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  1. Public Bookmark 6

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    Venice was terrible, and Brescia wasn't much better. At least it was a clear day, a depressing rarity for Venice, though it almost made Goffredo miss the sun of the south more. Their seats were near the top of the stadium, so they got a good breeze, though it smelled of salt instead of stone. Some days Goffredo ached for the scent of tufo in the air. But, at least they had few neighbors around them - one benefit of a shit team.

    Giulio returned from concessions with a beer for himself and, surprisingly, handed Goffredo a slim white can as he took his seat.

    "What is a 'White Claw'?"

    "Some American nonsense they're promoting. It looked fruity and terrible, just how you like it."

    Set between chapters 3 and 4 of the main fic!

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    16 Feb 2026

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    After years of waiting for wealthy patrons to faint, Dr John Watson discovers a far more interesting patient in the opera house basement. (AU through a Phantom of the Opera lens.)

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    23 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 32

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    The least Giulio could do was stay.

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    03 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 36

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    A month after the Conclave, Vincent Benítez, now Pope Innocent XIV, gets stuck in an elevator. It's not the kind of event that should have the potential to derail his entire pontificate, but it has. When the demons from his past come bursting into the Apostolic Palace and shake up a lot of well-established routines and certainties, it falls to a very unlikely alliance of friends, both old and new, to mount the defence and drive them back out. In the process, Thomas Lawrence learns things about their new Pope that he would not have imagined in his wildest dreams, and he finally finds the courage to be more to him than just another faithful servant.

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    20 Sep 2025

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    Dr. Kiramman steers her through the chaos and plants her in a chair. Does something to her arm that hurts like fuck, then drapes her in bags of ice and wraps her in a sling. Blinds her with a pen light—“Called it,” she mumbles when he confirms she’s concussed—and presses two pills and a warm mug into her hand. It smells herbaceous. Familiar.

    “I brought the good stuff from home,” Dr. Kiramman confesses, and it takes her a moment to understand he means tea. “Extra honey for you. I know you haven’t acquired the taste.”

    He’s right in that she only actually drank it once, the first time it was offered—the afternoon they spoke to the Council, several lifetimes ago. But she tasted it just this morning in Caitlyn’s mouth, grassy and sweet. So she pops the pills and takes a sip. Tries not to think about whether that terrified kiss over breakfast was their last. “I want to see her.”

     

    After the war, Vi and Cait recover, and rebuild.

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    18 Sep 2025

  6. Public Bookmark 6

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    Spring of 1890, in a cottage on a moor. One particular Dream, formerly of the Endless, is having a strange morning, and Hob is not quite managing to be an innocent bystander.

    Written for Sandman Week Day 3: Velvet.

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    04 Sep 2025

  7. Public Bookmark 3

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    26 Aug 2025

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    “You’d like him, you know,” Thomas said.

    “I do like him,” Aldo said automatically, twirling the stem of his wine glass, looking into its deep red like it was a scrying mirror.

    “I mean as a friend. If you spent more time with him. You have a lot in common.”

    “Do we use the same shampoo?” asked Aldo, raising an eyebrow. Thomas gave him a warning look but his mouth was tugging up.

    “You’re both stubborn,” he said bluntly.

     

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    Cardinals like Thomas Lawrence and Aldo Bellini know all too well how slowly things move within the walls of the Vatican. But with Vincent Benítez's election cracking their world open, and the new Pope cutting away the old branches to make room for the new, both find that change is flooding in everywhere, mostly within themselves.

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    23 Aug 2025

  9. Public Bookmark 5

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    23 Aug 2025

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    “I did not... consider such a complication, when I took my sister’s hand,” Dream says, at length.

    No fucking shit.

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    07 Aug 2025

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    26 Jun 2025

  12. Public Bookmark 68

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    Thomas Cardinal Lawrence has prayed for a new Pope who doubts, a Pope who sins and asks for forgiveness and carries on. Instead, he gets a gentle, otherworldly saint who is far above the troubles and failings of ordinary men. Or is he?

    The first twenty-four hours of Innocent XIV's pontificate turn out to be the best of Thomas's life, and the worst, and then the best again, and then the worst again… Because sometimes the Holy Spirit sends you certainty, and sometimes he sends you a rollercoaster.

    As the wolves snarl and maul, the sheep quail and the sheepdogs scramble to retain control, Thomas learns that still waters run deep, and that friend and foe alike will underestimate this new shepherd of theirs at their peril.

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    25 Jun 2025

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    Vincent is there beside him. The sun catches in his hair, briefly turning jet black into a golden halo. Lawrence has seen this before. It takes him way too long to realize, and when he finally does, it’s already too late.

     

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    It's been two months since Vincent Benítez became Pope Innocent XIV and finally, Thomas Lawrence feels like he can catch a breath. That is, until he starts getting the same nightmare over and over again.

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    23 Jun 2025

  14. Public Bookmark 22

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    How Cardinal Thomas Lawrence gets adopted by an entire country, learns Tagalog and ends up getting a certain Supreme Pinoytifex to fall for him like Bataan and Corregidor (unintentionally).

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    08 Jun 2025

  15. Public Bookmark 60

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    Aldo rolls his eyes, annoyance genuine this time. “Oh, for God’s sakes. The worst thing we ever did was teach children they have rights.”

    “You don’t mean that,” Thomas says patiently.

    “I do,” Aldo insists darkly. “Freedom of expression does not mean you have the right to scrawl ‘skibidi toilet’ all over the third floor bathroom.”

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    The ancient and venerable St Peter's School for Boys elects a surprise new headmaster, and Aldo reaches heights of stress headache never before experienced by mortal man.

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    31 May 2025

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    Cardinal Lawrence can work miracles.

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    24 May 2025

  17. Public Bookmark 31

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    Ray gets a call from the Holy Father one night. From a jail cell.

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    23 May 2025

  18. Public Bookmark 24

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    "May I," the man said, in properly cut-glass accents, "help you?"

    "Just wanted to make sure you were aware!" Hob said brightly. "The whole street is holding a jumble trail a week from Saturday."

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    14 May 2025

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    When Thomas Lawrence came by the papal apartments that evening, he came, unsurprisingly, with a bundle of papers under his arm.

    Vincent tried on and discarded four separate teasing comments about it, but didn’t get to decide on one before Thomas silently handed them over, and he realized they were newspapers, opened and refolded over the weekly comics, his favorite. Three of them, one for each week he’d been away.

    Ah, he thought, with the feeling of a sudden hard deceleration in his chest, the press it put on his heart. Ah. All right then.

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    12 May 2025

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    Benítez tilts his head a fraction closer, conspiratorial. “It’s a pity our devices have been confiscated for the time that we’re sequestered here. I would’ve suggested sneaking off to exchange more music recommendations since you’ve demonstrated taste.”

    “Dally any longer, and I fear that neither of us will be in anyone’s good graces,” Thomas replies as Ray sweeps past them. “But I would’ve…” He glances furtively at Benítez; for an instant, it’s the thrill of misbehaving at seminary again. “I would’ve liked that.”

    “There’s a computer in the office.”

    “We’d have to cross Sister Agnes.”

    “Ah. Never mind that idea, then.”

    Oh, the things I would’ve liked had we been young men together, Thomas thinks wistfully as they approach the dining room. I would’ve liked you.

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    08 May 2025

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