Leverage: Team Slash: Description: Talk about a perfect heist - is there anyone on this team who couldn't be paired?  Or tripled?  Eliot and Nathan and Hardison, oh my; Parker and Sophie, oh yeah. Come hash it out and have some fun.

SITES: http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Leverage/works (Archive of our Own)

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Leverage (fanlore wiki)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverage_%28TV_series%29 (wiki)

http://community.livejournal.com/geteven_getfic/ (LJ for Leverage fiction)

Some thoughts from John Rogers blog:

I think fanfic is the sign of a healthy show. Here's what it boils down to: you're telling me that in today's crowded media space, our show made someone love it so much they take time out of their own life to talk about it? Holy. Crap.

As far as "borrowing" our characters -- to paraphrase Alan Moore, they didn't go anywhere. There they are, sitting right up on the shelf. Waiting for us to let them loose again. Besides, how many people read a fanfic story? A couple hundred, tops? We have, on average 3.5 million viewers, well into the 4 million range when you get the DVR numbers in. I just don't see someone taking control of our Ideaspace through sheer force of Slashfic.

The basic rule I follow here is one I learned in stand-up comedy: Always punch UP. I am a relatively successful typing human whose words are physically produced using millions of dollars and is distributed nationally by a massive billion dollar corporation to millions of people. Exactly how is a free web page with a 1000 word story about Eliot and Hardison fighting a trans-dimensional incursion of Elves hurting my brand, exactly?

Tell you what -- if some fanfic writer is so good they manage to amass a million-person audience with their web-distributed free stories using my characters, I am going to consider that evolution in action and hire that bastard. Or, at the very least, urge them to go create their own show. But odds are it ain't gonna happen. And that's okay. We write for different reasons.

To view the entire blog entry go to:
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/08/leverage-205-three-days-of-hunter-job.html