Juliusz

3:30 AM

i love seeing cunty edits of tedesco set to mid-early '00s slutcore music like yassss 😩‼️ queen 💖✨️💅🏽 slay 💃🤩 serve 💥💥 eat 😝💦 (images of a catholic cardinal flash across your screen)

watched conclave and loved it so much... here's some quick lawrenitez for the soul

"(...) I was mistaken. I was who I had always been."

miserable old men but at least they have each other

he's like a patron saint. to me

let this chalice pass from me.

It’s really amusing to me that tradcaths don’t like Convlave even though it’s one of the kindest depictions of the Catholic Church I’ve ever seen. Instead of power hungry, corrupt pedophiles, they’re depicted as people who make mistakes but genuinely want to help people and love god. But heaven forbid a man have a uterus (which btw is not something really deisvussed in Cannon Law outside of one guy who says it’s fine as long as an intersex man looks like a man)

You do not know war

"I'm just a girl", "girl math", "girl dinner", "divine feminine energy", "bimbocore", "clean girl", "girl's girl", "girlfriend brain" SHUT UPPP!!! SHUTT THE FUCKKKK UPPPPPP !!!!

Julian Fałat (Polish, 1853–1929)

PROUD OF MY(25) SON(54) MR.CARLOS DIEHZ!!!!😭😌🫡🙏🫵✨️✨️

the conclave book constantly emphasizes how being a pope is basically a lonely death sentence. cardinals close to being elected pope are isolated out of respect and awe, popes can't go out to eat at their favorite restaurants or go on strolls, they're constantly targeted as the head of the church etc..

the book frames benitez as, literally and symbolically, a 60ish year old boy who has no idea what hes getting into. he stumbles to think of a name when he gets elected pope, begs lomelli to stay with him to guide him, and even the smallest papal clothes literally do not fit him because he's so tiny. he's framed with a childlike awe and openness needed to lead the church through dark and cynical times

i think another genius moment for the movie is that it frames benitez in almost the opposite direction. movie benitez is quiet and contemplative. he likes lomelli, but in the same way an angel would favor a prophet. he's the only one to care about His Holiness' turtles and see their virtue despite their apparent stupidity, which is obviously a reflection of how His Holiness saw the cardinals and the rest of the Kingdom of God. From the very beginning, he is isolated from the other cardinals, never really shown to discuss things with anyone other than lawrence. In the end when he scolds tedesco, you dont get the impression of a wise childlike figure speaking up against a bully, you get the impression of moses telling ramses to let his people go.

and in the end when movie benitez is elected pope, he pauses. he refuses to get dressed until lawrence sees him about the one issue he knows will be a problem. he comes into the papacy knowing he will make a great sacrifice, and he treats it that way.

tldr book benitez is a 60ish year old boy wearing papal clothes too big for him to fully handle, movie benitez is a man walking up cavalry hill, both are my babies, thank you for coming to my ted talk