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Illustrator with a soft spot for odd creatures, graphic recorder, friend of manatees, anthropologist, ND. I wrote&illustrated Fossili Viventi published by Aboca Kids. She/her www.tostoini.it
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Insomma: il Libro Nuovo si intitola Fossili Viventi, esce per Aboca Kids in anteprima al Salone del Libro di Torino il 19 maggio e in libreria dal 30 maggio. Ci sono dentro storie di creature peculiari dal passato e presente del pianeta.
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The etymology of ‘turtle’ is interesting as shell.

'Turtle' comes from the French 'tortue,' which in turn comes from the Late Latin 'tartarucha.'

‘Tartarucha’ was short for the phrase ‘bestia tartarucha’ which means "infernal beast" or "beast of the nether regions."
I've enjoyed the usual dive into a tunnel of archive photos and material culture to see how Welsh men and women dressed in the last century, I was inspired for the mountain character from the cabotain hat that Welsh woman donned with the traditional clothes.

#illustration #editorialillustration
The illustrations were inspired by the characters' nicknames, they're called "allomingius" in Sardinian: they're used to identify which Vincenzo you're talking about among twenty Vincenzis with the same first & last name, there are maybe three family names passed down from generation to generation.
Today in the the letterbox I found the issue #3 of Versanti Magazine. I've illustrated "Climbing the Hill and Descending the Mountain" an article by Tommaso Ciuffoletti, a story that begins in Wales and ends in Ecuador, with everything in between.
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MACROFAUNA! MACROFAUNA!! MACROFAUNAAAAA
Prehistoric Planet Ice Age out later this year... such a thrill to put this series together, oh my goodness are you in for a treat :) Hopefully news on events and publicity coming soon! Sloths, cats, rhinos, glyptodonts AND SOOOO MUCH MORE!!
This is of course inspired by that old manatee meme with the manatee face-planted in a lettuce head. Sometimes I wonder what I could accomplish in life if most of my neurons were not busy hanging on for dear life to memories of old memes and weird jingles.
And if it's not: I have a new anecdote! I still win!
(The only food I really, really dislike are raw tomatoes. Yes, I know they are delicious, still you can rob me in the street just by waving one in my face.)

#tostoini #manatee #lamentino
I love eating something special to celebrate and eating something nice to soothe me after a bad day. I love familiar foods, I love unfamiliar foods: if there's something in a menu that I don't know, I'm going to order it. If it's good, the number of joys available in my life is instantly increased!
This idiom is so odd. I have so many feelings any given day, the idea of eating them sounds so appealing: bitter feelings and sweet feelings and umami feelings and salty feelings and sour feelings, WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE? (And why I feel it just another way of policing other people's food intake?)
Strong Locutus of the Borg vibes
"Sometimes we build things to be solid and lasting and sometimes to be beautiful, sometimes both."

Tove Jansson in Notes From an Island
I guess it's not that big of a surprise that I'm a big Moomin fan: I love Jansson way of to see the transcendent and magical in the natural world, the weird, the goofy, the softness that can just as easily shift to the mischievous, alien, unknowable.
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Similar to early Twitter, on Bluesky you’ll learn about breaking news before all your friends, BUT here it’s delivered as a series of unsolvable riddles peppered with beautifully rendered fan art.✨
The Palestine sunbird (Cinnyris osea) is a small bird of the sunbird family, Nectariniidae. In 2015 the Palestinian Authority adopted the species as a national bird.
From every river. To every sea. 🍉

#globalsumudflotilla #cinnyrisosea #palestiniansunbird #sciart
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“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”

Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
Amicə di Roma! Accorri domani alla chiacchiera sui Fossili Viventi all'Estate al Torrione! il 30 luglio Alle 19.30! Abbiamo le bestie assurde per niente estinte! Abbiamo Carola Moscatelli e Francesco Graziosi!
Aboca Edizioni: ciao Roberta, ci fai un video in cui racconti di cosa parla Fossili Viventi in un minuto e mezzo?

IO (iperventilando in un sacchetto di carta come solo una geriatric millenial abituata a nascondersi dietro le parole scritte e le illustrazioni): 🫡
Fossili Viventi - Roberta Ragona
YouTube video by Aboca Edizioni
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