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The Librarians and leverage are literally the same thing except one has magic
#it’s got like the same cast too#having feelings because I watched the librarians years ago#and I just watched leverage but I already miss it so instead of rewatching it#I’m watching the librarians#probably will fill the Eliot spencer shaped hole in my heart#I just vaguely remember the red head doing the numbers think I wish I could do#and the thief guy totally being in love with Christian kanes character#also know as Eliot spencer#oh I feel like I should tag this#leverage#the librarians
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Eliot ensuring the girls know how to defend themselves. (And them proving that they can!)
Leverage S02E02/S04E05/Redemption S01E16/S02E03.
#leverage#leverage redemption#eliot spencer#parker#sophie devereaux#breanna casey#alec hardison#nate ford#you know he's trained the guys too of course#nate hardison and harry all throw a decent punch#but you can tell he's so proud of the girls when they get it right#i mean look at him in that 4th gif!#AND he also gives them the confidence to stand up to those trying to intimidate them#proven by breanna in the card game job with 'touch me and you'll be singing soprano'#he's made sure that everyone is able to hold their own even if he's not there#and that's something beautiful#don't mind me i'm having feelings about eliot spencer#and oops i wrote a thesis again!#ghostly'sgifs
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okay I’ve seen a lot of posts about sterling just being crowley and. guys. the implications just hear me out 😭😭😭
bending lore slightly here BUT let’s say crowley’s body was once inhabited by a human and crowley is possessing the body (maybe he kills the initial inhabitant bc he doesn’t care)
but he still has the guy’s memories. he doesn’t bother keeping up appearances with his ‘ex wife’ because he is too busy building up his hell empire. BUT for some reason he can’t quite identify, he still feels something towards his ‘daughter’. he lets the divorce happen and doesn’t feel the need (or desire) to fight for custody, but he can never quite forget her, to cast her out of his mind for good
some hijinks ensue with the leverage team. it’s mostly because even a grind culture demon wants some off time every once in a while, and for him the insurance investigator stuff is more of a hobby. interacting with the leverage crew is very low stakes for him, and honestly, quite amusing. they aren’t on his level power-wise, but that ford character gives him the mental exercise he hasn’t experienced in, well, he can’t even remember
he can feel their frustration and anger when they learn he has become employed by interpol and feeds off it. it’s great, and relaxing in a way he is never able to achieve while conducting hell-related business
one year he gets wind that olivia is in a really bad situation associated with his ‘ex wife’s’ new husband. he’s selling vital hardware to terrorists, and while that might actually be the kind of chaos he would normally support or be entertained by as the king of hell, something feels wrong about letting olivia stay anywhere near that man
he calls upon the body’s adversaries. he wouldn’t admit it, even under duress, BUT he feels slightly fond of them. nate for the three dimensional chess they play, sophie for her ability to charm and disguise, parker for her chaos and slightly unsettling nature (it’s the autism swag and being bad with human interaction but he doesn’t know that lol), hardison for his unapologetic intelligence and eliot for his hardened violent past and take-no-shit persona (he’s fun to tease)
they perform exactly as he expected, right into his carefully crafted plan. and then olivia is under his care and things get more complicated. he keeps her FAR, FAR away from anything related to the supernatural (heh). no one can find out about her, ESPECIALLY not those imbecile hunter brothers (if for nothing else than the embarrassment in revealing he has a weak spot)
not sure how to work it into this post but I also want to add that somewhere along the way he develops feelings for nate and sophie. the frame up job is near and dear to my heart and you can’t convince me that isn’t fighting as flirting behavior. his interpol persona is more of a side hustle so to speak, but he finds it fun (relaxing, even) to fill that role. there aren’t any obligations of other demons, bothersome hunters, or anything like that. nate and sophie are low stakes, except, they aren’t, really. they make him feel things he can’t ever really remember feeling. his heart beats fast when sophie sat in his lap and cradled his face, his hands sweat when nate gives him that certain smug look. he’s exasperated by the way they can run circles around him like no one else has ever before. they annoy him and get under his skin in a way no one else can and it’s infuriating. but also not, at the same time. maybe he likes it
and then the long goodbye job happens
hear me out and suspend your belief here for a second, because I can’t remember if crowley supernaturally knows when ppl die/are dead or not.
