#tom bennett x diane

[evita-shelby]

Tie your heart to mine

Chapter 6

Cw: mentions of recreational drug use, mentions of euthanasia

Gif by @damatheirin

She has been here plenty of times and yet she is twice as nervous as she was when she came here for supper the first time.

There is a wariness Douglas hides as Tom calls her his girl.

Tom held her hand, kissed like he meant it and called her his bird.

Bird, she’d come to know meant girlfriend.

“How was your first day at your office?” Lois asked as she helped her with dinner, something Lois had found strange at first but then they fell into the old routine they had before they learned the truth.

She may be richer than God, but she is still Diane.

Something Douglas did not quite believe.

He is just watching out for his kids, she supposed.

He used to like her fine before it all happened, but then again Diane had been lying about herself.

“S’good, I think. No one rioted, it didn’t collapse in a day and by the end of the month, I suppose it will be up to Shelby standards and be ready to change gears at any second now. My mom says it won’t be long before the Nazis take Poland and France.” She says forgetting Harry is in Poland.

It’s nearly July now, her mom gave it till August or September 1st before the second world war officially began.

“Did she see it in the cards, like you do?” Lois asks, hoping she could pretend it wasn’t true.

But her words do catch the men’s attention, especially Douglas who knows Tom may be called to serve.

“Yes, but confirmation came from friends she has in certain places. Germany and Russia are gearing up for grand scale invasions because they know those two countries are not prepared for one let alone the two of them.” Diane answered, seeing Tom in a naval uniform as she set his plate in front of him.

The sight is enough to shock her but hides it because she can’t bear the thought of never seeing him again or him returning a shell of his former self.

“Your Harry will be evacuated, but he’s a translator and those leave when the Embassy stops needing them.” Diane is incapable of being comforting in a way that is not acceptable to anyone who is not a Shelby.

Shelbys like kind words, but also the cold truth.

Rip off the band-aid.

“When I met your dad, he said, ‘Well, at least you get to leave, but you will be fucked in the head like the rest of us for life, I am afraid’.” Douglas said trying to distract Lois who did not take her words as comfort.

Who would anyways.

“When I was ten, he euthanized my filly after it got a disease in its hoofs, he said ‘sweetheart, sometimes death is a kindness’.” She says not helping her case. “I am afraid your Tom has saddled himself with a girl from a family full of freaks.”

“If you ask me, I don’t think he gives a shit about it.” Tom brought himself into the conversation.

“Language, Tom.” Lois chastised playfully, regaining some of her previous cheer by pushing the bad news to the back of her mind.

“As if you didn’t hear her say worse when we all got arrested.” Tom reminds her with that same old grin of his.

Spirits, she is so in love with this boy.

“She’s gonna marry him.” Eva tells her husband after he joined her in her very relaxing bath.

Made more relaxing by that joint of homegrown marijuana she just shared with him.

Better get him too calm to do anything when she has to give him news he doesn’t like.

And right now, Tommy’s only thinking about he’s needed this since their girl went to Manchester with the Lees.

“Yeah, he says he loves her and wouldn’t stop being with her for all the money in the world.” He admits, something Eva only half knew.

She knew about the threat he made because she had to calm him down before he wrecked his entire office.

“And he won’t, they will make a handsome couple, he in his sailor uniform, her in my old dress.” She said seeing them walk out of the courthouse looking so happy and knowing any happiness they have will be what warms them on the lonely nights to come.

“His dad is a pacifist, doubt he’d let the boy j enlist, let alone in the navy.” Tommy snorts before returning the ever-shrinking makeshift cigarette back to her.

“Not going to have a choice, it’s the Navy for prison.” Eva says with a bad feeling.

So much potential and the boy just threw it away.

Everyone told him he was heading nowhere so often Tom Bennett believes it.

A shame he will not realize his own potential until he sees the ugliness of war.

“I just wanted better for our little witch.” He said with a resigned sigh.

“So says any father who wants the best for their child, Tommy.” His wife said softly.

“Do you think our Diane hates me?” he asked hoping for a nice lie.

Except they don’t do sweet sounding lies in this family.

“Got a job today.” He admits it was as if it were some big secret. “Mechanic, a shop with some of mates from school that’s by the pub.”

Just know this, even if you managed to get your head out of your arse, you wouldn’t be worthy of my daughter.

Tom could hear the fucking words every fucking time he was with her.

It gnawed at him.

Yeah, it is one fucking thing to know you are nothing but a bloody nuisance, but it’s another for a fucking stranger to tell you will never be good enough for a girl with free will of her own.

He knows it, alright, but Tom could bet his sorry arse that Thomas fucking Shelby wasn’t good enough for his wife either.

Just like granddad looked at dad the same and just like Tom and his dad know Lois is too good for Harry Chase.

“I’m happy for you, when do you start?” she asks hiding whatever got her give that frightened gasp this evening.

Gets visions or feelings about the future. Not always a bad thing, but if it had been a good thing, she would told them.

If it had been a good thing, Diane wouldn’t be holding on to him like he might die tonight.

“Tomorrow morning, I’ll walk you to your factory every morning on my way to work and that.” he answers tracing patterns on the arm draped across his chest.

“I’d like that, might even slip away from my office to see you, Tom.” She gives a quiet chuckle, moving even closer to him.

What in hell had she seen that her like that?

