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LIFE is conspiring against me for writing Treats this year, last night Bunny was up to early season 5 Leverage which has some of the best eps of the show. so of course I had to stay and watch with her - the one about the 1970s hijacker where they all get to play 70s characters, the one which his pretty much all Parker with a gammy leg foiling a crime while stuck in the office on top of the bar and my FAVOURITE episode ever, where Hardison, Parker and Eliot foil a terrorist plot cos that ep is all about loyalty and trust and love. I posted a few screencaps a couple of years ago when LJ still used to let me upload pics (the first half dozen here

Ha, during the best scene where Eliot has hold of the back of Hardison's neck and is intently telling him that he is the smartest man he has ever met etc, there was a mozzie or something and Dragonfly and Bunny got distracted and were talking and I was completely reasonable and only shouted at them a little bit to shut up and now we have to rewatch the whole scene, SHHHH.



And then my bestie who reads all my fics for characterisation even when she doesn't know the fandom told me that my ending on my Sense8 fic needed a lot of work so I ended up staying up stupidly late and have had four hours sleep and i really don't want to cycle to the station today (it's only 5kms) but i piked the last couple of days because after our mild and windy weekend Monday and Tuesday were 39 degrees each, and now it's fallen back to the 20s, so no excuse. Haven't even walked the dog cos she's been limping - Dfly is taking her to the vet today.

I am tired enough that I nearly didn't bother trying to find a last minute characterisation/plot beta but I really like to try to make my fics as good as they can be so I have emailed the few people on the yuletide beta list who offered Sense8, see if any of them have nothing better to do on Christmas - if not, I tried :)

off to work now. on my bike. *cries*

Watching Leverage. Leverage is awesome.

Sophie - Harrison, you've pulled a hundred successful cons.
Harrison - yeah, stereotypes! Nigerian princes, Saudi billionaires, British people...no offence.

Ha, we just had an awesome supporting character being incidentally gay.

Also, I ship Parker/Hardison SO HARD. If I weren't on the iPad right now I'd be forced to spend the rest of the night making an epic picspam of how adorable they are together but instead I will just nostalgically link to a pimp picspam I did years ago http://sarren.livejournal.com/420027.html#cutid1


oh, ha, now they've infiltrated a company pretending to be efficiency experts except there's a documentary crew filming at the same time. This is GOLD.

I am enjoying Leverage and Warehouse 13. Both shows' charm comes from engaging characters learning to trust and depend on and care about each other, which is pretty much all I need to make me happy.

Only other thing I'm watching is Lewis, whenever I go over to ravenclaw_harpy's place. She has LURED ME into the fandom. She is SNEAKY like that.

( A few Lewis piccie links and random burbling )

Leverage, for all your gen, het, slash and threesome needs....



Leverage is about an alcoholic ex-insurance investigator who reluctantly finds himself leading a team of thieves and con-artists whom he once chased, to now HELP people.

What *I* love about this show is the way this group of loners come to trust and care for each other. YES I AM A COMPLETE SAP.

Also it is fun. And funny!


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I haven't found much Leverage fic, but most of them are linked to in this rec post.
Most awesomely, the Odd Jobs series, starting with adorable 'The Underwire Job' where Parker asks a terrified Eliot for advice on how to date Hardison, and continues with 'The Cat Burglar Job' which is AWESOME, plot-driven team being protective of Parker fic, which I would have been completely happy with to remain gen, but comes with bonus OT3 cuteness. There's been two more in the series since that rec list - they're easy to find.

There are a lot of Leverage songvids on youtube - I'm kinda Parker focussed.

For a not particularly episode spoilery FUN Parker songvid - I Want the Money

Angsty Parker songvid, very spoilery for one particular episode - Into the Light