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the philosophy of rome by ladybird (leyendeckerian)
Fandoms: The Secret History - Donna Tartt
28 Feb 2026
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It’s the 1990s. The end of an era, stock market prices are high and the twin towers are still standing.
A doctor, a priest, a professor, two twins and one trust fund baby day drinker walks into a bar in Rome.
Really. This sounds like the start of a bad (possibly offensive) joke.
(And if you happen to be Edmund “Bunny” Corcoran, then it absolutely is.)
// or; set during the 1990s, if the greek class had never met in hampden and were all pretentious idiots well into their thirties on a vacation to italy
(or or, richard is a bisexual in denial, the twins haven’t been seen for the past three days, bunny and henry have something really fucked up and homoerotic going on, and francis keeps seducing the catholic clergy whilst being two feet away from the vatican. go figure)
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why humans invent god by ladybird (leyendeckerian)
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
28 Feb 2026
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The snow in the mountains was melting (or what little of it we had here in Italy) and Tedesco had been secretly vaping in the sacristy for the past two weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
// or; basically donna tartt’s the secret history except set in a catholic seminary in the 80s and instead of dionysus, it’s the holy father.
(theres still a murder, as that’s the usual consequence of putting a bunch of twenty-year olds in the same room together for months on end)
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the devil down in east end london by ladybird (leyendeckerian)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Dec 2025
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There is an evil, evil child at Wool’s Orphanage. Evil child, devil child. Sweet little, evil, devil-child. Oh yes, everyone agrees, demons haunt the place in the form of a dark-haired child.
A rather pretty child, nonetheless, but as the Catholic priest from the church down the block says, the devil likes Pretty Things. As pretty-lookin’ as the Morningstar.
The devil sits in an orphanage in the East End of London, waiting for the caretakers to draw up a spring bath of holy water for the sixth time this month.
(Tom’s going to fucking kill Billy after this for ratting him out for talking to snakes again he swears to the damnable God.)
// (or, in which tom is pretty sure he’s God, wool’s orphanage is pretty sure he’s lucifer incarnate, the old lady down-by-the-left-road is pretty sure that oh yes tom is simply the loveliest most darling child and dumbledore knows that tom is a wizard. at least tom got eleven years in of scaring that freckled-faced priest shitless before dumbledore dispelled the rumours)
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alice liddell’s mental asylum on twelfth street by ladybird (leyendeckerian)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Dec 2025
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“What an odd thing to say.”
The youngest, maddest child of the Blacks. Who’s your mother? they would say, surely it can’t be Walburga. Bastard, spare, a-little-around-the-bend child.
Regulus does not think himself mad. It would rather be a terrible thing to be. He simply sees reflections in the water. Burning houses. The Grimmauld Place is on fire. Fire, fire, f i r e. His family’s flesh burns in the flames, melting like oil paints.
In some worlds, they say stars predict the future. Others would say they’re more alike to ticking-time-bombs, the kind that destroys history and rains shrapnel, shellings and shell-shock down the alleyways of London.
the sun and the sea; the sun, the sea, the sun, the sea, the sun , the sea , the sun , the sea , the sun , the s e a—
// (or, regulus is
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the most loneliest of love affairs by leyendeckerian
Fandoms: Christian Tradition Lore & Folklore, Religion & Lore - Ambiguous Fandom
28 Oct 2025
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For it was the loneliest of love affairs, but he was the loveliest of all angels.
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- Part 1 of angelology
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The Exorcist of Venice by radishanatomy
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
16 Jul 2025
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Aldo Bellini, the newly elected Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, is thrust into a situation which will forever alter his views on faith, the world and his fellow Men in Christ—especially a certain aggravating Venetian Cardinal with a bad temper and a worse attitude.
Bookmarked by leyendeckerian
08 Mar 2026
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genuinely one of the best fics i have ever read oh my god
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Tedesco is a patriarch, unrelenting, stuck in the past, cherries and booming voice preceding his appearance.
There’s nothing soft or gentle about him, and sometimes Aldo does wonder—had there been a time when it hadn’t been so? Had he always been so strict, so angry? Had he ever been sweet?Aldo Bellini and Goffredo Tedesco drive down to Matera, the Patriarch's hometown.
In the city of stones, nothing ever really changes.
Act I, Italienne—Matera, ouverture.
Act II, Tedesco—Bord de mer.
Bookmarked by leyendeckerian
08 Mar 2026
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who made the world? who made the swan? by intothewildblueyonder for snailest
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
26 Oct 2025
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Thomas Lawrence is twenty when - in his loneliness, and his misery, and his terrible desire to be touched - he begins to dream that someone loves him.
The conclave is over, but the dreams have returned.
Bookmarked by leyendeckerian
08 Mar 2026
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again and again/even though we know love's landscape by intothewildblueyonder for starboardtack
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
02 Nov 2025
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Aldo sits by a patient's bed and takes his confession. Should have done it like you, Father, the man croaks from between wasted lips. Should have devoted myself to one man and one man only. A cough rattles his frame.
Oh, Aldo thinks, you have no idea.
Or: Aldo belongs to God, and to Thomas, in equal measure.
Bookmarked by leyendeckerian
08 Mar 2026
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All turtles (dream of flight) by strawberriesandtophats
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
08 Feb 2026
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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.”
Bookmarked by leyendeckerian
08 Mar 2026
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genuinely one of the best fics i’ve ever read on both characterisation and emotions omg