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I want to back in that bright memories…

commissions open

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Haaaappy Birthday @nartista you beautiful talented sweet person you!! 😍😍😍

I figured this is a great opportunity to do fanart inspired by the comic you and @fawn-eyed-girl are making!! It’s so cute and fun and the art is amaaazing!!! I love it so much and can’t wait to see more ❤️

Also, if anyone hasn’t read the comic yet, go here right now!

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It's been too long without soft morning modern au eruris

art by 0023atn on twitter

(Posted with permission. Reprint/edit and/or commercial use prohibited.)

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little wizard (and his assistant)

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eruri mini dump

🔪🔪🔪 В ВК НЕ РЕПОСТИТЬ🔪🔪🔪

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"I've always wanted to fall in love like this..."

my submission for the @hms-harmony-discord secret santa hhr exchange!

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Right-hand man

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sunday evening sketch

(uncropped version here)

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My husband is very sorry and he is calm now. He is recovering from addiction.” — PEAKY BLINDERS S06E03 / requested by anon

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the male gaze

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That's the only way they should meet

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I’m watching PB season 1 because of post-finale feels and Grace and Tommy remain the most unconvincing romantic pairing of the whole show. It was a joke to Tommy's intelligence that he never realized Grace was a spy. Literally ridiculous. They made Tommy to be this super smart, perceptive man that was one step ahead of his enemies but he didn’t catch the most obvious spy with apparently not spy trained skills. I’m watching with a friend and he keeps thinking Tommy is aware and it’s only keeping her close for leverage. Like… if only he knew. It speaks on how unrealistic it is. The whole "love" between them was unrealistic and under developed. It wasn’t believable for Tommy to fall for her with how smart he actually is and by how much he values loyalty. The only romantic interests that I feel made sense with Tommy were May and/or Lizzie.

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Now that Peaky Blinders is over I can finally say that Tommy and Lizzie were better than Tommy and Grace. I never understood the attachment to Grace and the uncalled hate towards Lizzie, to me it was strange and unreasonable. Most of you all hated Lizzie for having emotions, being in love with Tommy and being "petty" sometimes as if half the characters weren’t already like that. Not only was Lizzie a way more compelling character, her dynamic with Tommy was complex, interesting and tragic.

I hardly could understand Grace as a character. We didn’t really got to know the real her when she wasn’t undercover and with some ulterior motive to her actions. It was really difficult to buy her love for Tommy and vice-verse, it was too fast and unconvincing. It feels like Tommy idolized her, almost as if she represented a life he wanted to have but couldn’t get. Tommy felt in love with the Grace he made up in his mind – the rich girl that ran away from home and wanted to make a better life for herself, that’s the version he felt for in a moment he needed to scape reality. When she was brought back on S2-S3 she was very different from S1, she just was a spoiled trophy wife – the whole propose for her to come back was to add to Tommy's torture and plot. We watched Grace from Tommy's point of view. Grace and Charlie represented the fairytale he didn’t get to have. That’s why I probably never became attached to her as her own because her character wasn’t meant to stand on her own but to be a projection/torture for Tommy. In addiction, I never got the feeling that Grace understood his life or his family. She never made actual efforts to integrate herself with the family. We never see her interacting with any Shelby except Tommy. She was brought up in a different environment than he did. She wasn’t with him or viewed him for what he truly was. It was a fantasy for her too. I think she thought she could change him, this idea of the high class girl that could make the mad boss become honorable and I wonder if she had truly stayed by him when things got harder.

(I also think it was a disservice to Tommy's intelligence that he didn’t actually catch up with her being an spy on S1. Like, you want to tell me he was one step ahead of everyone else but couldn’t catch the most obvious spy).

Lizzie, aside from Polly, was the only woman that truly got to understand Tommy – good and bad, and that despite everything stayed with him longer than anyone. She could read him like anyone else. She was raised on a similar background as the Shelby's. She was someone that grounded him, one of the few people that were holding him together and he knew he could genuinely trust her. She was one of Tommy's longer companions. She learned how to built her way up into the Shelby family and earned their trust and respect. The Shelley women loved her and protected her. Lizzie and Tommy could’ve been a power couple and I dislike how the show kind of tried to portray Grace as his ultimate soulmate and never got Tommy to do right by Lizzie. I know he cared for her and trusted her. I know he loved her but couldn’t understand his feelings until it was too late for him to act on them. I know that in a *normal* environment they would’ve been happy. There’s moments when you could feel the intimacy and care built on years of knowing each other. Grace might have been Tommy's first wife but ultimately I think Lizzie is what he needed in his life and it has always felt that way to me. Another aspect of them was Cilian and Natasha. She was one of the few actors that really was on part with him during scenes specially this last season. It was fascinating.

They could’ve truly built Lizzie and Tommy as a powerful married couple but didn’t. All the suffering Lizzie went through alone could’ve been easily avoided, all she wanted was her husband, his comfort. Instated, they had Tommy chasing shadows and neglecting his family. I understand S5/S6 Tommy was in a vulnerable state of mind. He was paranoid, he thought he was going to die, he knew he didn’t deserved Lizzie's love. That she doesn’t belong in his world. After Ruby's death, I think he felt like throwing it all away. He started acting out to avoid them, Lizzie and Charlie, any more pain but it was so difficult to watch Lizzie get hurt again and again, watch Tommy not giving her the answers to anything. It was painful to see Lizzie alone during her daughter’s death and having to make excuses for Tommy's absence. It was hard to watch Charlie recognize that he doesn’t see Tommy as a father because he never provided him with warmth. I love Tommy. He is complex and wasn’t supposed to be entirely right, but it was a shame to see him mess it up with Lizzie and his family this much, because I know he truly cares for his family and I wanted him to fix it. I wanted him to confide in Lizzie and lay some of that burden. I wanted him to try open up and give her the love she deserves and I know he was capable of giving it to her – it would’ve changed everything.

Lizzie should’ve left Tommy a long time ago. I understand why she didn’t earlier and I'm glad she eventually did to find peace elsewhere with Charlie, someone she raised as if it was her own child, but the writers truly did wrong by Lizzie and Tommy and all the inflicted suffering/neglect was poorly executed and cruel.

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— PEAKY BLINDERS S03E06/S06E06

/ requested by @ganseybois