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Scorched, or The Effects of Acid Rain by ani_coolgirl
Fandoms: Inkheart Trilogy - Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (2008)
27 Dec 2008
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Even after all these years, he can't get that damned fire-juggler to leave him alone – and it's getting harder to order him away each time.
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05 Sep 2025
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I'll Follow You Down by Cousin Shelley (CousinShelley) for embraidery
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
13 Aug 2025
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All John had wanted was to follow the same path as Henry wherever it led, even if that was nowhere.
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26 Aug 2025
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Diplomatic Relations by habemusbellini (noxspell)
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
22 Jun 2025
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Every morning, Aldo sits in bed and completes the crossword. Thomas likes to watch him.
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22 Jun 2025
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Cardinal Thomas Lawrence was just starting to feel right about his place in the world again- until worries of his cancer coming back started to creep in.
He reflects on his relationship with the church and with his closest friend Aldo Bellini through their years together and apart,
and it may have prompted him to say something that he shouldn't have.Series
- Part 2 of Time
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08 Jun 2025
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That’s what had stung the most about Thomas’s accusation all those weeks ago. It wasn’t that it was true: This, he had always known. It was that Thomas had finally seen right through him, that Aldo had so thoroughly shattered the false image his friend had of him.
or: i put Aldo Bellini through the meat grinder of guilt and shame and then slap the flimsiest bandaid on the wound at the end because i am a good catholic...?
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06 Jun 2025
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Just Aldo, Thomas, a kitchen and a bouquet of daffodils.
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29 May 2025
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As a child Aldo Bellini used to keep his memories in a shoebox. Things get a bit more complicated.
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28 May 2025
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“I can’t make sense of it,” Aldo murmured against the heel of Thomas’s hand, still pressed against the side of his mouth. “How is it that I know, in my bones, without a question or a shadow of a doubt, that I’m an ordained member of the Catholic Church - and yet I am just as certain that I belong to you.” He paused to consider this, as if he had not just flipped Thomas’s entire perception of reality upside down. “I don’t understand how that makes sense.”
“It doesn’t,” Thomas whispered, his whole body straining towards that point of contact, and the sensation that he was taking in small sips of the universe for the first time in his life -
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28 May 2025
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They’re both older men now and can’t prolong the follies of youth, Lawrence reminds himself.
Or, he tries to. It’s hard to do as he kneels below Aldo, gazing up at him like a sacrificial lamb to a priest, or a prophet to an angel. It’s all the same with them.Bellini stumbles upon Lawrence having broken into His Holiness’ chambers.
Title from Waiting Room - Phoebe Bridgers
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27 May 2025
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In January 1988, Thomas kisses Aldo. The backstory, the aftermath.
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- Part 1 of in saecula saeculorum
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27 May 2025
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Not everything is resolved with Innocent XIV's first meetings with the cardinals. A conversation between Jacopo Lomeli and Aldo Bellini leads both men to consider the emotions they've spent decades ignoring, rationalizing, or repressing.
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26 May 2025
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it is the mid nineties and thomas's horrible father is dead. he and his sister are emptying their ancestral home in remote northumberland, and not for the first time, a roman invades.
(or thomas and aldo's situationship comes to a head)
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26 May 2025
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26 May 2025
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Save Your Precious Doubts for Your Prayers by rodamned for juiceyborger
Fandoms: Conclave (2024)
01 Feb 2025
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One young man. Alone. So alone. Until he isn’t anymore.
1960s–1990s: Aldo Bellini—queer, Italo-American, New Yorker—trying to find where he fits without losing who he is.
Based on the Tumblr post:
Imagine being Aldo Bellini—praying to God every night, asking why He made you this way. Joining the seminary in the hopes of escaping your urges, only to eventually meet a man so beautiful, inside and out, that you fall in love with him instantly—and for the rest of your life.(PREQUEL)
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- Part 1 of Amor Vincit Omnia
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21 May 2025
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Одна неосторожно запощенная в социальные сети фотография приводит к ночному звонку папы римского в Венецию.
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18 May 2025
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Он не знает, чего ожидал. Точно не диснеевского принца на соседней со своей постелью.
(это первый конклав Альдо, и кардиналов селят в номера Каса Санта Марты по двое)
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18 May 2025
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“I wanted to know what it feels like,” he says then, grasping at thin air for a semblance of explanation to give to Bellini as he stood over his curled-up body, like a little boy—shields him from the far edges of the rooftop, as if one wrong glance is all it would take for Lawrence to try it again. “I wanted to know how it feels to be so near death that I know.”
Bellini whispers, horrified, “know what?”
“Know how to pray again.”
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18 May 2025
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It was a morning like any other: early Roman summer, hot and humid before 9am, and Aldo had just turned towards him across the cafe table, to remark upon the news or to quote a bit of poetry - Thomas was absently noticing how Aldo could wear a white shirt on a hot day and it only made him look crisp and tanned - when the thought crystallized in his brain as clearly as if God had typed it out on a typewriter and set it there.
Thomas recognized that he was merely the vessel of a truth like this, and the truth was already in him; he could no more deny its existence or stop its progress than he could halt the path of the sun in the sky.
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18 May 2025
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A Pope has already refused Thomas’ resignation once before. Who’s to say it cannot be refused again?
OR, Aldo becomes the Pope. He's going to make sure Thomas won't leave him behind.
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17 May 2025
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Take me back so I can take you home (The peace of Garden Eden) by FrozenBrownie
Fandoms: Conclave (2024)
25 Mar 2025
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Thomas hadn’t meant to buy engagement rings on a Thursday in New York City.
Alternatively: The one in which Thomas Lawrence steps in front of a gun pointed at Vincent Benítez, the papal American roadtrip takes a sharp left faced with US politics, and the pining for Aldo Bellini is starting to look like divine intervention; not necessarily in that order.
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17 May 2025