#conclave book

[wondersmith-and-sons]

the conclave book describing Tremblay’s papal candidacy as “he had the advantage of seeming to be an American without the disadvantage of actually being one” is actually so fucking funny. mr Robert Harris did you have any idea how well this would age

[becquerel]

conclave the book is like so specifically written too like ... its so crazy. bellini's line about "families having 10 children because mama and papa didn't know any better" & "standing for everything tedesco does not" is like only a few pages apart from the reveal of tedesco's backstory being that he's the youngest of 12 kids and grew up destitutely poor from that (& still eats like he's terrified someone might steal his food). like ohh... tedesco is a product of his environment and the paradigm of the traditional values failing people & still trying to force those values on people despite knowing the firsthand experience of the way it sucks. crab in a bucket style.

[helpmeimblorboing]

Okay, so Conclave (2024) is an absolutely amazing movie - and book, by the way - that is absolutely ripe with symbolism so thick it would take days to fully dig into it

But also there is nothing funnier to me than Lawrence spending the entire movie doubting his faith and wishing for a sign from God, and trying his damnedest to get everyone to vote for literally ANYONE but him, and the second he allows himself a brief moment of solipsism and votes for himself God literally blows the roof up over his head like a driving instructor grabbing a student’s steering wheel to keep him from T-boning another car

Like, literally, Lawrence went, “Adeyemi’s a statutory rapist, Tremblay bribed cardinals, Bellini got bribed. Tedesco’s. Insane…. perhaps I am the one God has chosen to carry out this task. Perhaps I am the o-“

God, about to detonate a car bomb in the Piazza del Risorgimento : “LMAO sit your ass back down, Dean, you forgot someone”

[isa-grapes]

may god grant us a pope who is lowkey bisexual

[mrstedescollitto]

[sunny-raccoon]

Grandpa served so much cunt they couldn't put it in the movie

[dreamofless]

~with you

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never spent that long on one single work. it robbed me of my sanity. the things i do for these catholic old men..

[ennas-aesthetic]

Ohhh look at me I’m Jacopo Baldassare Lomeli. I’m the Dean of the College of Cardinals. I got kissed by Aldo Cardinal Bellini and Sister Agnes. The new Holy Father looks at me with lovesick eyes and just hinted the start of a codependent relationship with me. Fuck you.