#this is the cutest shit ever

[bittersweetbeet]

They are a package deal

Do NOT seperate

Bonus Duo:

[toasty-self-shipping]

Shoutout to girlfriend holding boyfriend being canon

[cillian-murph]

Hi I saw your request were open and had a possible idea for dad Tommy Shelby if you’re interested. It would be a Tom x reader where they have a 6 mon girl and Tom has to bring her to a meeting one day w/o his wife. And while hes trying to be all scary she’s just all over him grabbing everything (hair, ears, collar, wiskey, eyelashes…) saying dadaaa sweetly on his hip. And the men talking to (maybe Alfie+co) r trying to be serious(not die) maybe she likes Alfie’s beard & wants him to hold her😂

hi! i love this idea, sweet girl!dad tommy kills me 🥺 word count: 1.9k

“Tommy, I told you this weeks ago!” you sighed, pulling Edie higher on your hip. Your sweet girl was chewing on her fingers, and she watched her father cross the parlor to retrieve his trusty peaked cap from by his chair. “Ada and Pol and I are going into town today, we made the plans practically a lifetime ago!”

“Mouse, you know I can’t bring her to a meeting,” Tommy mumbled. “It’s no place for a baby.”

“Well, I can’t bring her,” you said. “I refuse. I need one day away, or I’ll go insane. Please, Tommy, she’ll be good, just give her a bottle before the meeting starts and she’ll sleep through the whole thing.”

"And if she doesn't?" Tommy asked, and you rolled your eyes.

"Then, that's when you improvise," you told him, and you held Edie out for him to take. "You're smart, Tom, and you're a great father. You'll think of something. Now, take the little angel, and I'll be back this afternoon."

Tommy took little Edie into his arms, and her hands went instantly to his tie, playing with the end of it. Even though she was hardly six months old, she was perceptive, and the black and grey tie that Tommy wore was one of her favorites because of how soft it was. At least, that's why you and Tommy assumed that she loved to play with it. He watched you take your handbag in your grasp, and you planted a kiss on Edie's forehead and one on his cheek before you left the house. The room was quiet for a moment as Tommy tried to gather his thoughts together, and Edie's tiny coo pulled his eyes to her. "Alright then, little Miss Edith," he started. "Let's get that bottle going, eh?"

Tommy was thankful to find that, on some small level, you were right. He held his little Edie close to his chest and gave her a bottle of warm milk, and the wee girl had hardly finished it before she was yawning and curling up in Tommy’s chest. It reminded him of when she was newborn and would fall asleep on his bare chest, just the smallest thing in his grasp. She had yet to grow much hair, and what she had reminded Tommy of when Finn and John were little (and, likely, what he looked like): her hair was a sort of ginger, almost blonde but not quite, and her eyes are startlingly blue. Arthur had commented once that he hated when Edie looked at him because she had “adult eyes”, whatever that meant. But Tommy was proud of his girl for being able to intimidate her uncle; it boded well for the future.

Tommy had Finn help him haul Edie’s bassinet into his office, where his meeting was. He was meeting with Alfie Solomons, a fierce gangster that he had a fondness for. In another life, they might have even been friends. But now, they were foes, and this meeting hopefully was the one that helped mend that gap a bit. It was important to Tommy, and he settled Edie in her bassinet and kissed her head. “Please stay asleep,” he whispered into her soft skin. “Just for an hour, that’s all I ask, my little ladybug. Please be good for your old papa.”

The air seemed to change the moment that Alfie Solomons entered the room. The atmosphere became thicker and more uncomfortable, and Tommy straightened his vest as he stood from his desk. “Solomons,” he greeted the man, and her shook his hand firmly.

“Shelby,” Alfie replied. “And, umm…” He pointed towards the bassinet, where Edie was still sleeping soundly, and he said, “Who’s’it over here?”

Tommy sighed. “My daughter,” he said. “My wife asked me to watch her while she went to lunch with my sister.”

“What’s her name?” Alfie asked.

