*waves hands* leverage fandom, you may now spontaneously grow

[vanitashaze]

...Did it work? No? Drat.

Really, though, why not? This is a good show, people! It's kind of stupid sometimes, but that's okay. Think of all the fun toys we get to play with: Sophie, Parker, Hardison, Eliot, in fact, pretty much everyone except Nate, who's a bit tiresome with his epic angst but sort of essential when it comes to plot, so, damn, we're kind of stuck with him. Whatever. Less Nate-centric episodes, that's the spot - we've had approximately eleventy-bajillion since the first episode, compared to everyone else's two, except for poor Hardison, whom to my recollection got one, as it could be argued that The Mile High Job was centered around him. This is obviously a grievous error, as he is made of nothing but pure and unrefined awesome. Age of the geek, baby. *sighs dreamily* And Parker. Parker is also awesome. They make such an adorable fake FBI team.

Also, fandom, I demand girl!Eliot. Just so you know.

Comments

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

I... am not sure what to say. In fact, I do not think anything could be. Your mind is a strange place sometimes, my dear!

Ahahaha, sorry. I think the connection goes something like this: Christian Kane's hair! -> looks kind of like a pony's mane! -> horses, wild horses running free! With a possible detour to "What would Eliot look like as a My Little Pony?" ...then my brain cuts that chain of speculation off in self-defense. Though I think the Leverage team would make an adorable herd of My Little Ponies, hmm?

And yeah, they're totally sweet, which I think would weird Eliot out completely - you just know that after a week or month or whatever of Hardison and Parker he'd be going o.O; they just have that.... competitive edge. Geek vs Jock! Scientist vs Soldier! New school vs old school! Plus Parker to even things out - and laugh at their foolishness - because, you know, she is her own school, and right damn good at it.

YES. Awww, they'd all be so sweet together.

ijemanja's written some good Leverage! Here are two of my favorites: "Falling," (http://ijemanja.livejournal.com/109860.html?format=light) a Parker & Sophie gen short, and "the guys on hotwomenofcrime.net are never going to believe this," (http://ijemanja.livejournal.com/109606.html?format=light) a short take on Sterling's hilarious (and of course totally unrequited) crush on Parker.

against my better instincts, I seem to have started multiple comment threads on one post. Again.

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I wonder if futuresoon is watching Leverage yet, because that image there is an image begging for an illustration. Let's see, we have Alcoholic Pony, who bites - no comb has ever touched his mane - and Grumpy Pony, driven to violence by overgrooming... and European Pony, who you'd swear was a Thoroughbred, and Hacker Pony, who makes amusing comments if you pull his hind leg... and lastly the one only known as "Pony", the death of the My Little Pony franchise from lawsuits, because - they swear - blink and the damn thing's gone. Obviously defective, maybe it blows up. Because Little Ponies do not just vanish. Right?

I'm tempted to rename Nate's new apartment the Love Shack.

Speaking of hilarious, look what I found! Hardison/Eliot, who by sheer dint of title alone - the gloriously-named The Hole (http://darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com/326479.html) - I can forgive for lack of pairing originality (something about this fandom makes me want OT3s and really complex surprising pairings), and even more awesomely: TEYLA! (http://liviapenn.livejournal.com/549018.html)

Someone has to be here to laugh. I feel I'm the best laugher.

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

Parker/Hardison/Eliot and Maggie/Nate/Sophie are the only Leverage OT3s I feel enthusiastic about, but I agree, there are a lot of different interesting pairings available to fandom speculation, thanks to the relationship dynamics actually shown or suggested in canon!

with the exception of Nate and Sophie, the characters don't slow down very much, and their worlds are made of absolutes - while you could argue that the whole Robin Hood thing was for them an exercise in changing moral geographies, all of them are so set in their opinions that 90% of the time, it's not the world challenging those beliefs, but the characters challenging the world. Like, they already know which actions are right/wrong, and the only question is how they are going to go about taking those actions.

Right on. I guess what I look for in Leverage fic is a mix of character/relationship studies and (well-characterized) capers, in addition to my usual preferences; it's not a show for big ethical questions, and in that sense the potential scope is on a smaller scale for fic as well. And good comedy with plot can be tough to write, so I do value that when I find it, especially in Leverage caper fic. I can hardly think of any character-exploration Leverage stories I've admired, much less any about Sophie... and you're right, the possibilities suggested by the Sophie of "An Exercise in Friendship" are fascinating.

Yes! Napping = awwwww. It's kind of intimate without necessarily having romantic overtones.

You're absolutely right, your description of the Leverage My Little Ponies REQUIRES illustration!

I'm tempted to rename Nate's new apartment the Love Shack.

Ahahaha, awesome.

I enjoyed those stories when I first read them, and I enjoyed rereading! And oh, Teyla, of course you would totally pwn a mugger and Eliot. The details made it really believable! He's going to genuinely love having his ass kicked by Ronon, too. Well, not the ass-kicking per se, but learning new skills.

How's it goin' with The Sarah Connor Chronicles? I just watched a really great, brand-new video with spoilers for the whole series, so I want to point you to it when/if you're ready!