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24 new Peaky fics!

There are 24 new Peaky fics, and you can read them here! We’ve got all sorts--slash, femslash, het, gen--hell, we even have a Downton Abbey crossover! LOVE. There’s something in the collection for everyone!

Some additional information about treating under the cut:

I’m aiming for everyone to get, in addition to their Official Gift, a little something extra, even if it’s just a drabble, so I’m gonna post a list of the people who haven’t got an extra treat yet and update it until everyone’s got a treat! 

Treats aren’t mandatory tho so if people are a bit exhausted w/ fic writing already, no worries. I’ve got a couple drabble ideas myself already and I can turn out drabbles like no one’s business!

treatless list (AO3 names): 

Vamillepudding

turquoisetumult

shoshe_anders

queuebird

museme87

Impala_Chick

Emjen_Enla

darkandstormyslash

convenience

Ashling

You can see the list of requests alphabetically here.

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(my letter for the Peaky Blinders Exchange)

Dear Peaky Blinders Author,

AAAAAAAAAAAH! First Peaky Blinders Exchange ever and I’m wildly excited!

This letter is long because I write all my Dear Creator letters the way I like to read them, and I love reading juicy letters. That said, feel free to go your own way and write whatever you want as long as it includes one of these pairings! I don’t want you to feel boxed in, and surprises can be fun. This letter is just meant to help give you some ideas if you have no idea where you wanna go. I appreciate all the time & thought you put into this. <3

Do Not Want: incest, rape/dubcon/noncon/underage sex shown (implied in the past is okay), hard kinks, detailed torture, a/b/o, cannibalism, vampires and werewolves, eating disorders

My Longest Yea Boy Ever:

A battle, fight, or confrontation

A character who has run out of fucks to give

Arranged marriage

Banter/That Dialogue™

Food/cooking

Forced to work together because of a common goal/common enemy

Horses

“I thought you were hurt/dead”

Intimacy

Ladies white knighting their significant others/crushes

Loyalty/conflicting loyalties

Pining (especially if it’s mutual but they don’t know it yet)

Political maneuvering

Protectiveness

Tending to wounds

Work Song by Hozier

Esme Shelby/Tommy Shelby

Despite its rarity, I’ve requested this relationship in literally four different exchanges, and I will continue to request this pairing in every possible exchange until I either receive fic for it or die. That’s just how I feel about it.

Esme Shelby is a gorgeous, no-holds-barred, sharp-tongued, quick-eyed storm of a woman and I love her now and forever. And frankly, every move she’s made so far is impeccable. She told Tommy not to expand to London, and she was right; the ensuing fights rained down massive amounts of trauma on the family and Tommy barely escaped with his life by the grace of Winston Churchill being a scheming bastard. She figured out that Polly was being scammed and told Tommy; without her, Michael and Polly would never have been reunited. When Michael got arrested, her first thought was not panic or rage but business: getting soldiers from Queen Mary Lee at the Black Patch. Esme was always a badass, but never was given the spotlight to shine. And I’m fully aware that this is a Controversial Take™, but she had actual chemistry with Tommy, my vicious aching restless wounded fighter. He’s always looking for the next challenge in business, and in life, he likes people who challenge him. Esme challenges him and then some. She’s ride or die. I think they could be an incredible power couple. Words can’t describe how much I love the tension in the air between the two of them. And yes, I know, in canon that tension is mostly borne of conflict, but fuck it, this is fic. What if there was more to it than that?

Ideas:

I will forever desire fic that’s an arranged marriage AU for the two of them. I could read 50 different fics about that.

What if John was still in love with Lizzie and Esme fell for Tommy? Listen: she called him Thomas at a family meeting, and Polly went: Thomas? And I went: HM.

AU where Esme is the daughter of Queen Mary Lee of the Black Patch and she’s sent to Birmingham to negotiate business with Tommy.

For this pairing, literally any kind of hurt/comfort fic would be...absolutely PRIME.

Esme Can Ride Better Than Tommy Can. Just Facts.

Grace Burgess/Lizzie Stark

I invented this ship, and I will go down with it if necessary. It caters to more tropes than my romantic heart can handle. Height difference! Undercover agent falls in love! Rags to riches! Two quiet, fierce women with dark pasts doing whatever they have to do to survive & keep the people they love alive. I think of Grace, who is a deeply observant woman doing her best to go unnoticed, seeing the true Lizzie, who is doing her best to be seen but constantly being dismissed as just a sex worker and a laughingstock. I think of Lizzie, who has borne more than any woman should ever have to bear, hoping for love and acceptance and never getting it, finding both of those things in a blonde, tiny, unexpected package. How surprised she might be if someone finally fucking stood up for her. How Grace, with her spy training, and Lizzie, with her deep Birmingham knowledge, could function as a formidable power couple. Oh, I could go on about them for days. There’s so much potential there.

