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some pre-war tommy and freddie

#DEAD AT THIS #can't believe i hadn't seen it before #!!! #tommy x freddie #tommy shelby #peaky blinders #freddy thorne

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#peaky blinders #tommy shelby #this man #the lashes #i cant

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  PEAKY BLINDERS  

↳ Season 1 : Episode Five

#peaky blinders #tommy shelby #grace burgess #season 1 #peaky blinders s1

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peaky blinders (2013 -, created by steven knight) electra by sophocles (tr anne carson)

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The way he was holding his hands so tight and his jaw was clenched so tight, trembling a little, just stopping himself from crying losing it.

**sobs**

Gif by @christophernolan

#peaky blinders #peaky blinders s6 #peaky blinders s6 spoilers

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Alright, so I wanna get this out there before I watch episode 6. Diana and Tommy in ep5. yes. yikes.

I said before I was really hoping they wouldn't fuck and that I'd be very annoyed if they did, mostly because I was picturing a kind of Jessie Eden situation happening. And then they did fuck in episode 5, and it just wasn't anything like that.

Diana fucked him and he just had to take it and do it, and it's never felt so wrong and awful, to see Tommy do something he doesn't want to do for his plans. The sickening feeling was so well captured with the acting and the music and Tommy's immediate kinda breakdown reaction afterwards; it's no coincidence it happens right after they have sex.

With Jessie it was so purely transactional from both sides. It's clear she's just doing it "for the cause" and not even gladly doing it, like Tatiana who partly has fun toying with Tommy at times, but not Jessie. it took her realizing that's what it would take partly if she wanted Tommy on her side. And meanwhile Tommy is there mostly to snitch on the communists, playing seducer to gain her trust and he thinks that he can do it via sleeping with her, that it'll add another layer of trust between them in her mind? So they're basically playing each other, and then Tommy just ditches her when he's elected and marries Lizzie, but their alliance does go on as if nothing happened. So them sleeping together feels completely pointless and that's why it annoys me. (unless you consider that maybe Tommy actually wants her a bit because she represents everything he 'used to believe in' and also kind of reminds him of Greta? anwyay that'd have to be its own analysis post).

But with Diana. With Diana the whole situation is absolutely sickening. To us, and to Tommy. Diana fucks him because she 'mostly does what she wants' and if she wants and can then she does. It's the same amount of power Mosley has and wielded so blatantly on s5 and that made him so terrifying, the forbidding is forbidden for us (that could never really truly apply to Tommy no matter how much money and power he gains), and the whole "this isn't about some little transaction between us, it's about the bigger picture and changing the world and facism and trust" shit.

What is the most terrifying thing about certain antagonists in peaky imo, like Campbell at times, or Father Hughes, and Mosley and now Diana, is how they toy around with Tommy. How they could get him into situations where they had the upper hand and Tommy had to do exactly as they said because there was no choice. Basically everything with Hughes, many little instances with Mosley, like when Mosley tells Tommy the Scottish gang dude had asked for Tommy's betting places and that Mosley had given them to him and Tommy goes to make it transactional, says "In exchange of what?" and it's in exchange of nothing. Because these are just minor things in face of their alliance and changing the world. And Tommy just has to sit there and allow it, and it's fucking painful to watch.

With Diana it's the same. There's no choice, no "Tommy wanted it" or "Tommy perused her" or even the ever reliable "Tommy is getting something out of it as a mean to his own ends". She brushes off his requests and says that this isn't about charitable houses, it's about changing the world, and a deeper kind of trust. That once again he needs to prove himself, that it's more difficult to lie with your body than with your words (and this echoes to when Mosley asked him to do the Hitler salute, to "prove it physically"). It's having sex with the representation of everything he despises and is repulsed by and is fighting against atm, and he can't even pass it off as completely transactional in his mind (though I'm sure he tries; it is, after all, all in the sake of bringing down facism).

The "Everyone's a whore, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves." has never felt more poignant and literal. There's been plenty of things Tommy's done to meet his own goals that he inherently didn't "want" to do, for sure, but this feels like a special kind of rock bottom (and the way he proceeds to immediately have a meltdown-ish in the boat afterwards...) .

