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Earlier this week, after tons of people recommending it to me, I finally started watching Leverage, and I am already on season three. It is amazing and wonderful and fills me with feelings and I love everyone except for Nate indescribable amounts, but particularly Hardison, Parker, and Eliot, and of course my new OT3 of them together.

So those of you who were much smarter than me and have been loving it for years, please give me all your fic recs. I need them. I need them all.

I spend a great deal of time staring at the screen with hearts and stars in my eyes because I love this ridiculous chosen family so goddamn much.

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From:

senmut

OT3!!!!!

From:

escritoireazul

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!

From:

kouredios

I know you didn't ask for a vid, but the very best vid in the whole world is an OT3 Leverage vid, so I hope you'll forgive. :)

I haven't read nearly enough Leverage fic, so I'll be watching for what recs you pick up.

From:

kate

Agree - that OT3 vid is my favorite, I play it once a week at least. It makes me soooooooo happy. T'wings has written amazing OT3 fics, too - I just go to their AO3 and sort on Leverage OT3.

I've written a couple (amazing how I've gotten over my self-reccing abhorrence in my old age), but they're shorts: Five Course Meal, a quintuple-drabble, and a present for my wife: The Hollywood Horde Job.

When I go to the AO3 and click on the OT3 tag and sort by kudos (not an objective measure, but usually gets you a number of decently good fics to read), there's a story by copperbadge that comes up first. I trust copperbadge, so that's on my reading list for today. :D

From:

wakeupnew

I love that vid so much!!

Carla, you may want to wait to watch it, since it has clips from the entire series right up through the series finale. There's another vid I love that I think is set to "Boom Boom Pow," though I didn't find it after I did a quick search for it; I'll see if I can hunt it down! I'm so glad you're watching Leverage!!!!

From:

escritoireazul

Vid recs are always welcome around here, thank you!

From:

raine

Self-promo: I've written a few crossover Leverage fics that other people seem to like; they're all on AO3 under Raine_Wynd. :-)

Other people's fic:
Notes on Nate's Fridge
http://archiveofourown.org/works/213756/chapters/320677

A Casual, Easy Thing by Rachael Sabotini (one of my fave writers in any fandom):
http://archiveofourown.org/works/51100

The Anniversary Job by Maab_Connor
http://archiveofourown.org/works/225899

Let me know if you want more, but that should get you started. :-)

From:

amalthia

I only started watching Leverage this year and I'm on season 5 now. I'm also looking forward to seeing what stories people recommend! :)

From:

havocthecat

I will confess, most of my Leverage recs probably involve Sophie in some fashion or another (I am in the minority, fandom-wise), so I don't know if you'll enjoy mine or not. But in case you will, here you go: https://pinboard.in/u:havocthecat/bundle:leverage/

From:

escritoireazul

I should not be surprised that fandom doesn't like her, but WHY THE HELL DOESN'T FANDOM LOVE SOPHIE?

From:

havocthecat

There's a lot of tl;dr here that you may already know, because you might have asked a rhetorical question:

I don't know that she's hated, per se, but she's often overlooked, I think. In part it's the Nate problem, in that she's paired with him from the start in canon, and fandom is pretty tired of guys like Nate. (To be fair, I find Nate starts out as a self-righteous ass who gets enough development to realize that he's been a self-righteous ass, and who moderates his behavior a bit, but primarily he changes in a way that's based on his original characterization. Which I find realistic and mostly sympathetic, but I feel like my life would shred apart and I would turn into an ass if something that terrible happened to my kid too.)

So there are also lots of people in fandom who like to hew to canon, and Sophie/Natie is the canon, and most of the people who love Sophie enough to write about her are either the het shippers who gravitate towards the mom/dad pairing. You do have the femslashers who are like, "You can pair her with Parker or any of the major recurring female characters!" The ones who can ignore canon, that is, though I find a lot of femslashers are surprisingly canon-based when there's so little canon femslash out there. But the femslashers are a minority in Leverage fandom.

(I am definitely in the non-canon-compliant femslash category as a Sophie fan, primarily, with a side order of, "Sophie wants Nate, and Sophie deserves to have what she wants.")

I think also fandom prefers action girls, which Parker is. And I love Parker! She's amazing and the character development she got over five years is unbelievable. And I love her relationship with Hardison and Eliot. (And Sophie. Oh, I do love her relationship with Sophie.) But women who focus on feelings and relationships the way Sophie does kind of get shorter shrift, or so I think, in a lot of fandom spaces.

(This took so long to reply to because I've been busy planning a birthday party, a game, and prep for being out for three days at work. Blargh. It has been a busy couple of weeks.)

From:

peoriapeoriawhereart

I wonder if it's harder to write Sophie, being that she's very different to the usual run-i.e. she's not what fandom writers know so it's more work to get something satisfying about her written?

I can see the Nate issues too.

I wonder if there are any Elliot must cook to avert a Stargate diplomatic crisis stories...