#peaky ships

[eyemarchshelby]

TOMMY & LIZZIE

you're the loss of my life

[graveyard---dolly]

Welcome to the Peaky Blinders fandom (EDITED)

[heeahheeya]

As one of Grace's fans, I'm quite hilarious I found another love interest of her : Clive x Grace

They are a typically, and flawlessly wealthy married couple in 1920s with gorgeous image. If I'm not a big fan of Tommy/Grace, I would have shipped them.

Ohhh.....

Look at how jealous Tommy Shelby is!

Thomas fucking Shelby, a king of Birmingham who is able to seduce every woman of the world as he needs, is jealous of another "bastard" whom his ONE AND ONLY WOMAN chose🤣

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[Day 4: AU] a close call!

(bonus doodles and context under cut)

peaky are sort-of "robin hood" characters who are rich themselves, but don secret identities to target corrupt politicians, government officials, and billionaires when the law fails to punish them. most of what they do is dig up dirt on their chosen target and bring it to light for the general public.

one of their targets had invited esora (current ceo of the shimizu group) to a mansion party. they decided that this would be a good opportunity to gather more intel and do a little snooping around the mansion.

esora attends the party proper with yuka as her "bodyguard". things are going well until the power goes out and a gun is shot. the room immediately dissolves into a panic, and yuka scoops esora up before making an emergency exit through one of the massive windows. kyoko and shinobu throw out a rope ladder and yuka grabs it at the last second before they make their escape.

[justrainandcoffee]

My ship in 5 minutes (modern AU)

I decided to do the modern version of this to show the differences between both relationships (same people different eras) and also to show how Tommy affected poor Alfie. Like avoiding conflicts at all costs or how he is more reserved than his og!version😭. Or Rose jumping from one relationship to another until she found him.

Some things are the same. Rose always wakes up first, and always steals his clothes. And Alfie always, always cooks.

Here's other one for comparison.

Template if you use this, tag me! ❤️

[cillianslvt]

I need to know your favorite tommy ship

tommy x alfie

tommy x grace

tommy x horses

tommy x lizzie

tommy x may

tommy x therapy

“tommy x therapy” HAHAHAHAH

but for realsies it’s tommy x lizzie —which i know is controversial. now ofc i know that grace is his one and only and like soulmate, but lizzie is so much more angsty and stuff. like tommy learned to love her is his own twisted way but he did care for her in some capacity. i hope in the peaky movie there’s some lizzie scene for some closer ya know. like where they can just have a moment to be less sad together and stuff. cause tommy was horrible to her.

**disclaimer: i’ve never watched peaky blinders. all of my peaky knowledge is from tiktok and tumblr.**

[waltheruwu]

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[agentidiot]

okay but hear me out: modern!au strangers to lovers kinda situation where tommy walking his hyperactive cat on a leash and alfie who’s walking cyril sees him on margate’s beach and laughs his ass off

[skania]

THOUGHTS ON TOMMY & LIZZIE IN S6 (PART 2)

So this has been in my drafts for almost a year now. I kept putting it off because I wanted to rewatch the season to write my thoughts more coherently, but by now I think that’s just not happening so I’m posting it as is lol

Part 1 HERE 

Once again, this post will contain tons of images, and spoilers for the entirety of Season 5 and Season 6. So, read at your own discretion!

So where I left off, Tommy and Lizzie had chosen to overcome Ruby's death and all the pain and stay together. 

Tommy even makes her another promise, that he will change and change for good. For real this time. Just not yet. 

The thing is, Tommy is right when he says has no limitations. He doesn't know when to stop. So, he doesn’t stop to think that other people may have a limit to how much they are willing to put up with. He figures that as long as he can keep providing for them, that as long as he can stay at the top of the chain, people will stay. That they will need him.

I feel like this is the crux of his behavior towards Lizzie, but when it comes to her, it’s not about the money. In his lowest moments, Tommy likes to pretend that it is; like in the S3 where he tries to give her money only for Lizzie to refuse to take it. Or in S5, when he lashes out saying that everyone needs him, she included.

