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1. Public Bookmark 46

   love, actually by wildcard_47

   Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018), The Terror - Dan Simmons  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   25 Dec 2019

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Captain Francis Crozier/Commander James Fitzjames
   • Harry D. S. Goodsir/Lady Silence | Silna
   • John Bridgens/Harry Peglar
   • Lt Edward Little
   • Thomas Jopson
   • Thomas Blanky
   • Captain Sir John Franklin
   • Getting The Whole Damn Family Together
   • Found Family Tropes Ahoy!
   • The Christmas Vacation AU Of Our Dreams
   • Everything's Fluffy And The Arctic Doesn't Matter
   • Fake Dating
   • James And Francis Become Two Pine Trees
   • Vague Academic Handwaving
   • Carnivale Is The Dream of Two Idiots and A Thousand Game Shows
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Friends With Benefits
   • Many Many Benefits
   • Semi-Clothed Sex
   • When Sports Massage Gets Sexy
   • Hot Massages From Hot Tall Boys
   • Coming Untouched
   • THICK CAKES
   • (By Cakes I Mean Thighs)
   • academic shenanigans
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Best Boyfriends 2k19

   Summary

   With three weeks to go until Christmas, James asks his fellow professor Francis for an unusual favor.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   25,686

   Chapters:

   9/9

   Comments:

   66

   Kudos:

   378

   Bookmarks:

   46

   Hits:

   4,334

   Bookmarked by Joe_Starwalker

   10 Jun 2026

2. Public Bookmark 48

   Sacraments for sinners by superworm

   Fandom Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris

   • Explicit, General Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Series in Progress

   08 Jun 2026

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Aldo Bellini/Goffredo Tedesco (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini & Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Thomas Lawrence & Goffredo Tedesco (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini & Previous Pope (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini & Thomas Lawrence & Goffredo Tedesco (Conclave)
   • Goffredo Tedesco (Conclave) & Original Character(s)
   • Aldo Bellini (Conclave) & Original Character(s)
   • Aldo Bellini & Giulio Sabbadin (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini & Vincent Benítez (Conclave)
   • Vincent Benítez & Goffredo Tedesco (Conclave)
   • Vincent Benitez/Thomas Lawrence (Conclave) - implied
   • Vincent Benítez/Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini (Conclave)
   • Goffredo Tedesco (Conclave)
   • Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Giulio Sabbadin (Conclave)
   • Previous Pope (Conclave)
   • Joseph Tremblay (Conclave)
   • Joshua Adeyemi (Conclave)
   • Vincent Benítez (Conclave)
   • Raymond O'Malley (Conclave)
   • assorted OCs minor characters and radical theologians
   • plus a frankly gratuitous number of Tedesco relatives
   • Original Characters
   • Vincent Benítez (mentioned)
   • Thomas Lawrence (mentioned)
   • assorted minor characters + OCs + Tedesco relatives...you know the drill
   • AWP (Angst with generous doses of smut for morale)
   • Light Dom/sub
   • Light BDSM
   • Under-negotiated Kink
   • Kink Negotiation
   • Restraints
   • Orgasm Control
   • First Time
   • Gentle Sex
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst
   • Shame
   • Catholic Guilt
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Implied/Referenced Homophobia
   • Catholic Church Child Abuse Scandal (mentioned)
   • Pre-Canon
   • Friendship
   • Feelings Realization
   • Slow Burn
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Tragically our protagonists are in different genres
   • Tedesco thinks this is Much Ado About Nothing
   • meanwhile Bellini is in full Game of Thrones mode
   • joke’s on them obvs we all know the correct answer is Mean Girls
   • AWP (Angst with much less generous amounts of smut for morale)
   • Sorry Not Sorry
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • (or very little anyway)
   • canon-typical levels of catholic guilt and general suffering
   • basically everything gets worse before it gets better
   • artisanal blend of book and movie canon crafted specifically to suit the author's narrative purposes
   • (those of course being to put these poor idiots through as much torment as possible)
   • AWP (angst with still less generous amounts of smut for morale than Part I sorry)
   • (but also with less generous amounts of angst than Part II so...)
   • mentions of death and suicide
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Post-Canon
   • (sort of)
   • Bellesco Divorce Era ™
   • the mortifying ordeal of coming to some Realizations
   • neither angst nor smut
   • oh no I'm diluting my brand
   • this is just lots of
   • Bickering
   • and gratuitous amounts of
   • Banter
   • (as well as some heartfelt moments)
   • dare i say
   • Fluff
   • Bellesco
   • Old Married Couple
   • era ™
   • Found Family
   • Domestic
   • Comfort No Hurt
   • Humor
   • Crack
   • Slice of Life
   • Holidays
   • Christmas Presents
   • Christmas Movies
   • Miracle on 34th Street
   • deeply unserious theological debates
   • The Grinch and Saint Nicolas of Myra honorable mention
   • Misunderstandings
   • First Kiss
   • AWP (angst with even more smut for morale)
   • (or perhaps we're entering smut-with-angst-to-keep-things-interesting territory)
   • more Much Ado than GoT (finally)
   • senior citizens grappling with feelings more at six
   • are they good people? debatable
   • have they suffered enough? definitely not
   • will they get a soft epilogue anyway? let's see shall we

