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To describe Leverage it is a show where the bad guys are the best good guys you can get, where a team of criminals (a Mastermind, a Grifter, a Hitter, a Thief, and a Hacker) take down corrupt CEOs and political figures in elaborate and entertaining schemes to help people who don’t have the leverage. Eliot is the team Hitter, his job is to punch, get punched, and protect his team. He also has my favorite recurring bit in the whole show. He also is an amazing chef who loves to cook. The whole show is free on YouTube. If you or anyone else is intrigued, here is the first season

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3qfLe7m3vDuqMa4EVXNyK6qXsn76mGjG&

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Joseph Cheng (The Double-Edged Sword Job) VS Travis Zilgram (The Experimental Job)

Propaganda:

Joseph Cheng: Invented an AI that could identify people from just a fraction of their face, could "predict" crime, and could notify police officers of the location of anyone suspected of a crime. Also put those trying to escape abusive cop ex-partners in serious harm.

Travis Zilgram:

Long version: Rich asshole college student who offered homeless veterans a chance to make $50 a day if they underwent an experiment to live in basically a prison for a week with extremely loud music, below 0 temperatures, a professionally trained interrogator, and guards with tasers. He caused a man to have a heart attack and then threw his body in the river. Also made Hardison run around campus in his underwear and arranged for one of his goons to kidnap him and hit him with a stick.

eliott: i have a tragic history being entangled in the mafia and even now i could kill the most dangerous fighters without firing a gun

You have Parker, who has been designated as bad and wrong since she was a very young child and who has let go of any expectation of being anything else, so that identifying and doing what she thinks is the right thing is consistently an overwhelming and scary experience for her;

Then there's Eliot, who can point to exactly when and how he became irredeemable in his own eyes and whose highest ambition now is to do the wrong thing for the right people this time at least;

Nate, who is clinging to all of these ideas about morality and legality and good and bad that are completely inconsistent both internally and with his behavior, because his very normative view of the world was shattered and he never put the pieces back together in any kind of coherent way;

Sophie, who sees right and wrong as primarily about relationships between people, like she does everything else: right and wrong is in how you engage and who you hurt interpersonally, anything more abstract is irrelevant. But within that, there's also this weight to how she engages, this sense of regret at how she's treated people in the past that we never really see the full scope of;

WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS MY FAVORITE TELEVISION SERIES OF ALL TIME (it's not out yet)

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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Hey, so many of you are familiar with fix-it fanfiction, the superglue which holds together the hearts canon has shattered, right? Well, I have a point to make. As of right now (1-28-2020), there are 6,659 fanfictions in the Leverage category on AO3. You know how many of those are fix-it fics? 25. A measly 0.38% of Leverage fanfiction is tagged as fix-it. For comparison, 2.20% of MCU fanfiction and 1.25% of Supernatural fanfiction are fix-its.

So yeah, Leverage is so amazing that hardly anything needs to be fixed. But we already knew that. No, it gets better. Of those 25 fix-it fanfictions, 16 (64%) of them are actually fix-its for OTHER fandoms. Leverage has been used in fix-its for White Collar, The Walking Dead, Coupling (UK), The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Kings, Person of Interest, Pacific Rim, Once Upon a Time, The Losers, Merlin, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the actual 2016 US election (yeah, that).

Darlene Wickett (The Grave Danger Job) VS Carl Bishop (The Golf Job)

Propaganda:

Darlene Wickett: Scams users of her funeral home out of their money as well as takes their deceased loved ones' identities to use for identity fraud, sells those identities to the cartel, and to top it all off, instructed the cartel to bury Hardison alive.

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