But what keeps Lizzie by his side isn’t his money, it’s loyalty. It’s her love for him. Tommy knows this. It’s the reason why, whenever he does something he knows she will not like, Tommy feels guilty but still expects her to put up with it. And really, Lizzie has put up with so much throughout the series that Tommy's expectations aren't unfounded.

Until Diana happens.

Diana

The powerful thing about this scene is that all at once, Tommy knows that he has gone too far. He knows this is something he can’t ask Lizzie to overlook. Something she may not be able to forgive.

What Lizzie feared has come true. He has crossed the line.

The focus on his wedding ring tells us all we need to know, but what follows is just as striking.

His guilt, his panic is such that he feels trapped. He is back in those tunnels in France, a man with a death sentence and no way out.

And it’s all because he has stained Lizzie yet again.

Honestly, there’s a lot to say about Tommy’s dynamic with Lizzie. Tommy keeps most of his relationships transactional, but what Lizzie asks of him—what she deserves of him—is something Tommy doesn’t know how to give. I think this is part of what makes Lizzie get under his skin the way she does.

She loves him thoroughly and honestly and Tommy doesn’t know what to do with that because he doesn’t love himself, so he doesn’t know how to love her right, either. But—and that’s the thing—he wants to try. He sincerely wants to be a better man.

This is why he has such a visceral reaction to sleeping with Diana. Lizzie deserves better, she deserves so much better and Tommy is painfully aware of this. The fact that he was even capable of doing this to her makes him sick, because what does that say about the kind of man he is?

He changes the combination to the safe after this.

It’s not even because of his sickness, but because of this betrayal. He doesn’t want Lizzie to know. He doesn’t want to hurt her. Not yet. Not when he doesn’t have results that could perhaps, somehow, make her understand why he did it.

The saddest thing is that back when Tommy took Lizzie to that hotel room, he offered to let Lizzie into some of his plans, and she rejected his offer. She said she knew enough, because she was hurt at finding herself at the top of Tommy’s regrets. But now that she understands he doesn’t regret her, Lizzie is willing to give him another chance. She wants to know again.

But now more than ever, Tommy can’t let her in. All he can give her is a promise that he hopes he will be able to keep. That once everything is done, he will bare himself to her, sins and all.

The way he even restates his promise to her during the dinner shows the importance he is giving to it. Even now, Tommy thinks there’s time to make things right.

Of course, nothing ever goes the way he plans, so Diana comes in and the bomb explodes.

This scene is tragic but it’s so funny at the same time. He doesn’t even dare to look at Lizzie when Diana reveals they slept together. He tries to but immediately looks forward again. How sad is that lol

He is literally seething after Lizzie leaves. These two bastards humiliated Lizzie — and doomed his marriage — because he himself gave them the ammo.

And then Mosley goes and twists the knife right where it hurts.

How ironic! Tommy’s entire conflict with Lizzie this season is the entire opposite! The irony is not lost on Tommy, he kept to wine despite the american’s insistance that he switch to whiskey, but after this he does ditch the wine to pour himself a glass of whiskey lmao

This exchange pretty much summarizes everything Tommy has come to realize about himself and Lizzie this season.

Tommy tries and tries to do the right thing, but his means are always wrong. Sleeping with Diana is just the latest in a list of fuck-ups, and he has come to realize that even though he would like to believe the opposite, he can’t be what Lizzie deserves him to be because he does belong at that table.

And that’s the saddest ending.

The ending he has brought on himself.

Lizzie’s goodbye

It's funny because Tommy is an inherently selfish person. He is greedy and self-centered and single-minded. Despite having no plans of making her his wife, he tricked Lizzie into not marrying John in Season 1 and made sure she wouldn't date Angeal in Season 3. 

What this all comes down to is that Tommy is caught in a hell of his own making but he's not selfless enough to let her go, because he wants her by his side.

Hell, if it weren't for his sickness, I bet Tommy would've found a way to convince Lizzie to stay, even after Diana. But his sickness and his lack of future (she doesn’t deserve what I’ll become) give Tommy the last push he needs to finally put Lizzie first and to free her from the curse (him), so he lets her go without a fuss.