[lya-dustin]

Mini moodboard challenge

Thank you @emilykaldwen amd @acrossthesestars for the tag

Cheating a bit because this is part of a fic i have on my peaky blinders (amd world on fire) blog @evita-shelby

"If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life." -Pablo Neruda

For the one shot: mist

(No pressure)tags: @cljordan-imperium @raincoffeeandfandoms @zablife @runnning-outof-time @call-sign-shark @cillmequick

[dalekofchaos]

Resident Evil fancast

Reposting for more notes and my new choices but here we go again

my other video game fancasts

Life Is Strange

Life Is Strange Before The Storm

Assassin’s Creed

Mass Effect

KOTOR

KOTOR II

The Force Unleashed

Silent Hill

God Of War

Mortal Kombat

Bioshock

Bioshock 2

Bioshock Infinite

Skyrim

Oblivion

Dead Rising

The Wolf Among Us

Telltale’s Batman

Telltale’s Game Of Thrones

Telltale’s The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead  The Final Season

Injustice

Red Dead Redemption

LA Noire

Detroit:Become Human

Red Dead Redemption 2

Henry Cavill as Chris Redfield

Alexandra Daddario as Jill Valentine

David Harbour as Barry Burton

Emma Myers as Rebecca Chambers

Michael Fassbender as Albert Wesker

Tyler Maine as Tyrant

Ben Foster as Joseph Frost

Chris Pine as Brad Vickers

Tom Savini as Enrico Marini

Arthur Darvill as Richard Aiken

Liam Hemsworth as Edward Dewey

Chad L. Coleman as Kenneth J. Sullivan

Taylor Kitsch as Forest Speyer

Ben Barnes as Billy Coen

Tom Hiddleston as young James Marcus

Charles Dance as old James Marcus 

Scott Eastwood as Leon S Kennedy

Natalia Dyer as Claire Redfield

Lulu Wilson as young Sherry Birkin

Gemma Chan as Ada Wong

Isaiah Mustafa as Marvin Branagh

Mark Addy as Robert Kendo

Jake Gyllenhaal as Ben Bertolucci

Jim Beaver as Chief Brian Irons

David Tennant as William Birkin

Lena Headey as Annette Birkin

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson as Mr X

Tom Hardy as HUNK

Diego Luna as Carlos Oliveria

Oleg Taktarov as Mikhail Victor

Igor Jijikine as Nikolai Zinoviev

Tom Felton as Murphy Seeker

Lance Reddick as Tyrell Patrick

Brian Howe as Dario Rosso

Derek Mears as Nemesis

Jaeden Martell as Steve Burnside

James Marsters as Alfred Ashford

Yvonne Strahovski as Alexia Ashford

Diane Guerrero as Manuela Hidalgo

Javier Bardem as Javier Hidalgo 

Mads Mikkelsen as Sergei Vladimir 

Grace Van Dien as Ashley Graham

Zazie Beetz as Ingrid Hunnigan

Zach Villa as Luis Sera

Nick Frost as The Merchant

Benico Del Toro as Osmund Saddler

Robert Maillet as Bitores Mendez

Peter Dinklage as Ramon Salazar

Dolph Lundgren as Jack Krauser

Russell Crowe as Parker Luciani

Chloe Bennett as Jessica Sherawat

Eddie Redmayne as Raymond Vester

Terry O’Quinn as Jack Norman

Michael Shannon as Clive R. O'Brian

Zoe Saldana as Sheva Alomar

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Josh Stone

Tobin Bell as Oswell E Spencer

Rami Malek as Ricardo Irving

Gal Gadot as Excella Gionne

Madison Davenport as Moira Burton

Malina Weissman as Natalia Korda

Natalie Dormer as Alex Wesker

Anne Hathaway as Gina Foley

Scoot McNairy as Neil Fisher

Jay Hernandez as Pedro Fernandez

Oscar Isaac as Gabriel Chavez

Jaimie Alexander as Helena Harper

Colton Haynes as Piers Nivans

Alexander Ludwig as Jake Muller

Chloë Grace Moretz as older Sherry Birkin

Adelaide Kane as Deborah Harper

Gemma Chan as Carla Radames

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Derek C. Simmons

Grant Gustin as Ethan Winters

Elizabeth Olsen as Mia Winters

Katie McGrath as Zoe Baker

Bryan Cranston as Jack Baker

Diane Lane as Marguerite Baker

Aaron Paul as Lucas Baker

Stephen Lang as Joe Baker

Millie Bobby Brown as young Eveline

Helena Bonham Carter as old Eveline

Paul Giamanti as The Duke

Charlize Theron as Mother Miranda

Gwendoline Christie as Lady Alcina Dimitrescu

Alexander Skarsgard as Karl Heisenberg

Eva Green as Donna Beneviento

Paula Rhodes voicing Angie

Andy Serkis as Salvatore Moreau

Karen Gillan as Daniela Dimitrescu

Ana de Armas as Cassandra Dimitrescu

Sophie Turner as Bela Dimitrescu

Kathryn Newton as Rosemary Winters

[radio-rhapsody]

BoRhap!Grease Prologue and Cast

Pairing: Ben Hardy x OC

Summary: Ben Hardy and Diane Rowe meet over the summer and have a summer fling. By the time school rolls around, Diane is supposed to move back to Australia. What happens when she ends up staying? (To put it simple: The movie Grease but with BoRhap)

Chapter 1

Cast:

T-birds:

Danny: Ben Kenickie: Gwilym Sonny: Joe Doody: Rami Putzie: James Grey (oc, goes by Grey)

Pink ladies:

Sandy: Diane Rowe (oc) Rizzo: Maxine Russ (oc, goes by Russ) Marty: Cheryl Warner (oc) Frenchie: Lucy (sometimes goes by Frenchie) Jan: Priya

Other characters:

Patty Simcox: Linda Bennett (oc) Tom Chisum: Allen Leech Coach Calhoun: Roger Principal McGee: Freddie Blanche: John Mrs. Murdock: Brian

Prologue:

Beach, Last Week of Summer

“Ben!” Diane giggled as she got splashed with ocean water from Ben again.

Splashing him back, she walked over to him in the shallow water.

He pulled her into a loving kiss, then pulled away to speak. “God, I don’t want summer to end.”

“Oh, don’t remind me! I don’t want to leave, Ben. I go back home on Saturday and I’m not ready for us to end.” Diane fessed, her hands going up to Ben’s face.

Ben didn’t respond, just pulled her into another kiss, this one more lust filled. Diane reluctantly pulled away, doing so being hard for her because of his hands moving up to her face.

“Ben please don’t spoil it.”

“Baby, I’m just trying to show that this isn’t an ending, only a beginning.”

Tag list: @i-padfootblack-things (send an ask or message me to be added to the tag list!)

