Tostoini
@tostoini.it
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
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 mischievous, alien, unknowable.
"Sometimes we build things to be solid and lasting and sometimes to be beautiful, sometimes both."
"Sometimes we build things to be solid and lasting and sometimes to be beautiful, sometimes both."
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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 mischievous, alien, unknowable.
"Sometimes we build things to be solid and lasting and sometimes to be beautiful, sometimes both."
"Sometimes we build things to be solid and lasting and sometimes to be beautiful, sometimes both."
(Sharing this with the #sciart crowd becase in all this silliness there are a least two bits of real information about manatees: why mermaid manatees should have seashells armpit bras, and what if a manatee could wear a halloween skeleton onesie)
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
(Sharing this with the #sciart crowd becase in all this silliness there are a least two bits of real information about manatees: why mermaid manatees should have seashells armpit bras, and what if a manatee could wear a halloween skeleton onesie)
What's your favorite page in the entire calendar? July.
#tostoini #lamentino #manatee #toughworldsoftmanatees #2026
#tostoini #lamentino #manatee #toughworldsoftmanatees #2026
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
What's your favorite page in the entire calendar? July.
#tostoini #lamentino #manatee #toughworldsoftmanatees #2026
#tostoini #lamentino #manatee #toughworldsoftmanatees #2026
Reasonable questions:
How big is it? It's 20x20cm, once opened it's 20x40cm. It's square, stapled in the center, has a handy hole for hanging. In short, it's a calendar-shaped calendar.
How big is it? It's 20x20cm, once opened it's 20x40cm. It's square, stapled in the center, has a handy hole for hanging. In short, it's a calendar-shaped calendar.
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Reasonable questions:
How big is it? It's 20x20cm, once opened it's 20x40cm. It's square, stapled in the center, has a handy hole for hanging. In short, it's a calendar-shaped calendar.
How big is it? It's 20x20cm, once opened it's 20x40cm. It's square, stapled in the center, has a handy hole for hanging. In short, it's a calendar-shaped calendar.
Method 2: On etsy
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www.etsy.com/it/listing/6...
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Method 2: On etsy
www.etsy.com/it/listing/6...
www.etsy.com/it/listing/6...
How to get it:
1) on patreon. The holidays come once a year, but in this way, in addition to the calendar, you also get monthly doses of sillines, occasional existential reflections, and items of varying degrees of absurdity. Just sign up for the Coastal zone tier.
www.patreon.com/cw/tostoini
1) on patreon. The holidays come once a year, but in this way, in addition to the calendar, you also get monthly doses of sillines, occasional existential reflections, and items of varying degrees of absurdity. Just sign up for the Coastal zone tier.
www.patreon.com/cw/tostoini
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
How to get it:
1) on patreon. The holidays come once a year, but in this way, in addition to the calendar, you also get monthly doses of sillines, occasional existential reflections, and items of varying degrees of absurdity. Just sign up for the Coastal zone tier.
www.patreon.com/cw/tostoini
1) on patreon. The holidays come once a year, but in this way, in addition to the calendar, you also get monthly doses of sillines, occasional existential reflections, and items of varying degrees of absurdity. Just sign up for the Coastal zone tier.
www.patreon.com/cw/tostoini
The new Lamentino calendar is here and the theme for 2026 is: TOUGH WORLD, SOFT MANATEES. These days, staying soft is 100% an act of active resistance.
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The new Lamentino calendar is here and the theme for 2026 is: TOUGH WORLD, SOFT MANATEES. These days, staying soft is 100% an act of active resistance.
At the heart of Everything Everywhere All At Once is an undeniable fact: we're all small and stupid. Everything else depends on how, and with whom, you tackle this RIDICULOUS Everything Bagel.
Just be a rock, and ENJOY THE BAGEL. 🥯
Just be a rock, and ENJOY THE BAGEL. 🥯
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
At the heart of Everything Everywhere All At Once is an undeniable fact: we're all small and stupid. Everything else depends on how, and with whom, you tackle this RIDICULOUS Everything Bagel.
Just be a rock, and ENJOY THE BAGEL. 🥯
Just be a rock, and ENJOY THE BAGEL. 🥯
Today, USN Expo festival begins, with 28 short films in competition from 15 countries, five days of screenings, meetings, books (and, of course, a party) and 25 new works dedicated to the history of queer cinema.
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Today, USN Expo festival begins, with 28 short films in competition from 15 countries, five days of screenings, meetings, books (and, of course, a party) and 25 new works dedicated to the history of queer cinema.
Ten years ago, I was in the first edition of Uno Sguardo in Mostra for USN Expo with an illustration dedicated to But I'm a Cheerleader. Ten years later, I chose a new movie for a variant poster of a classic of queer cinema: Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie close to my heart (and my brain)
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Ten years ago, I was in the first edition of Uno Sguardo in Mostra for USN Expo with an illustration dedicated to But I'm a Cheerleader. Ten years later, I chose a new movie for a variant poster of a classic of queer cinema: Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie close to my heart (and my brain)
🪱 Who, me? NAH, I'm just a worm. 🪱
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🪱 Who, me? NAH, I'm just a worm. 🪱
I used this page for a workshop with middle grade kids, a cheeky role play game on digital literacy, critical thinking and learning to recognize true facts from dubious information (or outright ai slop) when you're working on book on animal THIS odd.
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I used this page for a workshop with middle grade kids, a cheeky role play game on digital literacy, critical thinking and learning to recognize true facts from dubious information (or outright ai slop) when you're working on book on animal THIS odd.
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
#illustration #editorialillustration
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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
#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.
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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.
October 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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.
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.
September 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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.
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?)
September 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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
September 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Strong Locutus of the Borg vibes
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.
September 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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.
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
From every river. To every sea. 🍉
#globalsumudflotilla #cinnyrisosea #palestiniansunbird #sciart
September 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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
From every river. To every sea. 🍉
#globalsumudflotilla #cinnyrisosea #palestiniansunbird #sciart
Luglio dei Fossili Viventi fin qui:
July 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Luglio dei Fossili Viventi fin qui:
La newsletter tostoina di luglio, cotta per voi ad alta temperatura nelle più pregevoli isole di calore della nostra penisola! Contiene le date del tour dei Fossili Viventi di luglio, un libro irresistibile e un sacco di puzze.
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July 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
La newsletter tostoina di luglio, cotta per voi ad alta temperatura nelle più pregevoli isole di calore della nostra penisola! Contiene le date del tour dei Fossili Viventi di luglio, un libro irresistibile e un sacco di puzze.
tostoini.substack.com/p/la-newslet...
tostoini.substack.com/p/la-newslet...
Fossili Viventi tra i libri consigliati nella puntata di oggi di Ci Vuole Una Scienza, il podcast de @ilpost.it Post di @emenietti.bsky.social e Beatrice Mautino che ogni venerdì mi spiega come funzionano *le cose* (ampio gesto con le braccia). Daje!
June 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Fossili Viventi tra i libri consigliati nella puntata di oggi di Ci Vuole Una Scienza, il podcast de @ilpost.it Post di @emenietti.bsky.social e Beatrice Mautino che ogni venerdì mi spiega come funzionano *le cose* (ampio gesto con le braccia). Daje!