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" lizzie shelby " ㅤof steven knight's PEAKY BLINDERS, with influences from personal interpretation and headcanon.ㅤdark and potentially triggering material present. ㅤ21+

written in affiliation with bl4ckdevl (♡), @peakyjesus (♡), and queenslick (♡)

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#📌#est. feb 2025 #lea. 28. she/they

borgialucrezia

"In Series 6, the scenes between myself and Natasha O'Keeffe are some of my favorites; they are really, really powerful. The Tommy and Lizzie storyline is actually amazing and one of the best in the series. I mean, we always do our best. Natasha, who is an amazing actor, and I really thought our storyline this year was brilliant. We always end up having a great laugh together." — CILLIAN MURPHY

#her styling was sooo good in s6 #vis.

I am her biggest defender, but I also think it's probably important to keep in mind at all times that lizzie is kind of an enabler.

#she is the moral center of the story #and also kind of complicit in some evil shit #and definitely a bad person in my primary modern au

ohdete

it's a strange world, isn't it?

“ What⸻ ? ” For a second, I think that she sees what I see: The dirty thing writhing on the ground, covered head to toe in soot and blood. I’m assailed by a paralyzing fear in the midst of the lobby, watching people step over her without a care, as she claws her way through the shag carpet to reach me. She is so thin, that any movement seems impossible— her ribs threatening to burst right through her taut skin. Still she crawls. I admire the dedication in the back of my mind.

I blink, right as her hand stretches out, and she’s gone. Nothing left behind. I’m still on edge, shuddering nervously as I switch my gaze to the women speaking. She doesn’t seem to have noticed her. No one has, but the tremor in my hands will not cease, so I hide them behind my back.

“ I’m sorry — I wasn’t um. Paying attention. Were you speaking to me? ” And I can hear how rude that sounds tumbling from my mouth, so I blush, bowing my head before her in humiliation. @wedstrife

wedstrife

ballet was her [nominal] interest purely by chance—something lizze’d plucked from the barest idea of how a mrs. shelby spent her time and, perhaps more importantly, her husband’s money, and impulsively assigned as her own. that she’d found a genuine appreciation in it, for the delicacy such regimented control over the body could produce, had been a pleasant surprise.

she hears herself conjure a noise somewhere between laughter and a cough, her mouth reflexively twisting into that too taut smile that’d become her livery—another coat of varnish over the mantle of mrs. shelby. it was at once a comfort and an annoyance to catch someone in the same act. to feel so seen and, simultaneously, invisible. but maybe that was all that anyone was ever doing (it’d certainly felt so for tommy most days).

“nothing,” she says. and tries again. “—have you been with the company long?” and wishes she had more interesting things to ask.

#ohdete #💕💕💕

notmorbid

unreal: season 1 [1/2].

dialogue prompts from the first season of unreal.

i can do a lot, but i can't control the weather.

just be a good meat puppet and do what i say.

don't everybody rush to hug me at one time.

look what the cat dragged home.

don't thank me, alright? just repay me.

even ____ can't bail me out of this.

people trust you. they like you. that stuff can't really be taught.

i know you. or at least i know your agenda.

you disappeared without saying a word.

i think i'm a little out of my league.

remember when you were a women's studies major?

have you never had to play by anybody else's rules?

you're a total softie, i can tell.

this job is satan's asshole.

believe it or not, i care about you.

why is your hair wet?

leave your conscience at the door.

just go away. leave me alone.

i can't even imagine what you're going through right now.

i'm a christian. i don't hate anybody.

i need a phone. can i use your phone?

you know, i thought that you were an actual person.

no one knows me better than _____.

you sure are a little lightning rod for drama, aren't you?

you need sleep. you're getting those crazy eyes again.

we were drunk. we said a lot of shit.

it's not that simple, going home. it's not a good situation.

you wouldn't be here if you didn't like the taste of blood.

you need a break. come here. please.

you're the only thing in my life that i've ever done right.

i know you. i see what you're trying to hide. how exhausted it makes me.

i need you to be on the ball, and you can't even wash your hair.

what do you need to get this under control?

you don't have anything to say you're sorry about.

don't 'honey' me.

see? i knew you could do it.

there's nothing wrong with you. you're a genius.

what? i wear eyeliner sometimes. i do.

did you actually, seriously just try to win me over with your puppy dog eyes? is that what just happened?

