#the low low price job

[artsybi]

leverage is so deeply fun as a show because sometimes they just break into places to steal back physical items and money and SOMETIMES they straight up psychologically torture the mark and make them think they've been contacted by aliens that now want to abduct them, or convince them they're dying of cadmium poisoning or fake a whole dreamscape to get them to reflect on their fucked up actions

it's incredible. no notes

#leverage #i ramble #the first contact job #the low low price job #the white rabbit job

[unloneliest]

in the low low price job eliot is at the center of the gloat and the walkaway. eliot brings beer when he returns and is denied entry to the home he grew up in. when nate's at his lowest with alcoholism in the snow job eliot gets himself between nate and the rest of the team; pushes back in a way that draws his attention and keeps nate from lashing out at anyone else. we know eliot isn't an only child, thanks to the miracle job; his nephew would love bibletopia.

(low low price: eliot grew up in rural oklahoma. low low price: eliot hasn't been home since he was 18. what about eliot who performs landmarks of typical masculinity so well could result in such complete rejection from his god loving father? it's hardison eliot's able to confide this in. is it a question we really need to ask, after all?)

in the order 23 job it's eliot who knows on sight that the child with a broken arm is being abused. the kid's dad's social tie to the local cops: they drink together. when eliot and hardison impersonate cops in the morning after job, eliot demands they respond to a called in disturbance with a weapon, because there might be kids in the house.

where do you think eliot learned the relational dynamic he engages in with nate, and before that moreau? eliot left home because he "needed to get out of there". eliot has never lived a life free from controlling men. he may have left, but did he succeed in his escape? why or why not?

it takes eliot five seasons to mention his dad. he never mentions his mom. the carnival job does not center eliot in the gloat but as they walk away we get him centered briefly. nate's the one who says she's dead, but it's eliot who asks about the kid's mom. it's eliot who connects with her in a way it seems nobody has since that loss. in the future job eliot rummages in a car to provide facts so tara can pull off the psychic act. his voice wavers, when he mentions the breast cancer ribbon on the mirror. eliot never mentions his mom. eliot never mentions his mom.

would parker have ever mentioned the brother she lost, were it not for the fake psychic's violating reveal? why do you think eliot never mentions his mom?

fuck redemption's revisionist history. the original run said enough to paint a full and heartbreaking picture of eliot's family all on its own.

#eliot spencer #leverage #leverage meta #the low low price job #the carnival job #jam posts #leverage posting #eliot

[amazzyblaze]

"The Low Low Price Job" doodles

#leverage #eliot spencer #alec hardison #parker leverage #drawings #the low low price job

[leverage-ot3]

tear-inducing leverage episodes, in no particular order:

the van gogh job

the long way down job

the grave danger job

the big bang job

the future job

the stork job

the low low price job

#coincidentally these are also great ot3 episodes #can you tell i just watched the van gogh job and the long way down job is still fresh in my mind??? #GOD. parker crying as the man tells his story? 'don't waste time'??? AAAAAAAAAAAA #the van gogh job #the long way down job #the grave danger job #the big bang job #the future job #the stork job #the low low price job #leverage #mine

[geekynightowl1997]

Concerning The Low Low Price Job- I just appreciate everything Leverage Team does to sabotage Value!More.

Don't get me wrong- I understand Hardison's point. But I respect and understand Eliot's point. But everything- everything they did! Oh my gosh- I'm crying.

It's refreshing to see the lady scramble.

(I work in that kinda environment. I love my job- but... yeah I resonate with this episode WAY to much.)

#leverage #eliot spencer #parker #alec hardison #nate ford #sophie devereaux #the low low price job #oh my gosh #everything said by the boss is so accurate #retail is so hard #and I felt everything that happened #i have never appreciated an episode more #i love you leverage

[my-beloved-lakes]

Omg no! Eliot drove all the way from Portland to his dad's house in Oklahoma! All alone! That's like at least a two day drive! And then his dad didn't even answer the door! 😭

#leverage #leverage angst #the low low price job #eliot spencer #I'm not okay 😭 #I'm definitely not thinking about the extremely angst drive back to Portland that he had to make alone!

