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When acrobats meet storytelling

Cirque du Soleil last night in London. Two hours of pure magic disguised as circus performance. Watching those acrobats twist through the air whilst musicians played live underneath them, everything synchronised perfectly. The lighting transformed the entire space every few minutes. One moment you’re underwater, next you’re in space. Got me thinking about my own […]

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Daria Ryzhikova Writer Guy Fawkes Night

Remember, remember…

Writing this from Brighton seafront while fireworks explode overhead. The crowd cheers, thousands of lights bloom against the dark sky, and I can’t shake this thought: what if someone’s memory is being erased right now? Guy Fawkes Night always felt different here. Back home, November 5th was just another date. But standing among strangers watching

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Comics Are Literature Too

Still buzzing from yesterday. My first proper comic convention. ExCeL was packed with people who get it. People who understand that sequential art isn’t some lesser form of storytelling. Met actual comic artists at the indie tables. Not the Marvel/DC crowd, but the ones making weird, beautiful things in their bedrooms. Showed my old 2020

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