A/N: Yup, finally posted something for this! Expect an actually chapter soon enough!

[themomsandthecity]

Every Baby Name We Could Possibly Think Of

Naming your baby is a big decision, and with endless options, it can also be a difficult one. Whether you're going the traditional route or want something more unique (if so, read this first!) it's helpful to have a little, or a lot, of inspiration. Ahead, you'll find nearly every baby name we could think of (close to 1,000!). These aren't just random names we found in a book or concocted ourselves - they're almost all monikers we've heard being used, or we actually know someone who goes by the name. If we missed any, tell us in the comments! A Aaliyah Aaron Abbie Abel Abigail Abraham Adalyn Adam Addilyn Addison Adelaide Adeline Adley Adora Agatha Aiden Alan Albert Aleph Alexander Alexis Ali Alma Alton Ama Amanda Amaryllis Amber Ameila Amélie Amy Anders Anderson Andrea Andrew Angie Angela Angelica Anika Anna Annalise Anne Annie Ansel Apple April Arata Archie Aria Ariane Ariel Arlee Arlo Arman Arthur Arun Arwen Arya Asha Asher Aspen Atticus Aton Aubrey Audrey August Augustus Aurora Ava Avery Axel Aziz B Bailey Barack Barbara Barney Barry Beatrice Beau Beckett Beckham Becky Ben Benedict Benjamin Bennett Bentley Bernadette Beth Bette Betty Beverly Bexley Bianca Bill Billie Bingham Bishop Bitsie Blake Blue Bobby Bodhi Bonnie Bowie Brady Braelynn Brandon Brayden Brecken Bree Brent Brenton Brett Brian Briana Briar Bridgette Brienne Brig Brigham Brinley Brio Britta Brock Brody Bronwyn Brooklyn Bruno Bryan Byron C Caden Caitlin Caity Cale Caleb Calla Calvin Camari Cameron Camilla Carena Carina Carl Carmel Carol Carrey Carter Cary Casey Caspian Cat Catherine Celine Chandler Chanel Channing Charise Charlene Charles Charlotte Chase Cher Cheri Cheriann Cheryl Chevy Chip Chloe Chris Chrissy Christian Christopher Claire Clara Clark Clary Claudia Clementine Clifford Clint Clinton Clyde Colin Collins Condoleezza Connor Conrad Constance Coolidge Cooper Cora Corban Courtney Cruz Related: 100 of the Most Beautiful Baby Names D Daisy Dale Dallas Damon Dane Danica Daniel Danielle Daphne Darby Darlene Darrel Daryl Dashiell Dave David Davina Davis Davon Dawn Dean Deanna Declan Dekel Delaney Delilah Delta Dennis Denzel Desmond Dev Devon Dexter Diane Dinah Dixie Dixon Dolores Dominique Donald Doris Dorothea Dorothy Dot Duke Duncan Dwight Dylan E Easton Ed Eden Edith Edmund Edward Effie Eleanor Elena Eli Eliana Elijah Elise Elizabeth Ella Elle Ellen Ellerie Ellie Elliott Ellis Elodie Eloise Elora Elroy Elsa Elsie Embry Emerson Emily Emma Emmett Eric Erica Esme Esmeralda Esther Ethan Ethel Eugene Evan Eve Evelyn Everett Evie Ewan Ezra F Farah Fay Felix Ferris Finn Fiona Fisher Fitz Fleur Flint Florence Floyd Flynn Ford Forrest Foster Fox Frances Frank Franklin Frederick G Gabe Gabriel Gaige Gail Gant Garrett Garth Gavin Gem Gemma Gene Genesis Gertrude George Gianna Gibson Gigi Gina Ginger Gladys Glenn Gloria Gordon Grace Grady Graham Grant Grayson Greer Gregory Griffin Grover Gus Gwen Gwyneth H Hadlee Hailey Hal Halle Hank Hannah Harding Harlow Harlyn Harold Harper Harriet Harrison Harry Hart Hartley Harvey Haven Hawk Hawthorne Hayden Hayes Hays Hazel Hector Heath Heather Helen Henley Henry Hillary Honor Holden Holly Holt Hope Hubert Hudson Hugo Humphrey Hunter Hurley Hutton Related: Based Off Last Year's Trends, These 30 Names Will Be Among the Most Popular of 2017 I Ian Ida Idris Ike Imanuel Imogen India Indy Ingrid Inizio Ireland Iris Irvin Isa Isaac Isabella Isabelle Isaiah Isla Israel Ivana Ivory J Jack Jackie Jackson Jacob Jacqueline Jaden Jaelyn Jagger Jake James Jameson Jamie Jane January Jason Jasper Jaun Jax Jaxon Jayce Jayden Jeannette Jed Jeff Jefferson Jenna Jess Jessica Jessie Jill Jillian Joan Joanna Joaquin Joe John Jones Jordan Joseph Josephine Josh Joshua Joslyn Joss Joy Joyce Judith Judy Jules Julia Julian Julie Juliet Julius June Juno Justin K Kai Kaia Kale Kalinda Kane Karah Katharine Kathryn Kate Kay Kaya Kaylee Keanu Keegan Keira Keith Kellan Kelly Kelsey Kendall Kennedy Kevin Khloe Kiah Kiele Kiera Kim Kima Kimberly Kingston Kinsley Kirk Kit Kitty Knox Krista Kristen Kurtis Kyle Kylie L Laith Lake Lana Landon Lane Larissa Larkin Laszlo Laura Lauren Lawrence Layla Leah Lee Leia Leighton Leilani Lena Lennon Leo Leonard Leslie Levi Lewis Leyona Lia Liam Liana Lida Lilith Lillian Lily Lincoln Lindsay Lionel Lisa Lisette Liz Logan Lois Lola London Loretta Lorraine Louella Louise Lucas Lucian Lucille Lucy Luke Luna Lux Lyle Lyndon Lynne Related: 100 Unusual Boy Names M Mabel Mabrey Mac Macallan Mackenzie Macy Madeleine Madelyn Madison Mae Maeby Maggie Mahershala Maia Makena Malcolm Maleeya Malia Mamie Mandy Marabelle Marcus Maren Margaret Margot Mari Maria Mariah Mariam Marilyn Marin Marion Marisole Marisse Marjorie Mark Marlene Marlon Marlowe Martha Martin Mary Mason Matilda Matthew Maui Mavis Maximus Maxson May Maya McKinley Megan Melissa Meredith Merritt Meryl Meyer Mia Michael Michelle Mika Mike Mila Mildred Miles Millie Milo Moana Molly Monica Monroe Montgomery Morgan Moses Muhammad Murray Myles N Nahall Nahla Nancy Nanette Naomie Nasima Natalie Nate Nathan Naveen Naya Neil Neisa Neo Neoma Newt Newton Niall Nicholas Nick Nico Nicole Nicolette Nigel Nile Nimah Nixon Noah Noel Nolan Nora Norma Norman North Nova O Obama Octavia Olly Olive Oliver Olivia Omar Opal Ophelia Ordell Oriana Orion Orlando Orson Orville Oscar Otis Otto Owen P Paige Paislee Paloma Pandora Paris Parker Patrick Patsy Paul Payton Pearl Peggy Penelope Penn Penny Perry Pete Peyton Phillip Phoebe Phoenix Phyllis Pierce Piper Polly Poppy Porter Posey Preston Primrose Priya Prudence Priscilla Q Quaid Quincy Quentin Quinn Quinten R Rachel Radley Rae Ralph Ramsey Rayna Rayne Reagan Rebecca Reese Reeve Reid Reign Remi Renly Rex Rhea Rhett Rhys Richard Rick Riley Ripley River Rivers Rob Robert Robin Rome Romy Ronald Ronin Rooney Roosevelt Rory Rosalind Rosalynn Rosamund Rose Rosemary Ross Rowan Roy Royce Ruby Rue Ruth Rutherford Ryan Ryder Related: 100 Unique Yet Beautiful Girls' Names S Sacha Sage Sahara Saint Sam Samuel Sandra Sandy Sansa Sarah Saul Savannah Sawyer Scarlett Schuyler Scout Sean Sebastian Selena Sena Seymour Shane Shannon Shea Shelly Sherlock Sherry Shiloh Shirley Sia Sidney Sienna Simon Skyler Sloan Sofia Solo Sonia Sophia Sophie Spencer Stacy Stanley Stella Stephanie Sterling Stetson Stuart Sue Sullivan Summer Suri Susan Sylvia T Tabitha Tad Tamera Tamsyn Tanner Tara Tate Taylor Teagan Teddy Terrance Thea Thelma Theordore Theresa Thomas Tim Tina Tinley Toby Todd Tom Tony Travis Travon Trent Trey Tricia Trinity Tripp Tristan Troy Truman Turner Tyler Tyson V Valentina Valentine Vance Vaughan Vaughn Vera Vern Victor Victoria Viggo Vince Vincent Viola Violet Virgil Vivian W Waldo Walker Wallis Walter Warren Watson Waverly Wells Wes Wesley Westley Whitney Will Willa William Willow Wilson Winter Wolfe Wren Wyatt X Xander Xavier Xeno Y Yanet Yani Yigal York Yuma Yvette Z Zachary Zahir Zander Zane Zaylee Zayn Zion Zoe Zola Zooey Zora Zuma Zuri Related: These Are the Most Popular Baby Names of 2016 http://bit.ly/2kR9iwY

