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Familiarity Breeds Contempt by rodamned for 1848, mrsimpstabler
Fandoms: Conclave (2024)
20 Jan 2025
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The eve of the conclave one thing led to another and... Dot Dot Dot. It's what they did in the olden days.
Cardinal Aldo Bellini stands on the edge of power, weighed down by doubt and the inescapable shadows of his past. The brief comfort he finds in Sabbadin's and Lawrence’s presence is fleeting, leaving him alone with the heavy burden of expectation and the quiet ache of longing. Each conversation lingers, a stark reminder of what he has lost and what remains just out of reach.
Contains references to non-consensual encounters and abuse involving the late pope.
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The first time - the day Tedesco found out - was the worst day of Aldo’s life.
He’d never run from Tedesco before. But then, he’d never been humiliated on this level before. He’d never been hard during one of their arguments before.
Had he?
But he slept now, deeply and dreamlessly, his mind no longer crowded with the guilt and shame and all-consuming fear. Somehow it seemed that a knot Aldo hadn’t known he was carrying in his chest was loosening. Someone knew his secret. And while it hurt that it was Tedesco, it hurt that Tedesco had chosen to use his secret to hurt him, it hurt a lot less than he had imagined it would. There was a sense of being fully seen, fully and finally known, that soothed parts of him that had been hurt for a long longer and a lot worse than this.
Friends, it's not canon to the book (barely canonical to the movie) - I was inspired.
TW: sexual abuse, but Aldo keeps going back for more; happy ending, I promise.Series
- Part 1 of Did you know it could be così?
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My body is clay, my good fame a vapour, my end is Dust. by 17826
Fandoms: Conclave (2024)
19 Jan 2025
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Lawrence was distracted when walking back, trying his best to wipe the retracted report from his mind, wanting to make good on his insistence that they dwell no further on it, but his soul was a ratting dog and did not easily let a scent go. Perhaps this lingering feeling of dread was what gave him the shocking impression that for a moment, when he came across Benítez staring into the fountain, he did not have his dæmon with him.
A retelling of select scenes taken from a fusion of the book and film. I would apologise to Philip Pullman and the Catholic church for forcing them to be bedfellows in this, but they've both done things to piss me off too, so I reckon live and let live.
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AU where Tremblay doesn’t devolve into a walking dead existence after Lawrence and Agnes expose his crimes in the dining hall. He decides to go for broke and fight back.
And he wins.
He has a rapid redemption arc and an unexpected meeting with Pope Innocent.
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Thomas demonstrates to Vincent what he means when he says sometimes Ray likes to sit at his feet.
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- Part 3 of Servus Fidelis: Ray/Thomas/Vincent AU
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Aldo is tasked with organising the conclave, while grieving for Vincent.
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Sister Agnes knows her way around a copier.
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Aldo takes Thomas' confession about an encounter he had with his assistant and the Holy Father.
Thomas is convinced he's experiencing the sin of lust. Aldo's not so sure.
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the boy I love is up in the gallery by rupert0graves
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
16 Jan 2025
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"The former Archbishop of Kabul had his fair share of experiences dealing with boring parties, political reunions with men of straight fascist views, and of course, embarrassing family dinners, the usual when you have thirty-plus relatives stuck in the same place. But no one had prepared him for this situation. There was nothing about it in some rulebook or a class in seminary about how to deal with a drunk, soft Thomas Lawrence leaning against Vincent Benitez’s body, arm around his hips, trying to catch his balance and failing with every step."
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- Part 1 of Moriría Por Vos
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“You speak about the announcement as if it were your execution,” Vincent jokes, though there is no malice or reproach in his voice. Just compassion.
“Perhaps,” Thomas confesses, so low Vincent can barely make it out, “Perhaps it is.”
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Dean Thomas Lawrence becomes Pope John XXIV.
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- Part 1 of new exegeses on the old testament
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“We really must discuss Cardinal Ben-”
Lawrence holds his hand up. “Shh! Just… Shh.”
(Or; AU where the explosion happens later and the voting drags on. The two front-runners share a private meal.)
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- Part 4 of I guess I like writing Lawrence/Tedesco
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Cardinal Lawrence and Monsignor O'Malley keep bumping into each other during their insomnia-fuelled nighttime outings.
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Thomas teaches Vincent how to masturbate, despite his own guilt.
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Here’s some food for thought: Pope Innocent adores his job, but Vincent Benítez misses an honest smile.
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November is an uphill battle against bureaucracy. It goes without saying that December is a hell in itself. In January, Vincent misses his sister’s wedding.
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Lawrence should have been wise and left at this point. Instead, he joins Tedesco on the balcony.
(Or; an evening conversation between worsties.)
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- Part 1 of I guess I like writing Lawrence/Tedesco
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Three Cardinals, one Dean, a torn tassock, and a chess game
1990's: Milano, two exceptionally young cardinals archbishops—bound by the still unfamiliar weight of their red mantles—spend a final evening in the sultry embrace of a Milanese summer. Reckless and unguarded, their friendship deepens with each passing moment, they grasp at fleeting freedom, unaware that the foundations of their defenses are already being laid by someone else's hand.
(PREQUEL)
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- Part 2 of Amor Vincit Omnia
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He expects ruins and rubble in the street. Burned out buildings and bomb damage. He expects to be greeted by the signs of a well-known chaperon, confused when he doesn’t appear. Why would he? War hasn’t been to Rome in ages – it’s Vincent who is foreign.
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like you're god in the flesh (like you're god and this is heaven) by This_world_of_beautiful_monsters
Fandoms: Conclave (2024)
13 Jan 2025
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Like the rattle of a clock, maybe, or a bomb ticking down.
___(Shanumi, at the beginning and the end)
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Lawrence and Aldo discuss what different people would be patron saints of.