The tragedy in all of this, is that this is the first time Tommy has been selfless about her. This is the first time he has truly put her first. But Lizzie doesn’t know this, because she never found out why the bomb was ticking.

This is literally the biggest act of love Tommy has ever done for her, but she doesn’t even know it. To her, his acceptance probably only confirms that he doesn’t love her enough.

Truly tragic from beginning to end.

The Rings

This was one of my favorite details this season. She takes hers off, but Tommy keeps his on until the bitter end. He wears it until the very day he intends to die.

Even though Lizzie has left him, Tommy keeps the reminder of their marriage on him. He chooses to stay married to her until his last moments.

Which is no surprise because even during that plane ride, Lizzie and all the ways he failed her kept weighting on his mind. 

Right now, In this Moment

I wanted to wrap this up with this scene, because holy hell did we have to wait for it.

In Part 1, I talked about muy favorite bits: the parallels behind Lizzie knowing the combination to the safe, and Tommy saying that she married a man and she married a curse. But there’s something else that really stood out to me about Tommy’s wording, and it’s the way he choses to frame his long-time-coming confession.

I feel like this has so many layers; the wording is utterly deliberate and means a lot of things at once. Tommy chose that place because they have no history there; unlike Arrow House, there are no painful memories there. It isn’t tainted by their past and their mistakes. It’s a blank canvas where it’s just him and her.

But there’s more to it than that. Tommy dreads what he will become. Not only because of his business, but most of all, because of his sickness. 

He fears he will have to crawl, grow insane and helpless. A few months from now, he may not even be aware of who he is and of the way he feels about her.

So I feel that he is essentially telling her: for the record, in this moment, when I am of sound mind, and in this room, where you and I are all that matter, I want you to know that I love you. I wanted you to know this, while I can still say it. Please remember it.

And of course, Lizzie knows at once that something is wrong. That Tommy is like a bomb waiting to explode, because why else would he be admitting that he loves her now? Why else would he be expressing it with such ominous wording?

So all in all, Season 6 is just really bittersweet because it’s like Tommy and Lizzie didn’t even have a fighting chance. He was dead because of Polly, dead because of Ruby, dead because of business, dead because of his illness; and then Lizzie is gone.

Throughout Peaky Blinders, we saw Tommy fight his love for Lizzie, we saw him accept it, then we saw him admit it; but we never got to see them happy the way we should have. There was always something bigger than them going on, and it’s a huge shame.

In all honesty, I have no idea what is expecting them in the movie. In a way, I think Tommy knows that finally letting her go is the best thing he has ever done for her. In that way, their chapter may truly be closed.

But if he does manage to change, to truly change for good and become a man worthy of having her by his side, then I’d like for him to think he deserves to fight for her. I do think that despite everything, Lizzie would likely give him another chance.

Because for better or worse, Lizzie loves Tommy Shelby. And while it was often for the worse, Tommy Shelby loves her too.

[amazingmsme]

Wanna Know A Secret?

AN: The beginning of the peaky blinders fics I have planned! So happy I got the chance to write for Alfie, that dude is so fun! & he loves to poke Tommy’s buttons, lol. Lucky for him, so does Arthur. Enjoy day 4!

If anyone knew how to party, it was Alfie Solomon. Which was exactly why Arthur and Thomas Shelby found themselves particularly sloshed in his parlor, passing around bottle after bottle of liquor. Needless to say, spirits were high.

"You know somethin' Tommy? I think this is the most I've ever seen you smile!" Alfie commented rather loudly, leaning against Arthur's shoulder for support as he pointed at Thomas, who sat in a chair across from them.

"What can I say? We don't see each other much," he shrugged, sporting a sly yet amused smirk.

"He actually used to s me smile a lot more, believe it or not. But that was a long time ago. Before the war an' all that," Arthur slurred. He looked his brother up and down, a chuckle slipping past his lips.

"Hey Alfie, wanna know a secret?" he asked, grinning from ear to ear.

"Of course!"

"What secret," Tommy demanded to know, though he spoke in a carefree tone, leaning back in the chair.