[lgbtincomics]

Comic books nominated for the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards

GLAAD announced today the nominees for the 28th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of the LGBTQ community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Media Awards also fund GLAAD's work to accelerate acceptance of the LGBTQ community. For the first time, GLAAD expanded the Outstanding Music Artist and Outstanding Comic Book categories from five nominees to a maximum of 10 nominees each. [x]

All-New X-Men

by Dennis Hopeless, Mark Bagley, Andrew Hennessy, Paco Diaz, Nolan Woodard, Rachelle Rosenberg, Cory Petit (Marvel Comics)

Black Panther

by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze, Chris Sprouse, Walden Wong, Karl C. Story, Laura Martin, Matt Milla, Joe Sabino, Clayton Cowles (Marvel Comics)

DC Comics Bombshells

by Marguerite Bennett, Laura Braga, Sandy Jarrell, Maria Laura Sanapo, Mirka Andolfo, Pasquale Qualano, Marguerite Sauvage, Juan Albarran, Kelly Diane Fitzpatrick, J. Nanjan, Jeremy Lawson, Wendy Broome, Wes Abbott (DC Comics)

Kim & Kim

by Magdalene Visaggio, Eva Cabrera, Claudia Aguirre, Zakk Saam, Taylor Esposito (Black Mask Studios)

Love is Love

anthology originated by Marc Andreyko (IDW Publishing, DC Comics)

Lumberjanes

by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Carey Pietsch, Ayme Sotuyo, Carolyn Nowak, Maarta Laiho, Aubrey Aiese (BOOM! Studios)

Midnighter / Midnighter and Apollo

by Steve Orlando, David Messina, Aco, Hugo Petrus, Fernando Blanco, Gaetano Carlucci, Romulo Fajardo, Jr., Jeremy Cox, Tom Napolitano, Josh Reed (DC Comics)

Patsy Walker, A.K.A Hellcat!

by Kate Leth, Brittney L. Williams, Natasha Allegri, Megan Wilson, Rachelle Rosenberg, Clayton Cowles (Marvel Comics)

Saga

by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Fonografiks (Image Comics)

The Woods

by James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas, Josan Gonzalez, Ed Dukeshire (BOOM! Studios)

CW’s Supergirl is a nominee in the Outstanding Drama Series category.

Complete list of nominees

The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Media Awards also fund GLAAD's work to amplify stories from the LGBTQ community and issues that build support for equality and acceptance.

The GLAAD Media Awards ceremonies will be held in Los Angeles on April 1, 2017.