[lemissingmask]

[ID: Sketch of Eliot standing in the foreground with bleeding cuts on his face, chest and arms, a blood nose and messsy hair, and Parker and Hardison standing behind him in outdoor clothes, looking worriedly at Eliot but remaining at a fair distance. End ID]

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Sketch from a while ago, but wasn't sure if I liked it. But may as well throw it into the aether as someone else may like it XD

Moment set after the end of the low low price job. Eliot drives *almost* straight back to Portland, but takes a brief detour to take out a triad base he either stumbles upon by chance or already knows about, because he's feeling too much emotion and needs to fight to get rid of it and cope with all the pain he's feeling. So he has a messy fight, but obviously wins, then carries on driving as if nothing happened, and only stops completely when he gets to the brewpub.

He doesn't go inside, but just stands somewhere nearby, just feeling lost and a bit broken.

Obviously, however, Hardison and Parker knew that he was headed to Oklahoma and were worried, so Hardison has been tracking Eliot. So they know when he gets back and just stands alone in the cold outside.

They don't ask him what happened.

They lie and say they were hungry and going to get some food from some fast-food joint Eliot hates, prompting Eliot to grumble that he'll make them something instead. And so, slowly, that night, but gently nudging Eliot into things that calm him down, the three end up on the couch watching Doctor Who, and Eliot is reminded that he's not alone.

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#leverage #alec hardison #parker #eliot spencer #ot3: hitter hacker thief #cw blood #the low low price job

[richardsphere]

Leverage Log: The Low Low Price Job

Ok so based on the name, we're either dealing with As Seen On TV products that are made so cheap as to endanger people, general "store discounts that are only affordable because its made in a sweatshop in china" shenanigans, or a Big box chain using an up front loss to drive the locals out of business and become a de-facto local monopoly before type of story. (did I mention that capitalism sucks yet?) --- Ok government inspector is looking round a store and is pulling lies out of their ass. --- I agree with Elliot, Composting is good but should not be done in a kitchen. That is a health inspectors nightmare. --- Oh its about the a big box store, thats bribing the inspector (and zoning comittee) into shutting down competition. Why is she talking about it as if its a small town? Since when is Portland a small town? Thats a major American city right? --- I stand corrected, just because she's currently in portland to talk to Leverage Inc, does not mean she's from Portland. She's from a (presumeably fictitious) small US town called Apple Springs (home of America's largest garden gnome) --- Ok it seems we're not even going to try and make the villain act like a human person. Just openly gloating to her intern about how she's gonna destroy the town. --- And once again Nate makes the point: The Food Industry is only thing scarier then Sterling. I like the premise of them going for a "smaller" target (a single store rather then the megacorp attached), but its sort of a suck that this episode promises to end with a "the real villain got away with it all in the end" sort of deal. (maybe the sequel series can do a call-back episode where they go after Corporate) --- Sophie starts listing Cadmium Poisoning symptoms. To a woman whose hotel room we have seen Parker and Nate break into already. This can only mean 1 thing: Its chemical warfare time! --- Oh so thats how corporate plays? Forging crimes onto Sophies Forged identity? Guess we might see Nate take the gloves off and take down corporate after all. (cause lets be clear, if this is a thing they know how to do it means they do it on the regular for non con-artists) --- I dont think Elliot is lying about his old man running a hardware store, like this could be an attempt to make the guy more sympathetic to his cause to aid the union, but this feels genuine.

Old man has diabetes... that is ominous, I feel like Elliot might be about to get himself a surrogate dad only to lose him. --- And she's met Nate. (only Hardison and Parker remain un-compromised)

Eliiot's dad is real. --- Oh she tracked them back to Portland. Now that either means our heroes somehow tipped her off deliberately or that she's got GPS tracking on her employees.

Oh she said the F word, (which means she can F off) also shouldnt the poisoning be kicking in right now? sure she prevented Sophie from telling the town about the "cadmium" but thats no reason to make her think she's not dying of cadmium poisoning. Making her think the thing she covered up is a genuine threat awaiting re-discovery is a great way for our heroes to get her on the mental back-foot --- "its not like we can make bad luck". Nate, im sorry to say that you're an idiot. Making it look like an accident is literally crimes 101. --- Sophie's bringing in the army. (oh the Kaki's and overall flashmob. Classic)

