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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Hello guys, I'm not very active here on bsky, but if you have any $$ to spare plz consider donating to help my friend in her transition!! Being trans is diffcult, and pricey, here in Italy...she could use all the help she could get 🙏 🏳️‍⚧️

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OuttaMyLaine @outtamylaine.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Just finished a wonderful SFF novella by @ftacchi.bsky.social, Let the Mountains Be My Grave, rec'd by @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social. Thanks to both of you for the entrancing, inspiring read. Fascism isn't inevitable as long as there are people brave enough to fight it.

Paperback cover of Let the Mountains Be My Grave, by Francesca Tacchi. It features an illustration of the black-haired snake goddess central to the story. She is wearing a vaguely Roman-style dress, and is accompanied by white snakes. She has a tattoo of a red flower with multiple leaves descending on a long stem.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Great news! UNESCO adds Minoan Palace sites in Crete, Greece, to World Heritage list! Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Zominthos and Kydonia, are six archaeological sites dating 1900 to 1100 BC, representing the Minoan civilization, a major prehistoric Mediterranean culture 🏺 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo collage shows four Minoan artefacts on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

Top left: a rhyton (ritual vessel for pouring liquid offerings) carved from black steatite in the shape of a bull's head. Museum info: ‘only the left side of the head is original. The horns, which were not found, would have been made of gilded wood. The head and neck are rendered very naturalistically, while details such as the hair are shown in relief or rendered with incisions. The eyes are inlaid with rock crystal and jasper, while the muzzle is highlighted with inlaid white shell. The crystal preserved in the right eye has a concave back which magnifies the pupil, giving the animal a lively expressiveness’. From the Little Palace at Knossos. Neopalatial period, 1600-1500 BC.

Top R: a rhyton carved from off-white limestone in the shape of a lioness’s head. It originally had coloured inlays to emphasise the eyes and muzzle, which are now lost. From Knossos Palace, 1650-1500 BC.

Bottom L: Wine jar (pithamphoreas) with many handles, decorated in the marine style with octopuses, tritons, rocks and coral. From Knossos Palace, late Neopalatial period.

Bottom R: Famous Minoan gold bee pendant which consists of two bees facing each other in the process of depositing a drop of honey in their honeycomb. They hold a round, granulated honeycomb between their legs and a round gold ‘drop’ of honey in their mouths. On their heads is a spherical filigree cage enclosing a solid gold sphere. Three cut-out circular gold discs decorated with filigree and granulation hang from their wings and sting. Excavated from the Chrysolakkos necropolis, Malia, Crete, dated 1800 BC.

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Latest addition! tulips | martinaoven

Black and whitw photo of a leg with a black tattoo in bold, sinous lines of two tulips, their stem starting mid calf and their flowers ending on the thigh

Close ups detail of the flowers, one closed the other blooming, drawn with a thicker outer lineart and finer internal details

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Luise Loges @luilog.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This situation is beyond appalling. US- and Israel-backed aid org makes distributing aid into a death trap for Gazans, and IDF soldiers have admitted to intentionally shoot civilians. Donations can help alleviate the suffering. If you can spare a little, you may save someone from getting shot.

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

new tat on tuesday.....hell yeah...............

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Since it seems there'd be no problem.........here they are!! 🥹♥️ I took these one month after the surgery, and it's honestly incredible how well the wounds are healing! I can't stop peaking at them from time to time, I'm so incredibly happy!!

front picture of a white person showing their top surgery scars. The scars are already very thin and clean, a little more pinkish than the surrounding skin. The person is standing in front of a white door and has a sacred heart tattooed on their chest

The same person showing the scars from a slightly different angle, as they are now laying on their bed amidst green pillows

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

will i get flagged on bsky if i share a photo of my top surgery scars???

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ofensky ✷ comms open @ofensky.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I AM LEAVING RUSSIA hello there followers! as far as you know, I am, a queer person, unfortunately, got to spawn in russia. this year I will finally have an opportunity to leave. you can support me by either commissioning me or buying a ko-fi! (link in replies)

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KATABAY! @ drawing comics @katabay.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

quintus arrius was the guy who killed crixus, and then got his ass handed to him by spartacus (livy, summaries, 96) I had a dream awhile back where I picked up an oracle deck in some shop and the illustrations were all romans point blank declaring failure, so I decided to try and recreate one lol

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Ooooh so glad to see LET THE MOUNTAINS BE MY GRAVE in such awesome company 🥹 Thank you!! And fuck fascism always, this pride month and every month

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I AM (ALMOST) FREE!!!!! There was some fluid still but very little, I have to wear the compression vest for another week but then I can switch to simple bandages AND FINALLY TAKE A PROPER SHOWER

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

It's long overdue, but in honor of Pride Month, I'm making a thread about my top surgery here! I know people who are interested in having one so hopefully they'll find this thread helpful. Sorry if it's messy lmao, there's 30°C here and my brain is mush. Anywayyyyy let's go!

