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CONCLAVE BINGO 2025

Pick your sheet! (free space as Jesus or the devil that taunts Thomas >:3)

Go forth and create! This bingo card is for the community to have fun with. Any ship, any fanworks, just play with it and try to get a bingo!

How to play?

Take a board and make a fanwork for any of the prompts. You can pick a single prompt per square, or merge both prompts (very easy to imagine how Kiss + Possessive would work in a single story, right?) and then cross off that square.

You get a BINGO when you've crossed off 5 squares in a row or diagonal. If you like a challenge, you can try and achieve a BLACKOUT, by doing all the prompts!

Share your work in the tag #conclave bingo. I will be reblogging everything I see, but I'm not creating a blog just for this. It's also a timeless event. You can get started now, or whenever!

Just have fun!

[skarbert]

Did the late Pope set up both Tremblay and Adeyemi

rewatching Conclave, and I am once again wondering about the late Holy Father's scheme. When Lawrence confronts him about bringing Sister Shanumi to the Vatican, he claims he made the transfer at the Holy Father's request.

Obviously, Trembley isn't exactly trustworthy BUT what if he is telling the truth? Did the Holy Father set them both up to disgrace both of them in one go...

The Holy Father as a character and plot device is so fascinating to me...

[comepraisetheinfanta]

The Conclave has voted and the people want Cardinal Turtle!

These will be made-to-order and there *may* be a waitlist depending on just how many people are interested and how many turtles are requested.

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Drop by my inbox or DM me to let me know if you'd like to make a purchase and how many turtles you'd like. I will add you to my list, and I will check if I have enough material for the quantity you request. If I do have the necessary materials to go ahead I will contact you about payment options (Venmo, CashApp, PayPal) and shipping info. I'll keep you up to date on turtle production, and once they are finished they will be shipped out either the day they're finished or the following business day and I will send you tracking info. If there is a waitlist and it's long then I will keep you up to date on your position on the waitlist etc.

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The following price chart already includes shipping WITHIN the US. I’m not sure if I’ll be shipping outside the US but if you do live outside the US and think you’d like to make a purchase message me and I’d be happy to calculate shipping costs for you:

⬆️ Cardinal Turtle (about 3x4 inches) packaged with two other members of the turtle conclave with their optional attachable stands included at the bottom of the package!

[outlanderalien]

Ah! Your eminences!

[dragonsareawesome123]

The Vape Hit: Live Read Version

Conclave Live Read (2025) presented by Film Independent

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The curious case of Adeyemi's (missing) watch in Conclave (2024)

the longer watch friend and I think on it, the more it blows our minds how intentional the costumers were wrt to the friggin watches in this movie. If you're interested in watch meta for Lawrence, Benitez, Bellini, Tremblay and Tedesco, I have linked the previous posts :D

This post is about Adeyemi's watch and what it means.

The Different Shorthands the Watches have throughout the movie

Despite like 100 close-ups of hands in Conclave, only six characters are depicted with watches. Only the serious contenders for the papacy.

Before the conclave starts, Watches are windows to a Character

they are quick snapshots of who a character is, or their current state of mind.

Tremblay and Tedesco: Watches with black dials, signalling their roles as antagonists; Bellini and Lawrence: White dials. more on Bellini later. Benitez: Digital watch face, neutral unknown

Two characters stand out because of how plainly the camera shows us their watches

– and then how completely those watches disappear once the conclave begins.

Benitez's Casio in his first full-profile shot, and Lawrence's Orient in the emotionally vulnerable bathroom scene

Which leads into the second role the watches play.

Once the conclave begins, Watches are Signals of Ambition

BENITEZ & LAWRENCE Their watches are gone. Even in settings which you'd expect to see them, like the bedroom. Because they lack any desire to be pope.

What's the point? Well, Adeyemi's Watch.

We see glimpses of it when he was still in the running for the papacy. But that's all we get. Glimpses. His watch cannot be identified.

It can't be accidental, since the movie has been so deliberate about who wears the watches. Rather, the camera refuses details on Adeyemi's watch because there's nothing more about him we needed to know.

ADEYEMI He didn't need to prove himself. He was the 'natural' successor. He led the votes in the first three ballots. He's the closest thing to a shoo-in candidate. That changes, however, when Lawrence comes to confront him. When he pleads with Lawrence to give him a chance, this unidentified watch peeks in and out from under his right wrist (left screenshot). By the following ballot scene, however, that watch has been stripped from him (right screenshot).

