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falling - pettiot - Peaky Blinders (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

PART ONE - DAY ONE

Ch 1 | Ch 2 | Ch 3 | Ch 4 | Ch 5 | Ch 6 | Ch 7 | Ch 8 | Ch 9

PART TWO - MONTH ONE (Or Maybe Month Two, Or Three)

Ch 10 | Ch 11 | Ch 12 | Ch 13 | Ch 14 | Ch 15 | Ch 16 | Ch 17 | Ch 18

PART THREE - YEAR ONE (Or So)

Ch 19 | Ch 20 | Ch 21 | Ch 22 | Ch 23 | Ch 24 | Ch 25 | Ch 26 | Ch 27

CODA - ENDLESS

Ch 28 | Ch 29 | Ch 30 | Ch 31 | Ch 32 | Ch 33 | Ch 34| 35 | 36 |

A Modern AU take on Tommy's immediate return from military service, and the period between his demobilisation and the start of S1.

(Tags shall be progressively updated)

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Tommy Shelby/Lizzie Stark, Tommy Shelby/Freddie Thorne, Arthur Shelby, Polly Grey, Ada Shelby, John Shelby, Johnny Dogs, Various Lees, John Shelby's Children, Mr Zhang, Mai Zhang (S1E1 Red Dust Girl), Sergeant Moss, Esme Lee, Jeremiah Jesus, Danny Whizz-Bang Owen, Vicente Changretta, Matteo (S4 Mafia Lieutenant), Zilpha Lee, Alfie Solomons, Mrs Shelby, Darby Sabini, Charles Strong, Curly, Finn Shelby, Oswald Mosley | Alternative Universe, Modern AU (ish), more tags at the link

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I would dearly love for more people to be capable of differentiating between public risk and personal risk.

Examples: drinking is a personal risk. Drinking and driving is a public risk. Going scuba diving is a personal risk. Running a scuba shop with faulty equipment is a public risk. Riding a bicycle without a helmet is a personal risk. Not maintaining public transport safety standards is a public risk. Foraging for mushrooms is a personal risk. Advertising a mushroom identification app that uses shoddy AI is a public risk. Elective surgery is a personal risk. Not wearing a mask in a doctor's waiting room when you are sick with a contagious illness is a public risk.

I could go on just about forever here. But it's a really important distinction and it drives me nuts when they get conflated, and it's so common.

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SK really loves getting his boys naked

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can't decide if i prefer the idea of bill "bundle of rigid inferiority complexes" stirling viciously and sadistically sodomising his small cocked baby-faced lieutenant every time something goes wrong. or like. baby-face doing the dutiful vigorous penetrating while bill's on all fours ranting furiously about his day's events

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It has been a long while.

Feeling compelled to look a bit more deeply at pillowfort.

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david stirling and his reoccuring motif of falling :)

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sorry my son lectured your son for watching the counter-revolutionary children's show "paw patrol", but to be fair it is copaganda

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Polly: No. Not my son. [The priest] will still be as dead if Arthur does it. Tommy: And part of him will always stay dead.

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it's also not a terribly big mental stretch to imagine arthur snr as an version of paddy

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sk also has some sort of a running in-joke going about margate and it drives me mental, what is the joke

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you will do whatever is necessary for the cause (because i will do whatever is necessary for the cause) = the sk british reoccurance

<- the frequent framing is men saying this to their women in a manner which degrades/demotes the interpersonal

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Finally starting on S2 of SAS Rogue Heroes, and struck yet again by just how much SK loves men.

These romanticised, glorious, handpainted, archetypal, recognisable, hyperbol'ish men of his.

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do y'all remember when they found all that tf art in Osamu Tezuka's drawer post-mortem because I think about it often

anyway keep chasing your bliss and draw weird shit, god knows we need that right now

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filmmakers and audiences and critics alike all need to start suspending their disbelief again

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I think I've realised it's a driving terratorialism (at work). A desperate need to hang onto functions that people seem to think carry status with them. I find this an alien concept.

Whereas I feel absolutely mercenary about any working situation/job role, will literally in 3 hours pivot 'what i do' if my boss directs me to do otherwise. My driving motivation is to do the Thing (anything) well and efficiently, and I've developed a belief over time that no matter what the Thing is, you develop status based on how well you perform anything, not simply in having a Thing allocated to you.

Therefore it makes me really, really frustrated when people hang onto some kind of organisational/process function which ended up migrating into their area or job role, because they perceive the function itself as having status: they could be doing it well, or doing it poorly, but the fact it's in their area is really really really really inefficient for the organisation overall by generating either a) a job role that can't be recruited for because it requires a unicorn to staff it, or b) being so contrary to the overarching process that it makes everyone else's job harder to work around them having/holding the function.

And I've also lost a lot of empathy and pandering I used to do which has, ironically, just made me another one of those argumentative people with middling power refusing to agree with other people because my high horse is better than their high horse. Only their high horse is function-status-perception based and my high horse is org-efficiency based so of course my high horse is better. / self deprecation