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I was thinking of a very specific dynamic for Thomas and Vincent post conclave

Vincent is having a very hard time with this whole pope business, he's a man of action, of getting his hands dirty, not of politics and speaking and making statements to thousands if not millions.

He's also very lonely and isolated, many popes had friends and established relationships when entering the papacy, they knew who to trust and had some personal support.

Vincent has none of that, enters it all as a stranger to everyone, if he had friends he left them behind in every place he's been and gone, never really put down roots anywhere and in the Vatican it really does come back and bite him in the worst way possible.

Vincent becomes very despondent and depressed, manages to function because he always has but he sinks deep into this darkness that comes out when he's alone. Finds solace in prayer and that's all he does alone, no hobbies no none work related conversations, just praying and meditating, his personal prayers become more and more desperate and sad.

And then Thomas is there, faith restored, vows to himself to protect this pope and support him in any way he can. And Vincent really admires Thomas and relies on his advice and help but he doesn't feel that it's within his right to impose on Thomas in any personal capacity, Thomas is a senior member of the cardinals who frankly should have been pope instead of him. So he doesn't let Thomas in on his troubles. And Thomas is well meaning but he's a tad oblivious to anything emotionally related that isn't smacking him right in the face.

Eventually he would notice Vincent's depression when it becomes too much for him to hide, maybe he gets thinner again, maybe he starts the day with red eyes after sleepless nights of praying while crying quietly.

And when he figures it out all hell breaks loose. And by hell I mean Thomas Lawrence becomes the most mom friend you've ever met. He is not going to leave Vincent alone. He starts chatting with him about random books he's enjoyed, asks him about music he likes, gets him a personal cell phone to send him pictures of turtles. He offers to sit with him for post work tea time, just to chat and relax while upholding the sacred rites of the English Tea Ritual. He turns up his humor capabilities to 11, suddenly cardinal Lawrence is a court jester at every meeting? And he has English humor so 80% of the curia is baffled by him. But not Vincent. Vincent cracks small smiles at first that eventually turn to full blown laughter, Vincent starts taking more walks outside so he can send Thomas pictures too. Vincent starts listening to music again so he can talk about it with Thomas. Thomas slowly but gently pulls him up, enough so that one day he can tentatively offer Vincent to help him, be an ear to his trouble, be a shoulder he can lean on if he needs to.

And Vincent breaks down crying at that. He clutches onto Thomas and cries and cries and it's ugly and full of snot and cathartic and he's not alone anymore.

Thomas can't carry his papacy but he can carry Vincent

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in-universe nun writing RPF of pope innocent XIV and the dean of the college of cardinals updating the new chapter with a note beforehand saying, "sorry for the late update! mother superior was NOT happy to find me on my laptop after curfew. anways, i hope you all enjoy the references to jonah and daniel in the lions' den in this one!"

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I’m thinking of writing a fic where it is literally just Thomas getting hurt (intentionally or unintentionally) with varying levels of severity. (I might have a problem)

He’s old and his bones are fragile and there are so many stairs and the steps are uneven and the everything is a hard surface with point edges. He also refuses to rest or eat and engage in any form of self-care.

He’s exhausted and faints in the Vatican gardens. He’s walking and talking with Tedesco when he briefly blacks out from hunger and falls down a flight of stairs. He’s talking with Vincent and trips into the turtle pond. He then catches a cold because he decided to fall asleep on his soaking clothes.

He’s the victim of an assassination attempt. He hit his ankle against his desk and is down for a good 10 minutes. There’s a car bomb. He gets a false positive that his cancer is back. He gets a visit from the US Vice President and gets heart burn which everyone assumes is a heart attack.

This all happens in the span of a year so everyone is incredibly on edge.

Thomas has a crisis “the Lord saves me each and every time. I am not worthy”

Vincent is on the verge of a panic attack. He best friend/wife is almost dying all the time but by the grace of the lord is saved.

Aldo is 100% having panic attacks in his office every morning. The anxiety of today is the day his friend dies is a lot of his shoulders.

Ray is just following Thomas around at this point. Yes, he’s now the personal secretary to the Pope but his Holiness has also asked him to follow Thomas around.

Tedesco has made a strong effort is being near Thomas and forcing him to eat Italian food because he cannot have this man fainting on him again. It was already an offense to his Italian-heritage that someone was next to him hungry, his grandmother would have his head for that. Also, everyone assumed he had pushed Thomas down the stairs in the beginnings which was just rude because that is not his style. Aldo was particularly upset at him and had refused to even entertain his pleas of innocence until Thomas woke up.

