Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Breastfeeding in a pub full of Millwall fans ✔️ 000
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Signed off an email with ‘all the armrests’. 010
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Up til 2am terrified at Trump’s nuclear threat, followed by dream of sharing crudités with Jacob Elordi. 010
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 12/03/2026My disco auntie was so excited to meet the baby for the first time that People from Ibiza poured out of her before she could stop herself. 020
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I can say it now that it’s gone, I had a Wikipedia page for 3 months in 2025, before its author was deemed a controversial user and it was taken down. No it wasn’t me. 020
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Just seen Pete Townshend tenderly regarding busker doing rendition of Robyn’s Dancing on My Own for voice and guitar in Trafalgar Sq. 020
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Missed a trick not calling my son Quokka as a middle name. 100
Reposted by Livia FranchiniOkka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Excellent round-up of small press leaders on the current crisis, interviewed by @lucymercer.bsky.social @twoseriousladies.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social, including my publisher @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social lithub.com/life-giving-...lithub.comLife-Giving, Imaginative and Underfunded: Small Press Publishers in CrisisA recent letter co-written and signed by small press publishers has highlighted the significant pressures they face, threatening them with closure and potentially damaging the literary ecosystem ir… 1107
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Are you even a translator if you haven’t partaken in a Found in Translation panel discussion. 020
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Caught Francesco addressing the baby as Slavoj Zizek. This is getting out of hand. 010
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Two of the nicknames we have found ourselves using for the baby are Google and Vevo. 020
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Made a start on the baby’s Halloween costume. 020
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Arcane Millennial motherhood is soothing your son to the Duck Tales theme tune. 010
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Had not foreseen the baby would be such a Sinatra stan. 150
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 05/10/2025The Bible warns you about bringing forth children in pain, but mentions nothing about having to suck the snot out of their nose with a thin tube. 030
Reposted by Livia FranchiniGoldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 02/10/2025We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist. Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... 45120
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 26/09/2025The more ungenerous a contemporary novelist is the better the reviews. 030
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Partner says the baby looks like Pope Leo XIV. 110
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Logged back into Facebook for a hot second and I’m getting friendship suggestions for both Faris from The Cribs and Gad Lerner. 000
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Dream that Eddie Vedder was playing saxophone in a mall in Canada but the stair system was really complicated so when I got there his slot has ended but he told me everything about this ‘star wrap’ he was imminently planning to order from KFC. 020
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Between Oasis stans and Lana fans I’m no longer sure I have any true friends. 010
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Nobody talks about how Gilles Deleuze and Christopher Lloyd are played by the same actor. 010
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 13/05/2025The British urge to misspell ‘definitely’ as ‘defiantly’. 120
Reposted by Livia FranchiniCircumference @circumferencemag.bsky.social · 07/05/2025The man got back home by breaking the glass with his elbow. He tidied the tables made a coffee for the women asleep in the corner. ⁑ Five poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini (@twoseriousladies.bsky.social) ⁑ circumferencemag.com/five-apartme...circumferencemag.comfive apartmentsFive poems by Carmen Gallo, translated from Italian by Livia Franchini 011
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Dream I dated Mark E. Smith and he made me peaches and cream and set alight a bottle of sage green nail polish inside an empty packet of pickled onion Monster Munch in an underground parking lot to impress me. 050
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 15/04/2025To think we’re sending Katy Perry to space but couldn’t come up with a better invention against rain than the humble umbrella. 000
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Nothing riles me up more than a native speaker’s incapacity for tense coordination. 010
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 19/03/2025To the tune of ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT. OS-TEO-P-ATH OS-TEO-P-ATH 000
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 18/03/2025You haven’t hit peak millennial until you’ve had 12 office floors evacuated for your burnt avocado toast. 220
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Anyone else see the trashy crime writer in the Spectator talk about how it’s a good job only trashy novels sell anymore? 000
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Thing is people quite like it when you say obvious things on the internet. 020
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Question for the homies: do you reckon I have vocal fry? 000
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 23/02/2025My urban planner dad was alarmed by my WhatsApp description ‘negative capability’ because he thought it referred to landfill. 010
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Coupla sad capitalist things to start your Sunday. 010
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Woke up with L’Internationale stuck in my head. 240
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Imagine spending £60 on a Monster MOnch necklace. 070
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The Millennial urge to keep writing novels mulling over that 2013 article on avocado toast and mortgages. 040
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The number of students I’ve imposed Stephen King’s Four Seasons upon 🤡 000
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I’ll take any lifestyle over one that involves subletting (active or passive) in Berlin. 030
Reposted by Livia Franchiniperversemag @perversemag.bsky.social · 11/12/2023The first poem in PERVERSE 7I is ‘If I had to pick a single image’ by Livia Franchini. Read the others here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-7i 011
Reposted by Livia FranchiniStephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I had the sweetest dream last night. I was driving on the LIE and there was Donald Trump in a red jumpsuit, picking up trash beside the highway. 1562403482515
