Cactus di Fuoco 🌵🔥

@cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

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 🇮🇹 + 🇬🇧.

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:46 PMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

Finally complete, reference sheet for Seraphin Panorme, marine biologist extraordinaire and co-protagonist of Fish Don't Cry!

#FishDontCry #OC #OCSky #SeraphinPanorme #FnMArt

Reference sheet of a human character, Seraphin Panorme. He’s a tall guy, with a lean body, and slightly wavy, well combed dark hair. He’s a marine biologist, and one of the characters of “Fish don’t Cry”.

@cactusdifuoco.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:24 PM

Who's this gal??

fantasydiario.blogspot.com/2026/10/char...

#FishDontCry #OC #ProjectOdysSea

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:44 PMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

Hey, don’t slack too much, Sara! Harry is an unnecessary snack, better not to eat him now!

Sara's fitness vlog is also on ComicFury!

#SarasFitnessVlog #SaraBarker #Comic #FnMArt #ColoredWork #HarryGriffin #Werewolf #Lycan

Digital illustration that shows two werewolves. One is a small male with dark fur (named Harry), the other is a big female with blonde fur (She’s Sara). The male is standing, the female is laying on her back and resting.

Panel 1: Harry says: “Because of quarantine you got fat. You should do more cardio and eat less”.

Panel 2: Sara says: “I can lose weight by running and eating more. I’ll eat you if I catch you”

Panel 3: Sara roars “RUN!” and Harry appears scared.

Panel 4: Harry has run away (red dots show where he was before running away) and Sara returned to relax, saying “I’ll eat him when he comes back, hehe. He Will definitely come back to bother me“

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 9:00 AMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

Illustration was created for us by Juglone; it’s a digital drawing of our main guy, Sangreal!

Here he looks bigger… fatter, more muscular… Could (s)he be in the second phase of his life? The female phase, that is. We’ve never made a secret of the fact that pistrix are capable of changing sex.

Digital illustration of Sangreal, a pistrix (a semi-anthropomorphic fish with a long body resembling that of an oarfish) looking directly at the viewer.

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 3:31 PMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

A mermaid, heart pounding and weapon in hand, using the cover offered by the rocks to not be noticed by a pistrix. But... among the two, who should be the one hiding...?

Wanna know more about this world? Explore the worldbuilding? Here's the Fish Don't Cry MASTERPOST

#FishDontCry #FnMArt

A traditional illustration created with blue and black ballpoint pens: a mermaid, armed with a spear, is hiding behind a large rock. Looming behind her—enormous and towering—is a pistrix with a shadowed face and large, round, gleaming eyes; it appears to be searching for her.

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:12 PMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

It’s Monday! Do you know what that means? A new episode of Fish Don’t Cry is here!

Welcome to the Nihil! And to a new chapter of Sangreal’s life?!

#FishDontCry #Comic #ProjectOdysSea #FnMArt #Merfolk #FollowThePistrix

@cactusdifuoco.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 8:27 AM

Look at this! Another part of Fish Don't Cry (with more refined graphics and more readable text) is on ComicFury.
A new update will be posted there every monday!

fishdontcry.thecomicseries.com/comics/2

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 11:24 AMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

Another strip from the Covid days! For someone like Sara, staying indoors instead of running free through the woods is unspeakable torture... but it also risks becoming dangerous for the people around her, oh no!

Sara's fitness vlog is also on Tapas!

Or on ComicFury!

#SarasFitnessVlog

A digital illustration featuring two characters: Sara, a large, muscular female werewolf, and Harry, a male who is much smaller than her. Harry is talking about the need for patience during quarantine—especially for athletes confined to their homes—while Sara is becoming increasingly agitated.

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 5:52 PMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

Our colleagues/writing mates are helping us by making the page/posting the comics on ComicFury, and honestly we think #FishDontCry looks AWESOME in the new layout! Wow!

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 10:58 AMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

They call it "full moon madness". (And why Harry is not affected, while Sara is?).

Do you ever have this terrible hunger for proteins when the Moon is full? Yes? Because we do...

Sara's fitness vlog is also on Tapas!

Or on ComicFury!

#SarasFitnessVlog #SaraBarker #FnMArt #Werewolf

Illustration of Harry Griffin in his werewolf form, looking toward the viewer with a frightened expression and saying, “S-she is behind me. She is chasing me. It’s the end. These could be my last words. Please help me. Please.”