Arthur waved him off. "You already know it," he said and leaned in, ready to whisper in Alfie's ear. 

"If I already know it, then why the secrecy?" Tommy questioned, arching a brow.

"Because without it, it wouldn't really feel like a secret, would it?"

"Yeah, it wouldn't feel like a secret!" Alfie agreed with a cheeky grin. Thomas narrowed his eyes as he watched his brother lean in and whisper in Alfie's ear. He watched as a smile stretched across his face and he glanced at Thomas then back at Arthur. "No shit?!"

"Go on, try it if you don't believe me!" Arthur goaded. "Don't worry, he won't bite. Usually. Just mostly bark."

Alfie snorted. "Mostly."

Thomas straightened in his seat as Alfie stood, walking over to sit on the arm of his chair, and furrowed his brows.

"Right then, what'd he tell you?" he asked, looking up at that shit eating grin shining through a thick beard.

"I s'pose I could tell you... But I'd rather show you."

He was about to ask just what the hell that was supposed to mean, when a hand reached up and scratched behind his ear. He was drunk and taken off guard, scrunching his neck as surprised giggles poured out before he could stop himself and Alfie froze. They looked at each other with wide eyes before he turned to his brother.

"Arthur what the fuck?" Perhaps it would've been more threatening if his face wasn't so flushed, or if he didn't have a smile playing at the edge of his mouth. Said man just shrugged, a very satisfied look on his face.

"What? We're all havin' a bit of fun. Figured it's been a while since I tortured you," he teased.

"You wouldn't," he challenged.

"Mmm, maybe not," Arthur conceded with a shrug, ducking his head down to stare at the floor. He tilted his chin up to meet his gaze, now sporting a devilish smirk. "But he would," he said matter of factly and pointed at Alfie, who now had both hands hovering around his ears, poised to strike.

He was about to yell out to wait when he dove in, tracing the shells of his ears and scribbling his fingers up and down his neck. He had no hope of holding back the boyish giggles that burst from where they had been buried deep in his chest.

"An' here I was thinkin' he didn't know how to laugh!" Alfie teased, continuing the ticklish assault. He growled at the playful taunt, gritting his teeth together to trap whatever embarrassing noises his body was trying to make. His face was scrunched adorably from the effort it took to hold in his laughter and a wide grin was nearly splitting his face in two. It was a rare and blessed sight to behold.

"I really gotta thank you Arthur, this is the best gift anyone's ever given me," he praised, pinning Tommy to the chair with his knee in his lap. "Gonna come in handy quite often I think," he added with an evil chuckle of his own. He was laughing right in his ear, and the low grumbling tenor shot tingles down his back and he squealed.

"Oh? What's this then?" he asked, clearly amused as he took advantage of their proximity and rubbed his scruff against his neck. Thomas spasmed and screamed in laughter, occasionally brown up by shrieks and snorts and he flailed about.

"Oh Jehesus Chrihihist, Alfihihihihehehe!" he screamed through hysterics, back arched while he pounded a hand against his back. Alfie leaned away to give him a breather, flashing him the widest smile he thinks he's ever seen.

"What's the matter Tommy? You ticklish or somethin'?" he let out a loud, heart laugh as if it was the funniest joke and slapped him on the shoulder. Arthur tossed his head back with an amused chuckle and Thomas groaned slumping forward.

"I'm never gonna live this down, am I?"

"Not likely."

He shot a glare at Alfie, though the unshakable grin severely dampened the effect.

"You tell anyone and I'll kill you slowly-"

"Mhm."

"And painfully."

"Okay."

Tommy wants to be mad. Should be mad. But he can't find it in himself to be upset, still feeling far too giggly to hold a grudge. Besides, he needed the laugh.

If Arthur had to tell anyone about his, ahem, weakness, Tommy's glad that at least it was just Alfie.

[graveyard---dolly]

Damn, I kinda ... don't care.jpg

[heeahheeya]

This is a kind of tragic the only love interest Grace has is Tommy Shelby, who has been sexually related to several beautiful women🤬

If Chester Campbell, who loved and obssessed with Grace, is not a father-aged man but a similar-aged hot guy, I would have shipped THEM also!!!

