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[bird-metaphor]

Tremblay: This report is mendacious! 😡 How do you sleep at night?

Lomeli:

[hermitmoss]

Conclave + Onion headlines (part I)

[browniesarchive]

Hot Cardinal Summer

by @omg-they-were-clavemates on Ao3 🐢☀️

Messy warmup sketch from my favourite part of this fic, I got a bit overwhelmed and abandoned it... On the top you can see (kinda) the unfinished sketch were they are drying their cassocks :)

In reply, Vincent turned the hose on Aldo again, then back to Thomas. Aldo cracked a wicked grin that Thomas hadn’t seen in months, maybe years. The watering can he’d been using to fill the farther birdbaths had been left at Aldo’s feet. Full, since Thomas had been on his way to find another bath when he’d started to overheat. 

Aldo picked it up and flung it, so that the contents doused Vincent like Dorothy doused the Wicked Witch. Vincent’s smile stretched from ear to ear. He shot the hose at Aldo again. Aldo tried to catch some in the watering can so that he would have a second shot. 

Not wanting to feel left out, Thomas hustled into a nearby alcove where he’d seen another hose. He turned the nob and tucked out from behind wall like he imagined the heroes of his crime novels did. Since this hose still had the gardening head on it, it was easy to hit them both once he’d found the right setting. 

This continued for several more minutes until they were all just standing under a shower from the two hoses, soaking wet. They let the hoses drop, and Vincent went to turn his off at the spigot. Then they all started to laugh.

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Thomas Lawrence & Goffredo Tedesco aka Lawresco

a glimpse into their shared past;

[angryasiandyk3]

lawmeli moodboard

[internerdionality]

OKAY. OKAY. SO. Conclave (the novel) takes place in 2021.

How do I know this?

I finally put together a few different clues on timing and dates that the book gives us.

Clue Number 1, from Chapter 1:

He was seventy-five, retirement age.

Clue Number 2 from Chapter 2:

Now, on the feast day of St. Herculanus the Martyr—Sunday, November 7

Clue number 3, also from Chapter 2:

“when I was a boy in ’58—when I was still at the seminary in Genoa, in fact”

And finally, clue number 4, from Chapter 8:

In 2018 he was appointed Archbishop of Baghdad, Iraq.

So, we know that Lomeli was a boy old enough to attend seminary in 1958. Depending on the definition of boy, he could be in minor or major seminary, so let’s say 10 at the very youngest (a real prodigy) to 25 at the absolute oldest (really not a boy).

That gives us a range of possible birth years for him from 1933-48, which means that for him to be seventy-five, the book could be placed anywhere from 2008 – 2023.

The only years in that range in which November 7 is a Sunday were 2010 and 2021.

And since Benítez was named a Cardinal in 2018, it can’t be 2010.

(Granted, the book explicitly takes place in a slightly different timeline since Francis isn’t the Pope that just died, but the line of Popes PRIOR to that is the same and there are multiple references to other shared recent events, that I’m confident that things aren’t hugely different enough for the calendar to change)

[the-winchester-s-guardian]

A devastating thought just hit me, but it always sounded strange to me when Aldo tells Thomas that “he didn’t know how hard it was in the last weeks of the papacy” as Thomas himself is a member of the Curia, and combined with the fact that Lawrence didn’t have a meeting with the pope for close to two months, I think the pope sort of casted him to the side in the last weeks

[mirjam-writes]

A short Meta about Lawrence/Lomeli apartment

I've been very curious about our dear Dean's living arrangements, since I've been drafting a fic that's set in his home. I'm not Italian, nor Catholic, but here's what I have gathered.

Here's a quote from the book about his first impression of his hotel room at Casa Santa Marta.

[He was dismayed to discover he ...]

We get a location at the Palace of the Holy Office (let's come back to that later), and the casually dropped nugget of information that he lives in FOUR HUNDRED SQUARE METER apartment. FOUR HUNDRED! That's... four times of our family house?! He also has a grand piano!

Apparently the Pope also disapproved, as Lomeli found out by peeking his secret documents in the sealed office.

His is bigger than Bellini's! But Adeyemi and Tremblay got even bigger ones! Wow. Okay, I bet these elderly high rank politicians do not cook for themselves or wash their own laundry, so maybe they have a room for two for a servant, but... that's still hell of a lot of room for a supposedly single man, just saying.

I did some googling, but found very little about cardinal's private homes. I have only assumptions that these apartments might have stuff like private chapels and meeting rooms for official business in addition to the private chambers. The building is old and gorgeous, so I bet the rooms have a lot of history and signs of catholic church's wealth visible. They probably come furnished with centuries old furniture and art...

But let's forget the size, and read a bit about the place itself: Palace of the Holy Office, built in 16th century. Here's their official website. Scroll at the end of the page. Look at the pictures. Look more clearly. Looks familiar, huh?

It's close, but not quite the setting where Lawrence received the Cardinals in the movie (there was no water fountain in the middle).

In the book Lomeli received the cardinals in front of Casa Santa Marta, but that's a completely different (a lot newer) building, so this one in the film was probably just chosen for the visuals, and not because it looked like Lomeli's front door.

Let's hear Wikipedia's wisdom about the place: The Palace of the Holy Office (Italian: Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio) is a building in Rome which is an extraterritorial property of the Holy See. It houses the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church.

The palace is situated south of Saint Peter's Basilica near the Petrine Gate to Vatican City. The building lies outside the confines of Vatican City at the south-eastern corner of the city-state. It is one of the properties of the Holy See in Italy regulated by the 1929 Lateran Treaty signed with the Kingdom of Italy. As such, it has extraterritorial status.

Not just any ordinary single man's cave, huh? The book explains that pretty much the whole curia lives in there as Lomeli's neighbours!

The book had a handy map, which shows how close Casa Santa Marta was from the palace (and how frigging huge St. Peters is).

So, uh. There.

Has anyone more knowledge of the insides of the Palace of the Holy Office? What kind of luxurious lives these old men lead? Please share!

PS. The current pope Leo also lived there as a cardinal.