lindseymcdonaldseyelashes

Need a Leverage: Redemption episode about a corrupt tech dude who's been consulting his proprietary AI to make all of his decisions for him. Unbeknownst to him, Breanna's hacked the system and is tirelessly responding to each of his prompts, around the clock, to convince him he sucks and needs to turn things around

abimee

I hate the trope of "I refuse to hit women!! [Gets decked]" cause it's boring but I do like the trope of someone in an RPG going "hey I don't wanna hit a kid that's kinda fucked up" and the kid just obliterates them

abimee

"i refuse to hit a woman!" = Sexist, overdone, does nothing to actually empower the woman or make the guy seem nice

"I refuse to hit a kid" = valid, even funnier when the kid whips absolutely ass in one go

inotrope

Avatar: doing it right yet again

gentleoverdrive

Reminder that this series parodied The Rock, and they probably tried reaching to Dwayne Johnson to get the real McCoy... but instead they got Mick Foley and his performance is exactly what you would expect from a guy having the time of his life taking the piss off a former co-worker. It makes this whole thing like 30 times funnier.

la-venere

nothing sexier than that picture with the italian players on top of eachother after the win and the english ones going through the 5 stages of grief in the back

la-venere

THIS ONE

proxima-d

i can see it

hamster-is-tired

ITALIAN MANWHORE SUMMER

icarus-died-laughing

always reblog italian manwhore summer

violet-oriel

Originally posted by reflectingiridescent

Originally posted by lindseymcdonaldseyelashes

Why is this actually such a good summary of both of their teaching styles though?

Sophie came from an environment where street smarts saved your skin, you didn't study; you did. I mean, you can't exactly learn out of a book how to take a car hit or steal a painting. Over time, she gradually refined her techniques by running scams and stealing priceless artifacts until she became the best. That's not to negate the loads of research she probably did to get as good as she is, but as we see in Tournament Job, a lot of the time she is able to con without much preparation at all.

So it makes sense when she's teaching Parker, Hardison, Harry, Breanna, and even Maggie how to grift that she doesn't actually grift on their behalf or by having them follow behind her when she plays a character. She gives them a few suggestions and lets them try it out for themselves. This also relates to non-grifting teaching as well, like when she's teaching the crew about the nature of smuggled artifacts in The King George Job. She allows for each crew member to tell their observations about the statue of Ra before she details why that's significant. With Sophie, you learn and you con by doing.

Eliot came from a sports and military background, where you receive a looooot of feedback, a lot of the time in insult or brutal honesty. Depending on the person, feedback combined with further training and repetition can lead to solid improvement. You best believe that Eliot has taken every piece of advice to heart so that he could be the best. He has cultivated his skills through many different facets, namely in black ops, retrieval assignments, and culinary school. We see evidence of the years of training and experience in every single episode. With Eliot, you learn and you con by honesty (ironically) and correction.

So again, it makes sense that Eliot's the most brutally honest out of the whole crew and uses that to his advantage when teaching. Because he calls the crew out on their individual shit, it allows for them to assess dangerous or painful situations accurately and work together to evade or conquer. They improve because of his feedback. That's not to say that Eliot is not an incredibly gifted teacher or that he doesn't tune his feedback to who he's teaching (I love how gentle he is with kids and Parker for example), but he doesn't sugarcoat to spare people's feelings. He wants them to succeed, but he's not above knocking them out in the name of showing them proper technique to do so. We see this time and time again with his interactions with Hardison and Nate.

But what I do love is that both of them praise the crew ALL. THE. TIME. It starts as early as The Bank Shot Job where Sophie praises Parker's baby grifter attempts and obviously Eliot boosts morale through the entire original show. This carries all the way through Redemption, they really can't not hype their family up and it is so so fun to see. Especially considering that they probably didn't receive much positive validation in the years that made them great.

birdylion

I was rewatching Leverage and thinking about Schitt's Creek, and how Alexis used to end up in absolutely bonkers (and actually dangerous) situations in her teens

And now I'm imagining this crossover where team Leverage keeps meeting this independent teenager over and over again

Sometimes they help rescue her (whether she learna about this is or not is unclear), sometimes she is on the other side of the con and tricks them in a way so that only the people she was with at the moment are made, and she manages to walk away without consequence

She and Sophie don't get on at all, as Alexis lacks the appreciation for the fine art of a good con and lives just from day to day, but when it comes to grifting together (or against each other) they work really well.

I feel Nate would disregard her at first and be surprised when she, in the scenario where she hangs around the marks, throws off his whole planned con and he has to jump from plan C to plan K.

For Eliot and Parker, I feel their "protect helpless kids and teens" would kick in (depending on when they met her), but she wouldn't want to be mentored by them. She would 100% try to make avances on Eliot though.

Hardison would have her number within minutes of meeting her, not just because her online security and privacy is probably really bad, but also because there would be a lot that's publicly available about her family, which, together with the more private information he easily gets from her phone, paints a pretty accurate picture, I'd say.

In my mind they meet her several times across different cons, and at some point she ends up as an ally more often than not, more by chance than anything else. She might not even know them as anything else than thieves and grifters, because pre-Schitt's Creek Alexis probably wouldn't value what they do, and so probably not pay attention to that part.

There's no story behind this, nothing to build towards, and I think team Leverage would not help the Rose family after their manager betrayed them, because that's a 'normal' kind of misery that can happen to anyone rich enough to have others manage their money, and not systemic or especially vile like what their usual clients live through. But anyway I think this crossover would be fun.

teesadutta

Gems from Jimmy Kimmel's monologue

9.23.25

jayalaw

Okay, I admit these are good lines.

Stephen Colbert is next.

alanaisalive

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

iguanamouth

oh shit

alanaisalive

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

docd666

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

starlightshadowsworld

The highest honour truly.

theunmarkedtombstone

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (2011)

ladysantos

your loot or your life

for @scubaby!!

escuerzoresucitado

“I’ve been told by my producer not to do an impression of a peacock” 🦚

fred-the-dinosaur

i love her

xtinedancefit

Accidentally clicking on an AI assistant feels like clicking on a link that’s going to give you a virus.

bununiii

happy autism awareness day to all the girls who had “ friends” growing up who were actually bullying them . to the girls who always sat alone in the grass and wondered why nobody wanted to talk . to the girls who spoke to animals like they were listening . to the girls who created a little world in their room . to the girls who always felt ashamed for how deeply they love things and how passionately they enjoyed media . to the girls who covered their ears when they were overwhelmed by everything . to the girls who carrying a special thing around to feel safe . to the girls who never understood what they did wrong to feel so lonely . to the girls who were diagnosed later in life because they weren’t little boys who liked trains. you are so special and beautiful and you’re not worse for it, you love deeply and that is so wonderful please never try to push that down . I LOVE YOU !!!!!