Tommy furrowed his eyebrows at Solomons’ curiosity, but he pursed his lips and answered all the same. “Edith Violet,” he said. “We call her Edie. She’s only six months.”

“Edith Violet Shelby,” Solomons repeated. “And she’s gonna join the business in a few years, yeah?”

Tommy chuckled. “Maybe more than a few years,” he said. “But let’s get down to business, how about?”

Tommy’s foot jiggled as he talked to Solomons, and his eyes kept floating over to Edie at the window. Every so often, she would give a little squeak as she slept, and an instinct pulled at Tommy’s chest to fetch her and bounce her to make sure she was okay. “Now, you understand my position,” Solomons continued. “We don’t want to be known as people who do business with distrustful people, yeah?”

“Of course,” Tommy said. “I didn’t know that the Peaky Blinders had a reputation as distrustful people.”

“You don’t,” Solomons said. “But that’s not to say that, one day, you won’t gain that. All I’m saying is that, if your reputation changes, Shelby, we would have to rethink our—“

“Dada!”

Tommy froze up, and he felt the blood rush from his face. He instantly looked towards Edie and found her awake, standing up, braced against the side of her bassinet. Her wispy hair was a little matted, her cheeks full of sleepy color, but she was fully awake. But that wasn’t why Tommy froze. Her first word. Of course Edie’s first word was when you weren’t around to hear it.

“One moment,” Tommy sighed. “I need to speak to my associate.”

Alfie chuckled and nodded, and Tommy got up from his chair to pick up Edie. “I thought you were going to sleep for an hour, like we agreed,” he whispered to her, and she tugged at his tie again. “It's hardly been 20 minutes. And your first word... You know how upset your mumma will be that she missed it?”

“That was her first word, was it?” Alfie asked, and he turned to looked at Tommy and Edie. “Girl loves her papa. What a treat.”

Tommy bounced Edie for a moment, and he brought her back over to his seat. “I only have a few more things, Solomons,” he said. “Where your family doesn’t like business with people you can’t trust, my family isn’t too keen on doing business with people who lie. You wouldn’t lie to us, would ya?”

Alfie chuckled as Edie reached to grab at Tommy’s hair, and she mumbled, “Da, da, da… Dada!” Thankfully for Tommy, it didn’t seem like Alfie cared too much that Edie was being a bother. In fact, he seemed charmed by her. Maybe that was a good thing.

“We’re not in the business of lying,” Alfie replied. “We’re honest with our people, ain’t we? We’re gonna be honest with you.”

“Good,” Tommy said, and his hold became firm on Edie as she tries to wriggle her way out of his arms. She was reaching for Alfie, and, if Tommy knew his daughter, she was after his long beard. “No, my love, you’re staying here.”

"Let me see the little thing," Alfie said, extending his arms out. "I ain't got any of my own but, fuck, I wish."

Tommy chanced a look down at Edie, still wiggling like a worm in his arms, and he carefully passed her over to Alfie. She cooed up at the fearsome gang leader and tangled a hand in his thick beard, and Alfie smiled at her. A real smile. Tommy had never seen Alfie Solomons smile like that. "Jesus, that's some gaze she's got," he chuckled. "Them big blue eyes are gonna get her in trouble one day."

"My brother finds it unnerving," Tommy said, settling on the edge of his desk. "Says they're 'adult eyes'."

"Definitely her father's eyes," Alfie said, bouncing Edie on his knee. She squealed with laughter and tugged at Alfie's tie, one fist still in his beard. "Her mother's beautiful like her too, yeah?"

"Even more," Tommy said with a nod. "Edith's gorgeous, but her mother... A real knock-out. She could be one of those Hollywood actresses, she's such a looker."

"Beautiful wife and daughter," Alfie said. He lightly tickled Edie under her chin, and Edie giggled. "And ya love 'em, I can tell. You'd die for them?"

"Of course," Tommy nodded. "I'd do anything for my girls."