_____ could charm the panties off a nun.

sometimes you scare me, you're so good.

i never want you to do anything that doesn't feel right.

you don't need any fixing. there's a whole world of people just waiting to love you.

you could make a perfectly happy person jump off a bridge.

nail him to the cross and burn it down.

let's kick this hillbilly town's ass into the new millennium.

what happened when you were gone? where'd you disappear to?

depressed people don't call when they're depressed.

i don't really do well with happiness. it's very unfamiliar. it's terrifying, actually.

how can you pick me if you don't know who i am?

we're not talking about me. we're talking about people we can still save.

i don't know how this happened, but in this exact moment, you're my only friend.

mama's still got it. bitches beware.

this is a grade-a boner killer.

just keep doing what you're doing. you're a star.

i feel amazing. i could do anything.

i hate children. their rosy cheeks, their desperate eyes.

i saw a kid at the park the other day eating a cigarette butt.

every white knight needs their dark knight, right?

did we have something? because i really felt like we did.

i felt it, too.

i know a spot. i think i've figured out how to beat the security cameras.

what's up with all the secrecy? this is so exciting.

no one can tell me what to do. my life is my own.

it's okay. you'll know if i need you.

that's me. lucky girl.

you ever think we're moving too fast?

#prompts.

I think I spend way too much time thinking about lizzie as a mother and her relationship with charlie to be happy with this new spinoff they're trying to do

#I feel like they're either going to overcorrect/erase the way he was kind of forced into tommy's role [emotionally]#and like. write her out of his life to center his relationship/rivalry with duke and subsequently tommy #ooooor they're maintain the close bond they developed and then fridge her

I was having such a good day...

#(:#ask to tag/

czesca

characters who are so inauthentic. characters who only show what they want other people to see of them. characters who simply must have control over every part of themselves. do you even get it

#except she's so so bad at it

every time I think about lizzie's divorce I am reminded of this time in my undergrad when a family and marriage [counseling] class devolved into a debate about the best method to retain the most money if it was illegally acquired.

#his wife is this hotshot lawyer and he called her on speaker to weigh in #it had STARTED as a discussion on compatibility and why love/attraction isn't enough to sustain a marriage (especially with children)#and I think about that too #he also wrote his own open source textbooks and created a bunch of clubs to help students visit other countries on the college's dime

lizzie is an incredibly messy person to attempt any kind of romantic relationship with. she has built a life within a very dangerous world (that has, in turn, developed a violence sense of possession over her) and has a somewhat disjointed concept of what a good life looks like, prioritizing financial stability and later her children above all. she is quick to fall, deeply craving romance, and just as quick to flee if it's not just so. but when it's right, she gives herself entirely; virtually unshakeable in her loyalty.

template.

tagged by: @ujima 💕 tagging: @ohdete, @pixistic, @cstl3, @revnants, @by-aria

#THE lover girl to a fault #the ideal partner bit was a bit of a medium between the kinds of people she is attracted to and what she needs

wedstrife-a

WEBWEAVE + mimi kuang & lizzie shelby

the astrophysical journal. 628 / elizabethtown / franz von stuck / brian mcgreevy / goodbye, first love / @queenslick

#them them them #I want to make another or redo this one

luke charles was still a question lizzie could not easily answer. too innocuous a player to draw many eyes beyond passing curiosity, but far too in control of his own orbit to simply be a bystander. she didn’t trust him, but lizzie liked luke. or, more aptly, she admired him. admired the devotion he showed his students, to charlie. how he looked after isaiah without imposing. how he wasn’t afraid of tommy. his apartment had a quality of sacrimony to it—a space untouched by her inherited evils—that, even with his blessing, lizzie found herself hesitant to demarcate with her presence. her perfume. her smoke. as if proximity alone could infect. she fingers the latch of the silver cigarette case in her pocket, finding a perch beside the indicated window, but she does not remove it. instead, she focuses on fixing her face. doing as she was told: make yourself at home. she couldn't, but she could play the part.

crossing one leg over the other, her hands folding in her lap, she returns his smile. sheepish. “ruby’s just started school,” she supplies. "it's been an adjustment." a quiet house rendered even quieter.