[entropy-shelby]

First Contact

Tw: mentions of being buried alive, mention of gore and death.

He's been digging for hours now and he isn't stopping until he reaches them. He knows they're still alive, he just knows, so he keeps digging. He digs, despite the Captain saying they're a lost cause. He digs, despite it being hours since the tunnel collapsed. He digs, because they are human and alive and he'll be damned if he lets them die.

Everyone else in the camp is asleep, not caring, not giving a single damn that he's digging or that lives are at stake here. They sleep, because he's awake and will alert if something happens. They sleep, because the dogs would go nuts if the enemy was approaching. They sleep, because the horses would make a ruckus if there were incoming shells. They sleep, because humans need sleep.

Someone was helping him earlier, despite the Captain's protests and orders not to. A sergeant, Arthur something. He's not good with names and the humans are fragile, they could die very easily and he knows he'll likely outlive everyone who fights beside him on the front lines. Arthur passed out some hours ago, on the dusty ground that's now almost taller than he is, which says something, since he's about 6'8.

He doesn't blame the man for falling asleep, he's only human and humans aren't meant to be awake for so long. Steam sputters from his cheek vents as he sees the soil move below his shovel. He throws it out of the hole, landing just beside his sleeping companion. He thinks the man mentioned one of the three buried men is his brother and another is a friend of theirs.

He digs with his mechanical hands now, until he unearths two hands, attached to an army uniform, and it gives him even more vigor to dig, because the being within his reach is still shaking and breathing, cold and afraid, but alive, just like he'd said they would be.

He moves the dirt fast and soon enough there's leeway for the human to get out of the collapsed tunnel. He looks young, gaunt and frail, but when his wild blue eyes land on him, the young man practically tackles him in a hug. He's sure it's uncomfortable, but it's likely adrenaline and relief that makes the young man cling to him. He gently places his own arms around the man's back to return the hug, if only to offer some sort of comfort to someone who thought their end was here, just moments ago.

When he gets the young man to release him, finally, he tilts his head up and calls, "Sergeant! Wake up!" His voice is thick with dust and the rust that's grown around his voice box in the years out here. He hears the man above grumble something, then shouts again, "Sergeant! I've found them!"

His previously sleeping companion darts up, still half asleep and slipping on the dust, but the gaslamp flickers on and he looks over the edge of the hole, much more awake when he seems to recognise the blue eyed young man. Arthur throws his arms down to pull the other man up and the machine gives a leg up from within the hole.

It's less than a minute until he's out and the two men are hugging, whispering words in a language he couldn't understand, but he assumes this man is Arthur's brother. His attention turns from the reunited brothers to movement in the loose ground. There, a leg is kicking at the dirt, struggling, it seems.

He bends down, takes a solid grip on the ankle and pulls to see if there's any give. There is. He drags another man back towards the opening and when he sees an arm, he pulls on that instead. The man's head comes out and he's like a firecracker lit off, so he calls to the brothers above ground.

Arthur and his brother bend over the edge and help pull the man out, their mechanical saviour helping from below once more. He hears them say a name. Danny. So they've recovered a brother and a friend. Once the Captain wakes up, he can report the good news to him. This digging wasn't in vain or a lost cause.

There was a third though, and upon further digging, he decides to leave him there. A strut had split the man's skull in half. It was a gory mess. He resigns to asking for the man's name from the other soldiers and reporting to the priest on camp to send a prayer to whichever higher being they believe in. He'd pray for them, but he's sure no higher being would listen.

Straightening up, he makes a small jump to grab hold of the edge of the hole and pulls himself up. Arthur and the other two grab a handful of his uniform jacket and try to help pull him out. He's too heavy for humans to move him that easily, but he appreciates their attempt. They are trying to share the kindness he spared for them.

When he's up, he tells them to return to their beds for the night, maybe go see the camp's medic in the morning. He spends another two or so hours filling in the hole, lest someone ends up falling inside a 7 foot deep hole on night patrol. He doesn't mind that Arthur takes the gaslamp with him, he can see just fine without it.

