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The Exorcist of Venice (ao3) by @radishanatomy

“Chapter 10: Night’s Plutonian Shore Pt. 1”

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My friend and I just for fun started thinking about a cowboy AU, and I decided to make a few sketches.

They turned out pretty funny. I like it.

🐎☀️🌵

I didn’t bother changing their names to fit the setting though.

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Someone talked too much...

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Sergio Castellitto in Pezzi Unici S1E4 (2019)

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Stardew Valley fanart I made while counting down the days until the end of winter

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Tortuga + Papa ✝️🐢

(first drawing taken from that comic strip in Mafalda by Quino)

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A thought that popped into my head of Thomas passing away early and haunting the next 40 years of Vincent’s life.

Thomas is deeply in love with Vincent but Vincent, through years of trauma and with his new position cannot find it in himself to openly reciprocate. It isn’t that he doesn’t love Thomas but rather he finds it hard to separate the love he has for Thomas from the love he has for all of God’s children and even if he did, he could not bring himself to act on it. He cannot be unfair in loving one above the others.

Vincent, perhaps by misguided kindness or through unconscious selfishness, offers Thomas retirement in a monastery. Thomas goes because he is loyal and duty-bound and should Vincent wish to send him to war he would march on without complaint. Even if it breaks his heart and it does, it strains his mind and body too much for what good can become someone who has found love and prayer in the one who sent him away. In a year or so, Thomas dies.

The news arrives at Vincent’s desk with the cause of death as

takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Otherwise known as Broken Heart Syndrome.

Vincent fells like the ground will open up and swallow him. He is plunged into a despair, a feeling that God has left him, his prayer cannot reach him. Bellini glares at him when he returns with Thomas’s things. He does not say it but Vincent knows

You killed him. He loved you and you killed him.

Thomas has left him a rosary, one that he had made during his time as the monastery, a key that unlocked the back gate so Vincent could quietly sneak out, and his diary that he wrote until his last days.

Vincent takes them all with grace. He thanks Bellini but cannot bring himself to apologize. Not out of fear of Bellini’s anger but fear that if he starts he will never stop. The rosary Thomas made now takes its place in Vincent pocket, he can never part with it. He once was late to a meeting with the Italian president because he realized he has left it on his bedside table. The key he uses twice a month to sneak out and give alms and to explore Rome.

The diary he reads everyday. Page by page, he sees the progression of Thomas’s cancer, his difficulties with prayer, his grief about the Conclave, and finally pages upon pages of his love for Vincent. Not once did Thomas despise him for sending him away or doubt Vincent’s capabilities as Pope.

*****

Vincent curls up on the pew, shaking with grief and tears as he reads the last couple pages over and over.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry Thomas. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I did this. I’m responsible for all of this. Please. Please forgive me.”

*****

He wants to join Thomas. To throw himself against the grave and pray the ground would open up so that he could join Thomas in his coffin.

But he can’t because this is his punishment and grief swallows him whole. He must be punished. He eats healthy, exercises, sleeps the full 8 hours, everything to extend his life because everyday without Thomas is his atonement. He’s as active as he can be in the church, pushing it forward because that is the job he chose over the one he loves so now he must commit to the very end.

He feels like his prayers aren’t being answered. A fitting punishment for having renewed Thomas’s life only to shove him away.

Sometimes in moments of weakness, he’ll pray Thomas forgives him and sometimes, he is gifted with dreams as a respite. He dreams of his head in Thomas’s lap, fingers carding through his hair, and a gentle laugh before he is transported back to the cold bedroom he inhabits.

For someone who hadn’t seen Thomas is years, he finds him in the turtle pond, in the wind that seem to carry words of love, in the mirage of a faceless cardinal that seems to glide across the stones with grace and ease. They rip at Vincent’s heart, claws deep into his soul, and he lets it because he believes this is the pain Thomas felt before he died. It is only right that he suffers the same agony Thomas did. It is what he deserves.

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"And tell them that I believe women should play more of a role in the curia." "Let's, um... Let's not mention women."

Conclave (2024)

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Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.

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Thank you Channel 5

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— il materiale emotivo | a bookshop in paris (2021)

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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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Listen I ship Lawrenitez and Bellesco as much as anyone but sometimes Benitesco vibes is truly unmatched (Partially referenced from official pictures, and "如同聖潔的火" by Doubting_Luigia on Ao3)

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LET’S HAVE A CONCLAVE