Ha ha um okay let me tell you a little something about ol’ Jeanne
She wrote this comic in I think July 2014 or something, after being on a book tour that was a formative experience in her life. Imogen Binnie, author of Nevada, was also on this tour, and Jeanne was totally intimidated by her and her work but also really really enjoyed hanging out with her and was like “hey I will do a fun shoutout in my comic to get over this intimidation some and also make a fun joke about how lots of trans women have read Nevada so it is sort of a way to meet people maybe??”
Then it took her until February 22, 2016 to finish the comic, and the “joke,” which was not that great to begin with, has become just incomprehensible, because every trans woman has read Nevada and everyone knows about Nevada and rather than being modish and fun for a specific person, this is just sort of embarrassing
“hey do you like THE BEATLES??” “i’ve been MEANING to listen to their rocks”
The lesson: if rather than work / you wait from anxiety / the world will not care / bout yr antique piety
I am sorry imogen that this did not come out when it would have been more charming :(