To hammer the point home, the camera shows us the individual candidates following the results of the next ballot.

Adeyemi sits with his hands tucked under the table. Tremblay has a watch, but as the new frontrunner, the watch is mostly hidden.

Bellini and Tedesco's watches are full-faced, out in the open. They are still actively chasing the papacy. Lawrence, on the other hand, genuinely doesn't want it, so his hands are firmly under the table.

The One Time Bellini loses his Watch

When Tremblay is outed for simony, his watch goes through the same treatment as Adeyemi's. More interesting to note is that Bellini loses his watch when he was prepared to support a Tremblay papacy.

True, he was in a nightgown when Lawrence shares the incriminating report with him. Most people don't wear watches with their nightgowns. At the same time, Bellini had also given up on his own candidacy.

After Tremblay is out of the running, look who's wearing a watch again!

Lawrence

Most telling of all is Lawrence's watch. The only time it appears after the conclave begins is – you guessed it – WHEN HE VOTES FOR HIMSELF.

And Benitez?

His Casio is hidden even during his game-changing monologue. It only appears in the final voting scene after he's lectured the curia.

Benitez might not have dreamt of becoming pope. Rather he'd grasped the situation at hand and knew what direction he'd steer the Mother Church given the opportunity. And that was enough.

His watch is symbolic proof of his conviction and visual proof of his character.

In short, the watches show up when the candidates need to prove themselves worthy of being the next pope.

They lose their watches when they are no longer eligible.

Going back to ADEYEMI when he realises he's lost his chance, Lawrence places his hand over Adeyemi's right wrist when praying for him, covering where his watch would be. Adeyemi's watch makes its last appearance when Tremblay is outed; his hope rearing its head. But he also realises he doesn't stand a viable chance because the watch is gone when he's clapping for Benitez.

After BENITEZ has been elected Tremblay's hands are beneath the table. The camera lingers only on the crack in his glasses. Bellini's Seiko Dolce is there in its full tank face glory. He was never 'disqualified' from the race. Should there be another conclave in his lifetime, he might run again. Tedesco's Oris out and in even fuller, naked display. He hadn't been 'disqualified' either. He could and would run if he's alive for the next conclave.

And after the conclave?

In the Room of Tears, Benitez holds Lawrence's hands. Benitez wears no watch. There's nothing more we need to know.

We already understand who he is and why he deserves to be Pope.

🐢 Conclave watches part 1 / part 2 / part 3

[vosklitsatelny]

Conclave (2024)

[ltstrikesback]

You Will Never Be Pope

|| Conclave meets last supper, perhaps? Y’all know I love this movie and I know y’all do too. And this took so long you have no idea, so I hope you enjoy!

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I’ll take criticism but only if it’s nice

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west coast smoker.

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CONCLAVE QUIZ

comes back after months of hiatus posts conclave u quiz PLS TELL ME IF YOU LIKED IT AND WHO DID YOU GET

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Conclave: 2020, where everything is conducted over Animal Crossing.

[randomfandomss]

Love, peace and homosexuality in the vatican on planet earth 😌🙏

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"My brothers, it's true. But the Holy Father asked me to. I had no knowledge who this woman was, I swear to you."

Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

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« Hey we saw you from across the cafeteria and we really hate your vibe » (Conclave screenshot redraw)

[dontbeallupinmyfriesdawg]

Of course I feel absolutely feral and not at all normal about Conclave as a film. It's an absolute masterpiece and I want to watch it again and again.

One thing I deeply appreciated though. When Lawrence confronted Adeyemi, though not condemning him he didn't let him wriggle off the hook when he tried to explain away his relationship with Sister Shanumi as a lapse in judgement because 'they were young'.

Lawrence's response is perfect "No, no, no, she was young, she was 19. You were 30"

It's important that it isn't just brushed off as a sexual indiscretion born of human weakness. I could be wrong but as far as I can tell Adeyemi was in the ministry when this occurred (because if we was just a free single man it wouldn't have been such a big deal). So it makes it all the more sinister that he had an inappropriate relationship with a 19 year old girl who was likely one of his parishioners and got her pregnant.

I like that the narrative clearly shows his removal from the situation by his dismissive statement "If the child is in fact mine" whereas Sister Shanumi is clearly still consumed by the guilt of it all, she likely became a nun for that very reason and Lawrence mentions the very reason she will stay quiet is to protect her son. A child she has very likely not seen since giving birth to him.