TGWTG Nostalgia Chick / Lindsay Ellis / TheDudette - aka Hotdogs in face girl

[Arthur Morgan]

Also she owns the fucking "Nostalgia Chick" character, even though it was created by Channel Awesome. So I'm willing to bet her contract wasn't really that onerous.

She doesn't, but she owns what she did as the Chick. When she quit there was talk that CA was going to replace her with someone else but that never happened. They probably realised it wouldn't work since Lindsay was so popular and anyone else would just get hate.

 

[Random Internet Person]

She doesn't, but she owns what she did as the Chick. When she quit there was talk that CA was going to replace her with someone else but that never happened. They probably realised it wouldn't work since Lindsay was so popular and anyone else would just get hate.

And to be honest, who would really want to pick up the Nostalgia Chick moniker circa 2015?

 

[HonestJohn2376]

Some movie reviews of Axiom's End.

Merphy mentions how the novel starts out as a standard first contact movie. Later, Lindsay "comes into her own", and that really means "sci-fi devolves into monster boyfriend romance". Merphy points out Lindsay's repetitive writing, which makes sense because Axiom's End is really OC posted on Fanfiction.net. No editor gave it serious attention. Merphy also correctly notices how Cora is very passive and bratty, and that's because Cora is college dropout Bella Swan. For someone who shat on Stephanie Meyer so much, Lindsay really absorbed the former's work.

Rebecca does note Lindsay's interest in philosophical questions, but as other kiwis noted, Lindsay drops an idea rather than following through with it. Rebecca finds this impressive, and I guess it is, in a way. If you consume Independence Day and Transformers, Axiom's End looks profound in comparison.

Harman makes a point on how a woke alien is preachy, lame, and absurd. The writing style is very padded out as Harman notes, the potboiler NYT bestseller style as I mentioned before. And yes, the book is basically a fanfic that did not get thoroughly edited into a novel. And one hallmark of a fanfic is tons of world-building and character minutia (the aliens and Cora's daddy issues in this case) that are not fully integrated into the story's overall themes, character development, and plot.

Anyway, stating the obvious , Lindsay has a pathetic hateboner for Bush, like having him resign in the story - in 2007, late in his second presidency long after his worst policies were done. It's the most obvious sign (in this book) of Lindsay's political biases clouding her judgment.

"By the way, Lindsay, that's always what you're going to be known as, the Nostalgia Chick." Nice. The one thing Lindsay wants to erase from history so her toxic audience won't persecute her. Harman even mentions how Lindsay was his favorite contributor in The Guy With the Glasses, an opinion I share. Otherwise, Harman's review is this kiwi thread condensed into a YouTube video.

The Hank Green quote on the front cover is advertising for SJWs. If woke hierophant Hank Green likes it, you should do. Memodeth dunks on Cora for being so passive, including how Cora's education in linguistics does not come into play later in the book. Adding to her passivity is how Cora has no passion or desire for anything. A commenter made excuses by explaining how millennials are apathetic because of Bush and 9/11, which is bullshit. Even Adam Conover argued against the idea of millennials being cynical NEETs in a TED talk.

This even extends to Ampersand, as Memodeth complained how we are treated to tons of world-building, but we still get little of Ampersand as a "person", like if he had any personal relationships or attachments to other aliens or how a typical day in his home planet is like. Cora is not even curious about these aspects of Ampersand's life. This lack of a human touch (for lack of a better phrase) detracts from the world-building.

Rey points out the interesting philosophical ideas Lindsay had in mind when writing. Too bad she did not thoroughly explore those ideas but instead focused on SJW proselytizing and the monster boyfriend relationship, which are far less interesting. On the whole, the review is cunnilingus.

Luckily for us, fans made pozzed fanart of Ampersand, who looks like a fucking Pokemon.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Harman makes a point on how a woke alien is preachy, lame, and absurd. The writing style is very padded out as Harman notes, the potboiler NYT bestseller style as I mentioned before. And yes, the book is basically a fanfic that did not get thoroughly edited into a novel. And one hallmark of a fanfic is tons of world-building and character minutia (the aliens and Cora's daddy issues in this case) that are not fully integrated into the story's overall themes, character development, and plot.