[aion-rsa]

Love is Love, Supergirl, All-New X-Men & More Nominated for GLAAD Awards

The annual GLAAD Media Awards, which “recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of the LGBTQ community and the issues that affect their lives,” has expanded its comic book category from five to ten nominees, all from a variety of different publishers.

The nominees cover a wide spectrum of books. Perennial awards favorite “Saga” scored a nomination, as did the violent and bloody “Midnighter and Apollo.” The all-ages “Lumberjanes” made the list, and so did the recent Ta-Nahisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze run on “Black Panther,” a dense political thriller which counts a prominent lesbian couple among the superhero’s bodyguards. Additionally, Dennis Hopeless’ “All-New X-Men,” which navigates the complex coming out story of classic mutant character Iceman, was also nominated.

RELATED: Supergirl’s Valentine’s Day Ep Will Test Alex And Maggie’s Romance

Some books, such as “Love is Love,” deal with issues of equality more explicitly, both in the comic and in real life; that is to say, the proceeds from “Love is Love” were donated to the victims of the Orlando Pulse shooting. Comics like “Kim & Kim,” on the other hand, put queer characters at the forefront of rollicking adventure.

The full list of comic book nominees is as follows:

“All-New X-Men” by Dennis Hopeless, Mark Bagley, Andrew Hennessy, Paco Diaz, Nolan Woodard, Rachelle Rosenberg, Cory Petit

“Black Panther” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze, Chris Sprouse, Walden Wong, Karl C. Story, Laura Martin, Matt Milla, Joe Sabino, Clayton Cowles

“DC Comics Bombshells” by Marguerite Bennett, Laura Braga, Sandy Jarrell, Maria Laura Sanapo, Mirka Andolfo, Pasquale Qualano, Marguerite Sauvage, Juan Albarran, Kelly Diane Fitzpatrick, J. Nanjan, Jeremy Lawson, Wendy Broome, Wes Abbott

“Kim & Kim,” by Magdalene Visaggio, Eva Cabrera, Claudia Aguirre, Zakk Saam, Taylor Esposito

“Love is Love” anthology originated by Marc Andreyko

“Lumberjanes” by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Carey Pietsch, Ayme Sotuyo, Carolyn Nowak, Maarta Laiho, Aubrey Aiese

“Midnighter / Midnighter and Apollo” by Steve Orlando, David Messina, Aco, Hugo Petrus, Fernando Blanco, Gaetano Carlucci, Romulo Fajardo, Jr., Jeremy Cox, Tom Napolitano, Josh Reed

“Patsy Walker, A.K.A Hellcat!” by Kate Leth, Brittney L. Williams, Natasha Allegri, Megan Wilson, Rachelle Rosenberg, Clayton Cowles

“Saga” by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Fonografiks

“The Woods” by James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas, Josan Gonzalez, Ed Dukeshire

GLAAD’s TV nominees are similarly diverse. They include comic book adaptations like “Supergirl” and “Wynonna Earp,” as well as comic adjacent shows like animated favorite “Steven Universe.”

The full list of nominees is available online. The awards recognize media that tackles issues of LGBTQ equality head on, as well as stories that represent the inner lives of queer characters. Some of the nominees, such as the movie “Star Trek Beyond,” simply include LGBTQ characters without calling much attention to that fact at all.

GLAAD is a successful and far-reaching organization that campaigns for the rights of the LGBTQ community. The award ceremonies will be held in Los Angeles, California on April 1st and in New York on May 6th.

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[evita-shelby]

Tie me to a moment

For the Tom x Diane Anon

Glimpses of moments between Tom and Diane (which will be explored much better in Tie your heart to mine as they haven't happened, so *spoilers*)

Cw: mentions of depression, grief, suicidal thoughts, angst, post traumatic stress, childbirth, blood, and if i forget one please tell me

Gif by @barbieaemond

The first thing their family said when they revealed their news was: please tell me you didn’t get her pregnant.

They were not pregnant.

No, the reason they rushed to get married after River Plate was the same as every soldier who came back did: they don’t want to die without knowing what could have been.

She is beautiful, wearing the same dress her mother had worn and before that mother’s dead sister and mother.

It was floor length, all delicate venetian lace and fitted like a glove.

Looked modern with its off the shoulder cut and slight modifications.

Feels overdressed for her own wedding, who would’ve thought that?

“Most girls just wear Sunday’s best for a courthouse wedding, mama.” Diane said as her mother fixed the red roses pinned to her dark hair.

If mother had had her way she’d be wearing the mantilla veil and the entire garnet set instead of just the earrings.

“Most girls aren’t my daughter.” Her mother said as she stepped back and admired her handiwork.

“You look beautiful,” mother is moved to tears and Diane cries too because she’d never thought how overwhelming this day would be.

“Don’t forget your vows.” His dad whispers as they take their places with the judge.

Tom wears his uniform, his dad a new suit and Lois looks like mom in her new dress.

It was supposed to be something small and quick, but then Di told her parents and her mother made a noise that had them believing she had choked on her drink.

They came to find a courthouse fettered with flowers, everything kicked up a notch because no child of hers will have a small wedding.

“What?” he asks at this strange advice.

Despite his refusal to help him stay, the wedding has allowed them to make things better.

“When I married your mum, my old man told me the same thing.” His father answered with a nostalgic smile.

He and his mum had rushed to get married in 1914, before he’d go to France for the next two years.

Funny how things repeat themselves with them.

H.M.S. Keith will go to France too.

And just like Douglas Bennett, Tom Bennett won’t return the same.

Better give Diane a good memory of him before the Tom she loves is gone.

“Why did he think you’d forget the words?” he asked just as the string quartet begins.

Tom gets his answer when he sees Diane.

He isn’t sure he’s even breathing until she’s right there in front of him.

“Wasn’t sure you were going to show up today.” He says quietly feeling it has been years since he said those words to her instead maybe some months.

“I wouldn’t miss it for the world.”

When Diane is told she is dead, she refuses to believe it.

She would feel it on her heart if he were.

When the urn with his remains arrives her world goes dark.

His wedding ring is missing as is the photograph of them he kept on him for good luck.