"do you have children mr. charles?"

cont. @ujima

#ujima #still getting into the flow of things again but this was fun <3 #I kind of loosely tried to tie it into some of what we'd already plotted

anyways though I do spend an inordinate amount of time dissecting the implications of her character, I also genuinely believe lizzie's inception was just sk trying to be clever with the madonna/whore

#more specifically I don't think he got a concrete idea of her role (the subversive parallel to kay) until s3 #which is why she goes from bobbing along in the margins to the epicenter of one of the biggest conflicts #and also maybe that he noted her vague resemblance to nick cave's wife and wanted to do something with that down the line

I think a lot about how weird lizzie is around people she doesn't think she's good enough for.

#which (pining and survivalism aside) is one of the bigger reasons she sticks with the blinders #though none of the shelbys are particularly kind to her they also don't [often] challenge her idea of herself/self worth #until much much later and even then it's rarely direct. tommy and arthur speak about her but not often to her #and so she can coexist with this conviction that she is neither good nor nice without with facing the shame (because no one else is either)#it's only really when that leaks out of their world and hurts other [good or innocent] people that it finds her there too

killerdame

DILATION IS THE WORD FOR IT ⸺ that term borrowed from the most feminine of places, the most female of pains. a cunt being little more than active wound, forever opening and closing.

so she's lost in it, dove ⸺ this endless time, her finite body. the nature of her sex. all of it rounded and painful in this moment, soft and never-ending. perhaps if she'd been born in a different, harder shape, the pain wouldn't linger this way. as it is, she wasn't. as it is, dove can't even lay herself out flat: she remains in a half-curled position as the other woman shifts, near fetal.

it isn't so much the suffering as what it's turned her into ⸺ lizzie isn't her mother, but before her dove feels reduced to a child. she wants to communicate that she's better than this, her will stronger than the body lets on, but instead all she can offer is "alright."

wedstrife

“alright.”

she could be—should be—kinder, gentler, but if it was inexorably written into lizzie’s cosmology to tend (to make right the world around her), the same could not be said of her compassion. dove, for every inch of her that was unattainably aspirational—entire worlds apart from her own paltry makings, was an ugly mirror that she shied from. a reminder of the flimsy ground her own two feet stood upon; how easily it could be stripped. she set the bowl of water on the floor beside the bed. smoothed away the evidence of her vigil. and fled on soundless feet to the bathroom.

the tumble of water carves into the otherwise placid quiet and lizzie, rather than rejoin the other woman, perches along the side of the tub to watch it fill. holds her fingers beneath the streams of twin taps and makes minute adjustments.

“can I call anyone for you?” she knows the answer, but asks anyhow.

#killerdame #she's such a little liar #ask to tag/

HORROR AESTHETICS

you know how it goes! repost, don’t reblog / bold whatever applies / tag however many people you want / feel free to add stuff in any category, too!

tagged by: @ujima 💕 tagging: @queenslick, @idolwoman, @killlmology, @shekofeh, @killerdame, @anmaries, @revnants (for whoever you're most excited for at the moment 💕)

gothic horror: gaslights. corsets. ballrooms. candlelight. mist. starless nights. full moons. cobbled streets. horse-drawn carriages. mysterious strangers. bogs. moors. forests. mountains. castles. velvet. silver. brass. gold. jewels. domino masks. the opera.dangerous romances. tragic romances. violins. roses. lilies. empty graves. crosses. cemeteries. snow. ice. the gallows. crows. milk-white skin. ambiguous illness.fangs. pointed nails. something howling in the night. capes. gloves. top hats. straight razors. lightning. pipe organs. underground caverns. bats. mice. rats. ravens. cats. pearls. attics. talismans. axes. wood. isolation in a room full of people. vampires. werewolves. ghosts. coffins. western europe. eastern europe. bones. churches. catacombs. mausoleums. books.

classic horror: black and white. powder puffs. red lipstick. winged eyeliner. white kitten heels. black lace lingerie. icy blue eyes. rain. abandoned cars. skeletons. acid. poison. voyeurism. switchblades. strangling. overcoats. looking over your shoulder. trans-atlantic accents. private detectives. dinner parties. haunted mansions. alcohol in glass decanters. cobwebs. perfect blonde curls. kitchen knives. shock. cellars. dust. dark alleys. empty streets. driving at night. horn-rimmed glasses. radiation. zombies. serial murder. suspicion. paranoia. the city. witches. the devil. cannibalism. conspiracies. amulets. abject terror. the american south. the american northeast. england. analog cameras.

