#pb stuff

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been reading peaky scripts trying to find cut scenes and this one from s3ep1 i am in pain

[my-sensorium]

Claiming Anya Chalotra for Hecate’s future child (she’s currently pregnant with her.)

Thank you!

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Peaky Blinders Finn-centric fics i would sell my soul to read aka please someone write this:

One where Pol, in s2, actually sends Finn away theres a great scene in s2ep5 where she grabs him out of a meeting after michaels been taken by the police to go on the road with their romani family, and it goes a couple of days and Tom is like “where the hell is actually Finn?” que panic - until Pol finally informs that she sent him away and theyre all shocked because they didnt notice and also what the fuck pol, some time goes by and then Finn turns up at their door looking absolutely awful after having ran from his travel company because someone came looking for Finn containing all the family angst

One where someone sets fire to the betting shop (maybe s2/s3), while Finn is asleep upstairs maybe hes been drinking or just not sleeping idk, que brothers (and maybe his bf Isaiah) to the rescue!

OR Finn actually getting kidnapped and hels for ransom because 1) hes a naive softy and 2) its not realistic that NONE of the bad buys take advantage of this dumb boy, youngest brother of Tom Shelby, just walkin around having a grand old time????

perhaps also someone actually being like “where the fuck are you actually living Finn?” before that ep in s4 where they give him that awful place, because im curious/perhaps hes just living alone in the betting shop, takin care of himself since Pol moved out, and thats just begging to be written angsty fic about

and also, this would have to be for s2, when arthurs going through that boxing phase messing up everyone; him sparring with Finn, and having an episode, and just coming back to himself having beaten his brother to a bloody pulp and everyone being shocked™ and worried

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Me, on my rewatch of peaky blinders s4ep1: where the fuck was Finn, did he literally not spend chirstmas with any of his family??

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i would die to see this scene

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me again, i sent you the big long 2 part finn rant! i found you on tumblr bc on ao3 in you profile you had a tumblr (which i presume was an old username) but when i looked it up this acc came up! i think maybe the fic you're thinking of, and i could be wrong here, is "independent" but peakyblinders1919. i read that a while ago and it was the first fic i ever saw that tried to fill in finns plotholes. i also thought maybe he had dyslexia or smthn and i would SO LOVE to see the shelbys (part 1/2)

(part 2/2) teaching him to read. i also always think about how finn is an orphan and was pretty much only raised by pol and yet she doesn’t seem particularly close to him? you would think he would be like a child to her but michael comes along and she drops finn like hot shit. tbh it feels like everyone drops finn when michael comes along. & i see it alot around tumblr but loads of ppl say “finn was/is closest to arthur” (part 3) do ppl just presume that bc arthur is the oldest and finn is the baby or is there a scene i missed somewhere? bc yes i see that arthur is one of the few who show finn affection but he’d also the meanest imo what with finn not being able to breath without being told to shut up or fuck off. but don’t get me wrong i love the idea of finn being closest w/ arthur. thoughts? ❤️ (ps sorry for spamming, but u seem just as concerned about finn as me 😂)

noo dont say sorry, i love your messages a whole lot, and i appreciate getting to ramble on about this!! I got so excited when I saw you were back!

I also feel like I should clarify that all my opinions mainly come from what I read out of scenes, since we’ve seen very little of this stuff, and alot of this isn’t “facts” but just how i see it

I was actually just thinking about Finn and Pol today! In math class bc you know, it was boring

Theres a scene, very short, in s2ep5, (i think michaels just been arrested and Pol is LIVID) they’re having a family meeting, and she goes “This life is ALL BAD” and she walks over and grabs Finn’s arm, and he lets her drag him out of the meeting only asking “what are you doing aunt pol???” and she answers “just shut up and walk,” and that he does. And none of the siblings say anything? Just looks on? It’s one of the few times, after the first ep, we get a very clear show of Pol’s feelings about Finn. And it shows the respect the others have for her and her responsibility over Finn, since none of them argues with her. I really wish we could’ve gotten more of Finn’s reaction to the whole “Pol suddenly having a son” thing, and the fact that Michael so quickly got a better position than Finn, though I guess it was because Michael is older. and i know that they only have so much time and so many characters and a whole plot to tell but still, my heart aches for those family feels and i do totally agree with you on how it seems like everyone drops finn the second michael arrives, and it hurts my heart. I feel like even if they haven’t shown it too much, they have built up that kind of view that Pol stepped up and took care of Finn after their mother died? that we’re meant to assume that? maybe its just fanon, idk, i just really wish we got more of that. she barely reacted when she got told Finn had gotten shot in s5????? Like what?? I know that it was probably because he wasn’t in any danger but stilll! and once again; there’s much potential angst and fluff studying that relationship! 

