fic recs (Leverage) and vid recs (various)

vid recs: various cool stuff
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it)

This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version

The Insiders: A short film about indoor climbing featuring Paul Robinson, Sasha DiGiulian, Vasya Vorotnikov, and Ashima Shiraishi.
Four climbers, various ages (Ashima was only eight at the time this was filmed), different styles... really fascinating and inspiring.

Useful Dog Tricks; and more of the same dog.

fic recs (Leverage):
Compasses Point North, I Only Point To You by desert (LJ link)
Sophie/Nate, PG; pre-series & mid-S2; 5179 words
Summary: aka, Five times Nate Ford was tempted.
There's almost nothing that amazes him as much as the fact that he can be friends with this woman, despite everything between them.

The No Exit Job by shrift
Hardison/Eliot; PG-13; humor; 1000 words
Summary: In which the blueprints are wrong, Hardison and Eliot make out, and nobody mentions French existentialism at all.

learning to waltz through the waves by cata_clysmiic
Sophie/Nate; R; 2,430 words
Sophie Devereaux and Nathan Ford in a nutshell: screaming confused one minute, an old married couple the next.