Looking for a path

with friends at my side

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animate-mush:

Okay but you COULD do a Dracula episode of Leverage and it would be hilarious.

I would do it like this. We’d have some wrong place wrong time protagonist called Jonathan who keeps accidentally witnessing parts of the con in such a way that they appear to him to replicate the events of Dracula. Like, the crew has inhabited some castle but Oh No, the mark’s innocent little lawyer man is here, can’t let him catch on

  • Sophie yeets the mirror because our friend Jonathan is about to accidentally see the crew hard at work behind him and she panics. “Oh you don’t need this honey” or whatever (something something man’s vanity)
  • He happens to open the window and Parker is just climing the castle like a lizard because that’s. What she does
  • Nate is in an Old Guy disguise for one part of the con, but then Jonathan Not In On It happens to see him out of costume and WTF WTF WHY IS HE GETTING YOUNGER
  • Letters with fake dates make perfect sense when it’s a con
  • Gets home happens to see the Leverage crew just walking around for the next part of the con, freaks tf out
  • Quincey Morris is exactly the kind if character Eliot would play
  • Sophie gets made, decides to have an elaborate Death Scene wherein Elliot and Hardison (as a “definitely licensed doctor”) “help” the Mark try to “save” her
  • Parker plays Hardison’s “assistant” but she plays it very VERY Renfield. Jonathan swears he can see her eating bugs (maybe it’s a com that she panics and pretends to eat to not give away the game)
  • Poor Jonathan again sees her up and about post death scene and is like WTF WTF WTF
  • Eventually they cotton on to what has happened and Elliot (who hasn’t been made yet) promises to help Jonathan kill the vampire once and for all
  • All of their aliases are drawn from Dracula and this is not played as intentional in-universe

Anyway, the whole thrust is that it’s a perfectly normal Leverage episode except for one guy who, due to an increasingly unfortunate series of coincidences, believes he is in the novel Dracula. Like Rear Window, only it’s Leverage Dracula.

I love this so much

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petrareads:

petrareads:

okay new poll!! make the perfect YA novel with me

political unrest

lesbians

bow and arrows

supernatural creatures

characters who don’t know how hot they are

characters who are hot and boyyy do they know it

found family

dragons

completely under qualified chosen one(s)

training montages

sympathetic villainy

a side character who is actually the love of your (the readers) life

alright alright I know no one likes reblogging polls, but please at least like the darn thing so the algorithm might send it to for you pages

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I love being an elementary school librarian because of those moments when… (Part 1/?)

intothestacks:

…Kids say something unintentionally hilarious and you nearly burst a lung from holding in your laughter because you can’t laugh, ohgod you CAN’T LAUGH.

…A kid comes up to you and they’re practically vibrating to tell you something they consider big news (e.g. their tooth fell out, their birthday is in two months, etc).

…They ask you something that, were they an adult it’d be nosy or downright rude, but they ask in that tone of genuine innocent curiosity that only kids have and that makes it both okay and adorable.

…They ask you for help opening something.

…You help them with their clothes (tying their shoes, helping them with a snow boot that won’t go in, etc).

…They say/do something at a later date that shows they were paying attention to what you said and it made an impact in their lives.

…They get visibly excited to see you and/or want to know when they’ll see you next.

…They ask worriedly about whether they’ll miss storytime on Date X because they won’t be at school that day, which means they look forward to your storytelling.

…They give you little gifts, be it a picture, a thing, or all the Coffee Crisps they got trick-or-treating (because you told them once that your favourite chocolate bar has a yellow wrapper).

…They stop by the library to chat about what’s going on in their lives and/or to talk about their interests.

…They give unprompted compliments (”Library time is my favourite time of the week!”, “Thank you for reading those stories, they were very good!”, “I really like it when you read us stories!”, etc).

…You find yourself doing incredibly random things like writing Norse Runes on popsicle sticks to be added as part of a kit to go with the book so that children can cast their fortunes like the Vikings did (because the paper sticks that came with the book won’t last a minute).

…You get to geek out over a book or tv show or a topic with a little kid and they get super stoked that they’ve found someone who likes the same thing they do.

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captainfantasticalright:

captainfantasticalright:

In 1985, one of the only persons interested in an interview with a “new” writer called Terry Pratchett, after his publication of the Colour of Magic, was one Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman was writing for Space Voyager at the time. “The Colour of Pratchett” was the name given here:

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It ran exactly one page inside the June/July issue of that year. The interview took place in a Chinese restaurant in London.

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Here is Neil many years later holding that issue. You can see it here if you want. Warning: extremely emotional video.

Neil arrived wearing a grey homburg hat. “Sort of like the ones Humphrey Bogart wears in movies” he later wrote. (Before saying that in fact he did not look like him, but like someone wearing a grown-up’s hat). Terry Pratchett, photo courtesy of one @neil-gaiman, was in a Lenin-style leather cap and a harlequin-patterned pullover.

Terry offered Neil this : “An interview needn’t last more than 15 minutes. A good quote for the beginning, a good quote for the end, and the rest you make up back at the office”*. (Terry Pratchett had worked many years in journalism by this point ).

But the meeting went terribly well. The two of them realized they had “the same sort of brains”. So well indeed, that in 1985, Neil had shown Terry a file containing 5282 words, exploring a scenario in which Richmal Crompton’s William Brown had somehow become the Antichrist.

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Terry loved it and the concept stayed in his mind. A couple of years later, he rang Neil to ask him if he had done any more work on it. Neil had been busy with The Sandman, he had not really given it another thought. Terry said, “Well I know what happens next, so either you sell me the idea or we can write it together”. **

And as you know, unless you’ve been living in Alpha Centauri, the rest is history. That was the beginning of what would become William the Antichrist and later would get the name Good Omens:The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. (Title provided by Neil Gaiman and subtitle by Terry Pratchett).

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*Quote: from Terry Pratchett A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins, but said by Terry of course.

** All the quotes, facts listed here : see above.

I’ve added some other things. I’ll probably flesh this out and expand it into a very detailed origin story. This was mostly about Neil Gaiman’s and Sir Terry Pratchett’s first meeting, but we love details here. So that’s what I’ll add.

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