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Young, dumb and full of caffeinated beverages by keysandneedles
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
23 Aug 2025
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A conclave university AU that no one asked for.
Thomas is a history major with a very specific interest in the political history of the papal state. He is also extremely sleep deprived and it has been too long since he has felt anything. In a moment of desperation Thomas finds himself in the back of the local church on a saturday night.
Vincent is a young social worker with a lot of love to give, but no one to call his own yet, but trusting God to guide him.
Aldo and Geffredo have declared themselves arch rivals, even if their not in the same major... Guilio finds it suspicious.
Ray, Willi and Agnes meet every saturday night to watch movies, talk trash and get high.
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20 Aug 2025
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All turtles (dream of flight) by strawberriesandtophats
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
19 Oct 2025
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“To be frank, Thomas, you are nothing and no one outside the Vatican,” the late Holy Father had continued. “You have a family, that is true. But you must be distant person to them by now, a tragic ghost that sends them Christmas presents and writes them e-mails. I do not say this to be cruel, I am just telling you the facts of the matter. I will hear no argument; you will continue to serve the Church and God as you have done all your career.”
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21 Jun 2025
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He would have recognized that face anywhere in the world, in any crowd, at any hour of the day or night.
He had seen it in dreams for thirty years, recalled it in his quietest prayers, imagined it in the halls of the Vatican or among the faithful. Thirty years of absence branded into his memory like fire.
And now it was here.
Like divine punishment.
or: Thomas and Vincent reunite 30 years later at the conclave, after an agonizing breakup.
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- Part 2 of And God Remembered Them
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07 Jun 2025
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Dr Thomas Lawrence, a professor of literature, has just been told that his dear colleague has had to retire on a basis of health grounds. The old theology professor had been a close friend for many years, and a mentor for even longer. His unexpected departure gives way to a new hire, one (handsome) Dr Vincent Benítez, who is intent on befriending him.
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26 May 2025
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Thomas Lawrence left his role at the Vatican behind a while ago, it was turning him grey too fast. Now he's running his little church in the countryside, helping with the parish council. This is until disgraced ex-Cardinal Vincent Benítez, a man Thomas hadn't known existed, shows up on his doorstep shivering like a dog, exiled from Rome by the new Pope who clearly knows something about Benítez that Thomas does not.
Thomas opens up his church to Vincent, his home, his heart.
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- Part 1 of Lovers and Black Lungs
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26 May 2025