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  1. irisbleufic on Chapter 1 Tue 29 Apr 2025 09:23PM UTC

    Agnes and the nun brigade sure fucking will. As will Aldo and Ray, I’m pretty sure. To be honest, with two significant secrets to keep from the broader public, at least one of those secrets, if not both, is going to become more or less an open secret internal to the household (I think it’s referred to more as a household than a court these days; the political dimension is termed administration, but I understand most of their roles within the Pope’s retinue to be a household even modern-day). Listen, you never need to twist my arm to get me to use my academic background for shit like this, especially when it involves moping about San Juan de la Cruz or medieval mysticism in general. Thank you so much 💙

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    1. KelliAnnM on Chapter 1 Thu 01 May 2025 02:27PM UTC

      I always learn something. Like that stuff about Pope Julius (one of the Juliuses, anyway) and his lover you snuck into the second chapter, and the very real and relevant Vatican political evolution that resulted. I never knew that before and laughed very hard.

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      1. irisbleufic on Chapter 1 Thu 01 May 2025 02:35PM UTC

        To my knowledge, Paul II and Julius III (15th and 16th centuries respectively) are the ones to look at for outrageous gay Pope lore. There may have been one or two more I read about at some point back in grad school, I want to say maybe one of those bastards named Sixtus? Anyway 💙

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