#the things i do for cillian... the love is immeasurable

[afro-elf]

Ask from when-did-this-become-difficult:

okay i COULD say so many things about racism in fandom I remember the Sally Donovan days of Sherlock but I feel like a lot of ppl have already gone into that so let me just take this opportunity to say that a large swathe of Peaky Blinders fandom is complete trash. I'm not even gonna go into the misogyny altho it's blatant and pretty violent and disgusting. anyways pb itself has a fuckawful track record with race aka Isaiah Jesus & Jeremiah Jesus functioning only as the black friend and racism against them only existing as a plot device to make Michael and Tommy seem more cool/edgy/progressive. I could write an essay on the disrespect of hiring white actors to play romani characters who are delivering pained monologues about how they've suffered due to antiziganism. I could really fucking get into the treatment of Chinese characters especially before s5 I could also get into how s5 managed to fuck up SO BADLY in their fucking weird borderline thirsty treatment of Oswald Moseley who was a real life REAL LIFE british fascist whose followers IN REAL LIFE did beat up Jewish ppl and try to grow a fascist party inside the UK parliament among other disgusting things...but somehow the fandom manages to get even worse than the canon?

I am talking about how I have seen with my own two eyes smut written about oswald moseley fucking, i am talking about how I've seen white brits saying peaky blinders is so important because nobody ever talks about how the british (THE ! ! ! BRITSIH!) are underrepresented in media. a fun post about what types of music different characters listen to totally derailed by someone just choosing Bob Marley for Jeremiah Jesus just cause the guy's from Jamaica and has dreadlocks but uh he's lived in Birmingham for a long time and he's a street preacher there's so many other things to draw on but noooooooo. the unselfconscious furthering of the black best friend trope by constantly having Isaiah Jesus used as a plot device to get reader character (or OC) together with Michael with zero interest as Isaiah as a character. and oh lord the number of times ppl use "g*psy" without engaging their brains whatsoever!!! zero attempts at research re: Romani ppl with loads of stereotypes and to cap it all off! one of the cutest most fun girls I know who I met thru PB fandom and who is my friend to this day, who is half Sikh, used to get these anon comments like "your stories are historically inaccurate, you can't write about Indian girls getting together with black boys (Isaiah Jesus) because Indian people are too racist to ever let their daughters date outside their race" im just!!! Kendra!!!!!! there were MULTIPLE of those messages and she would get them at random times!!!!!!!!! and meanwhile my friend was literally the product of an Indian woman marrying outside her race, LITERALLY! never make a peaky blinders centric tumblr that way leads to hell

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DON’T I KNOW IT! DON’T I KNOW IT! in all the years i’ve watched it, i’ve reFUSEd to engage with the fandom of pb because somehow i knew the clown smoke was leading to a clown fire and you’ve just confirmed my suspicions!!! that’s so infuriating ahhhhhh!!!

[incomingalbatross]

"The Librarians and the Disenchanted Forest":

I think Eve is trying to give Flynn's resignation the benefit of the doubt by saying "it was to cut down the number of Librarians," but A) you don't know that because he didn't talk to you, B) Jenkins, who DID hear more of his doubts pre-resignation, thought he was mainly freaking out about the tethering (which, to be clear, is valid but different), and C) Eve. Why would you TELL the children about the Librarian Civil War like it was a legitimate concern, this isn't helping.

And again, if Flynn were really willing to resign over the civil war concerns, there are better solutions than "make the others resign too"! You have three left then—one can tether, one can be the mortal Librarian, and the one left should at least see if they could get reassigned to Guardian. Then you have two pairs, one active, and one tethered, and everything is status quo.

(Though, again, I really don't see WHY this is such a concern. Yes, one of them could go evil! A sole Librarian could also go evil just as easily, right? What, because the joint Librarians were corrupted last time, they automatically will in this case too? I'm with Jenkins, this whole thing is silly.)

Yes, Eve, talking SENSE. As I expected! Fate and Destiny and Prophecy are immeasurably weaker than Eve's stubborn drive to hold on to her family. That's how it works.

HOWEVER. Genuinely and unironically responding to her magic family-team's internal Fate and Destiny and Prophecy-fueled internal crisis by dragging them to a team-building retreat is SO FUNNY. And somehow also very Eve.

I mean yes, technically the Library sent them to a team-building retreat, but Eve is using it.

"I hate camp" Ezekiel, have you... have you been to summer camp? When? How?

Cassandra "my urge to recapture my missed childhood is drowning out literally everything else" Cillian is a very refreshing switch from the Crisis.

Throw three geniuses and one very competitive Colonel into a puzzle competition and everything else is instantly forgotten. Of course.

Yyyyeah, telling Spooky Indian Campfire Stories around Stone is not going to go smoothly. Saw that coming.

Okay, Ezekiel's starting to genuinely not have a good time I think. Maybe two pranks is his limit.

"When did I become the adult?" Good question, Ezekiel! Precedent suggests some kind of personality-altering magic may be at work on everyone else.

Stone: "OH NO. A PRETTY GIRL QUOTING POETRY. MY TWO WEAKNESSES"

I... think this is the first time Ezekiel has ever said something he was doing wasn't fun. Wow.

Oh right, I guess DOSA does still exist. :/

Oh hey, a Lois Lane! They're always trouble.

Aww, Ezekiel and Cassandra. :( I see where they're both coming from... (and honestly, I think they're just two different responses to the same problem of No Childhood)

Oh, the trees are attacking? Fun if true.

Ezekiel has at some point taught Stone to pick locks.

...Combined with the fact that we know he gave Jenkins lockpicks for Christmas... has Ezekiel at some point given Lockpicks and Training Therein to all his teammates? Was this his one-size-fits-all Christmas present one year, or did he just do it gradually as occasion arose?

Eve: HOW DARE ROMANCE EXIST. ROMANCE IS BAD. ONLY THE TEAM EXISTS

"I took Flynn back every time" Eve, I love you, Flynn absolutely should have talked to you, and also I understand you're not obligated to be a 100% reliable narrator right now. But... half the time you break up with him.

Bro, you can't show the investigative reporter the Magical Secret World she's been searching for and then tell her she can never reveal its existence. That's not fair.

"Librarians can't have personal lives" I know Flynn is a convincing case study, but. Charlene was married for a while. I think it's at least possible for your everyday Librarian to work out something sustainable.