Alfie carefully stood from his chair, settling Edie on his hip, and, when he spoke, he spoke to her. "I quite like your daddy over here," he said. "D'ya like your daddy?" Edie sputtered and kicked her legs a little, and she cried out her first word again. "You've got yourself a deal there, Shelby. I'd be glad to do business with a man who's proud of his family."

Tommy tried not to let his excitement show, even though his body was flushing with adrenaline. He got the deal. Edie got him the deal. "Thank you, Mr. Solomons," he said, and Alfie chortled.

"Bah, don't call me that," he said. "I'll be Uncle Alfie from now on, yeah? What'ja think of that, Miss Edie?"

Edie babbled and tugged at Alfie's beard again, and the gangster laughed. Before he could say anything, though, the door to Tommy's office creaked open. You stood still and silent, examining the scene before you, and you swallowed thickly at the sight of whatever business partner of Tommy's was currently holding your daughter.

"Ah, here's my wife now," Tommy said, extending a hand in your direction. Dutifully, you went to stand by his side, and he wrapped an arm around your waist. "Alfie, this is my wife, the beautiful Mrs. Shelby."

"Nice to meet you, ma'am," Alfie told you, and you watched Edie tug at his beard and coo up at him. "I was just telling your mister here how lovely your little girl is."

"She's taken a liking to Mr. Solomons," Tommy told you, squeezing your hip.

"To my beard, rather, methinks," Alfie laughed.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Solomons," you said, but Alfie shook his head.

"It's no bother," Alfie told you. "Now, Tommy— Can I call ya Tommy? Feel like we're past those titles and shit now— next time I see you, I expect to see this little bug too. She's gotta be close with her Uncle Alfie, yeah?"

"Of course," Tommy nodded. Edie had noticed you by now, and she had fully turned her attention to you. She was wriggling out of Alfie's arms, babbling "Ma, ma, ma", and Tommy suddenly laughed. "Oh shit, mouse, I'm afraid you missed something rather important. It seems Edie's got a lot to say."

Your heart sank, and you quickly took her into your arms. "Oh no, what did she do?" you asked. "If it's anything bad, I'm blaming you, Tom."

"No, no," Tommy said. "It's good. She said her first word: dada."

"Dada!" Edie echoed, and your eyes started to well with tears. You tiny girl, once just a dream to you, had said her first word.

"Oh, Tommy!" you gasped. "And I missed it! I missed my daughter saying her first bleeding word, Jesus Christ..."

"There will be plenty more to come," Tommy assured you, and he planted a kiss in your hair.

"It's like me mum used to say," Alfie started. He grabbed his jacket from the back of his chair and shrugged it on as he talked. "'Ya spend the first year teachin' em how to walk and talk, and the next seventeen teachin' 'em to sit down and shut up'."

"Quite true, Alfie," Tommy laughed, slapping him on the back good-naturedly. "Let's get a drink some day, yeah?"

"S'long as you're buying," Alfie chuckled deep in his chest. "Have a good day, Dada."

[littlelightfish]

Them <3

[anyosu]

no bc im losing it

so in english it's "I never knew you were a hugger" which is incredibly painful and all that

and so I went to check out the norwegian dub for shits n giggles and to laugh at the voices and mf sonic says "I KNEW you were a hugger!"

I NEED TO BE SEDATED

edit 1:

edit 2: NEW LANGUAGES!!! IT GETS CUTER FOR EVERY FUCKING DUB

@dykedandelion: sonic in french says "ON A JAMAIS ÉTÉ AUSSI PROCHE" which means "WE'VE NEVER BEEN THIS CLOSE"

I checked the swedish dub and sonic says: "TÄNK ATT DU KAN VARA SÅ KRAMIG" which means something like "TO THINK THAT YOU CAN BE SO HUGGABLE"=!"=)!)"!=

@lephalacat courteously gave me a heart attack by giving the korean dub, where sonic says: "너한테 안기는 날이 오다니" which means "I CAN'T BELIEVE THE DAY ARRIVED FOR ME TO GET HUGGED BY YOU"

with the combined effort of @wackyunicornart and @dykedandelion they've expertly deduced what sonic says in the dutch dub: "I DIDN'T KNOW THAT YOU WERE SUCH A CUDDLER" i need aIR

