#Spooktober 10 – Fire City

October 10, 2023

It’s a weird movie, and I like the story behind it as it was spanning from a broader worldbuilding project and it was basically croudfunded.

Autumn Vine is a fixer for his brethren demons and what he provides is misery. By slowly influencing humans around them, demons have sustained themselves for centuries, living in close quarters with mortals and pushing them to commit horrible acts so that they can feed on the misery they inflict.
One night, too much is too much. A random act of overdue mercy sets disruption in motion, as the demons start to mysteriously die and the community is locked within their condo, for fear that they would spread their disease. But is it a sickness or a shift in paradigm? I guess it’s a matter of perspective.

This is a movie for you if you like the idea of parallel worlds, if you enjoy Del Toroesque visuals and if you have a thing for cyberpunk aesthetics.

comics and illustration

Leo Ortolani, Tapum

A un certo punto ci sarà una battuta, in questo fumetto, e riderete. Sappiate che è l’unica. Com’è giusto che sia. Se devo paragonare quest’opera a qualcosa, il confronto più azzeccato è probabilmente lo spettacolo che Marco Paolini trasse dal Sergente nella neve di Rigoni

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Summertime

Omeros in the Caribbeans

Derek Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, and painter, and one of the major voices of Caribbean literature. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, and his work often explores Caribbean history, identity, colonial inheritance, and the meeting of European and African

August 9, 2026 6:00 am

books and literature

Ioanna Papadopoulou’s The Castaway and the Witch

I had a genuine “oh shit” moment when I read the author’s preface saying this was darker than “Winter Harvest” because – and I absolutely ADORED “Winter Harvest” – that was pitch-black dark. I thought “we’re all going to die”. This maybe has something to

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