so nate is in interpol custody and the interviewer is obviously out of her depth. (most people are, when it comes to nathan ford.) he walks in and pours the man a drink, but he’s fuming. somewhere along the way he came to care about the team. hell and suffering is literally in his (official) job description, but he can admit (only to himself) that he admires what they do. it’s not for him, not anything close to where his passions and interests lie, but he respects their drive and purpose. he is also aware enough to acknowledge that they are a family, a group of misfits that never belonged quite anywhere except to each other.
and nate fucking blew it up, ruined it, because his vice is being so obsessed with the end game that he is apparently willing to let his team, his family, the people that anchor him to reality, die because the ends supposedly justify the means.
not this time. not to sterling crowley
he is enraged. he can admit within the confines of his mind that he cares for nate, for sophie, even for the other three (though nate and sophie have somehow made it a hierarchy where they are more important to him. which he will dissect later in private. maybe.)
nate let them die, he let sophie die, and for what? the black book? hell below, crowley would have made things easier somehow, if he knew that this was where nate’s sights had lied. he would have prevented this somehow. he wants to have prevented this. he doesn’t want any of them dead and is too afraid to check and verify because that would make it real. the idea of sophie (or any of them) somehow making it to hell instead of heaven would probably break something in him he might not be able to reapir fully.
he yells at nate- he’s angry. hellfire burning in his heart because everything is ruined. the deaths aside (however hard it is to set them aside in his mind), nate will not recover from this, not ever. this will be the start of the end, he is sure. a miserable, guilt-ridden existence where he drinks himself to death and nothing will save him. it plays out in crowley’s mind in a thousand different ways that are beyond painful to conceptualize, even in theory.
the story starts to unravel and there is a game afoot. a solemn, miserable, infuriating game because the con is still in session because parker is alive and in the building- which sets another fire alight in his chest. ‘parker even know you got hardison killed?’ he rages for her grief when she finds out. he knows it will double when she finds out eliot has perished, too, because he isn’t fucking blind.
but nate is a brilliant man, lest he forget too quickly. they are all alive, and somehow still the entire crew slips through his fingers. he’s not even angry (he never would have been- he doesn’t actually try too hard to catch them. it’s about the game, not the consequences). he lets them keep the black book because he’s fucking exhausted and honestly, they more than earned it.
‘now we’re even. tell sophie to drive carefully’. they will never be even, not really. crowley would never admit or agree that being human is the superior state of being, but that have made him feel human in a way he doesn’t actually mind. they keep him on his toes and match him in a way unique to them, they remind him that there are other things than the realm of hell. not necessarily bigger than hell, but maybe just as important in a different sense.
watching the van drive away, something inside him settles. when he walked into the interrogation room that day he thought this was the beginning of the end. it’s not the end at all, not an end to anything. it’s a continuation of their story. maybe, he thinks, a beginning to a new era in it
#before anyone says anything YES I KNOW HOW SPN LORE WORKS I WATCHED IT FOR MANY YEARS#I am just making this silly post for my own (and possibly your) amusement#I’m not digging too heavily into spn plot because I haven’t watched in forever and don’t trust my memory to make accurate commentary lol#also I know it’s probably layed but lied looked better somehow don’t worry about it#sorry this is so long I wasn’t sure where to break it to a read more bc all of it was too important to me 😭💀#tell me in the comments if you’d prefer a read more and where you think it should go#I haven’t been into spn for years HOW DOES THIS AU HAVE SUCH A CHOKEHOLD OVER ME#eliot spencer#parker#alec hardison#leverage ot3#parker x hardison x eliot#(background)#nate ford#sophie devereaux#jim sterling#nate x sophie#nate x sophie x sterling#crossovers#leverage x spn#leverage x supernatural#supernatural#crowley spn#crowley supernatural#crowley#leverage#mine#not even queueing this I need it posted immediately. instant gratification#pls like rb comment etc I need the validation#I ended up putting a read more for the long goodbye job
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Okay- but...
