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"What will they think, when they read a hasty letter with a clumsy signature, citing health issues and a desire for peaceful reflection? He hopes they understand and perhaps one day he will explain, if God in His infinite mercy sees it fit to grant him the necessary wisdom. But not now, and not here. If he doesn't leave, Aldo fears he'll end up scaling into the rafters and screaming until his throat is raw."
Aldo Bellini, ever pragmatic, wakes one day to find that he has been given stigmata. Naturally, he handles it well.
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21 Jun 2025
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“It seemed cruel,” Thomas says, “for you to have not seen Rome properly. And so you shall.”
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Thomas and Vincent sneak out of the Vatican to spend an anonymous day in Rome.
(Also, Vincent doesn't want Thomas to resign. Thomas doesn't want to go.)
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- Part 1 of Nasoni
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05 Jun 2025
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Pope Innocent is becoming rather infamous in his affection for his flock.
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30 May 2025
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Woźniak and the new Holy Father discuss his future, and discover that they also have a past.
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29 May 2025
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Ray makes a mistake, and spirals about it
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29 May 2025
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It is an open secret in the Vatican that Thomas Cardinal Lawrence is not entirely human... and that he can never leave the borders of Vatican City. An open secret to everybody, that is, except for the unexpected new arrival, Vincent Benítez.
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29 May 2025
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Thomas’s voice is stuck in his throat. “What…” What now? What are you? It rings unspoken.
“I am what God made me,” Vincent speaks in a hushed rasp, speaking from his knees and peering up. “And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”
“2 Corinthians 3:18,” Thomas echoes in return. His breath hitches and he thinks, this is what it must’ve felt like to behold Christ himself.
Or, Thomas learns who Cardinal Benitez crafts himself in the image of.
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- Part 1 of Conclave Bingo 2025
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26 May 2025
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When Aldo Bellini learns of Pope Innocent's secret, it triggers his own crisis of faith.
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23 May 2025
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“When I was younger,” Thomas says one evening as they begin a new chess game, before cutting himself off abruptly. “Never mind.”
Vincent’s interest is immediately piqued. “No, please, go on.”
Thomas flushes a little. He moves a knight. “It’s embarrassing.”
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20 May 2025
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Janusz is nursing a sgroppino, a terrible venetian speciality, lost somewhere on the spectrum stretching uneasily between desserts and cocktails. It isn't worth the vodka it is made with, which is exactly why he picked it: to be sure he doesn't drink himself under the table before the day's voting ends.
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- Part 3 of Conclave Bingo 2025
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16 May 2025
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A late night conversation between Cardinal Benítez and Sister Shanumi, after the first night she is rejected by Adeyemi.
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15 May 2025
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feed the wildlife (feed the soul) by Metallic_Sweet
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
19 Mar 2025
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No man is an island, but Vincent sure feels like he’s stuck on one albeit in the middle of Rome.
(or, Vincent deals with the identity crisis of becoming Pope)
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13 May 2025
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the word (the head, the heart) by Metallic_Sweet
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
05 Apr 2025
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Pope Innocent XIV’s predecessor was known as a genius of strategy. Bellini’s inability to beat him at chess was just the tip of the iceberg.
Innocent, however, is something else.
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12 May 2025
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Out of the old there rose anew by mybrainwontcooperate
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
07 Apr 2025
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Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?
I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax;
it is melted within my breast.
(Psalm 22:14)Bookmarked by s_521
12 May 2025
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Ten Degrees Below Zero by kianspo
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek
05 Jul 2021
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After a serious incident aboard a starship, Commander Spock is demoted and transferred to a remote base where he must now serve with other "undesirables." He adjusts to his new rank and duties, and, while the future does look bleak, he is not ready to give up on himself or Starfleet yet. There is work to be done and hope to be found, especially as he begins to get to know his new colleagues, particularly one intriguing engineering officer James Kirk...
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21 Apr 2025
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Weekend Lover by ValiantBarnes (Cimila)
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
01 Jul 2020
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The one night stand Jim Kirk has with the Vulcan passing through Riverside is a welcome break from the monotony. It's good, very good, but so fucking weird Jim's sure he's never gonna forget it. He's not quite expecting to run into Spock again in San Francisco. A second one night stand turns into a weekend, turns into a lot of weekends, turns into Bones joking that he's living half his week at Spock's apartment.
But! But, and this is very important: they're not dating.
What also turns out to be important is Spock's job, which Jim never bothered getting the details of. Starfleet Officer and a bartender-slash-bouncer? That's fine. Starfleet Academy Instructor and cadet? ...Less fine.
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12 Apr 2025
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Asteroid Blues by ValiantBarnes (Cimila) for PageofWands
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
16 Apr 2022
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A raid's always a risk when the black market's in town. Easy enough to evade, with enough warning and a working ship - and you can get by with just a ship and some skill, really. Jim Kirk's only got one of those; not the one he needs, for the record. But in a market full of ships gearing up to get out, Jim knows he'll be able to find something to catch a ride on.
He doesn't recognise the ship, why would he. But the owner?
They've definitely met.
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- 5/5
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11 Apr 2025
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to assess the equation of you by uhuraprime
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
04 Aug 2023
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"Kid,” Bones starts, then pauses until Jim looks at him. “You gotta give it up.”
But Jim can’t, and they both know it. He’s too smart for his own good. Can’t back away from a fight, can’t walk past a problem that needs solving. And Spock is like a walking problem — a puzzle where Jim can’t quite manage to make the pieces fit, no matter how hard he tries.
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- Part 1 of checkmate (i couldn't lose)
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- English
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- 122,773
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- 51/51
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02 Apr 2025
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Clarissa Edgecombe was not having a good summer so far.
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- Part 2 of Wizards IN SPACE
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- English
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- 18,667
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- 5/5
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28 Mar 2025
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Chastity looks for and after her siblings.
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- Part 2 of Moment by Moment
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- 5/5
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26 Mar 2025