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Cactus di Fuoco 🌵🔥

@cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

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Mysterious Italian Spirit Cacti that write mysterious stories. Scrittori con le spine. Ci piace la fantascienza che sembra fantasy e il fantasy che sembra fantascienza. Scriviamo di tutto, nel nostro modo cactaceo, In Italian and English 🇮🇹 + 🇬🇧.

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Cactus di Fuoco 🌵🔥 @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social · 1d

New Amazon author page!
www.amazon.com/author/firec...

Cactus di Fuoco: books, biography, latest update

Follow Cactus di Fuoco and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Cactus di Fuoco Author Page.

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Cactus di Fuoco 🌵🔥 @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social · 1d

What are you waiting? Buy today your tiny wearable spectral friend*

*who may be, well, not very friendly.

#ProjectRegisIrae #GhostPendants #GhostInTheJewel

A spoof ad for a company called "GhostInTheJewel." The page features a pendant with an orange stone that appears to have a ghost trapped inside. The page advertises a 50% discount on pendants containing an ectoplasmic creature that can become your companion.

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Cactus di Fuoco 🌵🔥 @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social · 1d

New Amazon author page!
www.amazon.com/author/firec...

Cactus di Fuoco: books, biography, latest update

Follow Cactus di Fuoco and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Cactus di Fuoco Author Page.

www.amazon.com

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 2d

Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · 2d

"No chains to hold me back
No peaks to high to climb
No arrows can pierce a flaming heart
I will break out
'cause I am the...
Storm Son" -Enslaved, Storm Son

(This pic of Blindfury used to be our profile picture for so long!)

#Blindfury #Werewolf #Lycan #DigitalArt

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · 2d

Chibified version of our biggest lycan boy, Blindfury, protagonist of the homonymous comic

#Werewolf #Lycan #Chibi #TraditionalArt #TheWayOfLegends #ColoredPencils

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · 2d

Blindfury's basic emotion is "rage". He can vary from slightly disgruntled to furious. It's very rare to see him smile!

#Werewolf #ThewayOfLegends #Lycan #Ballpointpen

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · 2d

Some old concept art for Blindfury from 2018!
Posted finally here to celebrate the fact that a new edition (finally the right one) of this short comic was published!

#Werewolf #Lycan #TheWayOfLegends #Ballpointpen

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · 2d

Quick ballpoint pen sketch of the pack of the Deadly Sands (or at least his composition in 2018 ;) )! Blindfury, Mark McWoodland, Sara, Braciolo, Raul, Billee and Gilga.

#TheWayOfLegends #Werewolf #Lycan #Aurolupus #Ballpointpen

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Cactus di Fuoco 🌵🔥 @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social · 3d

Once upon a time... there was one who, if only he cared, could have been king of all werewolves. Blind as his livid fury for all that lives, he was the Son of the Sandstorm.

New (and better) edition of Blindfury!

(Art by @furiaandmimma.bsky.social)

#Werewolf #Comics #TheWayOfLegends

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · Feb 13

"You just have to be quiet, you just have to obey. You suffer, but maybe one day they will love you."
"No, let them call you a monster, but live. Live. Kill them, but LIVE!"

Shall you bite the hand that feeds you, if that hand is the same one that closes the lock on your cage?
#DigitalArt #Werewolf

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · 5d

Work in progress for an illustration of a tarantula (Xenesthis immanis) protecting a small frog from a predatory bird. Did you know this actually happens in nature? Yes, there's a symbiotic relationship between a frog and a spider in South America!, inked with black ballpoint pen.

#Spider #Frog

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 7d

And making theft illegal would “kill” the thieving industry. Good. Make theft illegal again.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 7d

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · 9d

Day Three is Villain (and it was published before Day Four, because... yeah, channeling villain chaos!) with a ruthless family duo, Doctor Vonfu and his niece Nipotina. He will always support her evil ambitions 🥺🖤

#InkyCalendar #Ballpointpen #OC #TEDVAHRF

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · 9d

Illustration of Alejandro de Rocamora, a tall, muscular, shirtless man with long hair, gripping a pole with one hand, about to poledance. He has a tattoo on one shoulder and makeup around his eyes. Drawing done with a black ballpoint pen.

