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  1. Public Bookmark 55

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    "So I've got this kid..."

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    04 Apr 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 32

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    “Do you always watch me that closely, Eminenza?” he asks, eyes on Aldo. Something in his voice has shifted, too, dropping it into what might almost be a conspiratorial mutter, and Aldo shouldn’t delude himself into thinking he can read anything into it. It’s been too long.

    Some doors should stay closed, especially after they’ve been slammed shut.


    After the conclave, over the course of seven days and seven conversations, Aldo Bellini is forced to retrace the steps of a past he's spent thirty years trying to forget and slowly comes to the realisation that old, buried feelings might not have been buried that deeply after all.

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    23 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 26

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    Aldo is looking down at him, his eyes both kind and sad.

    “Acceptasne electionem de te canonice factam in Summum Pontificem?” he asks.

    What can Thomas reply? He closes his eyes and pretends he doesn’t feel the moisture gathering there. “Accepto,” he says, his voice raspy and not steady enough. He has to push the words through; it hurts. Forgive me, he thinks. Forgive me, he prays.

    “Quo nomine vis vocari?”

    His eyes overflow; a tear, two, five flow down. He bites his cheek and wills them to stop. “Ioannes.”

    A heavy hand lands on his shoulder, shakes him and steadies him in the same choked breath. “A good name, Tommaso. A good name.” Tedesco’s voice is gruff, hoarse from the decades of smoking and vaping. And almost a month of grief, too.

    None of this should be happening.

    Innocent’s, Vincent’s papacy was everything Thomas had prayed for and more. In ten years, he changed so many things, and he had planned to change so many more for the next decade.

    He never had the chance.


    A tale of two papacies, and one love story.

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    22 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 69

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    In which a wardrobe malfunction kicks off the Bellesco Rube Goldberg machine. I guess that makes Aldo the marble?

    Or: the 5+1 format as the competence kink trenchcoat hiding self-reflection, ruminations on grief, learning to see each other as people, apocryphal texts, Reformation jokes, my hysterical obsession with silver curls, etc.

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    14 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    Standing in his kitchen in the morning sunlight, Severus picks up the kettle and turns on the tap.

    In the pantry, a baby begins to cry.

    What? Why? How?

    WHO?

    And WHEN?

    And what has Hermione bloody Granger got to do with it?

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    14 Dec 2025