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doodles (and a thing i got carried away with)

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Conclave (2024) is slowly consuming my brain lol

Have some sweet Ray and Thomas art x

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Bongbingbing Conclave universe you are so dear to me…

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Sketch

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where lawrence dies before he gets to see ray elevated to cardinal

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rtd didn't just reheat his own nachos he fucking spoiled and shat at it

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happy pride to everyone and especially to repressed bisexual thomas lawrence

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"why are you still watching doctor who if you don't like it?" because i love doctor who? because i would really like to see it do interesting things? i can be critical of it and enjoy it!

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peter capaldi refusing to come back to the show from principle is making more and more sense to me as this era goes on

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patient 0 of the chismosavirus

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Catholic fans can you explain to me how the pope regenerates and if I need to start at St Peter or if I can just watch the new season please

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Random Filo Vincent Benitez Headcanons

(Yung mabawi ko lang ang Langit Points ko pls lang juskolowrd 😭😭😭)

1. One of the turtles in the pond is named Pong Pagong. The only other person who can differentiate little Pong from all the other turtles who now bear Renaissance artist names, aside from His Holiness, is Dean Cardinal Lawrence.

2. Sister Agnes is the one who first referred to the poor Dean as a "perpetually exhausted pigeon." That being said, all the Sisters keep an eye on him and there is a Not So Secret Conspiracy, led by His Holiness himself, to make sure the Dean eats enough.

(Obviously, it is Cardinal Bellini who notices that said Dean is putting on a healthy bit of weight.)

3. The Pinoy Mafia, obviously, was absolutely THRILLED to have a Pinoy Pope at last. Notable Pinoy dishes start apppearing in the Vatican kitchen menu. Sister Maria Lourdes who got "Papa Enteng" to beam with delight after trying her Bicol Express, was walking on air for days.

4. Sister Agnes would have normally been horrified to see the Holy Father puttering about in her kitchens but as the arroz caldo he was cooking was for a sick Dean Lawrence, she let it go.

Also, that was very good arroz caldo. Instant addition to the kitchen menu.

5. OBVIOUSLY His Holiness was delighted to bless the opening of a Jollibee near Vatican City. The video and pic of Jollibee himself doing a respectful "mano po" to Santo Papa Enteng broke Pinoy socmed.

6. Arroz caldo was not the last thing His Holiness cooked in the Vatican kitchens. His mischievous rendering of a Pinoy "carbonara" gave the Italian Curia collective apoplexy.

The Dean was amused but he actually liked the bacon and mushrooms.

Cardinal Bellini was in despair over his friend's hopeless "English palate." But Bellini himself did ask for seconds.

("Sinasabi ko nga sa inyo masarap eh," was His Holiness' amused comment. None of the Pinoy clergy wanted to explain what he meant to the non Tagalog speakers.)

7. No one wants to come forward and admit WHO filmed Cardinal Tedesco's reaction to Pinoy spaghetti, as cooked by the Holy Father, and uploaded it to Tiktok.

(It is widely suspected that it was the cheery, talkative, mischief-loving Cardinal from Manila who was responsible but no one wants to give him up anyway. Plus, he was a solid Papa Enteng supporter since Day 1 of the Conclave. He also famously did not get on with the Patriarch of Venice.)

8. Look, Pope Innocent was only going to get away with speaking Tagalog and not being understood by his polyglot Dean for so long. The first time he was surprised by his Dean showing off his newfound fluency was during the Holy Father's first visit to the Philippines.

(There was absolutely NO CRIME or other forms of violence in that country for the entire two weeks His Holiness was there. Filipino Catholics adored their Papa Enteng, no question. The mass attendance at Luneta alone broke the records set by the previous Popes.)

9. One favorite moment was when the Pope quietly slipped away to visit a shelter for street children and spent a precious couple of hours with them. There was a storytelling session too.

When the news media was able to interview one of the adorable little babbus who had sat on Santo Papa Enteng's lap during storytime, the little one blurted out that Papa Enteng told them all about the good Pong Pagong and his adventures in the Vatican, along with his good friend Kiko Matsing.

10. Papa Enteng, like about 95% of his countrymen, had a good singing voice. He made the country proud by singing a verse from "Bayan Ko" - and sent certain highly placed government officials sweating nervously.

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alt version w lawrenitez and bellini and tedesco third wheeling them

the gang's all here

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the gang's all here

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one has to admire ray o'malley's tremblay-hating game. guy really went out of his way to stack up evidence of shady dealings against this one guy is specific.

maybe at some point tremblay tried one of his manipulate-and-gaslight moves on him and was marked for downfall thereafter; maybe he's besties with janusz woźniak. maybe he just loathes canadians.

but you know he heard about cardinal lawrence breaking the seal, sneaking in the middle of the night into the papal chamber and photo copying reports all neat and ready for breakfast got dizzy with lust and admiration.

got terribly jealous of sister agnes and her involvement in the matter. this kind of competent and ethically committed bitchy move from thomas lawrence is why ray o'malley sticks it out in the curia. here is a man he would give vows to.

of fealty, but still.

if lawrence really had been elected he would have had a personal one-man intelligence agency at his beck and call.

imagine trying to play silly buggers with blackmail and back talking with ray o'malley's very own his holiness. goffredo cardinal tedesco gets disappeared maybe.

interested in the image of pope john on the throne with his despairing head in his hands being presented as always ray's familiar abiding loyalty. ray's pressing belief that when presented with useful information thomas lawrence will do something difficult and just and world-changing with it.

ray's jokes; ray's endless supply of reports and ray's still-warm glasses to see them with.

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making alignment charts incomprehensible even to myself

edit: even less comprehensible chart

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This is Ray’s way of saying “the tea is piping hot”.