Ideas

In s1, Grace falls for Lizzie instead of Tommy, and protects him to spare Lizzie the pain since she knows that Lizzie has a complicated relationship with the Shelby brothers. She never expects anything from Lizzie, but Lizzie surprises her.

Tommy dies in s3 instead of Grace, and  during the timeline of s4, Grace and Lizzie fall in love.

Grace and Lizzie face some kind of enemy down together, or get vengeance on one of their enemies. Campbell is one idea; Tommy is another. Or maybe it’s an original character. Doesn’t matter, as long as it’s satisfying.

A slice of life, something domestic, established. Just talking about how their lives have become integrated, who usually does the dishes, whether or not they’ve met each other’s families, that sort of thing.

Lizzie Said Fuck The Police! Grace Said...

May Carleton/Alfie Solomons

Still waters run deep. After years of mourning her husband, under surveillance at all times by her own servants, I think certain restraints just broke inside May. She looked around, saw a beautiful man who was also the most dangerous man in the whole city, thought, “hm, I’ll take him” and then just fucking took him. SHE DID THAT. On the other hand, Alfie Solomons is sheer fun: the swagger, the contrast between affability and violence, the pride in his Jewish identity, the rambling. My favorite moment of his is the time that he called Tommy out for having double standards about his son’s kidnapping. That was so insightful. Alfie knows perfectly well who he is as a killer criminal, and he faces that unflinchingly. Imagine: May’s fuck-it attitude meeting Alfie’s fuck-it attitude. Couple of the fucking century.

(I know their characters have never interacted in the show, but their actors are married happily in real life and acted together in Wuthering Heights, so I’ve seen the chemistry with my own two eyes and I know it is there. GOD, it is THERE.)

Ideas

Alfie was a captain in May’s husband’s battalion. After the war, he contacts her, and they’re both surprised that despite her grief and his trauma, they find a real connection.

Alfie very politely takes May as a hostage in some sort of showdown with Tommy; May escapes of her own accord, but there’s a hell of a lot of flirting.

May and Alfie run into each other during s4, visiting Tommy. They both go, “...interesting…” and soon after that, “oh, what the hell, let’s do it” because Alfie’s dying and May’s feeling liberated after having just gotten over Tommy

Literally any kind of first meeting that includes the vibe of “May’s fuck-it attitude meeting Alfie’s fuck-it attitude”

Alfie Doesn’t Like Horses Very Much. May’s Reaction?

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Peaky Exchange 2: Season 5 Edition SIGN-UPS OPEN NOW

The Peaky Blinders Fic Exchange is a fun, Secret Santa kind of thing where every participant gets one gift of Peaky Blinders fanfiction. Every participant also has to write one fic gift for someone else. Fics must be complete and a minimum of 500 words long.

Signups open: October 12

Signups close: October 20

Assignments go out: October 21

Posting deadline: November 22

Story reveal: November 29

Author reveal: December 6

To sign up, you need an Archive Of Our Own (AO3) account. If you have one, GO HERE TO SIGN UP. If you have an AO3 account but you have never signed up for an exchange before and want some detailed guidance, go here for an example signup. If you don’t have an account, go here for info on how to get one. 

Signups close ad midnight EST on October 20. The countdown to signups closing is here.

For more general information, here is the profile and FAQ.

if you have any questions, drop an ask in the inbox or email mods at [email protected].

And even if you don’t sign up, please reblog & let your writer friends know about it! And if you signed up, feel free reblog this post and tell your followers why you’re participating! We’re looking to beat our record of 34 fics from the last round of the exchange.

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Peaky Blinders Fanfic Exchange: Season 5 Edition!

After the glory of the @peakyemergencyresponsefic writing challenge, which was run by the magnificent @darkandstormyslash and produced 25 fics on archiveofourown alone, here’s another fun fandom event!

This is a fandom event where everyone writes one fanfic for someone else and receives one fanfic from someone else, with gifts being fanfics that are at least 500 words long and about a requested relationship. Sometimes people write extra gifts, which is great, but optional.