Anyway, stating the obvious , Lindsay has a pathetic hateboner for Bush, like having him resign in the story - in 2007, late in his second presidency long after his worst policies were done. It's the most obvious sign (in this book) of Lindsay's political biases clouding her judgment.

"By the way, Lindsay, that's always what you're going to be known as, the Nostalgia Chick." Nice. The one thing Lindsay wants to erase from history so her toxic audience won't persecute her. Harman even mentions how Lindsay was his favorite contributor in The Guy With the Glasses, an opinion I share. Otherwise, Harman's review is this kiwi thread condensed into a YouTube video.

And if you check the video itself: 27 likes, 381 dislikes, 2700 views, and a lot of comments blasting him, calling him a beta male, and saying they're gonna buy the book basically to spite him.

 

[Inigo]

And if you check the video itself: 27 likes, 381 dislikes, 2700 views, and a lot of comments blasting him, calling him a beta male, and saying they're gonna buy the book basically to spite him.

He seems to have made a couple of videos about it, actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD-vGA9snj4&t=8s

Axiom's End is on the NYT Best Sellers list?

Check out blackcatbooks.org.

www.youtube.com

Also he seems to have made a written review.

https://www.blackcatbooks.org/blog/eu4iz4e5b3t2v37p7o1so4schqipe7

 

[Starscreams Cape]

This is why I detest SJW'S. The things that they try to ruin other people's lives over, such as 10 year old tweets, are simply a minor inconvenience to them.

They really are, as YaBoi Zack says, the worst people God has ever produced. Utterly soulless beings.

 

[JohnMc]

Some movie reviews of Axiom's End.

Merphy mentions how the novel starts out as a standard first contact movie. Later, Lindsay "comes into her own", and that really means "sci-fi devolves into monster boyfriend romance". Merphy points out Lindsay's repetitive writing, which makes sense because Axiom's End is really OC posted on Fanfiction.net. No editor gave it serious attention. Merphy also correctly notices how Cora is very passive and bratty, and that's because Cora is college dropout Bella Swan. For someone who shat on Stephanie Meyer so much, Lindsay really absorbed the former's work.

Rebecca does note Lindsay's interest in philosophical questions, but as other kiwis noted, Lindsay drops an idea rather than following through with it. Rebecca finds this impressive, and I guess it is, in a way. If you consume Independence Day and Transformers, Axiom's End looks profound in comparison.

Harman makes a point on how a woke alien is preachy, lame, and absurd. The writing style is very padded out as Harman notes, the potboiler NYT bestseller style as I mentioned before. And yes, the book is basically a fanfic that did not get thoroughly edited into a novel. And one hallmark of a fanfic is tons of world-building and character minutia (the aliens and Cora's daddy issues in this case) that are not fully integrated into the story's overall themes, character development, and plot.

Anyway, stating the obvious , Lindsay has a pathetic hateboner for Bush, like having him resign in the story - in 2007, late in his second presidency long after his worst policies were done. It's the most obvious sign (in this book) of Lindsay's political biases clouding her judgment.

"By the way, Lindsay, that's always what you're going to be known as, the Nostalgia Chick." Nice. The one thing Lindsay wants to erase from history so her toxic audience won't persecute her. Harman even mentions how Lindsay was his favorite contributor in The Guy With the Glasses, an opinion I share. Otherwise, Harman's review is this kiwi thread condensed into a YouTube video.

The Hank Green quote on the front cover is advertising for SJWs. If woke hierophant Hank Green likes it, you should do. Memodeth dunks on Cora for being so passive, including how Cora's education in linguistics does not come into play later in the book. Adding to her passivity is how Cora has no passion or desire for anything. A commenter made excuses by explaining how millennials are apathetic because of Bush and 9/11, which is bullshit. Even Adam Conover argued against the idea of millennials being cynical NEETs in a TED talk.