   Summary

   Aldo Bellini and Goffredo Tedesco try to fix themselves and each other with mixed results.
   Vincent Benítez didn't sign up for any of this but ends up doing a better job anyway.
   Thomas Lawrence has been managing these idiots all his adult life (and people think running a conclave is a thankless job).

   Words:

   264,359

   Works:

   5

   Bookmarks:

   48

   Bookmarked by Joe_Starwalker

   02 Oct 2025

3. Public Bookmark *

   Nasoni by onthearrow

   Fandoms: Conclave (2024)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   11 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Vincent Benítez/Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Vincent Benítez (Conclave)
   • Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini (Conclave)
   • Mutual Pining
   • Non-Sexual Intimacy
   • basically the goal here was to write the most extreme longing without being explicit
   • could ALMOST be read as platonic
   • BUT NOT THE LAST CHAPTER
   • Crack Treated Seriously
   • Kind Of
   • love letter to rome
   • love letter to the turtles of the Vatican
   • Vincent has named them after members of the Curia
   • Vincent rejects the camauro
   • Cuddling
   • Fluff
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Apologies to fans of the New York Mets
   • The Manager Manages
   • Thomas has the self esteem of an extensively bullied schoolboy
   • dual timelines
   • Two men very bad at communicating feelings completely fail to communicate feelings
   • One extremely hideous yellow bucket hat
   • Angst
   • Skinny Dipping
   • a lot of water metaphors
   • A lot of hats
   • Hammocks
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Emotional Intimacy
   • Making Out
   • Aggressively
   • In the middle of Rome
   • Getting Together
   • First Time
   • This fic should feel like a Roman vacation
   • Escape au
   • Crying in the middle of Rome
   • Also crying in the middle of the Vatican
   • It's the Crying Olympics Basically
   • A rogue bellesco mention

   Summary

   “It seemed cruel,” Thomas says, “for you to have not seen Rome properly. And so you shall.”

   ___

   Thomas and Vincent sneak out of the Vatican to spend an anonymous day in Rome.

   (Also, Vincent doesn't want Thomas to resign. Thomas doesn't want to go.)

   Series

   • Part 1 of Nasoni

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   31,275

   Chapters:

   6/6

   Comments:

   375

   Kudos:

   828

   Bookmarks:

   212

   Hits:

