#lawrence...

[georgegraphys]

Do people stare at Mercedes and think Max will want to go to that mid ass team whose TP certainly doesn't share Max's "peace and zen on planet earth" value and their only "strength" is their possible engine quality in 2026?

Do people also stare at Ola Kallenius and Jim Ratcliffe and think "oh these mf will want to pay 100M!" when Ola and Jim have been cost cutting like CRAZY on their own businesses, when Jim is planning to build a 900M-1B ass stadium for ManUtd and when he told his players to just ask another football team for a ride to Ballon D'Or. Man... Ratcliffe even canceled his team's christmas party bffr.

While look at Aston freaking Martin! Honda. ADRIAN NEWEY. A TP who knows how to shut up. All that.

[ballard96]

[cherriielle]

grant us a Pope who doubts 🕊

[wolfythewitch]

She conc on my clave till I pontificate idk

[telecomtowerlights]

kyaa we’re late for the conclave

[nightvale-thoughts]

getting a “pope francis has died” notification from my news app while reading a smutty conclave fic was one of the most surreal moments of my life.

[startreklesbian]

Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

[sassydefendorflower]

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.

[chloesimaginationthings]

This goes out to poppy playtime pianosaurus enjoyers

[twinkbutchblog]

House md is such a trip because House and Wilson are standing cock to cock, tip to tip, packer to packer, emotionally and physically. House's employees have a polyamorous codependent relationship while also being at each other's throats constantly. Foreman's so represssed they think he's gay, Chase is so sexually active that he can't possibly be straight, Taub and Kutner scissored, Cameron's probably gay but she has a job to do so she isn't going to think about it too hard, Thirteen is bisexual and went to jail once. Everyone has used drugs recreationally at least once. They break into everyone's home then insult the state of their home and then diagnose the patient based on a "That's so Raven" vision that House has. They shouldn't have been doctors, they would all thrive better as Waffle house employees that leap over the counter to fight customers.

[therealslimshady]

conclave dares to ask the question "what if you didn't want to be pope but eveyone and everything was conspiring for you to be pope and the moment you decide that maybe you should be pope god immediately and dramatically explodes a wall to tell you to stop being stupid"

[karynslee]

bc wtf do you mean i had to read the book to find out when benitez announces his papal name lomeli/lawrence sinks to his knees. HIS KNEES

[wolfythewitch]

First kiss. Thank you for your contribution to the cause

[mournfulroses]

D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Novels and Writings of D. H. Lawrence

[stampgwifeyera]

i want to take this moment to appreciate the way that the actors say their lines in such comedic ways