@shadowthehedgehog swooped in with a delicious spanish one where sonic says: "QUIEN DIRÍA QUE TE GUSTABA ABRAZAR" which is "WHO KNEW YOU LIKED TO HUG" I NEED TO SIT IN A CORNER AND CRY

@luankuro in Portuguese sonic says something akin to "DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE SO AFFECTIONATE/TENDER" THIS SEASON HAS RUINED ME

@tenebraevesper graciously handed over both the croatian dub and the german dub; both of them just as DEVASTATING - in croatian, sonic says: "I DIDN'T KNOW THAT YOU LIKE TO HUG", and in german, he says: "I DIDN'T KNOW THAT YOU'RE INTO HUGGING" THESE HEDGEHOGS ARE GONNA BE THE DEATH OF ME

I will join @kyri45 in their several several processing business days after the italian dub was revealed to have sonic say: "I DIDN'T SEE YOU AS SUCH AN AFFECTIONATE TYPE"

@polaris-reblog and from the left field we have an INCREDIBLE Thai dub with sonic that says: "I DIDN'T KNOW YOU'D BE THE TYPE TO CARRY/PICK PEOPLE UP" CAN I GET A WAHOO

@windpolygon comes in with an absolute gem in russian: "DO YOU LIKE/LOVE TO HUG" SO WHAT IF HE DOES

@transgender-battlekukku runs in with Brazilian Portuguese that has sonic say: "EU NÃO SABIA QUE VOCÊ ERA TÃO CARINHOSO" which they so lovingly translate to "I NEVER KNEW YOU WERE SO LOVING/AFFECTIONATE" FELLAS WE DIDN'T KNOW EITHER BEFORE TODAY

the polish version, given by @hereissananxiousmess, has sonic being a sMARTASS, saying: "AH SO YOU DO LIKE TO HUG" JESUS CHRIST THIS GETS CUTER EACH TIME

the Galician version has me by the tHROAT okay @shadowthtrash so in this version sonic says: "Nunca pensei que me foses levar no colo" which means "I'VE NEVER THOUGHT YOU WOULD CRADLE ME AROUND" OUEGHR that's so cute

@mmiriozuzo turkish dub and sub is sO sweet honestly bc in the dub he says: "Sarılmayı sevdiğini hiç bilmiyordum", which translates to "I NEVER KNEW YOU LIKED HUGGING" while the turkish sub writes: "Sen sarılmayı sever miydin?" which means "SO YOU LIKE HUGGING?"

@ash-doodles-stuff went for my soul by revealing what the japanese and hindi version says; in Japanese, sonic says: "TO BE HELD IN YOUR ARMS" SONIC PLEASE - in the hindi version he says: "DIDN'T KNOW YOU LIKED HUGS AND STUFF" OEURGH I'LL NEVER GET ENOUGH OF THESE

@sonicposting joins the bandwagon by announcing the romanian version has sonic saying: "n-am știut că-ți place în brațe", which means something like "I DIDN'T KNOW YOU LIKE BEING HELD" although "it's hard to translate, but the way it is phrased implies that sonic didn't know shadow likes being held" THESE DUBS WILL END ME ONE DAY

@cosmicgirlypop runs in with the Arabic dub, where sonic says: "I DIDN'T KNOW YOU LIKE HUGS!" this is the yEAR OF SONADOW PEOPLE BC SHADOW SAYS "STAY WITH ME SONIC" AS A RESPONSE

@geek-leak slides in with the Finnish dub that has sonic saying: "En tiennyt et oot halijäbä" which roughly translates to "I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE A HUGGER-DUDE/HUG-DUDE" he truly is a smartass even when dying god bless

@indigocloudofnarcolepsy sprints in with a gem in hungarian, where sonic says: "Nem tudtam, hogy ölelkezős vagy!" which is "I DIDN'T KNOW YOU'RE A HUGGER" EVERY VARIANT IS SO CUTE

@scarlets-land-of-chaos-and-men NO EXPLANATION NEEDED BUT I NEED AIR

@darkmatters-ghost decided to decimate my every molecule with the Mandarin Chinese version where sonic says: "我不知道你喜欢抱抱， 啊。" bào (抱) means cuddle, and if you say a verb twice, it makes it informal and cutesy. Basically, he said, "aw, I didn't know you were such a cuddle-bug!"