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Katrin Dirim @katrindirim.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Scylla having a late-night snack

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Sonic 3 had no right to be that good??????

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chuck 🐦💐 @chuckdrawsthings.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

share the money pigeon for 10,000 years good luck 💸🍀🤞

a drawing of a pigeon holding a $20 bill in its beak. the background is a bunch of dollars. purple text says "yeah can i get a uhhhhhhhhh crumb"

a photo of a pigeon holding a $20 bill in its beak

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This striking bronze statue Apollo was discovered in a dining room in Pompeii alongside other banqueting items. It is exquisitely crafted from the curls in the hair to his diadem decorated with lotuses and palmettes, and the two ribbons spooling across his chest. 🏛️ House of Julius Polybius 📷 mine

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Mega👻Thee🎃Tron @valarmordollars.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I'ma nota throwing shade, I'ma being rrreal

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

ONE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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晴晴 [On Hiatus] @sachinteng.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Just realized that since I deleted all my old posts off IG that I don't have this posted on any of my socials so let's fix that

An Evangelion fanart illustration of Eva Unit 01's head forming as the AT field out of the core. Within the core is Adam staring out. The Eva head is riddled with holes that show the repeating AT Field Pattern, and from the chasms myriad eyes and red veins are clustered. The red veins reach out of the head itself to form the leaf veins of a giant red fig leaf, with the Eva head at it's center. The title, 'And The Eyes Of Them Both' comes from the verse: "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made for themselves aprons." Genesis 3:7

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/04/2025

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history.

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84% of the world's coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history.

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CRRN @crrncrw.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

CAPTSHA #oc #art

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Happy #25Aprile - the day of Liberation from nazi-fascism! A suggestion on how to celebrate in three different languages 😘🌹

A collage of the first line from my novella, Let The Mountains Be My Grave, in English, Italian and Spanish. It reads:
"Every day is a good day to kill Nazis, I always say."
"Ogni giorno è buono per ammazzare nazisti"
"Todo dìa es bueno para matar nazis, como digo siempre."

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carooonte 🦷 🦷 🦷 @rattofruttato.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

italian culture is having heated debates about the conclave with your millennial, mostly atheist, friends and coworkers

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Except she is THE fascist in chief and came out of that meeting renewing her commitment to support Trump and simping even harder for him and inviting him to Italy etc, and you'd know if yall american liberals actually cared about global politics at all, you fucking idiots

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Arthur Riel @artiodaktyl.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

wip? happy easter to those who celebrate

digital drawing in progress of the Risen Christ as a brown trans man with golden rays of light bursting from top surgery scars. He holds a trans flag in one hand instead of the conventional red and white cross banner.

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The earliest known images of Jesus originate from a Christian building at Dura-Europos in Syria, the world’s earliest known house church, dated ca. AD 232. The frescoes from the baptistery depict Jesus healing the paralytic and Jesus walking on water. #Easter Yale University Art Gallery, USA.

In a scene from the baptistery that depicts Christ’s miraculous works, Christ heals a bedridden man. The man appears twice: in the foreground, he is shown paralyzed, and on the left, he joyfully carries his bed away. The scene signified to viewers the healing quality of baptism in the nearby font, where initiates received forgiveness for sins and began new lives as Christians.
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/34498

The Christian building at Dura-Europos is the world’s earliest known house-church. The most elaborate and ritually significant room in the building was the baptistery, where Christians welcomed members into their community through the sacrament of baptism. In this fragment of a wall painting from the baptistery, Christ encourages his apostle Peter to walk over a stormy sea as a ship carrying other apostles sails in the background. The image told viewers that, just as Christ saved Peter from drowning in the waters of Galilee, he would save baptized Christian souls through his death and resurrection.
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/34499

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Happy Easter from the "easter devils" in Prizzi, Sicily 😈 During this peculiar easter tradition, two people dressed ad devils (in red) and one dressed as Death (in yellow) dance around town making pranks and causing mischief...until statues of Jesus and Mary are paraded in the streets 1/?