Yet in her heart she knows he’s not dead.

“He’s dead, sweetheart, I’m sorry.” Her father says trying to comfort her despite how much he hated Tom.

If it weren’t for the baby, she wouldn’t have kept on living.

She holds that last thread left of Tom inside her and even if life has no meaning for her without him, she lives because Tom Bennett Jr must live.

Days turn to weeks and weeks turn to months.

She was two months when she got his last letter, she was three when his remains returned to Longsight because her parents pulled every favor they could to get him back and now she is six months pregnant.

She is not completely alone, but it isn’t fair that Tom didn’t get to share her joys and her fears nor live to meet his own child.

She knew he would miss these moments and had accepted that when both had believed he’d come home.

If Diane had known she’d been wrong about that future they were going to have, she wouldn’t have let him go that morning at the docks.

If Diane had known the last words to him were, don’t you dare leave me for some pretty nurse, Thomas Bennet, she would have never said them.

His had been, I love you too.

And yet, her heart skips a beat when the telephone in her office rings.

“What are your plans for later, Mrs. Bennett?” Tom asks and Diane rushed to the window and sees him there looking different, but he is still her Tom.

“You tell me, Mr. Bennett!” She shouts from the factory’s second story window.

When he finally returns from France, he is not the same boy she fell in love with nor married.

She isn’t the same Diane either.

Not only that, she is pregnant.

He had gotten the letter telling him the news before Dunkirk.

Think about names for a boy, I’ve seen it. Blonde hair, brown eyes, and no doubt a cutie.

He laughed then, shared his good news with everyone even the crewmates that couldn’t stand him.

Jokingly suggested Keith as a name in his last letter before they headed for Dunkirk.

I love you, can’t wait to see you again, Di.

He had written his last letter to her that same night so it would leave as soon as possible.

That had been almost four months ago.

In the meantime, so much had happened.

Lois had had a baby girl and had a nice home with Vernon, her now husband. Harry was back with the Polish girl he left his sister for and her brothers who they had become friends with.

Dad replaced him with little Jan and Tommy Shelby had regretted wishing him gone when the coffin with the fake corpse arrived.

“Don’t leave me like that again.” She cries and holds him as tightly as she could with her belly.

Fucking thing had scared the shit of him.

Couldn’t tell she was pregnant until she turned around, he was half worried he’d find a baby boy named Keith and a Vernon replacing him in her heart.

“I won’t, Di.” He promises and knows its one he is going to break.

The Crown is powerful, but somehow it is powerless to stop the Shelbys from getting what they want.

Tom’s legal resurrection takes longer than it should, especially when they must find a way to get the kin of the dead man who replaced him to get him buried in his family plot.

He had been English too, some boy same age as Tom also named Tom.

Little Thomas Michael Junior is named after three Toms, and he has not even been born yet.

“Take it.” Shelby hands him an envelope heavy with money and a set of keys.

“I meant what I said when I told you I’d never take your money.” His blood boils when he remembers him thinking he could be bought.

“Not for you, for them.” Shelby gestured towards Diane being fussed over by her mother.

It wouldn’t be long now.

She had been about two going in three months in her last letter, she had been nearly five when he came back and now that he was officially alive, she was ready to give birth at any moment.

He couldn’t have them live with his dad nor have her live in a boarding house like she did up until they got married and she took his bed in the room he and Lois shared.

His pride and his stubbornness scream no, but his reason ---that sounds like his dad far too much--- has him accepting.

“I’ll pay you back every penny.” He vows and wonders if he will live long enough to do so.

Tom is woken by a night terror when her pains start.

In his thrashing he had hurt her and now the baby was coming early.

If he is worried, Diane’s mother is worse.

Screaming bloody murder until her husband takes her to the car and one of the midwives give her the brandy Tom had bought to wet the baby’s head.

Her sister had died giving birth at home, their house too far away from the town for the doctor to come in time.

She’d never recovered from that even after four children.

“You should leave, Tom, this next part won’t be---” the midwife, a girl he once knew in school, suggested gently, but he just shook his head and refused to move from her side.

“Not leaving her. She needs me here.” And he had kept his word, letting her crush his hands as he sat behind her to keep her in the position, they needed her in.

Both were covered in sweat and tears when they heard the first cries.

“Thomas Michael, after his dad and grandad.” She had laughed breathlessly as they gave them the screaming baby boy covered in her blood.

“Your dad’s going to kill me.” He laughs as he thinks he’s never been this happy in his life.

Thomas Michael Bennett Junior, Junior for short.

“I love you.” He says kissing his wife knowing he will remember this moment forever.

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With the punctuality of a headlong train

One shot collection companion to Tie your heart to mine.

(Both titles being lines taken from Pablo Neruda's poem Tie your heart at night to mine, love)

Gif by @violaobanion

Can't say no

Tie me to a moment

Iced Tea

Hugs

Shooting Star

Stargazing

Mist

Apple Cider

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Tie your heart to mine

Chapter 12

Cw:mentions of death, near death expiriences and trauma

Gif by @emziess

No more lying, Diane means it.

So when she offers him a tour of the house to get away from the servant’s watchful eyes, the witch proves it.

“Ask away.” She says leading him into the gallery.

Her mom has a love for the dark, most of Francisco Goya’s paintings and other obscure works adorn the walls of her private gallery in the small drawing room.

But here she displays some you would find in a normal estate.

Some portraits of her family, one of a long dead Smith relative, Beatte Smith, that she swindled from the 9th Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle the moment she got proof that the Romani King, Absalom Smith, was truly her ancestor and that his lovely daughter deserved to be displayed in her descendant’s house.

“Why were you so angry at me not treating your prophecy seriously?” Tom asks looking at Waterhouse’s Pandora as he asks her.

Rather fitting, he is opening the box and unleashing everything with that question.

Up until now, she had avoided speaking of her family history.

There was no need to ruin things with all of the skeletons in their closet.

“On my tenth birthday, I predicted Aunt Polly’s death, and five months later, she was shot in the head by the IRA.