Sister Agnes had seen to it that all meals are served and eaten and ordered the nuns to report back on any and all suspicious behaviors from the Dean.

The liberal and conservative wing of the Curia have miraculously come together not out of a shared vision for the future, but pure genuine concern for their fellow Cardinal because what the absolutely fuck is going on?

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I need someone to talk to me about this. Inspired off the video of Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci dancing.

Hear me out Vincent is jealous of Aldo because he is in love with Thomas and Tedesco is jealous of Thomas because he is in love with Aldo. Vincent pines after Thomas, wanting him at his side as much as possible and his loving heart loathes how Thomas has lunch with Aldo and how his eyes light when Aldo joins them in meetings it.

Tedesco is very much “do our twice a year hook ups mean nothing to you”. He shows Aldo preferential treatment by being the only one Tedesco will freely debate with and still invite to dinner in Venice.

Thomas is deeply infatuated with Vincent but his guilt over potentially breaking his vows stand in the way. Aldo is in the unfortunate position of having fallen for his hookup buddy and has to actively remind himself why it’s a bad idea and why he shouldn’t do it.

Thomas is taking a late night walk with Aldo in a courtyard when the conversation turns to their days in seminary school and how a teacher had made them learn to dance.

“Do you remember how?” Thomas laughs.

“I remember you stepping on my shoes.” Aldo replied

“I did no such thing,” Thomas retorted and held out his hand. “I’ll prove it.”

Aldo placed his hand into Thomas’s and they dance for a bit under the moonlight and surrounded by blooming magnolia trees and yellow rose bushes.

Unbeknownst to them, on either side of the courtyards, they were being watched. Vincent would confess the wicked jealousy that wrapped around his heart as he saw the grip Aldo had on his Dean. The way they laughed, the way touches seemed so easy, so welcomed while Thomas was so quick to pull away from him. So quick to say that he was no worthy, not an equal.

Tedesco gripped his vape so hard he heard it crack under the pressure. It was so, so easy for Thomas. Perfect Thomas. Doubting Thomas. The Pope’s favorite cardinal, the Dean of the College, Aldo’s best friend, Aldo’s confidant, Aldo’s advisors, Aldo’s! Aldo’s! Aldo’s-! Even the way Thomas grabbed Aldo’s back was perfectly infuriating!

*** But yeah someone please talk to me about this I want to write it

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Ah yes, the duality of man or the most diabolical vape hit in history

I dedicate the Bellesco part of this to @eeriedragone <3

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Have some escape AU doodles >:))

Look at them enjoying their vacation🫶

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Not gonna address the irl conclave shaped elephant in the room and continue business as usual😎 how we feeling gang

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Finally got a comm done and its Lawrenitez <3

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What if with Thomas’s renewed faith and Vincent’s attempts to feed him and promote self-care, Thomas just starts looking better and better.

Like we know he has a six-pack but with enough sleep and food, he just starts looking younger and healthier. The wrinkles are fading, his eyes have light in them, his singing voice that had diminished with time is now back.

Members of the Curia are doing a double-take when he walks by. In a year, he somehow looks younger than Bellini. Visiting bishops and cardinals are “is that the Dean? There’s no way.”

Every confession is just

“Bless me father for I have sinned, it has been 2 weeks since my last confession. I am ashamed to say I have felt lust towards Cardinal Lawrence.”

With the bishop on the other side thinking “oh, it’s not just me. Thank the lord.”

During mass, there are priests crying from how beautiful Thomas’s singing is and they’re trying to pass it off as “the Holy Spirit is just so moving”. Even Tedesco is drying his eyes and thinking “see, this is what we could have if we go back to all-Latin masses. This is what Vatican 2 robbed us of.”

The media is having a field day about the “Hot Cardinal” and the “Stunning Advisor to the Pope”. There are multiple Stan accounts for Thomas. There’s a priest out there who’s homily is “with enough devotion to the Lord, you too will be blessed with youth for look at our Cardinal Lawrence.” Some young people actually join the church because of this homily.

Bellini is having to tell world leaders and organizations that Thomas will not be attending this international tour but we are very pleased that so many people are interested in the Church.

Ray is contemplating if he can get Thomas on a skincare routine.

