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ten people i'd like to know better

thanks for the tag @dreamerinsilico!

last song: The Eye by 白鲨JAWS

last book: The Power by Naomi Alderman, i liked this book a lot but the current state of politics makes me think that my timing in reading it might have been a bad idea cuz it definitely didn’t help my political anxiety rip

last movie: Conclave (2024), and i’m still kinda shook that tumblr was so right about how good this movie is 😂

last tv show: Link Click: Bridon Arc/Yingdu Chapter, this show is so good it’s gonna kill me cuz every new episode has me screaming

sweet/spicy/savory: spicy>savory>sweet

last thing i searched for online: schedule of the us supreme court 💀

current obsession: lao gan ma chili crisp. i just discovered how good that shit tastes on eggs and i’ve been eating it literally every day for breakfast

looking forward to: @aftg-mixtape posting season :). i’m super excited to read everyone’s fics

tagging: @zannolin @problemduetest4life @ashestoashes7 @adverbialstarlight @wyverningx @poetic-ivy @justadreamfox @fortjester @vykio @shijas

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THERE WILL BE A FIRE WHEN IT ALL UUUNFOOOLDS WE SHOULD BURY THE TREASURE WITH ALL WEEE KNOOW BUT I COULDNT SAAAVE YOU I COULDNT MAAAKE IT TO YOU TRAPPED IN ENDINGS I DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW SO LONG TO A BURSTING WAVE OF BLINDING LIGHTS BUT WE FOUGHT THE TIDES WE FOUGHT THE TIIIIIDES TILL THE RIVER DRIIIIED WE SPLASH VELVET DYE IN THE SKYYYY STANDING STILL IN FRONT THE EEEEYE

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Glinda really had an entire musical number expounding on the theme of "success in life is not about being highly qualified or even competent, but manipulating people's superficial perception of you." and then she went into POLITICS. truly the #girlboss representation the world has earned

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i don't think you can actually talk about gelphie being 'doomed by the narrative' without interacting with how gelphie are the narrative. elphaba directly tells glinda not to redeem her, glinda is the one telling us the story, they actively choose at every possible point to walk away from each other because that's not the story they want to tell us, understand?

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Got so overwhelmed i had to take a break from watching arcane and make this

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"kevin's such a diva" yeah yeah but we are SLEEPING on this iconic ass seth line

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exorcising my list of unwritten conclave concepts from a few weeks ago i haven't written much since, in case the list is all there ends up coming out of it or anyone wants to welcome any of them into a good home:

cardinal lawrence and sister agnes won each other’s respect and trust during ratzinger’s papacy (liberals who leak church scandals to the justice system and the press stick together). everyone lowkey thinks they are having an affair. they are not, but they do keep sneaking into corners to gossip during the conclave. leaning fully into the reading of sister agnes as the late pope’s intelligence expert. incredibly jaded vatican spy. aldo is not jealous. benitez finds lawrence with the yellow canary eating from his hand and going back to his side after short flights, and has a number of franciscan emotions about it. sister agnes considers murdering tadesco. the whole thing would ideally be about their friendship, different views and thoughts on power, what it looks like, what it ought to look like. responsibility, and doubt. also: how horrible it is the only non smokers in an european workplace.

(does this change anything materially? possibly the adeyemi and trembley situation is revealed much sooner with lawrence and sister agnes working together earlier and sharing intel, which in its turn makes him seem more competent and aggressive in taking down competitors, ergo more votes, ergo more influence? maybe bellini supports him more overtly earlier idk.) 

cardinal lawrence is dead. as a matter of fact, cardinal lawrence has been dead for a few days after the pope dies; unlike the pope, he keeps coming back to do his job. the curia covers up his death, because the dean of the college of cardinals is a ghost who apparently hated his job enough that is it his very literal purgatory is both hard to explain, and bad for the press. the fate of his unliving soul is very much at risk when steering the conclave, which is, uh, fun. cardinal tedesco's vape smoke now strongly smells of sulfur to him, which is probably not satanic in origin but then again might be. people keep voting on him and their belief in him corresponds directly to how much he can interact with the world, which is a very straightforward way to test one’s moral limits and otherwise a great torment. the one silver lining is that he can walk through walls and scoop out corrupt dealing easily, and no one can really tell he is dead. well, barely anyone. cardinal benítez and his ability to walk easily between the liminal spaces and certainties of the world is an outlier, and should not be counted.

dean lawrence keeps getting kidnapped, poisoned, blackmailed and otherwise threatened. this is an unfortunate if occasional part of being the vatican’s manager of two increasingly liberal and unorthodox papacies. it is considerably less fine and unfortunately far too normal for innocent xiv, who has a non-zero number of experiences with friends being kidnapped, poisoned, blackmailed and otherwise threatened. 

