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Roll the stone away and go by superworm
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
08 Feb 2026
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Goffredo Tedesco starts a new job.
Aldo Bellini starts therapy.
Vincent Benítez forges new friendships.
Thomas Lawrence repairs old ones.As the dust settles on scandals and strife, the Innocent XIV papacy continues to break the molds of the past. So, too, do the men at its center.
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- Part 4 of Sacraments for sinners
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16 Feb 2026
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mi ricordi che rivivo in tante cose by kenwayyed
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
21 Feb 2026
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“Do you always watch me that closely, Eminenza?” he asks, eyes on Aldo. Something in his voice has shifted, too, dropping it into what might almost be a conspiratorial mutter, and Aldo shouldn’t delude himself into thinking he can read anything into it. It’s been too long.
Some doors should stay closed, especially after they’ve been slammed shut.
After the conclave, over the course of seven days and seven conversations, Aldo Bellini is forced to retrace the steps of a past he's spent thirty years trying to forget and slowly comes to the realisation that old, buried feelings might not have been buried that deeply after all.
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30 Dec 2025
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Q considers himself excessively lucky that he's never had to be in close quarters with James Bond for an extended period of time. But everyone's luck runs out eventually.
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25 Dec 2025
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Aldo, monk of the Sacred Order of Saint Giles and vampire hunter, meets Tedesco, the infamous Vampire of Venice. From there will begin a decades-long game of cat and mouse, fueled by hatred and fascination. And no matter where Aldo runs, Tedesco follows.
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20 Dec 2025
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When Charles Xavier moves to London and buys a house with his boyfriend Warren, he thinks his life is finally coming together in a way that everyone, including himself, has always expected. Erik Lehnsherr, on the other hand, is struggling to keep his life together after his recent divorce, now having to raise his three-year-old by himself. Neither is prepared to meet at work or, in fact, ever again: they have met before, now nearly ten years ago, when they conducted a passionate love affair that was over before it even began. Yet their attraction is still undeniable, and as Erik asks Charles out for a drink, Charles somehow forgets to mention that he's already seeing someone.
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15 Dec 2025
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Aldo Bellini and Goffredo Tedesco try to fix themselves and each other with mixed results.
Vincent Benítez didn't sign up for any of this but ends up doing a better job anyway.
Thomas Lawrence has been managing these idiots all his adult life (and people think running a conclave is a thankless job).- Words:
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09 Dec 2025
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Jolie's Occasional Lectures on Catholic Church Organisation, Canon Law and Other Things You Never Thought You Would End Up Reading About Until You Contracted the Conclave Bug by Jolie_Black
Fandom Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
24 Nov 2025
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05 Nov 2025
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Discharged from the hospital and mostly recovered from injuries in an attack on Pope Innocent, Bellini meets his
enemy? friend? lover? boyfriend?Tedesco for coffee and receives an unexpected gift.A short scene inspired by a moment's silence, specifically the tumult arc (chapters 13-15).
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02 Nov 2025
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Vincent Benítez isn't an angel. But he's not exactly human, either.
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26 Oct 2025
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The Hysterical Descent of Aldo Bellini into Madness (and Love) by wherewiltthouroam
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
14 Dec 2025
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In which a wardrobe malfunction kicks off the Bellesco Rube Goldberg machine. I guess that makes Aldo the marble?
Or: the 5+1 format as the competence kink trenchcoat hiding self-reflection, ruminations on grief, learning to see each other as people, apocryphal texts, Reformation jokes, my hysterical obsession with silver curls, etc.
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15 Oct 2025
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He would not go back to that church. If there was something his father had taught him that stuck was to not let his weaknesses show, to let a side open for people to sink claws in. Having spoken them out loud once was bad enough. The secret of confession could work once, maybe twice. It was not easy. Giulio’s father took up so much space in his life, there was very little left for God.
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The story of Giulio Sabbadin through his life, from a young man to a cardinal. How he became who he is and how he built the relationships that shaped his life.
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11 Oct 2025
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Grief, and Aldo Bellini's evolving relationships with Thomas Lawrence and Vincent Benitez.
Each of these can stand alone, but they exist in the same continuity to me!
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09 Oct 2025
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Sabbadin confronts the new interesting Cardinal and urge him to drop his support for Lawrence. He did not expect it to end in an elevation to the Pope's inner circle.
Or, how Pope Innocent XIV fell in love with his Camerlengo
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03 Oct 2025
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A month after the Conclave, Vincent Benítez, now Pope Innocent XIV, gets stuck in an elevator. It's not the kind of event that should have the potential to derail his entire pontificate, but it has. When the demons from his past come bursting into the Apostolic Palace and shake up a lot of well-established routines and certainties, it falls to a very unlikely alliance of friends, both old and new, to mount the defence and drive them back out. In the process, Thomas Lawrence learns things about their new Pope that he would not have imagined in his wildest dreams, and he finally finds the courage to be more to him than just another faithful servant.
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21 Sep 2025
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The joyous papacy of Innocent XIV has no place for Aldo Bellini. He knows the worst of himself—knows he should, rightly, be cast aside. And yet, he is still so terribly hungry.
Exiled with his worst enemy, desperate for what he can’t even name, he is caught between Venice and Rome, the sinner he is and the saint he wants to be.
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20 Sep 2025
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Ex-libris: Latin for "from the books", often translated as "from the library of".
Without trying too hard, he could almost imagine the other man being decades younger, switching seamlessly from one project to the next. Perhaps Father Benítez had more of that person left in him than he seemed to think. Thomas watched the other man as he moved behind a table piled with stacks of printed volumes of different heights. He could still see him moving in between the gaps, a strange sort of mosaic. An incomplete picture, made no less interesting by the pieces still missing.
1926. The Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana is in a state of disarray. To initiate a process of modernization within the institution, Cardinals Aldo Bellini and Thomas Lawrence welcome Vincent Benítez, a mysterious priest from overseas.
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19 Sep 2025
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“Cardinal,” Pope Innocent said without looking up. He was signing something, slowly. “Sit.”
Lawrence sat.
“I need a favor,” the Pope said. He didn’t sound tired, exactly. Just past the threshold of fatigue into some stranger, steadier state.
Lawrence waited.
“There’s a visitor,” the Pope went on. “He believes he’s here for an audience.”
Still, he didn’t look up. Just turned a page, signed again, then closed the folder and laid the pen down with the kind of care that made Lawrence nervous.
“Bellini can’t take the meeting. I won’t.”
A pause.
“You will.”
(In which Lawrence speaks on the Pope’s behalf, and learns that being heard can be its own kind of closeness.)
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18 Sep 2025
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After the movie Conclave(2024)
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18 Sep 2025
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una pausa corretta by julidoesnotwrite (notjuli)
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
30 Mar 2025
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It's only been a few days since his appointment as Pope, and Vincent Benítez is overwhelmed and in desperate need of a break. Enter Aldo Bellini to the rescue.
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- Part 1 of let holy men sing you soft hymns
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18 Sep 2025
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Three weeks into the Papacy, Vincent misses a meeting. It's highly unusual, extremely annoying and deeply concerning.
So, Aldo goes and searches for him.
What follows is the new understanding of an old letter, the reevaluation of past and present relationships and a conversation which might just change everything.
Salutatio: an expression of greeting, goodwill, or courtesy in a letter; a gesture made as an acknowledgement of another person's arrival or departure
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- Part 1 of Letters from the Holy Father
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18 Sep 2025