#peppone

[eeriedragone]

Miscellaneous unfinished Conclave stuff (+ Don Camillo bc i need people to know about him)

[sharkgal4]

Yaoiland is REAL and its Brescello in Italy

[mustakrakisch]

[belphegor1982]

Something about Don Camillo and Pepone, if you please.

They were how I found you, and I haven't thought about them in too long <3<3<3

You know what? Same here! I went back to my WIP chapter of Between the Mountains and the Plains for this ask and boy, do I wish I knew how to continue it. In the meantime, you didn't specify anything in your ask, so I'm just gonna let my mouth run. Or, y'know. Fingers.

I found something in my Don Camillo notes file: "WW2, German occupation, in the mountains. Peppone and a pocket protector." That's literally all there is. I don't remember whether I was going somewhere specific with this or just jotting down a random idea. But okay, let's work with that!

First off, "pocket protector" is that trope when a character is shot, only the bullet is stopped (at least partly) by an object the character has in their chest pocket. Of course the likely candidate for this is a book, but metallic hip flasks can also work! But I do want it to be a book, because picture this -

The partisans have lived in the mountains for a while now. And wouldn't you know it, it's not as glamorous as novels might make it look like - some of them can't help but be bored in the long lulls between operations and camp moving. So any book they can get their mitts on, they keep, if they can. Between the dozen of them they have quite a little library (of maybe ten books?). Of course someone has a Bible, and maybe someone else (from the city, probably) got hold of Das Kapital, but the majority of the books are novels.

Now Peppone isn't really into books. He can read, but not well, and he's not used to writing. But let's say there hasn't been many almost-dead cars for him to tinker on lately, so he's been carrying a book just in case there's quiet time enough for him to get bored. (And thinking he can always fob it off on someone actually interested)

Except his band meet either blackshirts or fascists and there's a firefight. And if this happens after Don Camillo joins the partisans full-time, then picture Don Camillo turning his head and seeing Peppone get hit by a bullet square in the chest and collapse.

Turns out you can still move even if your heart stops and the breath leaves your lungs in a rush.

Since both men are more or less the same size (half an elephant, roughly :P), Don Camillo is pretty much the only one who can pick him up and load him on his shoulder. He used to be a stretcher bearer when he was a chaplain during WW1, some things you just don't forget. Once things calm down and everyone is safe, he lays Peppone on the ground against a tree and goes to check if he's still alive, with most of the usual gang holding their breath over his shoulder -

- only to stumble back and fall on their butts as Peppone gasps awake, shaken but inexplicably unhurt.

While Don Camillo closes his eyes for a second and sends a quick but fervent prayer of thanks to his Jesus, Peppone unzips his jacket with a trembling hand a pulls out a book.

Is it the Bible? The works of Karl Marx?

Neither! It's a cheap giallo (a crime novel), dog-eared and faded, but thick enough that the bullet barely nicked the skin behind it.

(I kinda want to have Smilzo make a red/yellow pun (because "giallo" also means "yellow", like "you've got red on your [yellow]) but I have no idea how that'd work in English!)

"Saved by literature, boss," says Brusco, and Don Camillo shakes his head.

(I know it's quick and it's been a while since I visited the little world so I'm rather unsure, but I hope you like 💜)

[mustakrakischsartcorner]

Since everyone knows this legendary pics, I decided that I need to draw some characters like this:

Namely Don Camillo and Peppone, because I'm still not over them lol

[dlsan]

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[the-french-belphegor]

I’m in the process of posting my WW2 Don Camillo stories on FFnet, and since FFnet has “cover pictures” I decided to make some for the fics mostly in the style of Giovannino Guareschi’s lovely little illustrations from the books (like I’d done with The Trumpet of Contention :o)

If anyone’s curious, from #1 to #5, here are the fics in question on AO3:

September (The Nazis didn’t spare sleepy little villages when they invaded Northern Italy. Hard times means hard decisions have to be made.)

The Clandestine Chaplain (In which Don Camillo visits some of his parishioners in exile and comes to a few startling conclusions.)

Tidings of Comfort and Joy (With December come bad news. Hope is not always found at the bottom of a box, but some people may find it there anyway.)

Giosuè (Whoever saves one life...)

Vigil (One night can last a long time when a man’s life hangs in the balance.)

The drawings are meant to be small, so I couldn’t make them too detailed, and anyway the style doesn’t lend itself to details. They were fun to draw, though!

[cirilee]

Hi :o) This is very very random, sorry, I just remembered that last year you were kind enough to reblog some of my Don Camillo & Peppone drawings and I just wondered if you've ever tried drawing them? I'd LOVE to see them in your style! 💜

omg thank you for this request and the opportunity to draw them !!

i grew up with genosse don camillo (or originally Mondo piccolo – il compagno Don Camillo) and read that book SO MANY times (my parents never bought me any other don camillo books because we never had money and even buying a book was a big investment X'D) - i had that one gifted to me by my grandpa

and i LOVE the little illustrations in it

so that's how i always pictured don camillo and peppone and it would influence how i draw them^^

anyways, everyone go check out @belphegor1982 don camillo art, its absolutely stunning and made me rewatch all the movies !! ;V;