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amidst-wonderland · 1 year

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nae clue if i'm just shouting into the void at this point because official peaky content has dried up and i took such a long hiatus during series six (completely my own fault) but, i've been having so much fun writing for nora again that i've been toying around with some ideas and i'd love to get some general feedback, which i know is a hard ask on tumblr these days.

pretty much all of these aren't canon compliant, but they do follow the overall plot just not the same story beats.

honestly, with the three pb ideas i am considering leaving gina out of them - depends on how busy they get because ultimately the kids, michael, polly and thomas are at the core of nora's story.

seanmhair | series five!

alec's wife is on the school run whilst nora is out with her sister. they return to the taylor's inn (now owned and run by the mcleod's) to find the shelby's have made camp devising on what to do about jimmy mccavern in alliance with alec and the norman conks - a razor gang his father had a hand in starting as a boy. upon arrival, george spots a familiar face in polly gray.

i've thought a bit about this and i think i'm gonna keep the kids with nora, the threat of the church taking them from her is still there but they're able to stay out of sight by living above taylor's inn and don't get me wrong, the folk around the mcleod's are suspicious of their unit, but not enough to do anything about it.

the gray area | series five! (teaser below)

“nora” alec breathlessly warned, handling the squirming six-year-old in his arms as he struggles to wrap the blond in his sister’s larger coat in an attempt to keep the heat in but alas he wanted nothing but his mum who seemed to be more entranced by the two blokes about fifty yards from them. one laying lifeless on the floor, and the other hovering over the well-dressed body.

you can see it in her eyes – the pain; the grief and sheer rage – she was ready to pounce, to do so regardless of a present audience. yet, there was no point. the deed was done, and the man was dead. they saved her son and that’s all that mattered.

alec couldn’t understand why the ginger wouldn’t leave it to rest as she continued to grip the lowered revolver.

“mummy!” george cries, continuing to fight off his uncle.

“hen, jist– take the wean. wull ye?”

nora turns to them both, her bloodshot eyes beginning to soften at her shivering boy who’d almost fallen to his death into the cold depths of the river clyde below.

the bell tolls for thee | seriessix!

i haven't written it, but i bet you can all take a wicked-wango guess about what moment in the finale this is set.

slight general tangent | seriesfive! + seriessix!

before i go onto something unrelated, i really want to write something with alfie in it, as i know for a fact he'd be quite amused by nora's presence, very much pissing off her in-law.

speaking of which, thomas and nora have a changed relationship in the final two series. he's now indifferent towards her, as apposed to seeing some teenager who is stuck thorn in his empires side. she's now an unwilling associate due to his (and hers to an extent) severed partnership with michael.

they still don't particuarly like each-other but their interactions are less inherently antagonistic because there's nothing to gain anymore.

also, for anyone gives a shit - i've finally picked a face-claim for nora, young emily browning. think like twenty-eleven's sleeping beauty (just with a fringe, green eyes and dark ginger hair but the aesthetic is there). it is funny though because i always pegged malina weissman as teenage rosie and both of them played violet baudelaire.

excalibur | black sails + hetalia (...kind of)

honestly, i'm having so much fun writing this and i genuinely believed the best description i've ever written was the one for 'failing means yer playin' but this, this is good

arthur didn’t miss the burning fire she once held, her sharp tongue ready to jump down any man’s throat who dared cross her. the lingering fear that the siren would once return, dissipated as the girl before him looked nothing more than a rung-out princess than a sorceress of the sea. she betrayed their home, their crown, and his trust. all for a rag-tag group of belligerent criminals who would soon be shipped home to hang.

#peak blinders #peaky blinder fanfic #michael gray #thomas shelby #oc: nora gray

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thirstaidkitpodcast · 4 years

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I don't mind that you ignore every ask I've ever sent you. I completely understand that. I love your show and have listened to almost every episode. And I guess you don't promote other people's projects here. Why would you? But when I saw your tweet to Hozier ... I won't lie that hurt a bit. I'm just gonna keep doing my own thing and if I grow an audience I grow one. If not oh well I tried. I'll keep listening to the show. Good luck with everything. Continued success.

Hi, krockafella—

Thanks for listening to our show and loving it. We’re not quite sure what you mean in this message, but we’re going to do our best to answer.

Nichole and Bim manage this Tumblr and our Twitter in addition to making the podcast and doing our other day jobs. We’ve been on Tumblr for many years now and we know that messages don’t always make it through, but if your Asks did make it through the Tumblr machine, and didn’t get an answer, here’s a glimpse into what out inbox looks like at the moment:

(NB: the censored bits are the other Tumblr blogs we have and wish to keep private.)

That number climbs daily, and especially when we are not on hiatus and are putting out new episodes weekly. Posting the state of our inbox is not an excuse, just an explanation. We can and do apologise wholeheartedly and unreservedly for not getting to your messages. It’s not a nice feeling to send in a message and have it go unread or unanswered. The Tumblr message interface is pretty shitty, in that you have to endlessly scroll to find a message, and there is still no sorting power, even all these years later. We wish we could answer all the messages that come through to us. We qualify on the podcast all the time, for example: “send us an Ask on Tumblr: we may answer your question!” Just to preempt people feeling like they’re yelling into a void. It’s still a shitty feeling, though.

You’re right that we don’t promote other people’s projects here. But also: we don’t know what your project is.

So we really don’t know why our tweet to Hozier (we assume this one?) would trouble you.

By your own admission, you love our show and have listened to almost every episode (thanks!), so you must know that Nichole is a major fan of his and has been for quite a while, so it makes sense that we would want him as a guest on the show. Mentions of him (his hands, his voice, his french fry build, his hair...) are littered all through so many of our episodes... We discussed him in an end-of-year episode last December. Here’s a tweet where we promo’d the ep:

And did a whole segment for Slate Plus subscribers (aka it’s behind a paywall), Thirst Aid Plus, in March 2020:

Us tweeting Hozier was not a personal slight to you (again: we don’t know what your message said or what your project is about!). Please take a moment and understand that.

It’s unfortunate that you feel any of this was a personal attack against you. We hope you keep listening, but understand that that is up to you entirely. Good luck with all your projects.

#answered #listener: krockafella

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