#Spooktober 25 – The Girl from the Other Side

October 25, 2023

Originally titled “Foreign Girl”, and with an Irish song as a subtitle, this 11-volume manga is one of the finest things produced in the last ten years and it tells the story of Shiva, a young girl, who is abandoned in a cursed forest and lives with one of the “others”, creature who can curse you with their touch. The girl and the monster, whom she calls “Teacher”, develop a complex relationship which eventually boils down to the ultimate question: what is a monster?
Both the drawings and the delicate narration will have you into tears by the end of it.

architecture, engineering and construction

The SSR of Beautiful Models: Stewardship, Structure and Responsibility

“Advanced BIM”: what does that even mean? “Advanced BIM” is one of those expressions that sound authoritative and yet, when you ask what it actually describes, the answers become very vague very quickly. The statement doesn’t mean anything, and it drives me crazy equally quickly.

March 4, 2026 9:00 am

note to self

What happened in February…

…doesn’t necessarily stay in February, so here’s a few highlights. I saw art exhibitions, read books and comics, had a birthday, did a great football event with my team and bla bla bla, who cares. Here’s the stuff you might have seen on Instagram, but

February 28, 2026 5:51 pm

books and literature

SciFi Friday — The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O’Brien (1858) — Part 6

I arose the next morning almost at daybreak, and rushed to my microscope, I trembled as I sought the luminous world in miniature that contained my all. Animula was there. I had left the gas-lamp, surrounded by its moderators, burning when I went to bed