Has anyone else noticed that at least with Dean Devlin- Christian Kanes characters all have some sort of ties to each other?
I mean:
Eliot Spencer; A military bred, mercenary trained, with multiple aliases- with a specific skill set, con-artist.
Jacob Stone; An art historian, with multiple aliases, genius brain, eidetic memory (?), librarian.
Alex Walker; con-artist, with multiple aliases, an eye for detail, retired giftshop owner.
The characters might not be the same but there still enough for them to be long lost triplets or something.
#leverage#the librarians#almost paradise#eliot spencer#jake stone#alex walker#at least in the dean delvin universe christian kanes characters all have to have multiple aliases#does anybody else find that odd?#almost like they want to do a crossover#long lost triplets#yes I know I'm stretching#but come on#your gonna tell me eliot jake and alex all have particular skills that#and not think they're related?#im also well aware that they are played by one actor#just-work with me here#mini rant about christan kane#this is what I get for trying to come up with a crossover
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My sister pointed this out to me a few months ago and ever since then I can't unsee this, so now neither will you!
In the Leverage: Redemption intro, the team gets their little introduction in the form their face and a silhouette of them showcasing their skills.
All of these silhouettes are obviously the actual actors ....
.... Save for Parker!!!
WHYYY?!?!?!
Did Beth just not want to slide down a rope and have that turned into a silhouette of Parker doing her thing? Did she just really want a little very obviously fake cartoon version of herself instead??? Why was this a decision that was made when they have soooo much footage of Parker doing her thing?? It wouldn't have been hard!
Anyway. Now you know. If this keeps you awake at night like it sometimes does me ... I am in no way responsible. My sister @vampiritea is. Blame it on her.
#leverage#leverage redemption#parker leverage#sophie devereaux#eliot spencer#breanna casey#harry wilson#my posts#my gifs#sestra#parker#beth riesgraf#seriously cannot stop thinking about this and it's doing my head in#if anyone knows the answer PLEASE TELL ME#also this is my first time making and posting gifs so let me know how they go!#lr gifs
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There's something so funny but so very sad at the same time about Eliot playing any cop/"patriot" like a fiddle every time. He knows exactly what kind of patriotic mumbo jumbo is gonna get them, and he knows that because he was that soldier. He was the good soldier who fell for all that propaganda and got burned... badly
#leverage#eliot spencer#he's such a tragic character#i love him#I also don't really know how intentional this is but kane plays him really good in all these little moments#same bitterness and hollowness as soon as the mark turns their head as when he seduces a mark#👀#the radio job#leverage redemption
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...i'm sorry but. are you saying that. ART. provided. leverage??
i have another crew it might be interested in. it and bot both, actually.
#network effect#martha wells#network effect spoilers#murderbot spoilers#listen i know i'm a book behind but give me this please#murderbot#art#leverage#but gosh can you imagine#eliot and bot commiserating over security concerns and people not following the damn protocols#eliot and bot throwing each other at their problems faster and harder and hanging on longer about it as an Entire Fighting Style#HARDISON AND ART#SPECIFICALLY 20-SOMETHING-YO HARDISON WHO'S BRILLIANT AND BASICALLY ADOLESCENT HUMAN AND ART!!!#also i feel like parker would have fun exploring art's vents#i want bot and parker to meet also#eliot spencer#alec hardison#parker#i don't want to think about what nate and art would accomplish together lmao#sophie and art taking EXCELLENT care of their crews and manipulating the shit out of everyone#this is page 188 of network effect in hardback btw
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Okay so I'm stepping out of my fandom lane a tad here because I just watched the season 2 finale of Leverage: Redemption and had some thoughts and feelings about Eliot Spencer as concerning the concept of "redemption" and whether you CAN be "redeemed" for certain things or not and how you can live your life if you can't.
