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divinekangaroo · 2 months ago

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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 - A YEAR (Or So)

Ch 19 | Ch 20 | Ch 21 | Ch 22 | Ch 23 | Ch 24 | ??

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)

Tommy Shelby/Lizzie Stark, Tommy Shelby/Freddie Thorne, Arthur Shelby, Polly Grey, Ada Shelby, John Shelby, Johnny Dogs, Various Lees, John Shelby's Children, Zhang, S1E1 Red Dust Girl, Sergeant Moss | Alternative Universe, Modern AU (ish), No iPhones (yet), Awkwardness, Age Difference, Disassociation, Miscommunication, Banter, Fast Food Vendor of your Choice, Pre-Season, Past Trauma, Flirting, Have I Met You Before, Heckling, Cars, Drug Use, Past Childhood Trauma, Mrs Shelby Lives, Gender Role Dynamics, Small Neighbourhoods, Past Greta Jurossi, Brotherly Dynamics, Sibling Dynamics, Class Issues, Attraction, Casual Sex, Car Sex, Military Transition Program, Wilful Medical Noncompliance, Melodrama, Illegal Bookmaking, 90s Fashion, 2000s Fashion, Slow Reveal, Slow Burn, Coming Home, Dysfunctional Family, Lasting Legacy of Catholicism, Bad SMS Etiquette, Gang Activity, Domesticity, Booty Call, Guilt, Shame, So Much Marijuana, Arms Dealing, Crimes & Criminals, Ill Informed Economic Theorising, Wanking, Ethnicity, Stereotyping

#my writing #peaky blinders #peaky blinders fanfic #lol smack in the middle of age gap discourse; i did write this outline in may so it's not intended to be topical but just landed that way #anyway one day i might write on the frustration that with the binary currently afflicting fandom #narratives considering age difference only seems to mean one was a minor and one wasn't (this is not the case in PB)#but i do feel there is an age difference between t and l large enough to be consistent with t and ada.with lizzie and ada an age cohort.#areas of narrative interest in age difference: generational thinking differences; how and when power moves between one and the other;#substitution; reliving lost experiences; experience inversion (elder knows less than younger); what else it adds to fluid dynamics;#also: compounding interest wealth (younger) versus who was old enough to buy property before housing demand exceeded supply by 400% (elder)#<- economics and fiscal status very important stuff re: age difference narratives #my theorising on Lizzie's age hinges on when the timeline made sense for young!Mosley to have 'visited' Lizzie and how I could make it wors #nothing to do with tommy or canon alas. only with making *every* interaction with mosley worse so much worse worse worse #also of considerable narrative interest considering an au: the way age and age cohorting is considered so differently in different eras

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