Oh Elliot's surrogate Dad just died and/or got hospitalised. --- Record sales? Oh we're so framing her for theft arent we. (rigged the cash registers to claim they're taking 99.99 for the TV's while still taking the full 999.99) And she even bragged "the TV's were my idea" so when the citisens sue Value!More over their fraudulent cash-receipts her bosses will pull out a recording from their phone conversation proving her guilt by her own admission! --- Wait it wasn't part of Nate's plan? Our team just accidentally pulled a loss leader? Goddamn it. Well the HQ guy is coming for the BBQ now. Which is probably on the parking lot that she thinks is cadmium poison... So poison HQ guy with cadmium and get her superiors to shut her store down? --- Wait we're only renovating her hotel room now? In literally any other episode we would've seen Nate and Parker break into the store, and then had a greyed out flashback of the things they did while there to poison the ever loving heck out of this woman. --- I dont like that, now that we're finally getting to the "drugging her by putting chemicals in her make-up and sleepmask" sequence we took out her shower. (I get it, its to make her more anxious over meeting HQ guy for her promotion by not letting her take care of herself. But we literally had an entire Poison story right there with the Cadmium and this is breaking from that narrative, it feels like the broken shower is an unnecessary risk. Im not saying she deserves a shower it just distracts from the Cadmium Poisoning story) --- And we got ourselves the classic "broadcast their conversation over the intercom". Last shot of her seeing Leverage Inc lined up so she can connect the dots of her being played somehow. Strong end to a rather weak episode. --- Our heroes are turning the not-really poisoned big box store into a theatre. (nice place for Sophie to Own instead of Rent, plus a good back-up now that the Frame Up Job compromised their new Portland residency) --- there's something really weird about the way in which Elliot keeps getting in short-term relationships with female clients.

Elliot is off to reunite with dad, but it seems that time will do what time will do. (whomever owns the home now has excellent taste in windchimes though. Love the little dolphins) --- This episode was generally sub-par as far as A-plot goes, every twist and one-up by Caroline felt like it came from right up a writers behind, and the final conclusion of "our battle shut off the one store but Evil Incorporated continues to win the war" leaves this episode overall unsatisfying in its climax. The Elliot sub-plot was good though. Just not enough to fix a broken episode.

#leverage #leverage season 5 #the low low price job

[thecoolsquirrel]

Ruggie! <3 <3

Commissions open btw $13 for one character and $15 for two!

#my art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland fanart #twst fanart #disney twisted wonderland #disney twst #twst #twisted wonderland art #art #twst wonderland #twst ruggie #ruggie bucchi #oo look at you getting a speedpaint as well lucky you #prices might be considered low but thats just because I dont have a job so time isnt a problem for me NSAJDNSD I-i like drawing

[natelia-aldelliz]

"Ah, Nik, wait!"

Nikolai turns back around at the sound of the Captain's voice.

"You're going to make me miss my flight," he pretends to complain, not able to keep himself from smiling.

Price rolls his eyes. "You're the one flying your flight back home."

Nik chuckles. John looks annoyed, but clearly it's not directed at him if him relaxing in his presence is to be believed.

"Anyway, I won't keep you long, I just need you to teach me how to say something in Russian."

There's a terrible idea rising in Nik's mind. He tries to ignore it at first.

"There's this guy, he's a fucking asshole and I'd like to tell him to go fuck himself in his native language."

He nods distractedly at Price. But it would be the perfect moment... He leaves right after that, after all... And John wouldn't understand right away, he'd have time to go hide somewhere.

"Right," he clears his throat and smiles at Price. "I can do that, sure. Repeat after me, try to remember the words : я -"

Price squints his eyes in concentration. He looks so fucking cute that Nik could die.

"Ya -"

"влюбилась"

"Woah, okay, vl...vlyoubeelas?"

Nik's smile is growing. "Good," he says, voice lower. Swears that John's cheeks are redder than they were before. Interesting. "в"

Price frowns. "Just 'vv' ?"

"Да. And finally, тебя."

"Tyebya."

Nik's heart is starting to beat a bit faster, apparently just now realising what he was doing. There's no going back now.

"Now the whole thing : я влюбилась в тебя"

John's brow furrows more in deep focus. "Ya vlyoubeelas vtyebya."

Damn, that makes Nik's cheeks warmer and his smile wider. He knows that Price doesn't mean it, doesn't even know what it means, but if that's all he's going to get, he's going to cherish it inside his heart.

He isn't sure John will want anything to do with him when he'll look it up, after all, he hasn't survived this long by having too high hopes. His smile softens and he nods at his friend.

"Not bad. Remember the words."

Price huffs. "Of course I'll remember the words. Now go, wouldn't want you to miss your own chopper back home."

