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The thing I was thinking the most while watching Conclave was actually a classmate I had in uni who is a nun. She talked about the role of women on the church and how there should be a woman pope. And like, years ago she was given a scholarship to study philosophy in Rome, except she couldn't. Because the nuns had to perform all the domestic labor for the priests and the workload was too big, add to that stuff like how no one could leave the dinner table before the archbishop and he liked to talk so sometimes he would make everyone stay until late at night and ofc the nuns had to clean up after that, or when the priests wanted to give the nuns an easy day they would decide they would have a picnic, but the nuns still had to prepare their picnic. My friend just couldn't find the time to study, so she dropped her scholarship and came back to Mexico.

And Conclave does such a good job of making this work visible, even when if only Sister Agnes speaks, there is always shots of nuns working. For everything the priests do, it's always shown how the nuns make it possible. Benítez standing out early on for being the one person to thank them. The film ending on a seemingly unrelated shot of nuns walking.

It's a very poignant statement given how reproductive labor is often invisibilized.

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if i cant kill myself i guess i just have to make art and cook good meals and listen to music and dress up pretty and hope it will be all worth it to be doing something to distract myself forever

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hey boy don't kill yourself. green's dictionary of slang is available online and allows you to explore 500 years of english vulgarity. you can search by part of speech, source, time period, etymology, and usage. there's a whole category for gay slang. they even have specific citations listed so you can see the exact context for yourself. boy did you know that in 1927 "to kneel at the altar" was slang for "to sodomize"

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Caro Diario, 1993. Directed by Nanni Moretti.

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Caro Diario 1993 | dir. Nanni Moretti

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beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way

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Va savoir a.k.a. Who Knows?, 2001. dir. Jacques Rivette

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i think bernardo gutierrez and vincent benitez would be friends :)

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I’ve seen people talk about getting the Cardinals from Conclave and The Young Pope/The New Pope together, but what I really want is for these two to Queen out 💅🏻

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being too on tumblr is a crazy experience bc you will think to yourself "man. cannibalism is so cringe now all the most boring people alive are obsessed with it" and then realize that that is a sentence from insane world

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martin scorsese's pendant for isabella rossellini and her first film, the meadow (1979)

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There is a light, I can feel it in me / But only, it seems, when the dark surrounds me

Thank you so much @bikkue for sharing your MEGA link with me!

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y'all are too obsessed with the vaping cardinal and not obsessed enough with isabella rossellini's expertise with that copy machine.

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FLEABAG (2016-2019) CONCLAVE (2024)

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there is still time never kill yourself etc etc

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I won’t hide it: I’m so unused to being – well, understood, perhaps, – so unused to it, that in the very first minutes of our meeting I thought: this is a joke, a masquerade trick …

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

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therapy can't replace getting so angry alone in your room you feel lightheaded