Eliot in this latest episode says point blank that he cannot and will never be redeemed for some of the things he's done in his past. We as the audience have never really been told all of what he's done, we've been given bits and pieces every so often, just enough to perhaps lead us to our own conclusions of what he might have done, but it's never been spelled out. Which is fine, it actually increases the impact of what it is he may have done in his past if it's left in the shadows, just ambiguous enough for the audience to insert their own worst nightmares to fill in the blanks.
But what he also says is that he's made his peace with the fact that he'll never truly be redeemed for what he's done, he's okay with that. Because while he's alive, he can make himself useful to genuinely good people. He can help these other people who have also chosen to be better and have perhaps FOUND whatever redemption they may have needed at doing good for innocent victims in the world. He can take the skills he once only used to hurt people and instead use them to help people, to bring them peace and comfort and joy. He can DO GOOD THINGS, he can even do them for the rest of his life, but there's never going to be a count of people he's helped, lives he's saved, that will undo the hurt he's done or the lives he's TAKEN. Nothing will give those people back their lives, nothing will give their loved ones back that person they lost, he can't give back the time he stole from them.
Eliot can be loved, both by people who knew him before and people who know him after. Eliot can be a wonderful person that the audience roots for and adores. Eliot is not toxic or unreasonable or selfish in any of his relationships. But he can't be redeemed for what he's done, and THAT'S OKAY. Nothing about Eliot being a good person requires his redemption and I think that sometimes redemption gets confused with that. The person Eliot is saying all of this to in this particular episode tries to reassure him that of COURSE he's also been redeemed, but he's not saying he's not currently a good person who is doing good things. He's not saying that he isn't a better person than he was before or that the good choices he's making now don't matter. He's just recognizing that he's done enough evil in his life, enough objectively horrific things for objectively horrific and selfish people, that cannot be undone.
Most of the other characters in this show have been selfish, yes, have hurt people and done bad things, but as far as I remember none of them have KILLED anyone. And this show, via Eliot, places that as an ultimate evil beyond redemption. The other characters can find redemption by using their criminal skills to help the disenfranchised who are being abused and taken advantage of by the system. They could potentially even try to help some of the people they've hurt in the past, undo some of the damage they've done. Eliot can't. Which means there's no redemption to be found when there's not even any amends he can make for his choices in the past, there's no one left to make amends to.
And I LOVE Eliot, Eliot is brave and smart and funny and kind and great with kids and sensitive and loving. He's a brilliant cook who uses food to show people he loves them, he's an unparalleled fighter who refuses to use guns because of how lethal they are, he's an insanely observant person with a ridiculously good memory, he's stubborn and protective and understanding. Eliot is a wonderful person and a wonderful character.
And he CANNOT BE REDEEMED. There is NO redemption for Eliot Spencer because there are things he's done that cannot be undone, and THAT'S OKAY.
#leverage#leverage redemption#eliot spencer#being unredeemable does not necessarily mean they can't be BETTER#being unredeemable does not necessarily mean they can't be a GOOD PERSON#but choosing to make better choices and be a better person also does not automatically make them redeemed#if what they've done is pretty objectively and irrevocably evil#i'll put this in the tags because i'm tagging this with leverage's tags but y'all know this is about anakin#anakin cannot be redeeemed#he'll never truly find redemption even if he survived
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Okay the montage of the leverage crew removing obstacles as an oblivious Jenna walks up to Hogan's office and tries to crack the safe is hilarious
"How random is that?" Lol
#s2 ep11#leverage#eliot spencer#parker#leverage redemption#watching leverage redemption#e's endless rambling#also i high key love jenna and keith#and i adore them joining leverage international#without even knowing that they just did that lol#also wow breanna sounds so good
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*gesturing at Zoro One Piece* basically he's like if a Christian Kane character were nineteen years old. and an idiot.
