Leverage + Marvel? Leverage in the Marvel universe kinda thing?

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Hardison has a rule that he will never, ever hack into any Stark Industries servers. He’s heard enough horror stories, thank you kindly. The only person who he knows of who ever got anywhere is this person with the handle J.A.R.V.I.S., but  he doesn’t know if that’s a rumour or not.

Nate knows every piece of art in the Stark-Potts collection and what it’s worth. He has retrieved at least four pieces. Pepper knows him by name. When he loses his job and Sterling takes over, Tony is like: why can’t we have the other one back? He’s an alcoholic? SO? I HAVE A BAR. HE CAN DRINK HERE. I DON’T LIKE THIS NEW ONE PEP.

Special agents Thomas and Hagen get assigned to SHIELD as FBI liaisons. SHIELD totally knows Parker and Hardison aren’t really FBI, but they know about Leverage and are like: eh, it’s fine, just keep them away from any alien stuff and don’t let them steal anything. 

(Also, I’m not saying Melinda May and Eliot may have had a fling in the past but Melinda May and Eliot may have had a fling in the past.)

Sophie once dated Tony Stark for a weekend. She wasn’t even trying to con him, she just saw an opportunity while conning someone else and was like: you only live once. She won’t tell anyone if she slept with him or not, just smiles mysteriously and says ‘he was a perfect gentleman… until I asked him not to be’. It drives Nate insane. (What she means is they went to get greasy burgers at an all-night diner after a gala, in their fancy clothes.)

Parker likes watching videos of Black Widow and seeing if she can replicate her moves. Eliot may have been a Very Willing Test Subject for the Death By Thighs move.

There is also a week where she decides she wants to be like Hawkeye. Nate has to ban sucker darts and toy bows before Eliot murders her. Or Sophie. Or Nate himself. Hardison is immune and probably builds her a sucker dart compound bow with laser guide.

Nate has Complicated Feelings about Captain America being back because Sam used to love the comics and he’s not sure if this guy is the real deal and will live up to the hero his son worshipped. 

Nate gets over himself pretty quickly when he sees Steve Rogers cuss out a Fox reporter who tried to stop him on the street to get him to condemn vaccines and universal health care. They watch the 25 minute lecture-rant at least three times as a team. Nate thinks he’d like to buy Captain America a drink.

Nobody mention the similarities between Eliot Spencer and Bucky Barnes, it will not end well. 

Especially when one time, Captain America and his buddy The Falcon showed up because they got a tip Bucky was ‘working at a brewpub in Portland’ and Eliot had to let him down that sorry, he was the only long-haired murderfaced assassin at this pub. He offered them dinner on the house and very manfully made it all the way to the back of the kitchen before doing a little freak out fanboy dance because he shook Captain America’s hand, Hardison, oh my god I’m going to feed him so much chili.

They have to distract Parker from trying to steal Sam’s wings. And make her give back Steve’s wallet. Twice.

The week Wakanda made itself known to the world is the week Hardison lost the ability to speak in anything other than high pitched squeaks of delight and awe. (Hardison literally faints when his online gaming buddy shows up at the brewpub like: what up, Hardison, guess who’s actually the princess of Wakanda and has a badass invisible ship.)

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actualaster:

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your intelligence means fucking nothing if youre devoid of empathy

Wrong!

Empathy isn’t needed to be a decent and caring person.

Empathy is actually feeling what another is feeling. Not everybody has the same level of empathy, and many neurodivergent people have low or no empathy, because that’s how their brain is wired.

Sympathy is feeling sorrow for the situation of a person, while not feeling the same emotions.

You can be highly empathetic while being a complete asshole because you can’t stand how you feel, or you can be really sympathetic without empathy because you care.

Yup. I am a highly empathetic person. I yawn when others yawn, I cry during sad (or even happy) movies and I experience secondhand embarrassment while watching sitcoms. This does not make me a decent person alone. This can even impair my ability to act rationally. I am quick to anger if others are angry and get scared when others are scared.

Being a decent human means being compassionate and sympathetic. Even if you don’t FEEL what others are feeling (empathy) you can understand what others are feeling (sympathy) and want to help them (compassion). All three can walk hand in hand or they can all walk separately. You can see someone crying in the street, not understand what they’re going through but still offer compassion and try to help them. You can also see someone upset ask what’s going on, and feel sympathy for their misfortune without extending a helping hand or getting upset too. And you can also see someone crying and be moved to tears yourself without understanding why or offering help.

Compassion, I’d argue, is more important. Taking action when you see others in distress is more important than feeling what someone else is feeling. Sympathy, as well, is more important than empathy. It’s more important to understand that someone is upset and why they are upset than to feel upset as well. Empathy is useful if you have it. You can more readily put yourself in someone else’s shoes which can inform sympathetic and compassionate decisions (i.e. “I see X crying because X got into a fight with their spouse. I can feel that feeling. I understand where the feeling is coming from and I feel that pain and because I feel that pain I want to help.”) but empathy is NOT necessary for making a compassionate decision.

It’s nice to have all three, it really is, because sympathy lets you provide support and understanding, empathy lets you feel another’s pain or joy and share in the experience in order to motivate compassion, which involved action being taken to help others in distress.

Empathy is great. To feel joy when others feel joy and to feel sorrow when others feel sorrow is a gift I enjoy because it helps me better provide support to my friends. But if I had to give up one of the three: empathy, sympathy, and compassion, then I would get rid of empathy because the other two are much more important to actually helping others. Feeling another’s emotions isn’t enough to help them.

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i wish all the (majority white) wlw/sapphic/lbt women blogs were as openly anti racist as they are anti twerf/transmisogyny, obvi this isnt every blog and we non-trans women need to do better for trans women in our community

Its so backhanded to write “ trans friendly” in your bio and then be a huge fucking racist on your blog, as if trans women of color arent more likely to receive racialized transphobic violence at the hands of white supremacy, and capitalism, there is nothing “trans friendly” about being a racist or letting racists come into our spaces

i just wish more white wlw were sticking there necks out for black and brown women by openly being anti racist/racism on their blogs, listening when we call them out on racism/antiblackness/cultural appropriation, donating and boosting our donation posts and supporting/uplifting our unique struggles

We (black and brown wlw) see who’s selfies you reblog, who’s donation posts you choose to boost, who you choose to follow, who you choose to uplift, love and advocate for

and its nobody like us

Do better

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