Peaky Blinders

Rewatching Peaky Blinders (over and over) before since the movie.

Shitposter, gifmaker, occasional writer of meta thoughts.

Tommy is not The Family Ruiner. He's my interesting short guy fucked up in the head traumatized blorbo trying his best (sometimes) and everyone should cheer and clap for him whether he's on his evil shit or his trying-to-be-good shit or his in-between shit.

Patron of all your omega Tommy fanfictions.

I find shark (tommy x lizzie) highly entertaining for the following reasons: 1) much meta/class/relationship to sex/character mirrors stuff to be said 2) hot people 3) height difference 4) smoking together pretending to be nonchalant horny situationship ambiance. I am not here to do ship wars with you. I don't give a shit it's literally not that serious.

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Okay so they're clearly together by the election, but probably had not actually gotten married or engaged yet, because neither of them was wearing a ring at the end of season 4. Now... it could be they got engaged/married on the down low and just weren't advertising it because of Tommy's whole honeypot espionage strategy on Jessie, but I'm just going ahead and going with them getting engaged and married after the election. We know they did go on a honeymoon in Paris because it's mentioned in 6x02.

As for a wedding... personally I think Lizzie is not in contact with her family. Possibly she talks occasionally to her sister (who is mentioned once in season 1). Unlike the GraceTommy wedding where there is a huge number of Grace's upper class relatives to host (and impress, and get looked down upon by), the guest list of a TommyLizzie wedding is gonna be a big Peaky Blinders party. The tone of this party... I could go two completely different directions on.

Something fancy. What did Tommy plan for Lizzie's birthday? Something fancy. The tradeoff of something fancy is having to invite people who aren't family. People they're trying to build business or political relationships with, etc.

Something more intimate. A Peaky Blinders only event and everyone lets loose and gets sloppy drunk together (still spending big on a venue/food/booze) without having to worry about some plot or strategy or business going on for once.

What’s your headcanon for the time Lizzie gave birth to Ruby? Is Tommy emotional and open when he first meets his baby daughter, or is he rather overwhelmed and quite distant? How does Lizzie react? What’s your thoughts on this?

Okay so I don't have just one I have several scenarios I have rotated in my mind, but try this one on for size:

Lizzie has this very blasé attitude about her and Tommy's relationship by the end stages of the pregnancy due to an accumulated several months of Tommy Not Being Around while she was pregnant and hormonal. Like yeah at first she wanted him around and she was very mad that he wasn't, but by the time he reemerged from the disasterous vacation when she was like 6-7 months pregnant (she does not know he was freaking tf out in his house—just that he was "sick" for a month after his vacation but Polly could never give a straight answer about what he was sick with so Lizzie was like "Oh so this is all lies") Lizzie was just like... "Whatever. Don't need you. Got over wanting you around." Tommy's like "So you're mad at me then." Lizzie's like "Nah. Don't feel mad at you. Just don't need you. Unless you want to fuck because I'm horny like all of the time right now."

Tommy finds her attitude highly suspicious and is kinda waiting for the other shoe to drop. But also he's busy. They don't see each other that much. Until Ruby is born. Then Tommy practically just... moves himself and Charlie into her fucking house. Lizzie does not protest this but did not expect it at all because it was never discussed. But what is she gonna do? Complain about him being around their baby? Polly is like "Oh Lizzie this is how all of them [the Shelby brothers] are. He HAS to be there." Their mother got postpartum depression with literally all of them and their dad was absolutely fucking useless, so Arthur, Tommy, and John are all exceedingly useful with babies—especially newborns. They (along with Ada) also collectively took care of Finn because both their parents were gone by the time Finn was like a year old. The Shelby brothers are also all sort of paranoid about the mothers of their kids immediately following and during the first several months after a baby is born because of the postpartum depression thing. So Tommy is busy, but every night he is back at Lizzie's house.

Ruby will cry in the middle of the night and Lizzie gets up and Tommy's already emerged from whatever room he sequestered himself and Charlie in, telling Lizzie to go back to sleep or he'll bring Ruby to her if she needs to be fed.

Okay so imo a big part of it is... it's a possessive thing. There's def a slight pain kink element to it, but mostly it's not the pain itself but that she's marking him up as hers that really does it for him. When he presses on the bruises, it's maybe sometimes to quiet his mind a little, but mostly it's via reminding himself that Lizzie put those marks there. So as the teeth marks fade and the bruise turns into only something he's put on himself, the urge to mess with the bruise kinda drifts off too and he's like... "meh" because now it's just something he put there not Lizzie and Lizzie doing it is the whole point. But then of course the longing sets in to go home... and have Lizzie mark him up some more. At least during the later years of their marriage, I suggest Lizzie is not generally anymore worried about him pressing on bruises than she is with him just generally being away for long periods where she can't check up on him. But I also suspect him pressing on the bruises would be against the rules (if she knew about it).

YEAH I do. Natasha looks good in EVERYTHING tbh Lizzie was even slaying in her fucking funeral attire 😭 but some of my faves:

Theee orange dress from 6x02. The backkkkkk of this dress the COLOR everythingggg

The green dress from 5x03 hnnnnng

Red fit from 4x01

Okay, some of this might also just be how much fun she was clearly having but... her outfit from the grand re-opening of the Garrison in 2x02!!!

HER DERBY OUTFIT WAS SO CUTE I COULD DIE ‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧º·

Oh yeah also this dress from the boxing match in 4x06