#Ballpointpen #TheWayOfLegends #OC #TraditionalArt

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · 9d

Work in progress for the hispo form of Sara, for her reference sheet!
Short fur (for showing muscles!) + her regular look, with long fur.

#WIP #Werewolf #TheWayOfLegends #SaraBarker

Black and white illustration (lineart only) featuring two versions of a werewolf on all fours, one with short fur, where the muscles are more visible, and one with long fur. Both illustrations are by Sara Barker, an aurolupus werewolf.

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Cactus di Fuoco 🌵🔥 @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social · 9d

Straight from 2017, it's the old icon from the official Cactus di Fuoco page (which at the time was called "#TheWayofLegends," like our main saga)!
With the Facebook symbol and a young Ermes (who is the main villain of the Way of Legends saga). Cool, huh?

Art by @furiaandmimma.bsky.social!

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · 23d

Very, very old illustration! September Aster and Furiadoro, the protagonists of @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social 's Urban Legends, together.He's a little wizard, she's a giant lycan, and together they are... hmm... yeah, read to discover it.

#Werewolf #Lycan #Furiadoro #TheWayOfLegends

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · 23d

Furiadoro! Our beautiful wolf lady resting, looking straight into the eyes of... you. Yes, you. (You can read her story here, written by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social!)

#Furiadoro #DigitalArt #TheWayOfLegends #Werewolf #Lycan

Black and white illustration (linear art only) of a massive werewolf in feral form resting. This is the primitive (and natural) form of Goldfury, the main character in the book Urban Legends.

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Furiarossa and Mimma 🌵(Friends of Malamar) @furiaandmimma.bsky.social · 23d

Cover for @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social novel "Urban Legends", featuring the protagonist Goldfury in her great crinos form and Fenrir. It's the first time we attempt to portray Furia's great crinos, even if this character was created at least 7 years ago.

#TheWayOfLegends #Furiadoro #Werewolf

Illustration of the head of a werewolf with golden fur and bloody muzzle. Behind her there's the head of Fenrir, a giant wolf with red eyes.

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Cactus di Fuoco 🌵🔥 @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social · 24d

We've finally listened to our followers and started translating the story you've all been wanting to read! Yes. Yes, it's the one with the lycans. With the female one, to be precise: Goldfury, one of our oldest and most beloved characters.

Are you ready to finally discover her story?

Urban Legends - Prologue - Wattpad

Read Prologue from the story Urban Legends by CactusdiFuoco (Cactus di Fuoco) with 5 reads. fantasy, magic, woman. The night it all began...

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FEARne 👻 @almandines.bsky.social · Sep 10

anyway fuck censorship. we should all get weirder and worse

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panken 🔞 @pankenlewd.bsky.social · 25d

DO NOT go back to twitter that is the hitler site. i am dead serious with this shit. its main role as a de-facto organ of the trump admin is to facilitate nazi propaganda. you cannot be posting your doodles on the "euthanize all trans people" forum just because they still allow pornography

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 25d

I am mad.

Even if they didn't listen to the feedback, please keep posting your stuff here.

You art is powerful and inspires many. It might never please everybody, even so, don't be stopped, don't be censored.

Post and post and post, I want to see all creativity here.

All of it.

SFW.
NSFW.

Bluesky @bsky.app · 25d

Thank you to the 14,000+ people who shared feedback on our community guidelines! We’re updating our rules for clarity, strengthening enforcement, and introducing product changes for healthier conversations. New guidelines kick in Oct 15. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Building Healthier Social Media: Updated Guidelines and New Features - Bluesky

Public discourse on social media has grown toxic and divisive, but unlike other platforms, Bluesky is building a social web that empowers people instead of exploiting them.

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CanadianRomanceWriterEELRC @canromwrieelrc.bsky.social · Sep 10

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” Earl Nightingale #writingcommunity

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