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Apparently, Lindsay does want to become a parent at some point. I assumed if she got knocked up again, we'd just see the release of The A-Word II: Reloaded.
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In something of a risky move, she has taken a stand in support of Jojo Rabbit prior to it's release. That stand may be short-lived though since some early reviewers found it offensive (Joker, too) and if her group doesn't like it, she's not allowed to like it. This may become an inverse of the Captain Marvel situation Lindsay faced earlier this year where she kept her mouth shut about how much she hated it to appease her group.
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Lindsay doesn't understand the idea of "pushing boundaries" in comedy. Well, she MAY understand the idea of "pushing boundaries" in comedy but she can't risk revealing it publicly lest her group turn on her. She'll just keep pushing the narrative that "pushing boundaries" is just code for an alt-right, nazi, phony baloney schtick machine.
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Lindsay's science-fiction book, AXIOM'S END, is due out next Summer. She did an
interview with Newsweek talking about it. Here's the highlights of the article:
Axiom's End, due out in summer 2020 from St. Martin's Press, is an alternate history science fiction novel taking place during the George W. Bush administration. The novel, described as "Stranger Things meets Arrival", is an alien first-contact adventure, focuses on a woman who serves as the only point of contact between humans and an alien race.
The novel takes place in a world where the government has been hiding living aliens. Cora Sabino, the protagonist, has been trying to avoid the scandal, even though her estranged father is the whistleblower who revealed the aliens in the first place. Despite her unwillingness to be involved, one of the aliens, codenamed "Ampersand," finds her — with the sole goal of getting the information he needs, then disposing of her.
Speaking about Axiom's End, Ellis describes the book as combining high and low culture. That mix of the high and low is a recurring theme in her work, perhaps best exemplified by her "The Whole Plate" series, which uses Transformers to talk about various film studies concepts like auteur theory and the male gaze.
"A lot of [Axiom's End] is about communication and linguistics; it has very long discussions about the difference between phonemics and morphemics, but also, it's about aliens during the Bush administration," she said, laughing. "It was an interesting challenge to convince publishers that was something people would be interested in."
The topic of language is an important one for Ellis. Though she didn't major in it, she studied linguistics in college, and is even giving a talk in Las Vegas at the end of September about writing alien languages, especially in first-contact fiction.
"Sometimes, that will be all it's about, like Arrival, but other times it will be sidestepped entirely, because that's not what the story is about. Those stories tend to fundamentally be about communication and how we deal with the other," she said, "That's just something I think about a lot, and it's been really gratifying that I've been able to work with it as much as I have in the last few years."
Fans of Ellis' YouTube channel don't have to worry though — she's not hanging up the camera in favor of a pen. Her next video will be about Axiom's End — kind of. The video won't be about the novel itself, but rather the nuts and bolts of how a book gets published and how long it took for Axiom's End to see print.
However, she does admit that being published may change the tone of her channel. She expects to focus less on big name properties and Disney remakes and focus more on process.
"I used to do a lot more process-oriented [topics] — how structure works, character design, stuff like that — than I have been doing lately. It'll change the nature of the channel a little bit, because I'll probably be talking more from the point of view of a creator than an audience member," she said.
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God, I hope Lindsay accidentally changes her brand to alien conspiracy. I'd love to see her co-host a UFO centered awards show with Dan Aykroyd.
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