#it's eliot spencer but also not JUST eliot because watching librarians today i was STILL struck by the overlap in vibes#short fuse. protector brain on overdrive. thinks stupid things are cool. violence enjoyer. thrives in a group setting. bickering#with the key difference that zoro would not know a 15th-century folio or whatever if it bit him in the face#he has NO intellectual interests
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so help me I've been thinking again about eliot and shame and moral injury and how healing from that means doing good things to sort of shift your centre of gravity towards something more wholesome and it's making me very, very soppy about every time eliot gets to use his skills - honed through war and murder and I don't like to speculate what else - to help people, and maybe gets to feel a little warm about it, or maybe just gets to sleep a little easier at night, his heart less of a clenched fist inside him.
#orig#leverage#eliot#eliot spencer#yes this is about the first time he says ''we'd be the cavalry.'' yes I played that bit three times. head in hands.#I write a character who has a very visible scar as a reminder of something they did Right and it's very reassuring for them#to be able to just touch their face and feel it and know that was real#and it's less concrete for eliot but I like to think that he just runs through the recent memories when he has to#when he's being haunted by old ghosts and yeah he deserves that but he also needs to be rested to be useful tomorrow#the inherent angst of eliot spencer I have missed this
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Eliot taking out his ponytail.
Leverage S02E10 The Runway Job/Leverage Redemption S01E16 The Harry Wilson Job.
#leverage#leverage redemption#eliot spencer#christian kane#you know#there are some things that just need to be giffed#purely for science purposes of course#also includes bonus parker#a treat for everyone#ghostly'sgifs
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silly episode idea but hear me out
okay well the first part isn’t silly! so the episode is based around a con they are doing where a polyam triad wants to get married and have been writing to senators and stuff for years but nothing has happened. maybe there is a time element that leeway has to happen soon (not sure what that would be yet, maybe someone is sick???)
(obviously polycules aren’t only and are often more than just a closed three-person system, but I’m saying triad right now bc I feel like that would be an easier and more ‘socially acceptable’ gateway into more accepting legislation for diverse relationship dynamics)
the leverage crew, of course, can’t outright change the public perception of poly marriage, but they can use the ‘enemy’s’ tactics against them and slip stuff into legislation without people noticing like they do. it’s slimy and it’s not a permanent fix, but it’s a start, and it gives people the opportunity to see poly marriage in action and that it isn’t as terrifying or pearl-clutching-inducing as they think it would be. there’s a long way to go, but the seeds of change have been sown and they will make sure everything goes as smoothly as possible
this is one of the cases that they will monitor on the back burner over time. some cons can finish within a few hours (the bottle job), and some things they will follow over time and make adjustments when needed- amplify voices and expose corrupt politicians etc
and then it’s just after 3/4 of the way through but the con has been finished? what is going on? this is where the silliness comes in
the camera turns to the ot3 and…
hardison, pulling out three individualized rings: I know it’s not legal yet, and we have the necklaces, but I think rings would be a nice touch
eliot, pulling out an intricately carved box that also has three self-handcrafted rings: dammit hardison (with feeling and tenderness, and damp eyes)
parker, pulling out three very stolen rings from her pocket: does this mean we’re getting triple married if we all have three rings???
