Wow.

FUCKING AMANDLA STENBERG FOR PRESIDENT OF EVERYTHING

Thank you for this. I enjoy traveling leisurely but I’m sick of the narrative that you’re only interesting and exciting if you travel extensively. My greatest joy and excitement comes from my career, which tends to keep me in one place, but still feels like an exploration.

Right? People are so snotty about tourists, and, like...that is what we all are the second we leave our home cities. It’s just not that bad to be excited about seeing a new place.

I’ve decided that if I paid bills there, I lived there.

Or when snobs disparage someone and say “They haven’t even travelled”.

I agree with this, actually! A lot of people who identify as “travelers” tend to come off a little smug and condescending to other people (also, if you’re not a resident of the place you’re in, you’re a tourist. It’s not a bad word.). Travel is not a magical panacea that will make you better, more interesting, or more…

I’ll be in my bunk.

She also organizes my colognes and combs.

the subject of this interview is me. it me, the rich baby

Good lord, this is the nicest comment section I have ever seen! I had to make an account just to say that. You are all really kind, who wouldn’t want a response like that? Lovely, thank you. I think maybe it’s weird to comment under your own interview but I’m doin’ it anyway.

Braiding your own hair is some high-level magician shit. I can just about manage a basic braid but I know someone who can French braid her own hair and I regard her as a dark sorceress who has compacted with spirits.

Kate Beaton is amazing. No matter how down I feel, looking at Edgar Allan Poe’s puzzled expression as he reads the fanboy letter from Jules Verne just fills me with delirious joy. On Twitter a few months ago she was asking people for suggestions for tiny historical and literary figures to draw and I suggested Oscar…

I’ve ghosted so many casual hook ups that I’ve had missing persons reports filed on me.

fuck yeah girl scouts and

My dad was a warrant officer in the Army until he retired when I was in high school and went to work for the post office. I went to nice private schools when we lived somewhere with a dangerous public school system, but I knew we weren’t rich even though we took nice trips and had nice stuff. It was pretty obvious…

Does this motherfucker not understand that this is what WE ARE EXPECTED TO DO BY EVERY CUSTOMER? Every time you complain about us taking away your dirty dishes, we get complained at 500 times more for not removing fucking garbage. You OCD weirdshits.

I, for one, cannot wait until Ferdman tells us about the time a literal Communist tried to refill his water glass too soon.

“Aloha” actually means both creole-native and REALLY FUCKING WHITE.

It’s also crazy that Aloha came out at the same time as this incredible William Finnegan personal history about Hawaii and race and surfing and devotion, in the New Yorker—make that white man’s Hawaii story into as nuanced a movie as the piece was and I’d be there for it 100%