Anyway, rant over. This was a very well done scene and I'm enjoying (and hating) Diana as a character a lot more than I expected. I can't wait to do a rewatch already.

#peaky blinders #tommy shelby #peaky blinders s6 #peaky blinders season 6 #diana mitford #diana m #peaky blinders meta #peaky blinders s6 spoilers #jessie eden #also can't wait to finish the season and now what the hell is gonna happen #AND read all of the fics everyone wrote in response #AND all of thr metas which is admittedly #one of the best parts of this fandom #and fandom in general: the fics and metas haha #I'll try to finish watching this week

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I was NOT expecting this fucking disease thing Tommy has ohmyfuckingod. just finished ep4. quickly typing this as ep5 is starting. I was NOT expecting this. If Tommy dies by a disease I will be... like. hm. it's weird. would have expected death by his own hand or others, this was just... fate, luck. well, it can count as retribution for all the evils he's done and blah blah but yeah I don't know, I wasn't expecting it!

ep5 is starting and can't pause it cause I'm watching with family, so I'm just gonna say that I loved the whole first part of the episode, all of the slow character moments, the grieving and Lizzie and Tommy and Tommy and Arthur conversation, brilliant. Suffering + lots of references to them as kids, I'm loving that. ok ep5 is starting I'll vomit more thoughts here later BYE

edit: also FUCK. WHAT THE FUCK was that about Tommy having a secret random son?? with a woman he slept in 1914 before he went to war AKA right after Greta Jurossi's death?? I hate that. Perhaps I like to think too nicely of before-the-war Tommy but I would have thought he wouldn't have done that. sigh. Also it's just such a random thing and a trope I hate. I almost really hope Esme is lying about everything for gold.

#peaky blinders s6 spoilers #peaky blinders season 6 #peaky blinders s6 #it was a great great episode #cillian truly did show off his acting here #i was just so impressed with just how MISERABLE he looked #in the dinner with the mosley & co #it was like #usual tommy suffering x10000 and you could see it all in his eyes #impressive as usual #but more than usual lol #god what an episode

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I have no idea what's gonna happen after this ep3, but I feel like a jump time is coming. Though I lowkey wanna see how Tommy deals with everything after what happens and not just be told of it (I'm still expecting more details on the four years!! four years!! what exactly happened in those four years?!). Imagine Ada and Arthur getting their acts straight and stepping in to deal with everything while Tommy is in crisis, I really wanna see more of their siblings dynamic. Or perhaps Tommy will just push through relentlessly once again. We'll see.

Other thoughts so far; Mosley is being so pushed to the shadows with Diana and Jack Nelson in the picture, it's like he himself is intimidated by these too, and I'm so intrigued to see how that's gonna go. Also, I'm gonna be SO deeply annoyed if Tommy and Diana end up fucking (he changed your life sweetie?? really?? you've barely even met him! ONCE! for fucks sake...). this better not turn into some other Tommy and his magic cock shit, I don't want to see it even if it's part of Tommy making bad decision because he's grieving, no, nope. God, I'm gonna be annoyed if it happens. Also, Gina. Gina and Michael?? I don't really miss Michael, I like that they're keeping him out of everything for now. And Gina has me... very confused this season. I hated her so bloody much on s5 and now I'm just confused by her and how she's acting. Hm.

Also, Ada. Brilliant, as usual. Loved Esme, I'm not totally sure she's not lying about the whole sapphire thing. And Lizzie. Oh God, Lizzie. Poor Lizzie damnit. I don't think she'll permanently leave Tommy cause, like, this is her life now. She has nothing else, no one else outside of the Shelby Company and family. I just... I feel so bad for her. just let her be happy 😭

#anyway #end of rant #peaky blinders s6 spoilers #peaky blinders s6 #peaky blinders season 6 #it feels good to just sort my thoughts out and spit it into the void aka tumblr #and now #I'll go watch the next one #damn I'm nervous #i lowkey have no clue what's gonna happen yay

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I think its easy to think the breath is meant to be Grace because Annabelle answered a tweet ages ago, and said ‘she did a lot of breath recording’, and it did feel as if the breathing related to Grace and Tommy’s hallucinations of her during Season 5.

