Vanessa Christman

Etruscan vie cave near Pitigliano: carved procession roads cut deep into volcanic rock. Sacred, mysterious, dramatic as hell. I love them.

Back in the day I’d 100% be that girl doing parkour down the path and some dude named Larth would be like, “come on, knock it off already” #archaeology 🏺

Cover of ALTIPLANO, a Peruvian Cyberpunk Graphic Novel, coming soon to Kickstarter. Jaguar cyborg and two characters in the middle. Cyborg Warriors, tanks, and robots, cyborg monkeys and secondary characters in the background.

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#PeruvianCyberpunk #graphicnovel

Please stop assuming that too many em dashes means AI written. Some of us are producing grammatically incoherent work the honest way!

Rows of grapevines stretch across golden-brown hills at Rocca di Frassinello in Maremma, Tuscany. The vineyard lies under a wide blue sky, with scattered olive trees and wooded hills rising in the distance.

Bronze vessel with tall, curved handles ending in stylized human hands, displayed in a glass case at the Rocca di Frassinello Etruscan Museum. The bowl rests on a pedestal base, surrounded by smaller blackware cups.

A dramatic, amphitheater-style wine barrel room at Rocca di Frassinello, with rows of oak barrels stacked in symmetrical tiers under soft lighting.

Instructional panel showing both an aerial photograph and detailed plan of Tomb 9 at the Etruscan Necropolis of San Germano, including a numbered list describing funerary artifacts like bronze razors, alabaster urns, bucchero oil flasks, and decorative appliqués such as crouching lions.

Etruscan #TombTuesday (Necropolis of San Germano) on the grounds of a winery (Rocca di Frassinello). My favorite kind of two-for-one special! #archaeology #toscana 🏺

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Nearly all people in public service are smart, ethical & hardworking, & nearly all bureaucratic rules at least originated for good reasons.

people love to act like ironic detachment and being a hater is so cool but have you ever tried being sincere and liking things

god sends the scaldiest pizza cheese to his tenderest mouth rooves

how do you say “diva down” in Latin

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

I cannot believe my life lasted long enough for computers to stop being fun.

Classic Jessica behavior

My youngest is auditioning for Willy Wonka and practicing “The Candy Man.”

Him: Do you think I should leave the finger guns in?
Me: Absolutely not, please don’t.
My husband: Oh. I was gonna say yes… I liked them. Maybe just one?

Welcome, teens coming here from tiktok. I think you’ll find that through the magic of the written word I am able to craft sentences that are as vivid and compelling as any short-form video!

They never should have added the Vanilla Frosty at Wendy's. It was a sign of the beginning of the end.

0% of the time, it works every time

Los Angeles Times + @Latimes Follow Rents likely to balloon in wake of L.A. wildfires, experts say

Now this, this is looting. Ain’t nobody gonna be arrested for it either.

A picture of “merch” from the California State Library. Picture is a side view of a teal holographic pencil with the text: California State Library Getting Shh! Done Since 1850

More merch from the state library. In the front of the picture are three state symbol stickers, illustrations by Megan Porch. To the left is a golden trout wearing a cowboy hat. To the right is a grizzly bear rearing a book to three quails (including one on top of their head). Above that is a sticker featuring a pallid bat in an opened book with golden poppies behind them.

Poster of an original block print by Patricia Wakida. Featuring the text “California State Library”. In the left center of the print is the front facade of the Historic Library and Courts building in Sacramento that houses some sections of the State Library. The building is set in a field of oak trees and has an artistic frame with poppies. There is also a California grizzly bear, eating grapes in the bottom right corner of the print, which represents a very unique depiction of the state animal available for viewing only in the historic library building.

I feel like *I’m good at State Library merch.

*Which includes hiring talented artists and having no shame being like: “I feel like this golden trout illustration needs a cowboy hat, right?”

it’s a scurrilous lie that i read books all day! the truth is that i make spreadsheets all day

Is it breaking the rules to ask for an explanation because I want to know more about the sauce!

If you see this post, post a pic from your device without explanation.

I bet my calculator app wrapped would be pretty shameful.

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025?

Ever try to cut a straight line and wonder how you've made it this far

The Great American Music Hall is already so pretty but all gussied up for Hipmas it’s gorgeous.

Anyway, enjoy this song about late stage capitalism.

Huge congrats!

Well at least they can’t lecture you on work/life balance

Mine’s like: “I notice you are a recovering people pleaser..but anyway, I have this great new program idea so let’s edit this grant application together”

No cheating. Your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist.

If we’re not cheating my new therapist is this haunted Vanilla Ice Doll. Honestly it might be an upgrade as my last therapist ended up using our sessions to ask me for help with their grant applications.