bellini/lawrence full on established relationship nonsense. as in, they have been together for thirty years and counting. conclave rewrite?? 

innocent xiv’s phone messages get leaked. innocent xiv’s phone messages consist of selfies with turtles sent to various friends and family, a good deal of memes in the santa marta groupchat, and daily jokes, complaints and affectionate messages to dean lawrence. the media has thoughts. aldo bellini, newly in charge of the papal media strategy, also has thoughts. and prayers.

a glimpse at all the people that Did vote for benítez from the start, and how much his work is or is not known outside the hermetic sphere of the vatican. he's kind of famous in religious activist circle probably! he has fans! he has a wide network of people he regularly approaches for information, resources, mutual aid and donations to his clinics and dioceses! he keeps dropping insane facts about horrifying personal experiences with unnerving serenity!

vincent benítez soft doms cardinal lawrence into taking a rest during the conclave. this incidents turns into a habit and gains new dimensions, as per the forthcoming changes in job status

pope john has an ongoing crisis of faith and also a gigantic imposter's syndrome. unrelatedly, pope john would really really really rather vincent benítez did not die in kabul and/or cause a diplomatic disaster. how convenient, then, that he is now a benevolent religious dictator who can arrange (read: wholesale invent) a number of postings and duties only benítez can accomplish. if anyone ask, this is a long-delayed move on part o the church to develop a deeper connection to on-the-ground aid organization. this can’t possibly last forever, though, can it? 

friar lawrence has shed all politics and chosen an abbey who keeps a vow of silence. friar lawrence is genuinely having a lovely time of things in his little abbey post canon. for like, uh, two months? friar lawrence keeps accidentally gaining more and more influence. manager-guy who cannot not manage. six months in he’s in charge of shelters and social associations. one year on, and he’d be archbishop again, if he were not aggressively trying to clamber down the church hierarchical rung. his friend, innocent xiv, who went from being a non-entity to one of the most famous men in the world, is sympathetic but also thinks this is very very funny. epistolary fic?? email epistolary? there is a little cat in a friar's habit and this is the most important part.

possibly related: cardinal lawrence comes back from his enforced sabbatical in a peaceful retreat freckled, healthier and smiling. people have thoughts on this, and emotions also. 

turtle pov of benitez/lawrence. literally: turtle pov. is the turtle an angel?? unclear if the turtle is an angel.

cardinal tedesco must die au.

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"this song by taylor swift is THE andrew minyard song"

it's not. 🙂‍↔️

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i can feed jean a zoloft hidden in peanut butter Once a day but u have to hide the bottle where he can’t see it

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you know I am willing to give luo binghe massive amounts of shit for being totally deranged because he is such a dick but also like, his very favorite person in the world did open their relationship by abusing him for actual years and then just turn on a dime and start spoiling him

and since he never got an explanation for any of that, even before he got thrown off a cliff into hell he had to choose between rejecting one of three positive personal relationships he'd experienced in his entire life (and the only one where he was getting as much support as he needed) or structuring his understanding of personal interaction so that history was actually cool and okay somehow, and like

literally anyone in that situation would have come out with some fucked-up norms about relationships and boundaries. i can only blame him so much for not knowing where lines ought to happen! his dataset is fucked.

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Neil: "Ichirou Moriyama didn't look like much"

Jeremy: "He was jarringly handsome and perfectly dressed in a suit that screamed obscene wealth"

Thank you Jeremy for caring enough to tell us when a man is handsome and for knowing enough about clothes to notice when an outfit is nice. We would never get that from Neil

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fan art i drew of cardinal tedesco vaping in a glue trap

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Harrowhark Nonagesimus/Gideon Nav- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir

Jeremy Knox/Jean Moreau- The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic 

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji- Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Achilles/Patroclus- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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harrowhark nonagesimus is the character of all time. she weighs 6 stone soaking wet. she doesn’t sleep. she’s 200 dead babies. she puppets her dead mum and dad. she’s a nun. she’s in love with a frozen corpse. she gets a headache when people talk about sex. she wants to die. her bodyguard is in love with her. her weird colleague is in love with her. she gave herself a lobotomy. she’s being piloted by the soul of the planet earth. she loves bones. she wants to live. she makes soup. she watched god have a threesome. she looks like a ferret. this is all canon

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Allison “It’s not gay if it’s a threesome with me” Reynolds perfectly scheming to get Seth “I’m not gay” Gordon and Kevin “It’s easier to remain heterosexual” in bed together.

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the study of rosharan zoology, or as i like to call it, "Oops! All crabs!"