harry pops into the conversation (practically vibrating) excitedly just casually mentioning that he’s a notary and would be honored to marry them to each other if they wanted to
(they do)
wait, did I say silly? I meant unwaveringly tender and heartwarming
#this started out as a funny proposal headcanon but it just turned into sweet and cute#I had a version where eliot proposed first and then hardison went to get his but parker pickpocketed him#but this is more sweet#I know she loves pickpocketing but I feel like she wouldn’t take that moment away from him if she thinks it matters that much that way#but also. have you considered it would be hilarious#and omg they have such a good wedding!!! so many people invited!!! sophie has a ball organizing it#(hardison and eliot get veto power of course. parker does too but she only really cares about the cake. as long as she has her boys and her#family she’ll be happy with whatever the wedding looks like. eliot though has Thoughts on catering & hardison stresses about color schemes)#breanna and harry kick their feet and giggle like schoolgirls they are SO HAPPY the ot3 gets their moment#they have been (quietly) (unsuccessfully) shipping them for forever this is VINDICATION#I should link the post about who is invited to the ot3 wedding (list ever expanding)#I’m literally posting this at midnight but I didn’t want to schedule or queue it. I want it out now. instant gratification babey#eliot spencer#parker#alec hardison#leverage ot3#parker x hardison x eliot#leverage#leverage redemption#episode ideas#fic ideas#I know I’ve written a proposal post/ficlet before but I was too lazy to find it#polyamory#ot3 marriage#marriage#weddings#harry wilson#thiefsome#hitter hacker thief#mine
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both Eliot Spencer and Jacob Stone are nerds. Evidence:
Jacob has an iq of over 190
Eliot has an encyclopedic memory
Jacob reads art portfolios in his spare time
Eliot brainstorms new meal plans for the brewpub
Jacob speaks 9 languages and reads in 12 more, including Greek
Eliot did extensive research into the existence of extraterrestrial life in case he has to one day fight aliens
these boys are fucking nerds and both of them would rather get socked in the balls than admit it
#eliot specifically would never admit it#he's too macho to be a nerd#that's a crown for hardison to wear#jacob may be less insulted by it but he'd also never admit it out loud#but inside he knows the truth#these boys be nerds#eliot spencer#jacob stone#leverage#the librarians
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Well here's to the long way down job hitting violently in the feels again 🥲
#the long way down job#im in pain#one of the best episodes ever tbh#PARKER#and eliot of course#i just love love love their dinamic so much#also the way eliot doesnt hesitate (1) second to throw the notebook away just to get that knife away from Parker's throat???#AAAAH#😭#i mean i know the had the video but he at least could have sold it a bit better#nah-ah#he doesnt take any chancez#leverage#parker#eliot#eliot spencer
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I think there's something wrong with my sense of morality or. something like that?
just watched the scene where Eliot said the others are all redeemed and he isn't and never will be and I just. I know what he means/what the writers meant and all, obviously, I understand that.
but I guess I just don't understand the whole idea of redemption (and forgiveness too) in the first place
like. I don't know? I don't get it. doesn't make sense. you're doing good things now, you clearly have an understanding of what's right and wrong, you help people because you want to help people. that's good. and you're clearly aware that what you did in the past was not good. why does any of the rest matter?
like no dude Nate of all people definitely was not a better person than you? okay yeah you killed people but he was just shit all around. I don't know.
#like. it's not that I think 'oh it's fine that he's killed a bunch of people! he's a good boy it's okay!' but it's. irrelevant at this#point in time? it just doesn't matter#like the past is. the past#and it's not now and it's not happening anymore and you made the choices you made in the past but now you're making different ones and it's#just. fine? it's irrelevant. I don't know how to explain it I think I'm just an idiot lol#I don't know. these things always seem so simple to me so I must be missing like a huge thing that just makes it more complicated#and it makes me feel like maybe I'm a bad person?#it's not like I forgive him for what he's done. because that's also irrelevant. it doesn't matter. it's over it's done it's the past and#that's that#like the fact that he realised it was wrong and admits it to himself and others is what matters? he's changed. he's making different choices#and that's the important part?#but anyway maybe I shouldn't talk about this. people usually seem to think it's weird when I do so I'm gonna shut up#leverage redemption#eliot spencer
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