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War of the Rohirrim was fucking great.

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everything cardinal lawrence does in conclave is iconic. he’s so good at his job that he’s the pope’s chosen bureaucrat and he hates it. the homily that isn’t a campaign speech. the cunty intelligence briefings in hallways. he’s dean of the college of cardinals and he hates all but like. two of them. “but it did happen”. the intense mental breakdown sobbing in the pope’s room only to be back to investigating two minutes later. the photocopier. he wants to quit and doesn’t want to be pope but he would be pope john. voting for himself and then the explosion occurs and the roof nearly collapses on him. his immediate and irrevocable affection for cardinal benitez and that fucking smile when benitez accepts his position.

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Not me scrolling through the Conclave tag only to see no one talk about the deliberate positioning and framing of the women in this movie.

Pulling up this movie I completely expected to only encounter Sister Agnes as the one woman we see in the trailer, the conclave a space that has been kept from the female members of the church. Now, color me surprised when I started the movie and most of the establishing shots we got were focused on all the women working in the Vatican.

And it is such a deliberate choice, it does the film a disservice not to talk about it.

Because while Cardinal Lawrence is having his fifteenth breakdown during sequestering and Bellini finds the ambitious asshole within himself, Ray does all the leg work, and Bel---- we see the women work.

We see the kitchens, we see them cook, we see them stand aside. Most of the time when the Cardinals are conspiring it is the women who interrupt because they are busy working, walking, running errands.

And there is power in that.

I think it is very deliberate how often (and with such lingering gaze) the camera shows us the lives of the other half - partially to connect to the wider themes of the movie, on how Bellini asks for women to get more power but never thanks them, and how Benitez stumps them all by thanking the women preparing their meals when asked to say the prayer (considering his own probably tumultuous relationship to gender within the church).

But it also stands in direct opposition to a long tradition in story telling: servants don't exist. How often the heroes of a regency romance are "alone" because the two hand maidens and three maids don't really count.

Conclave doesn't do that.

It doesn't let us look away.

Between all the petty drama, the politics, and the real life consequences of the conclave, we never stop looking at the people doing all the work.

Yes, we follow the ups and downs of Lawrence and Co, but in doing so the movie reminds us again and again of the women working the kitchen.

And that was just such a powerful artistic choice in a movie about a famously misogynistic church... I loved it. And I had to talk about it.

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"only you can show me this"

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im sick guys

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Everything about this is perfect. The *ding* “FUCK!”. Callum still in his little American accent. Mwah.

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clegan hunger games au

IVE BEEN THINKING THINGS

• Gale is like two days away from 18 (poor baby has to spend his birthday in the capitol) and gets his name called

• john volunteers for him bc theyre best friends and he cant fathom watching gale die and he loves him. more than friends haha

• umm the game officials decide to just make them both play bc why not jt makes the games interesting so no one wins 😒

• gale is fucking livid. obviously. yells at john so sooo much and john just stands there and takes it. he's obviously not happy bc he didnt think his volunteering trick wouldnt work. butbhe doesnt regret it at all

• gale keeps asking him if hes insane like wtf are you doing you fuckung dumbass. and john accidentally lets it slip that hes in love with gale (bc gale wouldnt take the whole but were friends so john gets frustrated)

• gales dumbfounded. absolutely speechless. and still angry at john. hes so fucking mad bc now its even worse and wait what the hell did he just say he was in love with him???

• it drives them apart a bit, gale distincing himself and john letting him. theyre pitted against each other in the games yayy

• umm gale realizes he feels the same uh ohhh ok thats all i got.

this shit could get angsty oooo ilove angst. if anyone has anything to add please dont be shy ‼️

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Clegan soulmate string canonverse

Wow I was not expecting this much of a response! This is actually my newest idea I’ve just started plotting and we can all say thank you to @heretoobsessstuff for their tags on my post about “married at first sight” clegan

#Bucky was like I’ll tie that damn red string of fate around ur ankle myself if I have to

The premise being that red soulmate strings are attached to people’s wrists and are just wrapped there in a bracelet-type thing until they meet their soulmate, at which time the strings will unfurl and attach to each other. People can see their own soul-strings and their soulmate’s but no one else’s.

Bucky loves his soul-string and what it represents. He’s been tending to it his whole life, learning to love and be loved, which makes the cord stronger and more vibrant. He weaves it with his fingers and heart and hope, it sits in a beautiful braided cord around his wrist and he plays with it a lot.

Cue the first day of flight training when he’s getting settled in his room, waiting for his assigned roommate, when the door opens and suddenly Bucky’s soul-string jerks. It uncurls and soars across the room and Bucky’s heart soars with it. He whirls around to see a wide-eyed blond boy disheveled from travel and holding a single duffle bag, staring at Bucky’s cord as it dances toward him, and then Bucky sees it.

The boy’s own cord is ripped off only a few inches from his wrist. It dangles, shredded, unraveling and dull. It twitches toward Bucky’s string and the two pieces flit around each other for a bit before falling away. Bucky’s cord drifts to the floor but it doesn’t return to wind on his wrist, apparently unwilling to leave its other half. Bucky can’t pull his eyes from the destroyed string. He’s had damage to his string before, tiny little worn spots where his heart was broken or he’d been wounded by someone. Even the smallest blow to the cord hurt terribly, and was repaired before long with care by Bucky and loved ones. But this…

The other boy looks shattered, a surge of longing in his eyes before they go blank and he covers his corded wrist with his other hand.

“Sorry,” he rasps, swallowing hard and looking anywhere but Bucky.

Bucky’s head is spinning. He feels like he’s crashing in flames and he’s never been in a plane yet, but soul-strings be damned, these shimmering blue eyes now mean more to him than the whole world, and he fights through the existential panic to hold out his hands.

“Hey, no. It’s ok,” he breathes, trying to smile encouragingly as he guides the other boy to the empty bed.

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(Going through canonverse a lot of drama happens, not at the least perpetuated by Bucky manually tying their strings together before a mission. (Soulmates can feel each other through the cord when tugged). Gale feeling broken and unworthy of a Bucky because his cord was destroyed by his past, but wanting. Both desperately trying to learn how to fix Gale’s soul-string, and the stalag making everything much, much worse.)

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I don’t think we’ve talked enough about the fact that when the war was over and the whole base was celebrating John and Gale were sitting together BY THEMSELVES just watching everything. Even after all the hell they went through together for months they just wanted to be alone … with each other. Gale’s only ever sip of alcohol being from John’s flask that was handed to him by John and John not even teasing him about it. The war has just ended and Bucky partyboy Egan preferred to just sit with Gale and bask in his presence instead of joining everyone else. They are both too torn and tired and traumatized and have lost too much and can only stand each other now. just can’t get over this.

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Hotter than a damn fever.

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Austin and Callum

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this but john and gale!! idc who’s who pls someone write a scene where they do this do u see my vision

who was writing that trophy wife au? feel like this fits

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Good morning darlings, here’s some drool worthy content to start your day today.

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MASTERS OF THE AIR | Buck & Bucky ↳ partings and reunions [insp]

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bucky and buck calling each other by their real names

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