Francesca Tacchi 🍋🍉

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 🙏 🏳️‍⚧️

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.

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.

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed my story and found it inspiring! We all must do our part in resisting the rise of fascism that, sadly, has gained momentum globally. Every small act of resistance matters 🌹

Posso immaginare....che schifo madonna. E certo ci sentiamo domani :( Buonanotte, per quanto possa esserlo vista la situa...

Sì assolutamente!!!! Stavo giusto cercando informazioni ma trovo solo roba relativa alla sentenza dell'anno scorso (perché figuriamoci se è possibile trovare notizie up-to-date sulla transizione in italia! che nervi...)
Mi dispiace davvero tantissimo :( 💔

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.

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

WHAT THE FUCKING HELL????????????????????????????????????? I'm so, so sorry, this is horrible..........if you want to vent, my DMs are always open. Fuck this country and this government.

come noooooooooo

grazieeeeeeeeee (ovviamente sto già pensando isterico al prossimo lmao)

THANKS THEY ARE!!!

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

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

Latest addition!

tulips | martinaoven

Yupp, that they are, but they ward off the evil eye due to their positive connotations (fertility, abudance, life) not because they "scandalized it" - that is def creative interpretation on OP's part 😅

Accurate up to a point - the apotropaic function of fascini (the Roman phallic amulets/graffiti) derived from their ties to fertility/abudance rather than "scandalizing evil". Idk where OP got that idea from.

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.

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

good..........GOOD.......

NOT THE EGGPLANTS HELP

thank you!!! the surgeon truly did an amazing work 🥹♥️

right?? I was a bit worried about the tattoo, but it looks even better than it did before, all flat like this!

thank youuuu 🥹♥️

and totally deserved!! you should celebrateeeee

hell yeah

AAAAAH CONGRATS!!!!!

I KNOW RIGHT??? I'm obsessed - I totally plan to like, enhance their shape with tattoos in the future, gonna turn my new chest into an artpiece 🙌

I had my surgery done at the Centro Bufalini in Florence, with Dr Giulia Lo Russo and she truly is SO GOOD. Felt no pain during recovery, and despite the large cuts it is all healing cleanly and with no trace of dog ears and the like. Couldn't have wished for a better result ♥️

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!!

niiiice

it's so hot here as well 😭 35°C, but at least it cools during the night
And it is!! It's so good, absolutely life-changing ♥️

Aaaah congrats to you as well!!! It's honestly life changing and I'm sure you'll love getting yours!!