A New Story Coming Soon and Updates

By N.M. Cedeño I have a couple stories pending publication right now. One of the publishers revealed an author list and book cover this month. My story “The Ghostly Lady’s Curse” is scheduled to be published in an anthology entitled Detectives, Sleuths, and Nosy Neighbors from Inkd Publishing. The publisher announced the author line-up for the anthology this month. You can see the announcement…

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'Procession' by Francesco Balsamo

What do you see behind closed eyes? 

WILL GRAHAM + ART

Dan Hillier, Fount (2021) Untitled Printed in Max Hesdörffer, Die Gartenwelt (1897) Morgan Miller, Eyes of the Dark (2021) Liza Sivakova, Anxiety (2022) Franz von Stuck, The Vision of Saint Hubert (1890) Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Bitter Snow Duane Michals, The Illuminated Man (1968) Francesco Balsamo, L'ospite (2008)

i made an evanescence graphics archive website!

i love finding old web graphics and i love evanescence so i combined the two back in december and created archivescence! i'm always adding onto it and trying to find sources for all of them (graphics with sources are linked back to their respective websites/owners) and there's also a page dedicated to other websites about the band! i think i'll add a page for old interviews/articles eventually too ^_^

EDIT: someone said they were having trouble with the link so if it doesn't work try copy pasting this! https://archivescence.neocities.org/

Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift 2024 📸 by Luc Claessen/Getty Images

Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift 2024 🥇 Lotte Kopecky (Team SD Worx - Protime) 🥈 Elisa Balsamo (Lidl - Trek) 🥉 Pfeiffer Georgi (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL)

Paris-Roubaix 2024 🥇 Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin - Deceuninck) 🥈 Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin - Deceuninck) 🥉 Mads Pedersen (Lidl - Trek)

Photos by Luc Claessen & Dario Belingheri/Getty Images

Francesco Balsamo（Italian, b.1969）

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Francesco Balsamo

Kintsugi la filosofia giapponese come...

"Il Kintsugi non è solo una tecnica di restauro, ma ha un forte valore simbolico. Rappresenta la metafora delle fratture, delle crisi e dei cambiamenti che l’individuo può trovarsi ad affrontare durante la vita.

L’idea alla base è che dall’imperfezione e da una ferita possa nascere una forma ancora maggiore di perfezione estetica e interiore. La particolarità di questa pratica risiede nel fatto che il vaso non viene riparato nascondendo le crepe, ma anzi queste vengono sottolineate attraverso l’oro."

Le ferite del corpo e dell'anima sono curabili e sono guaribili se le viviamo con l'avere fiducia in questo oro, che è balsamo e consapevolezza della forza interiore che ognuno di noi ha.

Jesus Christ Superstar (1996) - Steve Balsamo (Jesus), David Burt (Pilate), Zubin Varla (Judas), Joanna Ampil (Mary)

https://www.jesuschristsuperstarzone.com/discography/london-lyceum-cast-1996/

forever n ever in love w falcone family they're so fucked up

Fear is only in our minds but it’s taking over all the time.

Francesco Balsamo

Francesco Balsamo.

Yes, I would be very interested hearing your head canon (@tim-ribbert-56) (in response to this post)

I have decided for my personal entertainment that Clarisse de Cagliostro is related to Lupin III, and here's why.

-pulls out Arsène Lupin's Wikipedia page-

In the novel La Comtesse de Cagliostro, a young Arsène Lupin (at the time going by the name Raoul d'Andrésy) was courting Clarisse d'Etigues, a young lady of a well-to-do family, and trying to win her hand, despite her father's disapproval.

Throughout the course of the novel, Lupin meets and falls in love with Joséphine Balsamo, aka the Countess of Cagliostro, and abandons Clarisse in favour of her. To clarify, Joséphine is not actually countess of anything, she is (or claims to be) a descendant of Giuseppe Balsamo aka the Count of Cagliostro (who was also count of jack shit), a famous conman from the 18th century.

Shenanigans ensue, which I will not go into in details on, but oh my god I am insane about Raoul and Joséphine, I want to dissect them and study them under a microscope. It turns out Joséphine aka Cagliostro is evil as fuck, Raoul/Lupin realizes that and goes back to Clarisse (whom he had previously abandoned like an old sock, I fucking hate this guy), marries her, and a few years later has her kid.

Unfortunately Clarisse dies in childbirth, and Joséphine, who was still around and very very pissed at Lupin (and jealous as hell of Clarisse whom, may I mention, had never personally antagonized her in any way whatsoever, Joséphine is just fucking bonkers). Joséphine also kidnaps Lupin and Clarisse's son, Jean, and raises him as her own son. (I have not yet read the following novel The revenge of Cagliostro so I don't really know what Jean's deal is, I just know he's an antagonist).

The following is my headcanon, based on these events. In the universe of Lupin III, Joséphine Balsamo was actually countess of the small kingdom of Cagliostro (maybe Giuseppe was count, maybe he conned his way into becoming count, maybe he bought the land and built a fake kingdom with a fake history, who knows).

After the events of The revenge of Cagliostro, Jean settles down in the country of Cagliostro, gets married, has a child, and that child will later have a daughter of their own, who they name Clarisse, after their late grandmother. Clarisse de Cagliostro, of Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro fame, would thus be the great-grand-daughter of Arsène Lupin, making her Lupin III's cousin/niece/whatever you call this specific degree of separation.

I am choosing to make Clarisse de Cagliostro a great-granddaughter of Arsène Lupin, rather than a granddaughter, because Arsène Lupin was very young when the events I described unfolded: he is 20 years old when he meets Clarisse d'Etigues and the whole Cagliostro debacle happens, and 25 by the time Jean is born. I'm assuming he had Lupin II much later in his life. So Jean and Lupin II (half-brothers) would have a significant difference in age, and so Jean's hypothetical child (grandchild of Arsène Lupin, so of the same generation of Lupin III) would be much older than Lupin III. Clarisse de Cagliostro is younger than him, maybe around the same age if you stretch it, so she's have to be a great-grandchild.

Now I need to read The revenge of Cagliostro and study Arsène Lupin's wikipedia page in more detail to determine when exactly Lupin II was born and who his mother was. And also where Albert's family branched out, because the fact that he's called D'Andrésy should theoretically place him as a descendant of Arsène Lupin's mother but not of Arsène Lupin himself; but Jean was also going by that last name, so who fucking knows.

No I am not insane I promise, I am just a gigantic nerd.