Vincent is half “I’m so happy Thomas is doing so much better. Mi Tesoro” and half “I’ve messed up and have introduced temptation into this holy place. Look forward Vincent, look forward, you are holding mass. It will be very obvious if you keep looking at him. Oh my god, he is beautiful and his voice is like the angels. Truly the Holy Spirit is well and alive in him. Look how many are brought to tears by it. Stop looking at Thomas like that Bishop Fitzgerald, we’re in church. Have some decorum.”

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I’ve had this headcannon for so long I’ve forgotten it’s not actually canon but I like to think that hobbits are sort of like billy goats in a way. That they can eat just about everything. Immunity to most poisons, able to eat raw or even rotten meat and vegetables without getting sick (though it’s more out of desperation then actual want) and so on.

To add on to this I like to think that because of this hobbits tend to have extremely high tolerance when it comes to alcohol and other narcotics. They can drink as much as a full grown dwarf and barely be tipsy. Which would lean more into their reputation for very high quality smoke and drink.

I’ve thought about possible reasons for this and most start with some sort of famine hundreds of years prior that made them evolve to be able to survive with little to nothing, forcing them to eat foods that to most aren’t even edible. Poisonous mushrooms, rotten meat, venomous bugs, straight up dirt.

Obviously since hobbits current day tend to be seen as a wealthy but humble sort of race I’d imagine the days of famine are long gone but the traits that let them survive have stayed, evolving more into letting them eat large quantities of food probably with some trade off of needing to sleep less or something. But the average weight for the race has grown as the extra food and less time spent foraging for such food has made them rounder

Anyway this has all combined into this idea in my head that every so often bilbo will eat something near the company, probably during the trip when they were extremely low on food, something that the dwarfs most certainly couldn’t eat without dying but bilbo would neglect to inform them of how strong a hobbits stomach is and the company would collectively freak tf out

Along with that I’d imagine later down the road (we’re heading into shipping territory) that if thorin and bilbo got married that would upset quite a lot of people, a hobbit and a dwarf, could you even imagine??? Royal marriages do tend to always upset at least one person but obviously that would raise the possibility of an assignation attempt. The good ole “poison their food”. I’d imagine Bilbo would make some comment about the food tasting odd but continue eating it no problem just for a guard or someone to burst into the room to inform them about the attempt on bilbos life, however bilbos bowl is currently empty and home boy seems just fine. I’d imagine thorin would be extremely dramatic about the whole thing, refusing to let Bilbo sleep so he can keep an eye on him the rest of the night in case he starts dying, much the bilbos irritation.

I’d also imagine that because of their resistance to famine and odd foods, plus the extra weight that if in a situation where truly no food is present, they could go for much longer time periods without eating and be just fine, though maybe slightly uncomfortable

Word vomiting over.

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Found this in my ace attorney folder, didn't even remember when i made this one. Must be one of my art identity crisis moments.

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I love the trope when at Ravenhill Bilbo forgives Thorin and then they live happily ever after but I think I very rarely see a situation where Bilbo of course forgives because Thorin is dying but after his behavior during the goldsickness he's kind of...disappointed in him and his love has weakened. Therefore, after it became clear that Thorin was not dying, Bilbo began to move away from him.

The company, along with Thorin, is horrified and tries to simultaneously persuade Bilbo to stay and force Thorin to apologize in the proper manner (by Dwarrow standards), while Thorin himself, meanwhile, tries to regain Bilbo's trust. And imagine the chaos.

The mountain is being restored, new people are arriving, some important decisions need to be made, and the king stands awkwardly at the hobbit’s door with a bouquet that came out of nowhere in the middle of winter and with a sad, pleading face asks if he can enter (inside his own mountain!)

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The only reason Thorin is on speaking terms with the elves of murkwood is because they have flowers. Flowers Thorin needs if he wants to impress bilbo. Bouquets start showing up one day and haven't stopped since. Bilbo is overjoyed to have greenery in the mountain and always shows his appreciation. When he comes across a bouquet filled with his mother's favorite flowers he can't help the sobs that escape his mouth. To see something that truly reminds him of home fills him with such a mixture of joy and remorse that it takes him an hour to stop crying. Thorin is filled with such worry and anger. He knows hobbits have a secret language of flowers and believes the elves had sent a horrible message to his Hobbit. He was plotting ways to torture the elves when Bilbo finally calms down and admits it was his mother's favorite and if there was anyway to get more. Thorin decides the elves may live and promptly writes, demanding more

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Sketched our wife at midnight :3

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I had a dumb thought (x)

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i finally finished the book series! i love these guys sfm they make me feel things