Yeah Zutara supreme 🫡🙏✨🔥🌊❤️💙✨

another reminder to stop buying/watching/reading anything JK Rowling associated

The Fellowship gets on the topic of their ages one night and Boromir comes to the dawning realization that he has absolutely no idea how old any of his companions are supposed to be at all

They really went there huh.

The Moon ✨🌙🩵

the thing about Leverage is that as a sort of monster-of-the-week show where the weekly monster is a particular type of Evil Capitalism Guy (gender neutral) from post-recession era America, if you grew up in this time then you're bound to eventually hit an episode where the Evil Capitalism Guy really strikes a nerve because you or someone you love was affected by that type of Guy, and you get absolutely furious and absolutely mark out for the Leverage crew lighting that motherfucker up. for me that episode was "The Future Job" where the Evil Capitalism Guy is a phony spirit medium and when Parker's first response to learning how she got cold read about her brother's death, something completely private and unspeakably personal, was that they should literally just kill him immediately, she was so correct actually.

Fascists ban books. They can't ban ideas.

Water is the element of change 🌊

Honestly the best piece of advice I can give to younger girls trying to figure life out is to completely ignore men. I’m not being quirky or cute when I say that, I mean it seriously. Ignore men’s judgments of you, ignore their insincere compliments, ignore their half-assed romance. Focus on developing yourself. Practice your art, play sports, do theater, volunteer, spend time with your friends, but do not put substantial effort into pleasing men. They’ll be there for you to pursue when the time comes and if you want to. But nothing will waste your youth more than fighting for male acceptance.

The Nigerian Job is such a special pilot to me. “THE Parker?” “Is there someone better?” “No, but Parker is insane”. “I don’t even know what it is you do” to “That’s what I do”. The OT3 elevator scene. Eliot helping to haul Hardison out of the warehouse before it explodes. Their mini-con escape from the hospital. “What’s in it for me?” “Payback, and if it goes right, a lot of money” “What’s in it for me?” “A lot of money, and if it goes right, payback” and “I was just gonna send 1000 porno magazines to his office but hell yeah”. The Sophie “this isn’t her stage” reveal. The bait and switch that they meant for Dubenich to know he was being conned. “It’s a walk away job” but none of them do. “So go find some bad guys. Bad guys have money.” It does so much good work to establish what this show and these characters could become without jumping the gun on making them get too close too fast.

Like, the thesis of the episode is Nate’s “You all know what you can do, but I know what you can do together” and it’s such a fantastic way to handle a pilot because it’s all about potential: we understand immediately that these people are already hyper competent, but by the end of the episode we see what they could become together too. It’s about showing you the tentative beginnings of this partnership and all the space it still has to grow.

oh fuck this is a really good hill i gotta die on this

I think that when we tell teenagers that their lives will be over if they don't have the most perfect possible trajectory through the education system, that this is, perhaps, if I may be bold, not good for them,

The thing about Leverage is it prioritizes what it takes seriously exactly right.

It's a fun, pulpy, goofy show but it has the most nuanced, thoughtful, and lasting character development.

A love story unfolds between a socially inexperienced thief and a hacker who doesn't hesitate in his willingness to be patient and understanding as she works out her unfamiliar feelings.

Wil Wheaton gets electrocuted and you can see his skeleton like a cartoon.

A grifter has an identity crisis and embarks on a lone journey of self-discovery, to return better and more certain of herself than before.

The team invents the Holodeck so they can hack into the dreams of off-brand Steve Jobs.

It's ridiculous. It's silly. It's brilliant. I've watched every episode over a dozen times.