I’m a big lover of Grace, and I love references to the character, but I take your point as I’m not sure all the breaths in season 6 are a reference to her when I really think about it…. I don’t think it’s as simple as that… The last breath after Tommy sees Ruby, I would more likely to associate with Polly perhaps?

Also, Cillian spoke about the breathing in relation to season 5 on the sound of Peaky Blinders podcast. He said Anna Calvi was behind a lot of the breathing as she wanted to get inside Tommy’s head. He feels as if it’s not clear cut whose breath it is… he talks about the fact it happened during the time her was seeing Grace but it could be her’s, or maybe it could be his.

I guess it could relate to many different woman in his life who still haunt him as well - his mother, Greta, Grace, Polly and Ruby. It will be interesting to see if this stops in the film or not.

Yeah, I think I remembered what Anna Calvi and Cillian had said about it in the back of my mind. I took it far more to be about a psychological state or mood than a literal manifestation of Grace's presence. That just doesn't make sense to me. I doubt it's meant to be any one concrete thing.

Anna Calvi had mentioned something about ... I am going to slaughter this but Tommy's anima or feminine presence. Idk. But I do think it's more about mood than anything specific.

And there was a breath sound in the aftermath of Polly's funeral, I highly doubt that had anything to do with Grace.

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I'm finally able to watch peaky season 6 and I just-- finished watching fucking episode 3. oh damn. oh damn. how do we move on from here. oh fuck.

#consumption #fucking consumption #you know who else died of fucking consumption? #greta jurossi #tommy's before the war sweetheart #who tommy was thinking of #when he was fucking lizzie and ruby was conceived #not a fucking coincidence oh fuck #ruby #poor ruby and lizzie #tommy... idk how you're gonna pull through honestly #peaky blinders s6 spoilers #peaky blinders s6 #peaky blinders season 6 #tommy shelby #peaky blinders #ruby shelby

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Peaky Blinders | Behind The Scenes Of Season 1

#peaky blinders #tommy shelby #cillian murphy #peaky blinders bts #grace burgess #paul anderson #arthur shelby

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Peaky Season 6 Response Challenge: Weekly Episode Responses

This challenge was a lot of fun during the broadcast of season 5 and I wanted to invite everyone who would like to create fanworks and take part in the celebration of the season 6 airing!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE ?

Watch each new episode of Peaky Blinders when it aires;

Write a fic or create art related to that episode in the following week. The length, genre or ship don’t matter, write or draw what you want as long as it is related to the episode of the week; 

Publish your fic / art on Tumblr and/or AO3. You can mention my blog @weeo​, use the tag #PeakyS6ResponseChallenge, and/or send me an ask with the link. If you post it on AO3, you can add it to the challenge collection : https://archiveofourown.org/collections/PeakyS6ResponseChallenge

Before the new episode, I’ll publish a Tumblr post listing the fics / arts which have been created for the episode of the previous week, so all the thirsty readers for new Peaky contents (like me) will be able to find them!

There is no need to register for this challenge. Though the goal of the challenge is to create something for each episode, feel free to participate only on the weeks you can. This is just a light-hearted challenge to spark creativity and celebrate the broadcast of this new and last season together!

If you’re not a writer or artist, don’t have time to create or don’t feel like it: you can simply join as well by reading, liking, reblogging, commenting and supporting the published fanworks. You can also reblog this post to share the word.

Feel free to message me if you have any questions and I can’t wait to see everyone’s creations! Have fun!

#I'm on holidays without stable internet wnd won't be able to start watching for a few weeks! #aaaa agony #I'll try to participate when i do catch up though! <3 #peaky blinders

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I’m supposed to treat you like a fucking kid again, eh? Keep you away from guns and fucking rope, is that it? You think I haven’t got enough on! The war is done! Shut the door on it! Shut the door on it like I did, eh?

PEAKY BLINDERS | S02E02

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Peaky Blinders, Season 3 Episode 3 - Death of Vicente Changretta

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TOMMY SHELBY — in PEAKY BLINDERS series 6 trailer

#what the hell is going on with the bathtub #please let it be ptsd please let it be ptsd #peaky blinders #peaky blinders s6

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Peaky Blinders S05E04

/ for @retromafia

#damn this part #this whole conversation #so good #and painful #peaky blinders #tommy shelby #ada shelby

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#peaky blinders #tommy shelby