Nik laughs and shakes his head as he turns around and walks to his helicopter. He stops before climbing in, turns his head back towards the Captain.

"Oh, and John, don't actually tell him that, he has no right to hear it."

He knows Price well enough to know that he's sighing right now, but he's too far to hear it.

"What did you even teach me?" He asks in a jokingly tired voice.

Nik grins back at him. "You'll have to look it up, зайчик."

#cod mw #captain john price #cod nikolai #nikprice #prikolai #nikolai just has the kindest eyes ever they look like a baby cow's eyes #and he has a very nice smile #i love him #anyway #i'll go back to ghostsoap content in a bit i swear lmao i also have a ghostsoaproach thingy in the works because bug boy needs love #also i've checked on ao3 and the number of nikprice fics is horrifyingly low that's a crime #and yeah i gave price a praising kink it wasn't on purpose but i think he deserves it #i think he'd be a mess if nik held him and praised him for all he's done and he couldn't escape the kind words and just had to soak them in #cause i don't think anyone except his gay bestie laswell regularly tells him he does a good job #like gaz and soap and even ghost are all looking up at him with stars in their eyes and they definitely think he does a good job #but they don't directly tell him even if he does know they think that #& tbh if nik looked at me with his kind eyes and told me kind things i'd cry imagine if he does that to someone he loves and who loves him #qsjfqiohgqksjfqo #if you want to know who in these games i think has a praise kink i can tell you #alex for sure i'm convinced he was flustered during all his missions in mw 2019 (also has a calling people sir/ma'am in the bedroom kink) #price apparently but only if it's by someone he considers an equal in rank and experience #bc then he'd know the person knows what they're talking about and isn't just talking nonsense #soap but he needs to be made to feel like he deserves it or he just cries because he has *issues* #ghost sometimes when everything gets too loud; but he generally prefers to give praise than receive it bc it can feel too raw #i think rudy has a giving praise kink tho like alejandro is pretty normal about praise but rudy loves drowning him in it until he's soo red

[red-dyed-sarumane]

i need people to start paying me for every time they tell me "oh but ur arts so good ur wasting ur talent u need to do it professionally" wrong i need to do art to draw beautiful characters that not a single other person cares about while feeding every ounce of love i have into my work or to convey thoughts & feelings beyond words and to even think of doing otherwise is to deny my own nature "oh but u can do what u want and then sell it" why is everything about money to you why cant u just enjoy things at what point in ur life did u forget how to have fun

#i hate that this stance is also seen as childish #like i have a full time job & often have mandatory overtime i have income already #if u need to to make ends meet then thats different do what u can to help urself live as comfortably as possible #but holy fuck pleasure as an adult is not limited to sex & money & watching tv #besides u know not a single one of the people who say this are willing to actually pay what the arts worth #its like 'well not me but other people would love it!' yeah okay u know a lot of other people are going to see the #over $100 price tag and go 'i like it but not that much! other people however' like just shut up. honestly. be quiet. #if i speed ran my art and low balled myself to a $15/hour rate the lowest would still be like $120 #which is not worth it AT ALL bc i just paid MORE to sit on my ass & look at eggs #and. again. is underselling myself for both experience & time. but people think $80 full body comms are too expensive #do u think im so stupid to not expect to get scammed when even 'easy' things are over $100 #but no ur right why would i have fun with something when i could instead cause myself infinite stress over it perfect thanks #do not give me advice about doing comms i do not want to do comms #if u see me doing comms im in a very dire situation. like thats a last resort for me.

[simgerale]

miyah (mee-uh)

(n.) a princess from another world that somehow convinced her father to let her visit earth on summer holiday (but isn’t sure how she’s going to break the news that she enrolled in human university for the fall) 

inspired by @lamatisse’s new skins 🌸

#ts4 #ts4 edit #ts4 story #holiday #miyah #pronounced like mia lol just spelled weird #HI!!1 #haven't been posting or playing sims much ummmmmmmmm lots of working and feeling like doing low-effort things #but! i've been wanting to use these new skins for a bit B^) #i hope everyone is doing well!!!! #i'm going to the beach this coming weekend #so that should be fun #and ummmmm what else #oh my bf has his last interview thursday and we'll find out next week about the job!!!!!!!!!!!!! #big life stuff #OH LOL we bought a mattress and a box spring and a DESK for 550...that's right...we are deal hunters #in all reality my bf is just a good talker and got the saleperson to go down in price #crazy #anyway....yeah #life is coming together

[applejuiz]

I want to like Leverage Redemption… I want to like more Eliot backstory… but to briefly be a real big hater with critical thinking skills, that episode just ruined one of the most poignant scenes in Leverage and the essential truth of Eliot’s character: sometimes you can’t go back.