A few years later, when I was fourteen, I was misdiagnosed with consumption by doctors because my best friend who sat beside me school, Cathy Shelly, caught it and died from it that same week.

Thank God it had been pneumonia and I survived when many of my classmates didn’t, but it still changed my perspective to know it is always one step behind me.

That even if I can feel it coming, I cannot stop it. Not for me not for anyone.”

Always one step behind her and that one day it will catch up or take someone she loves forever.

Now that she knew it was stalking Tom, she was so afraid of losing him. Of having him gone just like that.

Tom knew death, perhaps more than she did. He and his sister had been so young when their mum died of Influenza.

Stupid of her to expect him to have reacted to the inevitability of death like she did.

“I’m sorry for saying those things to you that night, we all process these things differently and I should’ve known better than to judge you for how you deal with shit like that.” She apologized and he accepted it.

“I suppose I could forgive you, like you said we deal with it differently.” Tom gave her hand a squeeze and even a small smile as they made up. “But I won’t accept your apology until you are completely honest with me about this.

Do you feel it coming for me?” he asks, deathly serious, his hand growing clammy in hers.

It being death, even calling it so is enough to scare the both of them.

“A chill in my bones every time I see you in your uniform, but mama sees us married with children, so perhaps it isn’t your death I feel might be someone else.” Diane answered wishing she could lie and say no, I don’t think you’re dying.

Death was a tricky thing to pin down in visions, her mother only saw it when it was going after a stranger or when she could prevent it for a loved one.

She didn’t see Tom’s death but saw a death in his family.

Maybe Douglas, or Lois or the baby that keeps appearing in Lois’ cards lately.

“Married, eh? Can’t even work up the courage to tell you I love you and you’re telling me I either die or settle down with you.” He pushes away his fears with his jokes and Diane realizes she doesn’t mind it anymore. Not one bit.

“I think you just did, Tommy.” The witch feels herself soar with that casual I love you he had said.

“Would you like to hear it again?” he asked with that grin of his that drives her crazy.

“As if you need to ask.” Diane answered knowing those three words will stay with her forever.

He leans down, letting her throw her arms around his neck as she stands as far as her tiptoes allowed her to and meet him halfway. “I love you, and I’m going to love you even if I don’t come back.”

“He’s dying isn’t he?” her husband asks as they quietly observe the young couple hiding in the maze.

They weren’t seen by Florence, but Tommy and Eva could see them just fine from their bedroom window.

Bennett had gotten their daughter something for her birthday, a necklace he puts on her as they sit on one of the white stone benches in the walled maze.

Diane kissed his cheek in thanks and her boyfriend says something that has the two of them laughing quietly before deciding Florence and Gabriel have been tortured enough.

They were young and in love, and it was a sight that contrasted with the grim future awaiting them.

“Prisoner of war, but no, Tom Bennett’s not dying.” The witch shook her head smiling softly as she saw how sweet they were with each other.

Eva sees Douglas Bennett become a shell of himself when they tell him Tom’s missing in France, she sees him ignoring the sirens telling him to run and sees him accept death as he asks Josie to forgive him for not taking care of the children better.

“But his father will.”

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Can't say no

Tom Bennett x Diane Shelby(oc)

Post war!Tom featuring kids, Tom Jr and Shelly(Shelby Louise) for the anon who requested it.

Gif by @violaobanion

Despite his success as a bookmaker and the comfort he keeps his family in now, he is reminded that what he considers to be a luxury is nothing to his loving businesswoman wife.

They have a boy now, Thomas Michael Bennett Jr, or Junior for short.

A blonde and brown eyed baby boy named after both his dad and grandfather because Douglas in his shellshocked mind remembered the full name of the man he met in a field hospital in France, but not the name of his father-in-law at the birth.

A sweet kid who has everything Tom’s parents barely scraped by to get and then some.

Like a fucking hand carved and painted rocking horse that looks exactly like the spotted colt his mother bought and housed in her dad’s stables in Birmingham.

“It’s Enbarr, daddy!” the boy said with a laugh.

“It sure fucking is.” Tom said before the four-year-old boy ratted him out to Diane.

“Tom, we’ve talked about this,” his witch of a wife said with a resigned sigh and yet kissed him in greeting.

He had come back from France and left her more than just his stories about the route that would later be called the Comet Line.

Then the war ended and Tom knew he didn’t want to live off his wife’s money and put his knack for bets into use.

Between the two of them they had a nice house in a nice neighborhood and lived damn well enough to give Junior and baby Shelby Louise everything.

In Di’s case literally fucking everything.

But he’d learned not to mind so much.

“When you said you were buying him a rocking horse, I didn’t think you’d buy the best damn rocking horse in England.” He points out quietly so Junior doesn’t hear him and cry again.

“He looked so cute on it at the shop, I couldn’t say no.” his wife said in her defense.

Had a similar defense for buying anything.

But don’t you like how I look in it, she asks wearing nothing but the jewelry she bought.

Don’t you look handsome in your designer suit, she points out before adding with a wink, and out of it too.

“Can’t say no to you either, can’t I, love?”

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am i googling what the weather was in Manchester in the summer of 1939 for a tom bennett x diane drabble?

yes i fucking am

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Tie your heart to mine

Chapter 3

Gif by @animusrox

While she is not surprised to see her daughter show an interest in politics, Eva was surprised to know it was in this specific place with this specific brother and sister.

She knew there was somebody ---Diane is not subtle when it comes to relationships--- she just wasn’t sure if it was the brother, or the sister arrested with her.

“There is a little extra for you to keep this off their records.” She said signing the forms that will hold no charges for anyone arrested tonight.

“For all three of them, ma’am? Bennett’s got a record as long as my arm and the girl’s headed that way too. Those two don’t deserve your kindness.” The man argued before Eva added a zero to the check.

“You were saying?” she smirked when the man changed his tune.

“I’ve taken care of everything, Mr. Bennett. The charges will be dropped, they will be out as soon as the kind sergeant finishes the paperwork.” Eva turned to the tired father of two who was on a first name basis with the sergeant thanks to his wayward children.