The last exchange was super fun, with 26 people participating and 34 fics written. We saw everything from steamy Alfie/Tommy to fierce Ada/Jessie to romances of all kinds with original characters and Reader characters. But romance and sex wasn’t all; we also had fic about Tommy and Finn as brothers, fic about Michael and Reader as friends, and more! And we’re looking forward to another exchange jam-packed with a variety of Peaky goodness.

This exchange has one new feature, which is the inclusion of crossover pairings. Maybe the new Downton Abbey movie has you all excited about the 1920s, and you want May Carleton/Mary Crawley. You can ask for that! Or maybe you’re a Christopher Nolan aficionado and you want some Eames from Inception with Tommy Shelby. You can ask for that too!

This exchange is timed to begin with the Netflix release of Peaky Blinders Season 5 on October 4. If you’re interested, but you’re not sure, and you want more information, email your questions to [email protected], send in an ask, or continue reading. And please spread the word about this exchange to your friends! We’re hoping to have even more fics than last time.

Links

The AO3 Profile • The Tagset • The Dreamwidth

Schedule

Nominations: October 4-October 11

Sign-ups: October 12-October 20

Deadline: November 22

Reveals: November 29

Further Details

Just like last time, this exchange is being run through archiveofourown.org, the nonprofit fan fiction archive used by all kinds of fanfic authors​. If you already have an ao3 account, great! If not, we can get you one, just email us at [email protected]. Or you can get yourself one here.

The first stage of the exchange, nominations, is purely optional. Basically, in order to match you with someone you can write for, they have to ask for a relationship, e.g. Tommy Shelby/Reader, and you have to offer to write for it. Nominating a relationship adds that relationship to a list of relationships that people can ask for. This helps us, because if we didn’t have that official list of relationships, we might have someone ask for “Thomas Shelby/Reader” and someone else offer “Tommy Shelby/Reader”, and the computer algorithm that matches up people would miss that because those are two different relationship tags.

If you already have an archiveofourown account, you can start nominating relationships to the tags here on October 4.

We will post more information about sign-ups, et cetera, when they start happening.

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nominations open for Peaky Blinders Exchange: Season 5 Edition!

The first stage of the Peaky Blinders Exchange: Season 5 edition has begun! And it’s not a coincidence that today, October 4, is also the day that Peaky releases onto Netflix. 

If there are Peaky relationships you would like to receive fic for or Peaky relationships you would like to write about, then nominate them by going to the tagset and clicking the Nominate button in the top right. Here’s some examples:

Jessie Eden/Ada Shelby (a romantic and/or sexual relationship, as indicated by the slash)

John Shelby & Polly Shelby (a platonic relationship, as indicated by the ampersand)

Lizzie Stark & None (a request for a one-character study, as indicated by the & none)

May Carleton/Mary Crawley (Downton Abbey) (a crossover relationship, with the crossover character’s fandom in parentheses)

Eddie Brock (Venom 2018)/Tommy Shelby/Venom (poly relationships can be nominated as well)

Please nominate all relationships under the fandom Peaky Blinders (TV) unless they’re crossovers, in which case nominate them under Crossover Fandom. 

Relationship nominations will close on October 11, right before midnight. EST. Here is a countdown.

To nominate relationships, you’ll need an archiveofourown.org account. AO3 is the biggest nonprofit archive of fanfiction out there. If you have trouble getting an account, or if you have any questions, email mods at [email protected]. 

Tagset • AO3 profile • Dreamwidth

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one week to go!

if you’ve signed up, this is your reminder that the peaky blinders exchange deadline is next Friday (November 22)

you can still tweak dialogue, add scenes, and other stuff between Nov 22 and fic reveals no Nov 29, but you should have a publishable fic of 500 words or more by Nov 22 or you will be defaulted

anybody (whether they signed up or not) can write extra gifts aka treats for any requests that catch their eye. (view request prompts here)

if you have any questions about this, send an ask to this tumblr or an email to [email protected]

have fun! I can’t wait to read all the new fic when it hits!

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How To Sign Up For Peaky Exchange: Season 5 Edition

the Peaky Blinders Fic Exchange signups are well underway & I’m so excited! It’s a fic exchange, so every participant will get about a month to write one gift fic for someone else. And then at the end, they’ll receive one gift (minimum 500 words). Some people have told me they want to sign up but they’re not really sure how. No problem! This post will show you how.

You’ll need an archiveofourown account. If you don’t have one, no problem; you can either get one through the queue or skip the queue with an invitation from me (more info here).