   14,290

   Bookmarked by Joe_Starwalker

   04 Jul 2025

4. Public Bookmark 13

   we're just two men as God had made us by ristrettoradio

   Fandom Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris

   • Explicit, Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Series

   08 Jun 2025

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Aldo Bellini/Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini & Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini & Goffredo Tedesco (Conclave)
   • Thomas Lawrence & Goffredo Tedesco
   • Aldo Bellini & Cardinal Sabbadin (Conclave)
   • Thomas Lawrence & Giulio Sabbadin (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini & Giulio Sabbadin (Conclave)
   • Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini (Conclave)
   • Goffredo Tedesco (Conclave)
   • Cardinal Sabbadin (Conclave)
   • Giulio Sabbadin (Conclave)
   • Ray O'Malley (mentioned)
   • Previous Pope (mentioned)
   • Giulio Sabbadin (mentioned)
   • There Was Only One Bed
   • First Time
   • Smut
   • Hand Jobs
   • Breaking Celibacy Vows
   • it's not breaking celibacy when you're both cardinals
   • Set in 2004
   • Roman Catholicism
   • thomas lawrence can't open ziploc bags in front of his crush
   • tedesco indirectly supporting the lawrellini agenda
   • what if we slept on the same bed and we were both into each other and celibate?
   • Talking
   • Love Confessions
   • Religious Discussion
   • Religious Guilt
   • aldo bellini has internalized homophobia
   • former celibates become a married couple after one night of lovemaking
   • because of course they do they're catholics
   • author was raised catholic and a precocious atheist
   • sabbadin cameo
   • not beta read (unless the holy spirit counts)
   • Domestic
   • Early Mornings
   • diversity win: former celibates are now a married couple thanks to the vatican
   • Beginnings
   • advancing lawrellini propaganda one day at a time
   • Morning Kisses
   • Sleepy Kisses
   • Missing Scene
   • Set Right After the Auditorium Scene
   • Conversations
   • Politics
   • Vatican
   • Established Aldo Bellini/Thomas Lawrence (before the conclave started)
   • giulio sabbadin was interested in politics from a very young age
   • thomas lawrence and the epic modern romance of being the losing candidate's husband
   • thomas lawrence and his neverending undying love for aldo bellini that fills that entire auditorium when he says his name
   • lawrellini propaganda is alive and well
   • Established Relationship
   • 2000s
   • Relationship Study
   • Anxiety Disorder
   • Depression
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Comfort
   • Sex (mentioned)
   • Suicide Ideation (mentioned)
   • fostering the lawrellini agenda
   • lawrellini propaganda with simon & garfunkel references (yaoi on yaoi)
   • making lawrellini watch movies I like for the culture
   • Masturbation
   • Mutual Pining
   • Best Friends
   • set a few years before the conclave
   • tell me dean lawrence do you ever yearn?
   • ah yes the inherent romanticism of mundane email exchanges
   • bellini family lore expansion - they're like the roys but italian to me
   • aldo bellini hand flex can be something so personal
   • Anal Fingering
   • Anal Sex
   • First Time Bottoming
   • Top Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Bottom Aldo Bellini (Conclave)
   • Douching
   • Tenderness
   • 2010s
   • Slice of Life
   • Classical Music
   • Suicidal Ideation (mentioned)
   • References to Depression
   • Making Out
   • Reading

   Words:

   14,470

   Works:

   8

   Bookmarks:

   13

   Bookmarked by Joe_Starwalker

   30 Jun 2025

5. Public Bookmark *

   Encounters with Turtles by MostRemote

   Fandoms: Conclave (2024)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   08 Feb 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Vincent Benítez/Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini & Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Thomas Lawrence (Conclave)
   • Aldo Bellini (Conclave)
   • Vincent Benítez (Conclave)
   • Ambiguous Relationships
   • Celibacy
   • Sexuality Crisis
   • Friendship/Love
   • Romantic Friendship
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Self-Hatred

   Summary

   Under the pontificate of Innocent XIV, Thomas Lawrence attempts to further social reform while navigating a web of personal struggles. Caught between his troubling feelings about Vincent and a crisis besetting Aldo, Thomas is forced to reckon with the boundaries of friendship, love, and sexuality.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   33,207

   Chapters:

   6/6

   Comments:

   465

   Kudos:

   1,443

   Bookmarks:

   328

   Hits:

   19,014

   Bookmarked by Joe_Starwalker

   30 Jun 2025