First Rule Of Fandom Is Everything Goes Back To Destiel

Looks like Nana's going to have to make room for another member of the family next Christmas

okay no but now I'm really thinking about it, right

it's canon that Maggie had no idea IYS denied Sam's cancer treatment, that's the only reason she stayed friendly with Blackpoole. So au where instead of letting his life fall apart, putting together the team, and then taking down Blackpoole, Nate decides to echo current events and just. Fucking shoots his boss.

and Maggie has no clue why.

maybe he succeeds, maybe he doesn't, either way he goes to jail for this (he was not planning to get away with it). And Maggie's just lost her son, now her husband's an (attempted) murderer and in prison, she's on her own and has no answers for any of this.

So she goes looking.

she might not directly have Nate's contacts and experience, but he had to have talked about these cases, she knows who a few of these people are through him. But she also has her own connections through the art world - like, Parker and Sophie at least have to be talked about by appraisers, collectors, people who work with the things they steal. And she has Sterling, who while still probably not helpful for breaking the law at least likes her more than he likes Nate and might be able to get her some more information. Like why the fuck Nate did what he did.

And she's not a mastermind, she's not Nate's level of manipulative and three steps ahead of everyone else, but she doesn't need to be. She's smart and charismatic and quick to put pieces together (the fucking button camera scene). So. She figures it out.

And then she has to decide what to do about it.

She's not going to be able to exonerate Nate - he shot a man in broad daylight and fully admitted it. She might be able to break him out of prison if he's up for being on the run, but that's a matter of hot debate between the two of them right now. (She could totally do it, especially with the team, she and Sophie are just waiting for him to stop being overprotective.)

(side note: nate's face when he finds out his ex wife and international criminal not-technically-an-ex are running a team together while he's stuck in prison? priceless)

but what she can do is protect other kids like Sam. Seek out corruption, find the people being hurt, and with her team, stop the people responsible from ever doing it again.

she just needs to create a little bit of leverage.

this post was made unrebloggable, so im stealing it

John Rogers, co-creator + executive producer: "Look, if we told you Eliot's entire timeline or Nate's entire timeline, you wouldn’t be able to have then have enough flexibility to fold that timeline in with Supernatural in your fanfics because they'd be no space for that. The space we leave is the space for you to write your slash! That's super important for us to do! We do that for you, people! The fans appreciate the empty space we leave so you can write your Buffy, Supernatural, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Leverage crossovers."

Geoffrey Thorne, co-producer + writer of this episode: "But don't do any Doctor Who ones because…"

John: "You're writing those."

Geoffrey: "Just don't do it."

Chris Downey, co-creator + executive producer: "You've staked those out?"

John: "He's staked those out."

— Leverage 10 Podcast: 512 The White Rabbit Job

*Kung Fu Monkey blog: LEVERAGE #205 "The Three Days of the Hunter Job" Post-game (August 24, 2009) for the original "I think fanfic is the sign of a healthy show" short essay

Sophie: We can't leave. The Crown is still in the museum.

Eliot: No, Sophie. We gotta get you to safety.

Sophie: No. We know Wilde wants to take me down, but he wants to humiliate me by putting me in prison without the Crown ever having left the museum.

Parker: But if we find the Crown...

Sophie: We put it back. We turn Wilde's humiliation back on himself.

Eliot: Mm-hmm. Does anybody else think this sounds like a trap?

Harry: I do. I hate this idea. Sophie, let's go home. Let's regroup. Let's live to fight Wilde another day.

Sophie: No. We are taking Arthur Wilde down today.

L:R S2E13 The Crowning Achievement Job

24 page comic adaptation final: COMPLETE! Now I just have to print it tomorrow and everything will be peachyy

Edit: forgot to say this but this is an adaptation of a few chapters of the book Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore.

Second edit: I’m not actually going to continue drawing this… it’s a whole ass novel 😭

I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.

Eliot Spencer is: Looks like a cinnamon roll, is actually a cinnamon roll AND Looks like a cinnamon roll, could actually kill you AND Looks like they could kill you, could actually kill you AND Looks like they could kill you, is actually a cinnamon roll

Eliot Spencer is the cinnamon roll avatar, master of all cinnamon rolls. Pass it on.

In The Toy Job, at the very end, Sophie suggests they give each other trust for Christmas.

We hear Nate's story, the one about the trumpet, but then the episode ends and we never hear anyone else's story.

Are there any fics or even ideas or prompts about what the rest of their stories were?

I made another incorrect EPIC quotes comic! The general script idea came from reddit user Creative_Army1776