HEATED RIVALRY (2025−) 1.06 "The Cottage"
I love that Leverage really goes out of it’s way to show us that just because you break the ‘rules’, it doesn’t mean you’re breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think that’s the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.
#there was a time when parker wouldn’t have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)
Leverage hands down has the best character development I’ve ever seen.
This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc I’d had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).
But somewhere along the line they just… Disappeared. My mom says they’re not being paid and they’re not in collections. It’s almost as if someone out there did…exactly what Parker did.
Ever since I saw this the first time, I’ve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.
Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I don’t remember the exact process but basically there’s a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But it’s also entirely possible for people to just… buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that it’s possible to exploit it for good sometimes.
Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that he’d bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.
A charity where you can do this, right here.
Be Parker! Be somebody else’s Leverage!
Reblogging for the website.
yes! if you want to help with the medical debt crisis in the US and have some extra money please donate to RIP Medical Debt if you can. They’re completely legit and really do what they say - you really CAN relieve an incredible amount of debt for the needy with even a small donation. I’m a monthly donor and receive a quarterly report of the debt they’ve abolished, and it truly is amazing. Based on those reports the average amount of debt abolished per person is actually I would say about $600 - which means, if you’re doing the math, that with a $6 donation to RIP Medical Debt, you can potentially pull one person out of a poverty spiral - maybe even one family. For six dollars. that’s a pretty good deal, I think.
shane + relaxing into ilya's touch
for anon
outside of the obvious reasons why the hollanov relationship reveal must be crazy to shane’s parents, it’s gotta be wild to them that their shy, awkward kid is dating the league slut. their kid, who cannot even say the word “sex” without blushing, has been fucking a man whose sexual reputation is a topic of conversation. for a decade. they are in fact on a sexcation together. if you want to see them, you need to text them that you’re on your way there, because even if they know you’re coming in advance, they cannot keep their hands off of each other long enough to properly keep track of time. david hollander sees things start to heat up between them and knows instantly that they have probably fucked against every window in that extremely glass house.
idk i’m obsessed with how shane bringing ilya home is not just him coming out as gay, it’s him coming out as an experienced sex freak.
Tell me, what's your lofty mission in life that lets you sneer at my humble profession?
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952) dir. Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
SHANE & ILYA + parallels
at all times by queermccoy for @theweewooshow
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Evan "Buck" Buckley/Albert Han, Evan "Buck" Buckley & Albert Han
Characters: Evan "Buck" Buckley, Albert Han (9-1-1 TV), Howie "Chimney" Han, Maddie Buckley, Jee-Yun Buckley Han, Tommy Kinard
Additional Tags: Mentioned Firehouse 118 Crew (9-1-1 TV), Evan "Buck" Buckley/Tommy Kinard Get Back Together, Evan "Buck" Buckley & Albert Han Friendship, Hook-Up, Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, Shower Sex, Non-Penetrative Sex, intercural sex, Friendship
Summary:
"Were we dating?" [Buck] asked. "When we lived together?"
Albert's eyebrows shot up his forehead, handsome face—handsome!—screwed up. "I don't know, were we?"
The bar sounds fade away. It was just him and Albert left at their table; Hen and Karen left an hour ago, Eddie not long after. Ravi had dipped as soon as Hen had and Chimney and Maddie'd finally pulled themselves away about fifteen minutes ago. It was just Albert and Buck and suddenly it was very intimate.
Buck reached for his beer just to have something to do with his hands. Part of him wanted to kiss Albert just to see what he'd do.
Buck admitted, "kind of," while ducking his head sheepishly.
Albert nodded. He reached for his drink too. Just two guys drinking their beers, but Albert's body was angled towards Buck in a way that felt…open.
And. Well. Buck knew what to do with that.
or, Buck hosts an old friend
repeating this to myself forever and ever
ID: a digital drawing of a person crying at a laptop, with the words "just write it down!!!! you can make it good LATER!" with later underlined. an arrow labeled "(author tears)" points to the person's tears, and another to the laptop, labeled "(empty word doc)". end ID
i can be so normal about a large man
It feels as if you both are making a huge impact in dismantling toxic masculinity in the world, not just as your characters but as yourselves in interviews, as women we crave more men like you in the world what do accredit your nature to is from parenting, classes, media or a mixture of all of this.
My resolution last year was to do one thing before bed that would make my morning feel easier, and that’s become a daily habit that I’m carrying into this new year.
Some nights even filling up the kettle and setting an empty mug out for my morning tea felt hard. But I was always thankful for it in the morning.
Other nights, one thing would lead to another, and I’d wake up in a clean house with everything ready to go.
And, on a rare few nights, the one thing that I could do to make my morning easier was going straight to bed and allowing myself to rest.
What stayed the same each day is that I would take a moment to think of what I could do for my future self and do it, even after a hard day. And I would wake up knowing that I had done my best and any effort—no matter how small—was a kindness to myself.
I’ve been doing a lot of “a treat for future me” moments lately.
[image description: four panel art, by Anna-Laura. Each panel has text “a treat for future me” and drawings of a cat.
Panel 1: in bed, putting a glass of water on the bedside table.
Panel 2: folding up the laundry.
Panel 3: putting a note on a wall calender - “good job!” And a red heart emoji.
Panel 4: putting a coin into a savings jar.
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I know this has been said so many times in so many words but it is never any less infuriating that we never seem to have basic social services money but we always have fucking war crime money
fucking evergreen post I guess
For Week 2 of HBO WWII Rewatch Promts: Crash
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The difference is that jealous Ilya looks homicidal while jealous Shane looks suicidal
@raccoonboywrites coming correct as always
[image description:
Two photos each of Ilya and Shane. Ilya presses his lips together in anger and glares, respectively. Shane looks despondent and teary-eyed, respectively.
Screenshot of tags reads “yes except internally it’s the opposite. Shane is ready to commit arson and Ilya wants to through himself in front of a Zamboni”
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