Illustration of Harry Griffin, in his werewolf form, running away against a photographic background showing a pine forest.

Illustration by Sara Barker of a blonde-furred wolf-woman. She has a wild appearance, is in a frenzy, and is salivating (because it is a full moon). The caption beneath her reads: “- I need protein”.

Illustration by Sara Barker of a blonde female wolf. She has a wild appearance, is in a frenzy, and is salivating (because it is a full moon). She is looking directly at the “camera,” towards the viewer. The caption beneath her reads: “- Are you my protein?”

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:32 AMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

Giant ladies, barbell lifting, and much more… just some work in progresses for the next Sara’s Fitness Vlog strips!

Sara's fitness vlog is also on Tapas!

Or on ComicFury!

#SarasFitnessVlog #SaraBarker #Sketch #Sketches #FnMArt #Furry #Anthro #WIP

Digital sketch (in black and white) with the wolf woman Sara Barker (from behind) looking at Lady Dimitrescu.

Digital sketch (in black and white) with the wolf woman Sara Barker lifting a barbell.

Digital sketch (in black and white) with the wolf woman Sara Barker looking at the muscular back of an anthropomorphic komodo dragon who is showing his biceps.

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:01 AMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

This old strip is from Feb 1, 2020, back when the coronavirus was getting started! No one knew how it would all turn out... and look at Sara—she was trying to act brave, but at the slightest sign of illness... chair shot!

Sara's fitness vlog is on Tapas!
Or on ComicFury!

#SarasFitnessVlog #FnMArt

Comic of a Sara Barker, a werewolf woman, talking about Coronavirus.

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:24 PMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

Sara is very proud of her strength. Be like her! Also, she doesn't care about the law. Or other people's lives. Don't be like her.

[Sara's fitness vlog is also on Tapas!][ Or on ComicFury!]

#SarasFitnessVlog #Werewolf #Comic #FnmArt

A digitally drawn comic featuring a muscular, blonde-furred female wolf and a much smaller, thinner male wolf with black fur. The small male wolf implies that Sara (the female wolf) isn't very feminine because of her muscles, so she strangles him.

@cactusdifuoco.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 4:05 PM

The new comicfury page For Fish Don't Cry (cool comic series about a deep-sea anthropomorphic fish, illustrated by our official artists, @furiaandmimma.bsky.social!) is pretty good, isn't it?
And there are also misteries to unveil, hehe...

#Comics #IndieComics #FishDontCry #ProjectOdysSea

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 4:25 PMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

It’s monday! Do you know what this means? Yes, a new lil’ episode of Fish Don’t Cry!

There’s a thing that Sangreal loves a lot: eating shrimps. And there’s a thing he hates a lot: having to stop eating shrimps. Today, both things will happen.

#FishDontCry #ProjectOdyssea #FnMArt #Comic #Webcomic

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 1:13 PMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

Do you know that we are also on Furaffinity?

(Okay, probably you do, but we wanted to advertise this for no particular reason, just... we like our FurAffinity account, they don't erase our stuff with censorship and we're grateful)

#FurAffinity #BlueskyArtists #Artists #FurryArtists

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 5:28 PMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

It's monday! Do you know what that means? Exactly, a new lil' episode of Fish Don't Cry!

For Sangreal and his people, dancing with someone is a very romantic, very intimate process: it's about trust and learning to know each other.

Now he's in the club.
Do not miss it ;)

#FishDontCry #Comic

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 6:58 PMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

"Ancient lord of a ravenous darkness, he walks slowly, controlling his urge to devour behind a gentle facade"

A lineart of our guy, Mark McWoodland!

#Werewolf #TheWayOFLegends #MarkMCWoodland #FnMArt

Digital illustration in black and white of a werewolf. He has very long front legs, so much so that he looks almost standing, despite being on all fours.

@furiaandmimma.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 6:49 PMReposted by @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social

Just a quick ballpoint pen illustration for Urban Legends, the @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social's book that this won a Watty Prize (in Italian)!

Furiadoro, the wolfwoman protagonist, in her full moon form.

You can also start to read her book in English!

#Lycan #TheWayOfLegends #FnMArt

Traditional illustration, made with ballpoint pen, of a lycan with three scars on her face.

@cactusdifuoco.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 1:42 PM

Oh, and also, the chapter is available in fanfiction version, set in the Pokémon world! If you are a fan of Pokémon X/Y (and in particular of Lysandre/Sycamore) check it out ;)

archiveofourown.org/works/759711...

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