#peaky blinders meta?

[casasupernovas]

so...snape fans have speculated where cokeworth is located in the england map or what it's equivalence would be. i've seen people speculate it's probably up north perhaps. maybe snape's a northerner.

however.

it's been stated multiple times that cokeworth is in the midlands. so we're thinking northampton, shropshire, stoke, birmingham.

but i prefer to think it's in the black country. mainly for these reasons:

1. cokeworth is an industrial town, even if spinner's end seems mainly abandoned, and the black country was the birth of the industrial revolution.

2. the black country was known for steelworks, glassworks and cokeworks which is maybe where the town got its title from.

3. the black country suffered from high unemployment due to the closing down of a lot of industrial sites in the 60s and 70s which ties into the idea of spinner's end being practically desolate now, and also the strain on the snape's household's economic position.

4. petunia met vernon dursley and marries him. his job was being the director of a firm that made drills. which are made of steel. steelworks anyone?

5. which leads to my last and favourite theory; petunia marrying vernon who perhaps also came from the black country then decided to name their child after something close to home. a nearby town perhaps - dudley.

[normalbrothers]

s03ep01 | s06ep04

[deadendtracks]

one thing i think is generally overlooked about tommy is that he's more of an improvisor than people give him credit for; in fact he's more of an improvisor than he is a meticulous planner. he's more often responding to circumstances out of his control than he is setting up the circumstances from the beginning. it's not that he doesn't have initial plans, it's that he's very quickly adaptable.

this makes sense if you think a bit about what it might have been like for him in the war; when you think about why all the men who served with and then under him (including his brothers, in cluding his older brother) have the level of trust and loyalty they have in him as a leader -- if i remember correctly part of what went wrong in the war was leadership unable to deal with and adapt to reality on the ground, and if Tommy and his brothers and friends survived, it was most likely not due to his intricately planned strategies but his ability to improvise in the moment.

and it's also not like his improvised, adapted plans aren't strategic and intricately thought out. it's just that he's ready to adapt at a turn of a dime. shit goes wrong and you have to change direction, or incorporate new realities, or you die.

tommy's plans basically *never* go off the way they're supposed to, because he's constantly having to adjust. and it doesn't always go smoothly for him either.

[tommyxgrace-always]

Thought you might want to know this. There is an account called deadendtracks posting some stuff related to your recent reblogs. Calling it incredibly sick and few more things.

hey there! She is a Grace hater. Worst thing about this account is they hide under the disguise that they are neutral and do not engage in ship wars. But she is just a pretentious person who is very much engaged in fueling the shipping war with her biased and one sided meta, analysis posts. She hates Grace and uses every opportunity to hate and attack the character and the fans. Not really bothered with what she has to say. You can let her know on my behalf that there is nothing sick about wishing how a tv show should end. Whats more sick is being pretentious and hypocrite in real life. Thats what she is.

[blinders-grace]

A summary of Grace’s character

I really do think this shot from the the 1.03 getting ready montage sums up Grace’s entire character in season one. Because that’s the only season where she truly has characterisation.

Like we’ve just watched Tommy, bathed in a cold blue tone and darkness open a drawer to reveal his gun ready and waiting in its holster. And then we cut to a bright, airy, warm shot of a floral patterned chest in Grace’s little flat. We see it open and into focus comes a gun. We see it for a split second before it cuts away.

This inviting, innocent-looking chest is hiding a gun. We get an explicit message that Grace is as prepared, as dangerous as Tommy. The difference between the two is that Grace hides her lethality under a veneer of kindness and loveliness while Tommy’s is on full display. And for both of them the image they project is apart of their armour, a way to keep safe and further their goals.

A unassuming exterior of sweet charm and approachability housing a very real danger is the perfect summary of this shot and the core of Grace’s character.

[antigonenikk]

I think the saddest part of michaels storyline in season 3 is how little it matters to anyone else. Michael tells Tommy he was molested and Tommy brushes him off and tells him to kill his former abuser. No affection given, no brotherly love. Even after the unfailing loyalty and devotion that he’s shown Tommy since they’ve met. It is never discussed again. Michaels mother never broaches the subject, and Hughes himself doesn’t even RECOGNIZE Michael as an adult. All this pain he’s been carrying, this intense drive to attain power and protection so he won’t be a victim ever again, and no one gives a shit. His tragedy is a footnote in everyone else’s story, even the story of his abuser. Poor forgotten boy with no name, no home, no family, disregarded by everyone he loves, even the narrative itself views him only with apathy.

[poormeowmeowcollector]

I swear, men with a masculinity more fragile than a house of cards should be banned from watching Peaky Blinders.

Tommy Shelby was not a "sigma male" or whatever. He was (without erasing the fact that he did several questionable shit in the series) a victim of circumstances!

He was fucked since the day he was born, just like all Shelby siblings (honestly the only one who somehow escaped was Ada, and she was dragged back again). Tommy, from what we know in the series, could barely attend school due to his home situation, therefore he literally didn't have access to ways out via the academic route. The only "escape" he had before the series's events started was the army, and he literally ended up in WWI!

We see throughout the series that being a gang leader and the Shelby patriarch is literally destroying him. Do people think Tommy's thriving when he's constantly shown drinking, needing opium to sleep, at some point using laudanum to the point of Ada asking him to stop? Do we forget the literal suicide attempts?