Once you’re logged into your account, THIS LINK should take you to a signup page. 

Requests. 

These are the relationships that you’re interested in receiving fic about. You’ll need at least 3 of these, at most 10. Here, I’ll do an Alfie/Tommy example.

In the Fandom spot, select either Crossover Fandom or Peaky Blinders (TV). Alfie/Tommy isn’t a crossover pair, so I select Peaky Blinders (TV).

In the Relationship spot, start typing in the name of one of your characters. A bunch of relationship options should pop up (this sometimes takes a second, lmk if it gives you grief).

Scroll down, find the pairing you want, click on it…

And bam! Done.

Now, you can just do this for all your requests and offers and call it a day. Or you can add a little detail to help the writer that is making your gift figure out what kind of a fic you’d like to receive. You’d type this out in the Description box.

Here’s an example of what some helpful details might look like:

Here’s another example of what some helpful details might look like:

Hi, thanks for writing for me! For Jessie/Ada, I’d like something a little spicy. I loved their chemistry in the bar scene. They’re so different, but they can understand each other and communicate with each other so well. Ada gets where Jessie’s coming from because she used to fight for the cause, and Jessie gets where Ada is coming from because they’re both women getting leadership roles in male-dominated circles. And plus they’re both gorgeous and I’m GAY!

Do Not Want: any content involving rape/sexual harrassment/violent misogyny, Tommy/Jessie, pregnancy fics

If I were writing for this person, I’d be happy to get these details because they help me understand what you like about the pairing and what I can focus on. Also, it’ll help me to know what things you absolutely never want to read about, the Do Not Wants as we call em in exchange lingo, which is great.

Here’s another example.

For Tommy/Reader, I’m not gonna lie, I. Am. Horny. I’m talking office sex, desk sex, sex against a wall. Any gender you want for the reader, I just want it to be messy and wild.

If you’re not into writing smut, what about something dramatic and confrontational near the end of Tommy and the Reader’s relationship? Just let them have a knock-down drag-out fight about something they both hold dear–politics, family–and I’ll grab my popcorn.

Or really anything about Tommy being a dad and how Reader fits into the family dynamic. We rarely get to see Charlie and I feel cheated.

Likes: drama, rough sex, aftercare, family conflict, domesticity

Do not want: gratuitous or graphic violence

Sometimes it’s nice to receive prompts or story ideas, which gives the writer places to go. If the writer only got the first prompt and nothing else, and if they didn’t really like writing smut, they might get a little discouraged. But this reader has helpfully given more than one option, which makes it way easier on the writer.

Offers

Offers are relationships you’d be willing to write about. Keep in mind that “&” indicates a platonic relationship (so Aberama Gold & Polly Gray would be about their friendship) and “/” indicates a romantic or sexual relationship (so Aberama Gold/Polly Gray would be something shippy or smutty). 

The “type in a character and see available relationships in the dropdown” trick should work here too.

Just pick some ships for your offers, and that’s it!

If you think of a prompt you forgot, no worries. You can edit your signups until signups close on October 20, 2019. The countdown to signups closing is here.

If you don’t like writing out all your stuff separately, you can put all your prompts, likes, Do Not Wants, and other random info into one place, a Dear Author letter, and then copy the URL in, like so:

Some common places to store a Dear Author Letter are Tumblr, Google Docs, Livejournal, and Dreamwidth.

I hope this was helpful! Let me know if I missed anything. You can contact me with questions at ashling#7490 on Discord, [email protected], or of course this Tumblr. I’m happy to help.

More info: SIGNUP LINK HERE | PROFILE, RULES & FAQ HERE

Happy writing! <3 Ashling

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34 NEW PEAKY WORKS-GO READ!

READ THEM ALL HERE

If you published anything in this exchange, please go change the date of publishing to April 19 so that people can find your work in the fandom tag more easily. You can do this by editing the fic and scrolling down and clicking the “set a different publication date” option and then selecting April 19.

If you received a gift, please at some point in the next week leave a comment on that gift; it’s a common courtesy and part of exchange culture.

If you have a draft of a treat, you have until author reveals (April 26) to post it. After April 26, the collection will be closed.

I will be writing up a survey to get feedback figure out if people want to do this again sometime, so stay tuned to this tumblr

There’s a whole variety of writers in this exchange, whether seasoned and celebrated writers or people who are publishing on ao3 for the first time or people who are publishing in English for the first time. Please keep your feedback constructive & kind!