Also for the other part, I think Arthur telling Finn to “fuck off” and stuff, is his own a little misguided way trying to protect him. Finn is his kid-brother, always will be, and especially in the first seasons none of the shelbys wants Finn, for his own best, to be in on all the “grown up” shit they do. Arthur, kind of like Polly I guess, wants Finn to stay out of things for as long as possible, and that means him “fucking off” in serious meetings or him staying out of it when shit hits the fan. Arthur is more open with his care than Tommy, but is also very a kind of “tough love” guy. The scene in s4ep2, when Finn gets to sit at the table, and Arthur grabs him and says “Little Bastard. Sending his fucking kid, Sergeant Major, to do men’s work.” The acting is so great, like that HURT and its right after they lost John,  and i feel like it says alot about Arthur’s relationship with Finn, and how he views his little brother as just that - little, and wants to spare him for the kinda life his older brothers have lived and still do live. 

I think Tommy’s way of protecting Finn is trying to make him more hardened, more of a man, and teaching him the right ways to do things, how to survive in this life they’ve made themselves, while Arthur is more on the “keep him out of it, keep him safe that way” side, at least at the start, and it’s a very interesting contradictory

ALSO the scene i mentioned over when finn gets to sit at the table, it hurts when you later watch the scene where finn admits that he isn’t john which i could go on and on about, and i think it must be quite heartbreaking for Arthur to see that just as much as he wanted to keep his little brother out of “the life,” Finn maybe didn’t actually want it either when he realised what it meant?? and still he was brought into it because honestly, it was bound to happen, they never couldve kept him out of it even if Arthur really wanted too and maybe thats me going a bit off my feelings and not something that clearly shows in the actual show of course s5 fucks all that over but, well

can they please give us more family scenes, i need to see some brotherly bonding or angst with finn, i mean come on

i could continue but this is getting so so long, but yeah, dont hesitate sending me more asks, i love talking about finn and worrying about this poor boyo

[petersheart]

okay i am LOVING your add ons and what ifs on ao3!!!! finn is my absolute favourite and i always feel so bad for him bc although his family protects him it also seems like the kinda neglect him too 😭 i have always wondered how finn reacted to hearing the news of arthurs "death" right after john died and i always felt it was so cruel of tommy to put finn through that! and i was reading your list of finn-centrics you'd like to see... (PART 1/2)

part 2/2 the shelby family being like “where DO you live” cue them finding out that while they’re spending time with their family’s and each other, he’s alone above the betting shop taking care of himself. i’m not sure if it’s true or not but john makes a comment (idk when sorry) that finn can’t read but i’m not sure if that’s just john joking but if he actually can’t i would love to see his brothers teaching him. like, did no one srsly teach him to read? i get they’re busy but c'mon

First of all, thank you so much!!

Also yes, I really wish we could have gotten more of the immediate aftermath besides the take-his-eyes-thing with finn’s reaction to arthur’s death, and i think them not telling finn that arthur wasn’t actually dead just shows how they, and especially tommy, still views finn as his kid-brother and pol probably as the boy she raised, though i have questions about making your kid-brother take someones eyes out for someone’s death youve faked BUT THEN AGAIN it did probably make the death more believable which they needed, and i did think it was cool that finns “going over the edge” moment was used on revenging his brothers death, it made sense side note: I DO LOVE THE SCENE WHERE TOM GOES TO FIND FINN IN THE CROWD A WHOLE LOT ITS VERY GOOD

Changing topic- I would love to read a fic where they’re like “uhm finn where do you actually live?” or someone just suddenly going “uhm finn youre here every morning, and almost every night, what the hell” and finn just being like ??? “i live here??? ive lived here the whole time???? its quite roomy after aunt pol moved out” and them realising they’ve messed up and left him alone alot, i know ive read a fic where it was brushed upon but i cant find it right now ahh, but it was really good! i think the idea about how finn has become so independent because of how his brothers has tried to protect his innocence/youth by shutting him out is pretty neat

For the John comment - he does say that in s2ep3, because some potential hire says “i cant write” when asked to write down his address for finn, and john replies “thats all right, finn cant read,” and its in front of tom, arthur and this hire, im unsure if finn hears it or if hes outside but still - ouch. ive kinda played with the headcanon that he has dyslexia, which would make it even harder for him, because john confirms that they went to school later in the series so i?? assume finn did too?? and even in the 1920s i assume they learned to read somewhat? but yeah someone teach this boy to read properly!  IT COULD BE SO FLUFFY, or really angsty?? or abit of both which is honestly the best?? like one of his bros overhearing him having trouble reading aloud and first teasing him but then realising ohh this was kind of a too soft spot to poke fun at and maybe he flunked out and never went back because the teacher was an ass for his problems/not being a good/smart enough student or maybe even because of the war?

SORRY THIS GOT SO LONG BUT FEEL FREE TO SEND ME MORE ASKS because i love talking about this angsty boy so much  

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Watching Peaky Blinders season 2 makes me wanna either write but mostly read a fic where Arthur spars with Finn but accidently goes ham and really hurts him