Do we forget that at some point his family forced him to quit?

Even if we ignore how selfless he is when it comes to family (because a lot of his actions also have selfish reasons), he literally maintained his role because not having the distraction is more harmful to his mental wellbeing. Even after his break, he went on not because he's happy being in the Peaky Blinders, but because he's dependent to it. His trauma is just more harmful than that lifestyle, it's simply the lesser evil.

And even if, let's say at series one when the stakes were at the floor compared to the other series's. Lets assume Tommy woke up and decided to go off and do something that's actually fulfilling. Where would he, a man in an ethic minority in the 1920's, barely registered to the government, go? What other choice, apart from the army, would he have?

Hell, literally the end of the series is Tommy doing exactly that. His final act was just abandoning it all, pulling an enormous middle finger and burning his old life. It's clear throughout the series, being a Blinder kills Tommy, it's just less scary than his PTSD.

So, yeah, the people who idolise his actions as "sigma male" behaviour and as a proof that his patriarchal role is something to copy and admire literally watches half the show. Sorry, but your alpha leader manly man is suffering from being in that role, to the point of suicide.

[divinekangaroo]

watching a Penguins of Madagascar movie and my partner goes: hey it’s the Shelby brothers

[tickldpnk8]

For the ask game 💝 for Desire.... With a cheeky little Desunity wink attached. 😅♥️

Oh man. I mean, it’s Desire! So I feel like they would be particularly strong with Physical Touch and Receiving gifts. Right?? Those seem the most connected to their function to me. If they did an Acts of Service, I suspect it would just be in bed and that defaults to Physical Touch. 😆 (or maybe not? 😳 either way…)

So yeah, I totally picture them seducing Unity by having an “uncanny knack” for knowing just what kind of gift she wanted in a particular moment. Maybe being a bit forward with their advances (holding hands in public unchaperoned…that sort of thing). And then doing things in the marital bed that would make Calliope blush. (Because of course Unity would insist they get married: she’s the one to hold Desire to account on all fronts.)

I picture Unity existing in her dreamworld with a bit of a static understanding of etiquette and social relationship norms as they existed when she fell asleep in 1916. Unless Desire was able to help influence her understanding of current social events. Perhaps the remaining dreams and nightmares were already doing that for her before Desire entered in on the scene. (So as much as I picture them dating in the 1920s cabaret scene and all the art deco outfits that would entail, it might not fit? I’m going to make it fit.) It certainly would give a bit more consent to the situation than could otherwise be implied. I love them as a pair, and it really only works if Unity is able to grow up naturally in her dream world.

So yeah, Unity’s love languages might be Quality Time and Acts of Service to fall along the 1916 social norms for relationships. I see her doing things like finding excuses to spend time with Desire and then help them. Utterly domestic fluff once they’re married.

But man, can we just pause a moment to think about how awesome a courtship set amid the 1920s Berlin cabaret scene could be? Maybe I do headcanon Desire influencing Unity’s perception of time and culture to allow her to grow up a bit. I mostly just want the decadence of fashion and music out of this scene. I want them dancing to 1920s jazz and switching off who leads whom. I want glitz and glamour and finger waves and Art Deco embellishments on their clothes and jewelry. I like the idea of Desire being the gender-fluid icon of the time they would be, and Unity being a bit of Desire’s slightly more traditionally feminine arm candy who gets to wear stunning flapper gowns and gorgeous headpieces. Coupe glasses for all of the cute cocktails.

Basically Unity needs to wear something like this:

And Desire gets to pull off this (but wear it even better):

[something-pithy]

Hi! I just wanted to thank you for following me! I love LOVE your fic “an echo, a stain”, so many feels from that fic.

Hope you have a fantastic day!

First of all, thank you so much for your kind words about an echo, a stain; there aren't many higher compliments than that something I'm writing is evoking feels :D <3 Second, you're so welcome! I'm BIG here for Tommy Shelby content, so I was like "O hai gimme" looool. Also, seeing all your Peaky Blinders / Tommy stuff had me thinking about him vs. Astarion, particularly, of course, A!Astarion, and interesting thoughts about possible intersections of these two super compelling, at best morally grey characters. Their journeys are so different, and I think their alignments / dispositions are, too. At the same time, though, I think they have a lot of the same goals -- and I think, at least, the version of Astarion I'm writing about in an echo, a stain hardly resembles Tommy at all on the surface, but is very much motivated by a lot of the same things, and those journeys have interesting parallels, particularly as they appear in later seasons of Peaky Blinders. Anyway, just some rando early-morning thoughts. Thank you so much again for taking the time to let me know you're enjoying aeas; I hope YOU have a fantastic day! :D <3

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

Any heretical thoughts on the show Peaky Blinders and it’s characters ?

Sorry, anon, never seen it. @therealvinelle has seen some of it though.

[normalbrothers]

letters to his dead brother

his memoir

real honest to god shit tier awful poetry

a political treatise (we never figure out what his actual political or ideological stance is, he doesn't know either, apparently)

[deadendtracks]

Grace meta on AO3

For @gromky as promised, I thought I'd posted a link recently but tumblr's search function is crap so here it is again!

Meta posts on Tommy and Grace's relationship

[theleakypen]

Peaky Blinders and Black Sails have such similar vibes istg

all these horrible, desperate people beating their fists against the cage of history

[virtualrealitynewstoday]

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[antigonenikk]

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