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divinekangaroo · 7 months

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dreams that never come true - pettiot - Peaky Blinders (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

At some point during the S6-E1 four year timeskip, a small slice of life.

Ada Thorne Presents: the Suppressed Desire Ball.

(Tommy might've preferred to be abroad, too. In the absence of drink, the thought of navigating the far-reaching territories of those taffeta skirts might get him through.)

Tommy Shelby/Lizzie Stark, Ruby Shelby, Charles Shelby, Various Shelby Household Maids | Fluff (or the Appearance of Fluff), Fancy Dress Party, Family Dynamics, Family Bonding, Domesticity, Foreshadowing, Gendered Dynamics, Class Issues, References to Sigmund Freud, Bittersweet, 1500 Word Flash Fiction

#my writing #peaky blinders #tommy x lizzie #ruby shelby #charles shelby #i adore that AO3 has a 'references to sigmund freud' tag #i have mournful headcanons for lizzie and travel #based on lizzie's wistful 'we could be in america' to tommy #his absolutely entrenched englishman-ism #and on diana's mockery of lizzie's stereotypical paris honeymoon comment #also there is a Thing about architects and costume parties #all our balls were costume parties #this was a party theme i found for a 1933 Architectural Association ball #not gonna even pretend i'm not delighted about the number of layers in reading tommy's “suppressed desire” outfit tho #the non-canonic reading: wife's an oceanic metaphor then the husband can be a boatman navigating to foreign or familiar shores; however!#vigorously ignore the canon trauma door of giant solid steel labelled 'do not repeat do not fucking open'#but as tommy says to ada later that night at the party #sometimes an outfit's just a fucking outfit ada

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