Top Bests of 2024
We hawk'd and we tuah'd and we rizzed the house down.
Bonjour from Emily in Paris, bitch: it’s a wrap on 2024!
What a comedy of errors year, right? I wouldn’t exactly come away from this year going “we really did it!” to much, but I have to give it to myself that I ended stronger than I started. I got back on antidepressants (take the drugs!), I was in a few great shows, I saw a few great shows, I went on some trips, got my first tattoo, quit my job and am doing cool creative stuff! All in all: okay!
I also consumed/did cool stuff in 2024 that’s worth noting. In no particular order, here are the top bests of 2024:
TOP MOVIES (from this year)
Anora
Problemista
A Real Pain
The Substance
How to Have Sex
TOP BOOKS (that I read this year)
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome by Aparna Nancherla
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin
Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes by Moshe Kasher
TOP ALBUMS (mostly from this year)
Short n’ Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter
Cowboy Carter - Beyoncé
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess - Chappell Roan
Tigers Blood - Waxahatchee
S/T - Joyce Manor
TOP TIKTOKS (I watched)
This is actually too good for TikTok: Bechdel Test the Video Game
Because you can see I am sophisticated: this is a woman who looks like she has explosive diarrhea on a tire swing.
This sound is somehow the sound of every father and every lover.
Lovely Nonsense outros.
A woman putting a sari on a cat.
Want more cinema? You should check me out on TikTok before the app is banned. My top video from the year is all the places you can spiral comfortably in LA: Los Feliz edition. I have spiraled in all them, so they’re legit!
MY TOP SUBSTACKS (that I wrote)
Self-promo time! Thank you all for subscribing to honestly tho (and HELLA thanks to those who are paid subscribers!) I’ve gotten a bunch of new subscribers recently: bonjour!
I almost hit my subscriber goal for the year, but there are still seven more days in the year, so share away and maybe I’ll hit it!
"Mom's Christmas Boyfriend" is a Cautionary Tale About What Happens When You're Not Slutty Enough
Just when I was complaining about how these Christmas movie reviews were not doing numbers, this one somehow became my most read Substack ever (I even got white supremacist comments! Ew!)
Aside from some dumb comments, I am really happy to see this get views and get some new followers! Welcome! Thank you! Hope you enjoy honestly tho even when it’s not talking about daughters pimping out their moms.
QUIZ: Is this a lyric from 2000s emo or The Tortured Poets Department?
Thank you Swemos.
Love is Blind: Ranked from Worst Coworker to Best Coworker
My brain has already deleted all of these people.
How I Learned to Love Sabrina Carpenter
Don’t hate the player, hate the patriarchy. Also, shoutout to “Taste,” my most played song on Spotify this year.
The Ritual of Hair Removal
Diary of a hairy girl and how it brought me closer to my mom.
PS - I got laser hair removal this year and one peak experience of 2024 is that I got to participate in a surprise hot tub session and had 0 worries about hairy legs/bikini area. Technology is sick.
Here’s one of those cheesy CapCut videos of other peak experiences with some of my favorite people. Keep it alive in 2025, babes!