12 Bookmarks by SightlessSable

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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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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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    11/?
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    20 Aug 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 38

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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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    12/15
    Comments:
    357
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    21 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 22

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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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    Chapters:
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    Comments:
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    22
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    07 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 7

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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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    1/?
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    13
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    67
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    26 May 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 80

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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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    Chapters:
    13/13
    Comments:
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    80
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    26 May 2025

  6. Public Bookmark *

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    Cardinal Lawrence can work miracles.

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    Chapters:
    2/2
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    16 May 2025

  7. Public Bookmark 36

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    Gatsby believed in the green light that was almost in his grasp. But Nick yearns to be his green light.

    Then Nick falls ill and all changes for the better.

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    Chapters:
    5/?
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    15 May 2025

  8. Public Bookmark 3

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    Love.

    Love was something neither Lawrence nor Benitez liked to get themselves into.

    It was complicated, messy, and had many consequences for those who were involved.

    However....

    There was something in the way Benitez smiled, the way he spoke, even just in his posture and poise, that drew Lawrence in.

    There was something in the way that Lawrence was unconditionally caring, in his smile, in this voice, that just made Benitez marvel at his tranquility.

    It wasn't something that either would ever care to speak about. They were both cardinals, simply trying to choose new Holy Father, and go back to their respective ministries.

    But love was a very tempting force. They learn this well.

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    2/?
    Comments:
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    15 May 2025

  9. Public Bookmark 29

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    Vincent coughs again, then rests back, winded. His hand drifts toward the apple plate on the bedside table. Thomas steadies it. Helps him take a slice. It trembles on the way to his mouth.

    “They used to say I would fracture the Church,” Vincent murmurs. “Let in rot. Invite sin with open hands. All because I believed the ones furthest from the altar were often the ones carrying the most grace.”

    Thomas doesn’t speak. He doesn’t need to. He’s heard this pain before — in meetings, in private, in exile.

    “They wanted Peter’s fire,” Vincent says. “But I gave them Joseph’s silence. That wasn’t enough.”

    He pauses. The slice of apple, half-eaten, sits in his palm like a relic.

    (Or, ten years after the conclave that elected Pope Innocent XIV, it seems that Cardinal Lawrence will need to organize yet another one in this lifetime.)

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    15 May 2025

  10. Public Bookmark 30

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    Hua moves in with her cousin for school purposes, and meets the most insufferable man she's ever met in her life.

    Events Then Happen, which leads to her declaring a (one-sided) war.

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    Language:
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    Chapters:
    6/7
    Comments:
    63
    Kudos:
    309
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    30
    Hits:
    4,048

    15 May 2025

  11. Public Bookmark 31

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    Fine, the class sucks, but if Vi has to hear Jayce complain about it one more time she may pop a blood vessel.

    A story about a group of highschooler's realizing that their school is awful and that maybe Jinx was right when she suggested that they blow it up. In a mix of a colourful cast, Ekko somehow is the only man of reason. Not that anyone else sees it that way.

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    7/?
    Comments:
    29
    Kudos:
    178
    Bookmarks:
    31
    Hits:
    3,264

    16 Feb 2025

  12. Public Bookmark 5

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    As the new Science teacher at Cecil Elementary, Jayce is determined to make a good impression on all the other teachers and win the hearts of his sixth-grade students. A.k.a. The most brutal set of elementarians there are. While settling into the new workplace, there’s one teacher in particular who’s been helping him the most.

    The Abbott Elementary inspired Modern Teachers AU, complete with mockumentary style cuts.

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    1/10
    Comments:
    10
    Kudos:
    31
    Bookmarks:
    5
    Hits:
    416

    26 Dec 2024

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