#tommy × grace

[mctna2019]

Tommy: she's not gonna coming back so it's just you and me. she would be with us, in our heart. because we love her...

[enisteyjia]

[evnnkinard]

bucktommy and the rest of the firefam having a lil family gathering at bobby and athena's house. and buck spends a majority of the afternoon playing with the kiddo's, so tommy spends a majority of the afternoon making heart eyes at his adorable, silly, golden retriever boyfriend (and takes all the teasing he gets for it from his family like a champ).

and eventually, buck makes his way back over to the adult side of the party, only there's nowhere for him to sit. but before anyone can make space for him, he decisively makes his way over to tommy and just. plonks himself down straight into his boyfriend's lap. tommy doesn't even bat an eye. just. moves his arms out of the way to make space for buck and then wraps them securely around buck's waist when he's all settled in and comfortable. presses a quick kiss to his cheek, greets buck with a soft, "hey, baby," and then carries on his conversation with eddie. buck beams, cheeks flushing slightly even after all this time. mindlessly grabs one of tommy's hand and locks their fingers together, letting them fall to rest against his lap. misses the soft smiles he gets from his family at the interaction and turns to join in on the conversation everyone else has going on around him.

(eventually, as the evening goes on, little by little, he sinks further into tommy. body unconciously shifting, progressively curling inwards, towards his boyfriend. head slowly dipping, drifting further and further down until it's fully resting against tommy's shoulder. his conversation tapering off. it's a losing battle to keep his fluttering eyes open after tommy lifts his free hand to start stroking through his hair. there's a kiss pressed to the top of his head and he hums, content.)

[thesoldiersminute]

Peaky Blinders Season 3 | Episode 1

[awakeningnostalgia]

Peaky Blinders

THOMAS SHELBY

[daemonsdarksister]

NO FOOOKING FIGHTING

Tommy Shelby - Peaky Blinders

[mavi-gozlu-meyva]

[firehose118]

rewatching Hen Begins

sal is definitely the one who took the initiative on reporting gerrard, right?

at the infamous Team Jacob meal, gerrard says he’s worried about putting his life and the lives of “his men” in the “hands of someone who isn’t up to the job”

and sal gives him this long, evaluating, critical look

this is before hen thinks quickly to save the woman in the mudslide

this is before hen puts together the clues that there was another car in the accident and saves a drowned child

this look might be about female firefighters or about black firefighters but it is NOT about hen’s as-yet-untested abilities

i think sal sees gerrard as “someone who isn’t up to the job”

i think sal doesn’t trust gerrard with the lives of “his men”

we see later how gerrard dismisses hen’s ideas even when those ideas save lives. he chastises her for having them at all. does he listen to anyone else’s ideas? does he listen to sal?

how many people have died or been in unnecessary pain because gerrard has been too stubborn to listen to anyone but himself?

i think sal has wanted gerrard gone for a long time now

does he sense an opportunity in hen’s arrival? we know from Bobby Begins Again that sal wants to be captain. the easiest path to that for him is to take over from gerrard

gerrard has his say about women and leaves the table. sal kind of rolls his eyes but looks at tommy and nods for them to both leave with him

he looks almost regretful? like he doesn’t want to follow gerrard but knows he and tommy have to stay on his good side

maybe that’s the only way to get gerrard to listen—to make him see you as an extension of himself

so sal is still playing the game, still playing along as a card-carrying member of the Straight White Boys’ Club (and plays it so well that it wasn’t until my 5th rewatch with my saltommy goggles on that i even noticed this moment of evaluation at all)

throughout the episode, tommy follows closely at sal’s heels. sometimes tommy will look to gerrard for approval instead of sal (cutting out the middleman), but if sal goes somewhere, tommy is only a step behind him

sal knows how to play the game. tommy knows how to follow along. to hide in plain sight under the wing of someone who will guide him

i think sal said “let’s report this guy” and only had more and more justification as time when on—as hen proved herself more than capable and gerrard only got nastier in response

once their mission was set, tommy sent in his own reports. so did chimney, of course. who knows how many others sal recruited to report gerrard en masse

yes, hen is a great firefighter. but gerrard leaving the 118 was a coup, and it started before she set foot on her first call

this was a coup—and an unsuccessful one

gerrard was gone, yes. but sal did not replace him

i think this casts sal’s Bobby Begins Again insubordination/meltdown over being passed over for captain yet again into a more interesting light

after all sal has done for the 118? he got gerrard kicked out. he saved hen’s career—one of the smartest and most determined firefighters he’s ever worked with. he’s held the place together and run scenes as their string of retiring captains bumbled through calls

and then this random guy from minnesota is chastising sal for saving a kid trapped in a burning building? he thinks this is his house?

[jabimogodamogu]

[rysko]

This, but as Peaky Blinders

did this instead of going to sleep, bon apetit

[tommygrace]

He always wanted her close to him.

[mctna2019]

"I got my red dress on tonight Dancin' in the dark, in the pale moonlight"

peaky blinders : Tommy & Grace

[loveisalwaystheanswer]

PEAKY BLINDERS || S01E03 Dir. Otto Bathurst

[evnnkinard]

what about. tommy trying to get a very drunk buck into bed. and of course buck is being no help at all, he's all clingy and giggly, having the time of his life because his strong, hot firefighter-pilot boyfriend who has a cleft is currently manhandling him onto his mattress. and tommy, fond and so so gone on this man, has to remove buck's hands from where there clumsily grabbing at his face again, placing kisses on his fingers on both hands before letting go, and gently pushing buck onto his back so he can try and wrangle him out of his jeans.

and buck quietens, lets tommy get as far as pulling his jeans off his hips, and then, "tommy, tommy, tommy," and doesn't wait for an answer before he's pushing onto his elbows, grabbing at tommy's hips and using his boyfriends solid form to leverage himself back up into a sitting position. and then he's grabbing tommy's face again, squishing it slightly in his drunkenness, says like he's just had an eiphany, "you always take such good care of me," and declares, "did y'know m'gunna marry the hell out of you one day?"

and tommy's hands still where they'd moved to hold onto buck's wrists, thumbs gently soothing over his pulse points. gives buck what buck would say is his 'evan' face if he were sober. his heart beating wildly in his chest, says, slightly teasing, though he knows it's lost on his ineberated boyfriend, "you are, huh?"

"mhmm, yeah. m'gunna marry you so hard. you're never gunna be able to return me."

[thesoldiersminute]

Peaky Blinders Season 3 | Episode 2

[daemonsdarksister]

Thomas bloody Shelby - peaky blinders