorter than a bob #(i was also not allowed to have bright/unnatural hair colours) #because my parents said people would think i was gay and that would bring shame to them as my parents #so i wasn't sure if an undercut would TECHNICALLY fall under the length rule bc the top would still be very long #but it would break the implied 'no gay haircuts' rule #(jokes on them tho my hair is very short and blue now) #when i was in like middle school the hairdressers would do something to thin my hair #yall it was SO BAD there was so much frizz #on top of my ALREADY FRIZZY hair because nobody bothered to tell me that i didn't have straight hair #so i just brushed it every morning and was like ''gosh. i hate how brushing my hair makes it so puffy.'' #straight hair doesn't do that!!! you just had VERY mistreated waves/curls #much like with my sexuality i didn't learn my hair wasn't straight til my teen years and i mostly learned that via the internet #anyway uh. enjoy that random tangent #but legit like! why is drawing amity's hair so hard! i Need to know how it works! #this is like back in the homestuck days different ppl on here would draw diagrams of how they thought the kids' hair worked #luz's bangs kinda confuse me like that but it's not Maddening like with amity's brown hair bits

[the-irrelevant-trumpeter]

hahaha STRESSING. so not prepared for my second english exam.

#gonna flunk ✌️ #fucking ts eliot is going to be the death of me #the questions on him are always the hardest #and he’s already the one i struggle the most with 😭 #the other two modules are better but i still don’t feel prepared #and also i can’t get to school early tomorrow like i wanted #so now i’m gonna be stressed in the morning #shitttttttttttt #i also haven’t prepared at all for my music exam #so uh. oopsie. #the music one should be fine bc it’s just an aural exam #but i do wish i had gone over the concepts again #anyway after tomorrow morning i never have to think about ts eliot ever again #so ig that’s something

[keep-this-all-in-mind]

gotta love being 37k into a leverage au and just now realizing that aside from the team format, Job format, and episode title = chapter title format, you have not used any of your favorite Leverageisms ("let's go steal a", "it's a very distinctive")... yet

#tempted to put fic spoilers in here for fun cause i know not many of y'all will see this and there's a VERY specific 'let's go steal a' #that's happening.... hhh how many thousand words from now? #we're not even halfway through the outline peeps #the batfamily leverage au #redemption arc #batfamily #dickwally #birdflash #leverage #goodness 'it's a very distinctive style' 'it's a very distinctive stance' would be good for cass and the tone fits perfectly for jason tho #they get to share eliot vibes. as a treat #(if anyone's curious as to why the 37k i've decided to wait on posting ch4 till i'm done with 6) #(and 5 was uh. L O N G )

[mythgradeconstellation]

Top 1 comfort episode of any piece of media is the rashomon job (from leverage) currently rewatching amd I Love These People

#ITS SO FUNNY #im love them #leverage tv #alec hardison #parker #eliot spencer #uh oh! all brainrot!

[themself]

“um why would eliot spencer be so sensitive to abused kids if he hasn’t been abused” maybe bc he grew up around ppl who were or maybe just because hes a good guy damn

#eliot is very independent and doesnt seem like hes strongly seeking out the approval of authority the way an abuse victim does #so no i do not think that his trying to reconnect w his father was him trying to reach out to his abuser #why isnt he sensitive to race issues then uh cuz this show was written by white people #everytime leverage has talked about race its sucked sorry #van gogh job was mid #ANYWAY the episode w eliots dad was good and made total sense for his character #and im glad they did it and the ppl who were like 'um why are we retreading eliots trauma out he Solved It' were wrong #love to be the person with the best takes on leverage GOD bless

[smallblueandloud]

i am genuinely. So Close to finishing bail organa time travels. or making progress on eponine de bergerac! or wrapping up this installment of the ds9 modern au!

so of course my brain wants me to work on something New. what new thing, you might ask?? great question! brain has no idea.

#sb and l rambles #sb and l is writing #i could write more clintnatlaura [turns to glare at mission impossible] #or wrestle with the tone issues of this season of strange new worlds... #or write some parker/hardison/eliot.... #none of these are ideas yet which is the frustrating part. but uh. maybe i'll just go poke at some star trek #should i make a star trek playlist??? surely by now i should have one of those