C U D D L E B U G

suffice to say I think english is the glaring, obvious outlier here JHDJHDS

THE DUBBERS ATE AND LEFT NO CRUMBS BEHIND THIS IS TRULY THE YEAR OF SONADOW

[viveela]

This was the sweetest moment in the film

[aprylynn]

@cosmicdreamgrl this is for both of us 💗🐶

jungkook and bam doing instagram live with uncle tae ♡ for anon ♡

[greatestwizardofthisage]

i would like to personally thank siobhan thompson for organising the bad kids secret santa

[kaizsche]

"you're a monster." set it up (2018)

[comatosebunny09]

Sylus has a penchant for strays—just ask Luke and Kieran.

Maybe he takes in so many because he knows what being alone feels like. How it feels to be undesired and aimless. And perhaps that’s why he took you in all those years ago.

He wasn’t in the market for more henchmen/women/people, yet he didn’t turn you away when you asserted your way into his life, insisting you could be of value to him. He didn’t really need you at the time, yet now, it vexes him to imagine a day without your fruitless flirting and eccentricities coloring the atmosphere.

It’s fitting that, years later, after you unwittingly poked around in his mind and heart, he takes in the stray cat you insist on keeping. He pretends to be indifferent about it, the regal black feline roaming around his mansion like it owns the place. But he has yet to get rid of it, even long after its ribs are no longer visible, hidden by attentiveness, care, and lustrous tufts of fur.

Perhaps he keeps it around because it reminds him of you—mischievous, persistent, disarming. Maybe you’d be sad if you came by the mansion one day only to realize your precious little stray was gone. He couldn’t have you giving him the silent treatment for that, now could he? He figures it’s not so bad, keeping a piece of you around when you’re far from his side, swept away by missions and negotiations (his doing, by the way).

As much as he feigns disdain for the pretty little feline, his lips quirk when it hops onto his desk, slow-blinking and acknowledging him with the smallest, most pathetic “meep.”

He doesn’t chuckle fondly as he pets through the cat’s fur, and it bunts its little cranium against his knuckles, quietly demanding more pets. Marking him with its scent. And he’s certainly not enamored by the thing whilst he draws it onto his lap, the cat purring like the steady hum of a motor. It curls into a little ball of soot against his thighs, topaz eyes sliding shut, tail lazily swishing, displaying its trust in the big, bad wolf of a man it’s napping on.

Sylus has a thing for strays. And one day, he knows, it’ll be his undoing.

[dasketcherz]

so is no one gonna tell me that not only are freckled siblings...freckled siblings—but that they're also buck teeth siblings??

like how tf did i miss that but OH MY GOD??? THAT IS SOOOO FUCKING CUTE???

Your honor, they're literally TWINS!!

[this-is-where-i-hide-my-bullshit]

They are so insanely cute look at them

[sparrow-in-the-field]

I loved Jamie already but when this happened my heart melted, like yes of course you are a mama's boy

Jamie being a total momma’s boy is the best writing decision they’ve made all season. Like, yes, of course Jamie has a young mom who he still calls mommy and is incredibly close with and cuddles up with her on the couch with no shame or embarrassment. It’s like that scene in Ratatouille where he eats the cheese and strawberry at the same time, everything just magically clicked into place when that door opened and Jamie picked up his mom and spun her around in his arms like a solider returning to his girl after the war.

[eightyonefour]

ln4tok: can't even sit down in peace smh

[strangerhands]

crying he is just so. <3

[sjmonswjlle]

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