“Thank you, Mrs.---” he said genuinely grateful, but wary of her power and relationship with Diane.

“Shelby, Eva Shelby. I am Diane’s mother.” She shook the man’s hand and waited for it to click.

While the children were left a mystery to the papers, Eva made sure the world knew Thomas Shelby had a very devoted and stunning wife who does not look a day over forty despite nearing fifty.

And if that doesn’t ring a bell, both Douglas and the Shelbys had been in La Somme together.

“Arthur, Thomas or John?” he asks as they wait.

“Thomas. I take it you met them in France.” She pretends it is just an assumption and not something she knew the moment she heard his name earlier.

“I did.” He nods and avoids the elephant in the room. “Met in the field hospital, after the Somme. Me for shellshock them for getting trapped in a crater. Last I heard, Tommy won his reelection, you must be proud.”

“Yes, although if you ask me, Diane would’ve preferred he’d lost. Hates being known as the MP’s daughter.” Eva goes on assuming they know her daughter’s a Shelby. “Went on the road with John’s family by marriage to get a break from it all.”

If she was serious, she should have told them who she was by now.

“Don’t cry, you’ll get me next time, ladies.” The young man taunts the police officers in a way so reminiscent of Thomas’s brothers.

Reminds her of John, actually.

“Stop it Tom or they’ll throw you back.” His sister chides him half-heartedly.

They were both good looking, made it more difficult to guess which one Diane was with.

She takes it back when she sees the boy is the one angrier with Diane over something.

He has bloody knuckles and a look of betrayal; Diane had kept herself a mystery, hadn’t she?

Never works out, Eva should know.

“Who do you think got us out, Di?” she asked Eva’s daughter who freezes at the sight of her.

“No kind word for your mother, sweetheart?”

She had been waiting for the right moment to tell them she was a Shelby.

While they knew how many siblings she had, their names and ages and that her dad was overbearing while her mother was a tough act to follow, they didn’t know her last name.

They knew she was well off, but not I could buy all of Longsight and still have money to spare well off.

They knew she rubbed elbows with the upper class, but not my mum has monthly meetings with the queen and Mary Churchill is my brother’s secret girlfriend kind.

“I have not been completely honest with the two of you.” Diane said as they were put in adjoining cells on account of Lois and Tom being siblings.

“Now is not the time, Di.” Lois said reapplying her lipstick with the help of her compact.

“No, no, I want to hear it. Go on, Diane ---if that is your real name--- tell us who you are.” Tom dismissed his sister’s words.

Tom who punched a man who tried to hit her, Tom who has been honest with her and shared her bed in the vardo and now at the boarding house any chance he gets.

Tom who she might lose forever.

“My last name is Shelby. I didn’t lie about anything else, just never told you my full name.” She admits, knowing she may as well rot here because there is no way in hell they will speak to her ever again.

“Why couldn’t you tell us, tell me?” Tom asks, pained by this betrayal just as it pains her.

“The letters after my dad’s name are MP OBE. When people know I am a Shelby I stop being Diane. All they care about is getting dirt on my dad or getting their foot on the door.” She said hoping it wasn’t her dad who came to bail them out of here.

“And you thought we were like that? Think we are friends because we want handouts?” This time it’s Lois who speaks.

“I never cared for your money, Diane. I wanted you for you, I thought you knew that.” He said angry at the betrayal.

Before Diane could apologize and beg him to forgive her, the sergeant came to release them.

“All charges are being dropped, even yours, Bennett. You know the drill.”

They walk out almost as strangers. The sudden coldness between them is noted by the copper who makes a joke about it to their collective annoyance.

“Don’t cry, you’ll get me next time, ladies.” Tom mocks them when he sees his dad looking worried.

Pretending all is fine with him because it hurts him to see him worry.

Tom was born nine months after Douglas had been discharged because of his shellshock. His mum had been told maybe a child would snap him out of it, only for the anxiety of fucking him up to make it worse.

Hence why Tom was never told to stop, at least by him.

“Stop it Tom or they’ll throw you back.” His sister chides him pretending it couldn’t happen at a snap of her mother’s fingers.

Mother wouldn’t, Diane knows, father wouldn’t hesitate.

“No kind word for your mother, sweetheart?” the woman said with dark red lips and a black ensemble more suited for the funeral of a husband your murdered.

“I called Charlie.” Diane said.

She doesn’t hate mother, she loves her even with all her oddities, but what her mum knows her dad does too and the last thing she wants is for him to know about Tom.

Not that there is much to know now, Diane had fucked it up.

“Your brother knows better than to go behind my back, mi niña.” Her mother supplied and brushed off her fears while Douglas left with Tom and Lois, and they waited for mother’s chauffeur. “Don’t worry, your father will be none the wiser about your foray into the world of politics until one of Mosley’s cronies tells him about it at work tomorrow.

Unless you want to do the honors and get it over with tonight.”

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I know i wrote Diane marrying Tatiana's son in a one shot, but now that I'm watching World on Fire because Ewan Mitchell plays Tom Bennett, i kinda ship her with his character.

Like just imagine

Diane (fc: Rachel Zegler)

And Tom Bennett(played by Ewan Mitchell):

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The funniest thing between Tommy Shelby and Tom Bennett in Tie your heart to mine is that both refuse to acknowledge how similar they are.

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ah we are getting fed! Diane and Tom 🥺🥺, he really trekked all the way back to her (i just love how you’ve given Tom more tenderness while still staying true to his pigheadedness) have you changed anything about your story with S2 coming out. Seeing Tom in that outfit😩😩😩 sailor boy is coming home to mother (Diane)

Oh yes we is getting fed lol.

Just look at him, first time a hyperfixation is actually my age.

Just look at those eyes anon!

I haven't changed much, except maybe the name of his mom and the age they were when she died(Josie Bennett died in July 5th 1928).

Next chapter we have every single Shelby brother, Jeremiah and even Ben Younger telling Tom he looks like his dad because at some point they all met Douglas.

I am dreading to write the events of s1 because he has so little time in the series