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“I know this is difficult. I know you do not like this. But you are starving yourself, Thomas, and God would not see you starved. I would not see you starved.”
Thomas wonders what it says about him that one of those means more than the other— and what it means that this does not bother him as it should, this blasphemous thought, this sacrilegious reprioritization.
“I do not wish to argue with you, my dear Vincent,” Thomas says, voice quiet. “Your concern is kind, but— I am afraid this is only how I am.”
Vincent squeezes his hands.
“You are not your punishments,” Vincent tells him, firm, warm, insistent. “You are not your denial. You are not your sacrifice, Thomas, nor your hunger. You are not your starvation.” His hands shake Thomas’s, a rattle to keep his attention. “You are Thomas. You are human, and you are starving, and you should not be.”
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27 Apr 2026
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The pontiff looked at the cardinal beside him. His gaze held all the solemnity of a man turned infallible vessel and all the wistfulness of a lonely child. “You are my closest friend, Thomas. Would you please take my confession?”
“Of course, should you have sin to confess.”
In the first year of Pope Innocent XIV's papacy, Thomas Lawrence and Vincent Benitez struggle to negotiate duty and desire.
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04 Apr 2025
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Thomas is drawn to Caravaggio, Vincent is drawn to Thomas.
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- Part 1 of Art Imitates Life
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25 Jan 2025
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"The street outside felt eerily quiet, its residents likely indulging in sins they would confess at a later date. Thomas decided to catch some sleep in the confessional. The seat was comfortable enough, and it was close to the church door, so he would hear anyone coming in. Later, he’d offer his sincere apologies for missing dinner. He only hoped Sister Agnes wouldn’t be there when he did—her disapproving stare could make the sun itself shut down."
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The one where Thomas hears a confession about a subject he knows very well.
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- Part 2 of Moriría Por Vos
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23 Jan 2025
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resist much, obey little by redyarns
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Web Series), Helluva Boss (Web Series), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
26 May 2024
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Alastor had a noose around his neck.
There was only one person who could loosen it.
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Temptation had never strung Lucifer along. He was an angel of Heaven no matter what anyone else said, and he had never fallen whim to any of the sins that humans were so eager to do.
And Alastor, a demon and a sinner who had fallen even further after death, was the most forbidden fruit of all.
He was the very embodiment of blasphemy.
But by God, did Lucifer want him.
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18 Jun 2024