Several days later.

The soldiers were in the mess tent, so he took his chance to go tend to the horses. He unsettled some of the humans, so he tries to make himself as scarce as possible unless they're in the middle of an active battle.

He'd just finished brushing one of the stallions when he heard two sets of footsteps enter the poor excuse for a barn/tent/thing. Steam vents from his cheeks and he grabs his water bottle to refill his boiler.

Someone knocks on a nearby crate to get his attention and he turns dutifully, crouching down slightly to appear less intimidating. "How may I help you boys today?" He asks, trying to sound friendly.

"Lieutenant," one of them greets.

"Sergeant. Sergeant-major," He greets back, recognising them as Arthur and the clay-kicker he pulled out of the ground the other night.

"I wanted to say thank you, for the other night. The Captain admitted he'd ordered you not to try and dig us up, but you did anyway," the clay-kicker, the Sergeant-major, said.

He shrugs, grabs one of the horse-brushes and makes to finish brushing the second horse. "It's preposterous to leave someone behind in that situation," he tries to deflect. Humans didn't usually interact with him if they could avoid it and this one was outright thanking him, something no one has done before. He wasn't sure how to react.

"Thank you," he says again, stepping closer to him this time. Arthur stays where he stands, a tired smile resting on his face. He seems at ease, but he also seemed that way several times before when they've worked in close quarters together.

"I'm Thomas Shelby, by the way," Thomas holds his hand out for a shake. He looks at the outstretched hand for a moment, surprised, then remembers his manners.

"Entropy," he says, giving a firm shake. He logged that name as important and the conversation turned to the horses instead.

They didn't know it at the time, but this solidified the start of a much closer connection in the years to come.

[vintage-misery-ep]

y'know i think i've figured out my favourite pairing/relationship trope and why i'm immediately drawn to some ships no matter how vague or lacking in evidence.

it's grumpy bear/sweet with pretty hair

something about it just scratches this itch in my brain like nothing else.

chief examples:

tormund/jon from game of thrones (peak of this trope/pairing)

geralt/jaskier from the witcher

andrew/neil from all for the game (this one is very loose they're both grumpy)

jean/jeremy from all for the game

erik lehnsherr/charles xavier from x-men (specifically the newer/alternate timeline ones)

bones/jim from alternate timeline star trek (see my favourite series western skies by anruiukimi on ao3)

dean/castiel from supernatural

ghost/soap from modern warfare (yes i fell for that trend sue me it's hard to find non-explicit content for these two anyway)

regulus/james from marauders era (they both have pretty hair, this one is very loose)

alfie solomons/tommy shelby from peaky blinders (these two? yes)

p.s. yes im aware these are all m/m ships, no i am not fetishising gay relationships. im an amab agender and asexual individual myself and i just like reading fluffy stories about people who love each other, and prefer ships i can relate to. bugger off.

p.p.s. literally all of these are favourited tags on my ao3

[racing-stripes]

i love peaky blinders but the fact that it has a fandom at all is so unserious to me. like wdym tommy shelby x alfie solomons coffee shop au? those two men have tried to kill each other and Not in the sexy way

[wonderlanddreamer]

1,8,,10,18,20

Flo and John 🥰

1. Who makes the other blush all the time and who finds it adorable? John is constantly looking for ways to make Florence blush. He teases the fuck out of her when she does, but he can't deny that he finds it adorable.

8. Who gets jealous easier? Flo 100% gets jealous easier, but John enjoys using her jealousy as an excuse to snake an arm around her waist, pull her flush against his back and show her that she has zero reason to be, because the only girl he has eyes for is her.

10. Who brings up the subject of kids first? John brings up the subject of kids first, to tell Florence about his own. However, it's Florence who brings up the subject of them having kids.

18. Which one wears the "I'm with stupid" t-shirt? 100% Flo.

20. Who infodumps and who listens with heart eyes? John absolutely adores how articulate Florence is. He could sit and listen to her for hours.

Read Flo & John's story here.