slashers: bloodbaths. massacres. wanton nudity. newspapers. leather jackets. letterman jackets. converse sneakers. obscured faces. social unrest. bonfires. lakes. babysitters. suburbia. high school. lockers. dead leaves in the fall. jack-o’-lanterns. outdated television sets. nightmares. psychiatrists. hospitals. unstoppable forces. gunfire. police. landline telephones. household objects turned into improvised weapons. Halloween. secrets. revelations. character masks. scrunchies. queerness. wild curls. jeering children. parties. fire. swearing. revulsion. california. the american midwest. ambulances.

paranormal horror: malevolent spirits. seances. spells. missing bodies. hidden graves. white noise. static. flickering lights. rings of salt. demons. poltergeists. dark histories. old buildings. cold air. mausoleums. wells. urban exploration. a dog barking at something you can’t see. black ooze. old photographs. faces you can swear you’ve seen before but can’t for the life of you figure out where. dark bodies of water. crucifixes. priests. possession. exorcisms. dolls.

cryptid & urban legend horror: aliens. blinding light. dark woods. claw-marks. bite-marks. men in black. memory loss. dismembered bodies. sewers. flashlights. cell phones. video cameras. cars with tinted windows. unlabeled cassette tapes. bugs. big cities. urban crimes. clowns. something rustling outside your window. glowing light. unsolved mysteries. suburbia. mirrors. the american pacific northwest. the american midwest. hiking / backpacking.

thrillers: daylight. fluorescent lighting. morgues. asylums. unwavering eye contact. tension. lit rooms with no one inside them. a dog digging in the newly-planted flower bed.steely gazes. paperwork. anagrams. codes. convicted killers. missing persons. law enforcement. federal agents. small towns. subdued terror. dimly-lit parking lots.

#introspection.#thank you <3 <3 <3

ohisms

↪ 𝑲𝑰𝑺𝑺 ﹠ ᵀᴱᴸᴸ . ( a collection of 50+ kiss prompts . feel free to specify the initiating muse . potentially nsfw content within . will be updated .)

finally kissing the person you’ve been pining for .

a kiss shared during a game ( truth or dare , spin the bottle , etc ) .

kissing your lover to show you forgive them .

neck kisses that turn into love bites .

wiping away your lover’s tears as you kiss them .

a kiss to prove you don’t have feelings for them .

a last kiss before one goes away .

biting your lover’s lip amidst a kiss .

an emotional kiss bringing one party to tears .

a kiss while being reunited after a long time .

kissing your lover in a moment of sheer joy .

a kiss while slow dancing .

sharing a spontaneous kiss with a stranger .

an abrupt , heated kiss during the middle of a fight .

kissing them to shut them up .

a kiss to wake your lover up in the morning .

sharing a kiss in a heavy downpour of rain .

kissing your partner to seal a marriage .

a possessive kiss that is meant to stake a claim .

a kiss to resolve suppressed romantic/sexual tension .

a kiss attempting to convince the other party to stay .

kissing the top of their head as you hold them .

a risky kiss between forbidden lovers .

stolen kisses while hiding away from a crowd .

a kiss that leaves lipstick stains .

a kiss shared on a rooftop while the sun sets .

a flirtatious kiss on the back of the hand .

sneaking off to a public bathroom to make out .

a kiss on the forehead as the other sleeps .

an ( accidental / mutually ) drunken kiss .

caging your lover against a wall with your arms to kiss them .

a kiss after joining your lover in the shower .

a kiss after receiving good news .

a tentative , exploratory kiss between friends .

a kiss shared between enemies during combat .

kissing your lover after believing you’d lost them .

a kiss after a devastating event , meant to comfort .

a possessive kiss in front of a jealous third party .

kissing your lover under the night sky while stargazing .

a kiss between two people in a fake relationship .

a kiss that seals a promise .

kissing your lover lazily first thing in the morning .

holding your lover by the jaw to kiss them .

kissing the tears from their cheeks .

a kiss to your lover’s stomach as you travel down their body .

an abrupt kiss that you melt into after a moment of hesitation .

sleepy , domestic morning kisses in the kitchen while making breakfast .

a rushed kiss before one party leaves for work .

a kiss shared while holding your dying lover .

#prompts.#💕

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