The end of ‘The Low Low Price Job’ is one of the shows best endings, because it doesn’t give the clean uplifting cheesy Hollywood ending that ties everything together neatly, the way Leverage used to avoid tropes and cliche for nuance and grounded emotional realism. Eliot goes home but there’s no reunion, no fight. There’s just nothing. His dad doesn’t answer the door. Is he ignoring Eliot? Is he dead? We don’t know, and maybe neither does Eliot. He doesn’t get any closure and he doesn’t get to go back home, even to visit. Because of his choices and actions, that door is still closed off to him, even though he’s made changes and is working on his redemption. He can show up again, but he can’t go back inside. Just like he can never be the person he was before. He lost that. But it was never supposed to be a complete tragedy. The grief is real and will stay with him, but his work with Leverage and his new family are worth the price of not being able to go back.

In a lot of ways it even mirrors the ending of ‘The Inside Job’ where Parker doesn’t get closure for her relationship with her ‘father’. Archie failed her in so many ways and never fully apologizes for it, can’t ever make up for it. At the end of the episode she’s still calling him sir. But the point is that he may not be able to offer her family or make up for the hurt he caused, but Parker gets to walk off with Nate, heading back to her new family that doesn’t fail her. (I similarly have beef with ‘The Last Dam Jon’ because of how it makes everything between them ‘fixed’ in a similarly neat, almost trite way. He suddenly is calling her his daughter and everything is great and all is resolved. We already had a resolution! She didn’t need that validation from him anymore!)

Redemption consistently forgets that the magic of the og series was the found family the characters built and how it offered them everything they wanted but couldn’t find elsewhere. So idk I just really didn’t like how this episode seems to throw all that out to say that no, of course, you can go back home and make everything alright and hear exactly what you’ve always wanted to hear from estranged family members, don’t worry about it. It just rang a little too hollow to me. Sometimes in life, you don’t get to go back. And I liked that Eliot didn’t get to go back home. Because the show used to make it very clear that despite that, he already had a new one.

#maybe this is because I watched the low low price job during a time when it hit a little too close to home #://// #but idk I didn’t like that at all #leverage redemption #eliot spencer #Parker #leverage meta

[geekynightowl1997]

I work retail- and I've been feeling stabby all day... I saw this and I thought of Parker's "No stabbing Wednesday." And that's gonna get me through the rest of the day.

*I just want to add- this is not mine, idk who the artist is but all credit to the artist!*

#leverage #parker #parker leverage #no stabbing wednesday #i work retail and that's why the low low low price job speaks to me #i want to stab people #and then I think #what would parker do

[juni-ravenhall]

if ur loudly anti ai bc u support artists, but then u think artists should do commissions for less than $100 a piece.... which is including hourly wage, the cost of their skill level (years of training), the tools (tablet etc if not trad materials), and even giving you rights to use the art..... then do you actually support artists right to earn a living wage or not?

#nonhorsgaem #just really fucking annoyed at ppl who think artists should work for pennies but then go omg ai is whats ruining jobs for artists #sweetie for that 15 dollars u wanted to pay the artist would need to generate 95% of the pic in ai to make it worthwhile #if they actually need to pay for food and living expenses and healthcare and you know things humans need to live #teenage artists who do it to earn extra money for unnecessary expenses should not normalise low costs and bring down - #the perceived value of artists work for everyone but thats exactly what happened during the history of digital art on the internet #and now even ppl who are actually trying to pay their bills and eat food are pushed to sell for nothing while you say “i hate ai” #but youre not equally loud about fair commission pricing and the actual value of artists work outside of the ai context

[thieves-never-say-die]

I still don’t love The Fractured Job, but I like it better the second time around

#do I think the writers always knew Eliot was adopted like they claimed? maybe #do I think they always knew his dad was black? absoLUTELY not #just… the version of Eliot’s das we get in the low low price job does not match this version #might rewatch that one later just to check but like #the vibes are off #leverage #redemption #eliot spencer #fractured job #r 2x06