kalliopeia-musing:idyllspace:renew-leverage:Eliot on Hardison’s brew pub purchase for ronandhermy.i
kalliopeia-musing:idyllspace:renew-leverage:Eliot on Hardison’s brew pub purchase for ronandhermy.i want to be clear–this rant right here? is exactly why hardison bought a brew pubbecause this, this is a familiar rant. hardison has heard it every time they are even so much as within 5 miles of a brew pub (and, ps, none of those brew pubs ever succeeded in designing a decent menu, per eliot)when he first sees the listing in portland he cringes and clicks away fast because this is one of the rants it’s not even funny to goad eliot into because it happens SO MUCH and eliot doesn’t even get amusingly wound up, just earnestly offended/annoyed, and this is just the first tenth of the rant, okay? the rest of it involves complicated dissections of where brew pubs in general fail at menu design, and then move on to particular brew pubs who have offended eliot’s soul with the travesty of their menusno way does hardison want to sign up for a daily dose of that rant, directed at his skills. except then he admits that it would take eliot about 2 minutes to take over the menu design, and this is the guy who can identify the sound of 28 different tire treads over 31 different types of surfaces, okay, he likes a challenge, and really it’s a gift to provide eliot with this opportunityparker doesn’t look convinced when hardison tries out that explanation. “you sound sarcastic, he’s going to think you’re messing with him, not giving him something.”and, okay, even in hardison’s head it comes off as sarcastic, as do the fifteen other ways he tries to practice giving eliot the brew pub. the problem is, hardison and eliot are only good at emotions with each other when shit is super tense and potentially-death-filledhardison clicks away from the page again because it seems kind of hopeless, figuring it out, but then he thinks about eliot having an industrial kitchen to cook for them in, and a staff to order around, and a menu design he’s just secretly dorky enough about to brag about on brew pub posting boards and, wellmaybe eliot will knowit’s for him from the get go, maybe he’ll figure it out along the way, or maybe it’ll never click for him, whatever. hardison isn’t concerned about the credit he just wants eliot to have ithe clicks back and contacts the realtorThis is the most accurate. This cannot be anything but canon.I desperately want the deleted scene with Hardison buying the brewpub, and people keep trying to tell him about profit margins and expense reports and stuff, and Hardison’s just like “Mmhmm yes, how large are your air vents?” and “you’re a brewpub and that’s great, either gonna be hilarious or just real annoying but definitely great either way…” and when they hand him a menu he just laughs and goes “Oh my god, he’s gonna kill somebody. I have to buy it.” The whole staff is like ????? but then he buys it and pays cash and everybody just decides to ignore the weird questions (and the fact that the new name on the lease does not match what everybody’s been calling him). -- source link