Two people wearing bright red ans grotesque horned masks pause with a person dressed in yellow wearing a crude skull-like mask and holding an arrow. Behind them is the outline of a small town with stone houses

The same three people as in the first picture make grotesque dances in the middle of an alley

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

10 videogames to get to know me (in no particular order) 🖤 Overwatch 🖤 Subnautica 🖤 Shadow of the Colossus 🖤 Doom Eternal 🖤 God of War (2018) 🖤 NieR: Automata 🖤 Journey 🖤 Shadowrun: Dragonfall 🖤 Hades 🖤 EUIV 🖤 Undertale

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Nothing's harder than trying to convince your 80+ grandma with knee problems to let us help in the kitchen

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

A tile that once decorated the villa of the Roman Emperor Lucius Verus (161-169 AD) on the Via Cassia. Now part of the collections at the Palazzo Altemps in Rome. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #Rome

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A beautiful #Roman necklace, made largely from gold twisted into a thick collar, with an emerald pendant at the front & a large clasp at the back shaped like a flower, stuffed with a garnet. It was made some 1700-1900 years ago, probably in Egypt (📷 Art Institute Chicago) AncientBlueSky #Archaeology

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This large #Etruscan terracotta figure of Juno Curitis was probably a cult statue, on display within the temple of the goddess' sanctuary at Celle (finished on all sides). Presented as a patrician matron, with a gorgeously patterned peplum, and bejeweled diadem. 🏺 #ancientbluesky ca. 380 BCE. 📸 me

Juno is represented as a sumptuously dressed and bejeweled matron. This appearance differs from the aspect of warrior, which characterizes the deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Celle, patron of the Faliscan population.

The wife of Zeus was decorated with jewels and a royal diadem, which was made separately and then placed over her head. The rich dress with peplum shows the particular patterns of fabric and it is softly folded over the shoulder. This statue shares with a complex of reliefs a clear consistency of style and technique. Nevertheless, when compared to the other statues, the rear surface is finished in all its parts. The short curls on the hair are gathered together at the base of the neck. The ribbon necklace is knotted and carefully painted and the peplum, which wraps the shoulder, appears to have been molded. These details are usually unnecessary on a sculpture meant to be seen only from the front, as on the statues placed on a pediment.

Even its size, a little larger than the other statues on the pediment, does not permit to be paired with Zeus, (who is also crowned), or associated with the "triad" along with Minerva. It is intriguing to see in this statue, the simulacrum of the goddess, which was probably placed inside the cella of the temple.

Etruscan, from the Sanctuary of Juno Curitis at Celle, ca. 380 BCE.

National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarnıcı), the largest underground cistern in the Old City, was built under the Basilica west of Hagia Sophia. The Basilica consisted of a huge courtyard and porticoes that housed judicial courts, a university-like institution with a legal school, and a library.

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Mirto - Looking for representation @mirtocomune.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hello #KidLitArtPostcard ! I'm Mirto, a queer Italian freelance illustrator who loves to play with colors and textures! Nice to meet you! : D I'm currently open to #kidlit book projects and collaborations! 🌈 mirtomastroieni.portfolio.site ✉️ mirtomastroieni@gmail.com

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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

He is still missing after soldiers abducted him, injured and bleeding. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers took him from an ambulance. This is what "No Other Land" is all about. www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...

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Palestinian Oscar winner 'lynched' by Israeli settlers, colleague says

Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning 'No Other Land', returned from Los Angeles three weeks ago

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

less than two months to my top surgery, already thinking about all the clothes I'll finally be comfortable enough to wear !!!

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We're well into Lent, the 40-days period of (supposed) penance and meditation preceding Easter. There are many Lent traditions in Italy, but the most bizarre-and fascinating-is that of the Quarantane,"invading" the streets of many Apulian towns. A short 🧵 about them!

a doll portraying an old woman dressed in black hanging over an alley, she's holding an orange pierced by chicken feathers

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alicia 🍳 NYCC AA I-24 @acorviart.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

run b(orz)oi run [ #art ]

Illustration of a borzoi with long trailing fur

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Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉 @ftacchi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I've officially started drafting my cozy YA project! To celebrate, let me share some of the pics I took in Locorotondo and Martina Franca, two beautiful Apulian towns that heavily inspired the setting! 🙌

Picture of an alley framed by white buildings and cream-colored pavement, bright pink flowers in the foreground

A shrine with various icons of the mother mary, jesus and the saints, with white flowers in the foreground

An alley with similar white houses and cream colored pavement, paper decorations are strung between the buildings and appear against a blue sky

A wooden door framed by cream colored stone carved into columns and garlands, surmounted by an arch through which you can see the blue skyp and a vase of prickly pears

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