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Have you woke up one day and thought to yourself "Ewww... that's so weird i have to draw it! Well, alas, here is Kakashi and Sakura in a bowl of potato salad. I don't know how they ended up in this predicament. I can't imagine that someone logical (Kakashi) would talk someone just as logical ( Sakura) to take a dip in a bowl of potato salad. I mean, with this whole moving thing, the only thing food wise I've been buying a lot of potato salad from walmart. ( gotta love their amish picnic salads)

Either way... here ya go <3

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the most distinct thing I will ever remember about this fic is how Kagome was always portrayed as having delicate hands and beautiful kimonos. Did it ever finish? I can’t recall. But these bindings are GORGEOUS, oh my god????? They capture the spirit of the original fic so well. Beautiful beautiful beautiful.

Not my best but it’s been a labor of love. By any other name by Deviant Nature . A Kagome/ Kurama fic my

Favorite fic for over 15+ years.

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my number one woman behavior is saying i’m fine with any pronouns and silently ranking people in my regard based on what they do with that information

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conclave is an amusing instance where you see the extremely well-made video edits backed by rupaul and charli xcx songs and think ‘surely this is giving me a warped impression of what this film is about’ and then you watch it and realise it really is like that

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He's the least sequestered man on the planet. He's in crisis. He's a mean girl. He is God's weakest soldier. He's a 60 yr old man but he's giving failgirl eldest daughter energy. He manages. He's canonically bisexual. He's celibate. He was born in a wet cardboard box. He serves cunt. He has a certain sadness in his eyes you only see in Eastern European gay porn. He struggles to open a ziplock bag, and he DOES NOT WANT YOUR VOTE!

I didn't say a name, but he popped in your head, didn't he?

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more catholic yaoi for you

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The Conclave bit where Lawrence is told "His Holiness is refusing to get dressed" and 2 seconds later Vincent saying to Thomas "I was waiting for you to come" is driving me INSANE. Vincent wouldn't get dressed - wouldn't become the Pope - before getting Thomas's approval and understanding. He knew Thomas would come to him, he knew they would have to talk, and he would delay the WHOLE THING until Thomas came and Vincent told him his secret.

The frankness, the simplicity, the beauty of "I was waiting for you to come" - Doubting Thomas, you must believe in me before I become this.

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My boyfriend and I saw you from the table and we hate your vibe, may God have mercy on your soul

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liking conclave a normal amount <3

(back/front of the conclave zine!)

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The absolute power move of sitting through three days of your colleagues' dirtiest laundry getting aired and then going "Oh, what do I want to be called? Innocent."

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the lord is our shepherd

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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"

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conclave is so good it's like. what if you were catholic and suicidal and suddenly you became important at work but all your coworkers suck and hate you and then a beautiful angel shows up and there's also a guy there vaping all the time. cardinal lawrence should have started biting people.

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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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i liked this movie a lot

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Bet the Conclave fandom is happy their tag shall be returning to old man yaoi content again.

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I am what God made me.