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parker and hardison genuinely make me feel so fucking feral. they literally makeout in season one but it doesn't make me feel anywhere near as crazy as their cheek kiss in the grave danger job. the nose touch when they're dancing in the queen's gambit job - pride and prejudice hand flex levels of insanity.

oh my god season four of leverage is fucking DIABOLICAL. how the fuck are you gonna open with the long way down job, and then hit with the van gogh job carnival job AND the grave danger job in just the first half ??? i swear to god i was shaking out of my skin all through the second half of the grave danger job. and where is aldis hodge’s oscar ??? the shaky voice the constant tears the frantic ripping at the inside of the coffin ?? i was literally holding my phone at arm’s length trying not to cry for him i swear.

i have to appreciate the directors here because i think they did a fantastic job focusing on harrison’s situation and really emphasizing the peril and dread the whole team was working through. the fevered search of the city, the awful moment when parker and sophie have to abandon their shovels and duck for cover, and harrison is left panicked and alone— that shit HURT y’all. it HURT. (i will say that the way the coffin was apparently uncovered off screen was a bit off— they only got a few shovels in before the guy started shooting, i thought, but oh well)

and obviously the hugging at the end. fuck kissing on screen hugging is where it’s at. eliot literally diving over gravestones to get to the coffin and pull hardison out and then clutching him like he’s trying to absorb the poor guy into his bloodstream ??? i will simply never be the same. and the perfect touch of beth riesgraf looking absolutely fucking devastated before turning away because she’s so so so wrecked about this but she’s not ready for that hug…. leverage writers need to square up because that was one fucked up episode and it also delivered on every characterization front ever. leverage is the gift that fucking giving y’all

So the thing is, I think that maybe I might be having feelings. Like weird, weird feelings for...pretzels.

Pretzels? Okay. Well, they're right here...when you want them.

most attractive image I’ve ever laid eyes on actually

parker telling hardison "you realise this isn’t going to be normal, right?" when their relationship is beginning, and him confirming that it works perfectly fine for him… the way she has to check, and the way he so quickly soothes any worries <33

Rewatching the Grave Danger Job and crying and like. even when Hardison gets out of the casket, he hugs everyone but Parker. (But especially that first with Eliot? Hardison is probably the most normal on the team when it comes to physical affection, while Eliot probably has the most violent history with it and yet, Eliot using that strength and intensity to embrace Hardison instead? And the way that Hardison has a death grip on Eliot, someone who has sworn his life to making sure that they're all safe, after going through the most harrowing experience in his life?) But my initial point, bc Parker still isn't ready for that. She's still learning how to let people in and let them see her and her care, and she already bared her heart earlier telling Hardison that she needed him. And how Hardison doesn't need the same hug from her like he does everyone else, but just her comfort however she can offer ("I need you, Alec," and the most desperate look in her eyes as she sees him, even though she takes a step back bc she still can't do it) and he respects it in even the most situations. Just. I love everything about this show.

PARKER & HARDISON Leverage (2008-2012) | Leverage: Redemption (2021-)

I never would have made it through that without you. You know that, right, Parker? Oh, that's not true.

They're a family, and they love each other your honor

Wow I didn't know Rolled Gold sold Parker x Hardison merch!

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there has never been and never will be any episode of any tv show ever as devastating as the van gogh job. i was in genuine tears over dorothy and charlie! real tears! (it doesn’t help the beth riesgraf and aldis hodge played both of their roles so well… devastating but genius choice by the directors)

see i didnt even cry when charlie left on the train— no, it was when they hit that shot of dorothy playing the organ after hiding the van gogh inside, then stashing all her money in hopes that her first love would come back. the thought ?? of her just waiting and waiting and never seeing him again ?? HEARTBREAKING. I WAS A WRECK. I DEMAND EMOTIONAL COMPENSATION FOR THIS EPISODE.

me omw to make everything i hear about them

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