This even extends to Ampersand, as Memodeth complained how we are treated to tons of world-building, but we still get little of Ampersand as a "person", like if he had any personal relationships or attachments to other aliens or how a typical day in his home planet is like. Cora is not even curious about these aspects of Ampersand's life. This lack of a human touch (for lack of a better phrase) detracts from the world-building.

Rey points out the interesting philosophical ideas Lindsay had in mind when writing. Too bad she did not thoroughly explore those ideas but instead focused on SJW proselytizing and the monster boyfriend relationship, which are far less interesting. On the whole, the review is cunnilingus.

Luckily for us, fans made pozzed fanart of Ampersand, who looks like a fucking Pokemon.

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I haven't seen that many awkward smiles since people were desperately trying to say something nice about Brie Larson's Capt. Marvel movie.

 

[Travoltron]

And if you check the video itself: 27 likes, 381 dislikes, 2700 views, and a lot of comments blasting him, calling him a beta male, and saying they're gonna buy the book basically to spite him.

I upvoted his videos and left some supportive anti-SJW comments for him. If anyone else wants to disrupt Lindsay's minions' ratio, it would be good karma. Lindsay or her minions directed her sheeple fans to downvote and troll this guy.

 

[Phil Ken Sebben]

It reminds me of R.L Stine and how he'd dedicate a half a page or so to lazily describe character appearances.

It's kinda like how George R.R. Martin was originally supposed to write a trilogy for his "Saga of Fire and ice" and he's now up to something like 7 novels? The difference is George is an accomplished writer and he decided to stretch it out to make lots of money. Lindsay is stretching it out because she feels it's more literary. And because it makes the book longer.

 

[Inigo]

Those comments on that Harman Smith video are really something else.

"You could have made this video a lot shorter and just filmed yourself saying "I'm a colossal virgin and I didn't read the book properly, thanks"


"Your review is trash. So I’ve also read the book, and I have to commend it, for its attention to detail... the parts you call boring, the descriptions, of Alien biology,the setting up of plot points, and then revisiting them late, are the hallmarks of good writing and classic science fiction. But let’s be honest you don’t care, you’re just blasting it for being woke/sjw which honestly is so incredibly minor in this, it makes me think you have strong apposed political affiliations. Hey but at least you gave her money, that will help her push her the fake agenda you believe she has in the future."

"this guy thinks he’s onto something lmao. Imagine the lack of self awareness to hop on YouTube (while wearing a N64 shirt) and start bashing on a women author simply bc u don’t like her (evident as soon as he referred to her as the nostalgiachick). Homie, wouldn’t keep making review videos if you’re going to be so condescending. You seem to think of yourself as one of those under-appreciated genius’s who in reality has absolutely nothing actually critical to say abt this. Take a shot every time he says SJW or WOKE."

"lol. Imagine being this guy's parents. "So how is little Cody doing these days? Making his parents proud I bet!" "He....uh....he has a youtube channel where he screams at women."

"So like, same as some commenters below, I admit to being a fan of Lindsay, and thus biased, but this is honestly just nasty. No doubt you won't read all of this but this bad take in particular has so many holes and biases that I feel like I need to dig into it a bit. The fact that you spend time taking shots at her formerly being part of Channel Awesome doesn't help you seem like you're just doing fair criticism, much more importantly, taking random shots at her sex life just makes you seem like you're just wanting to insult her as a person. And that's because you are, let's be honest. And apparently you used to be a fan of Lindsay but are angry about the fact that she has political views that you don't agree with? Your tangent about your opinion on Lindsay Ellis and her feminist views are pretty unimportant to the overall review, considering outside of being written by a person who holds feminist views in real life, there isn't really a strong theme of feminism in the book, unless having a female protagonist is feminist propaganda to you??? No one is asking you to be a feminist, but the parts where you actually talk about elements in the book were addressing things like, concepts being set up early on, not addressed for some chapters and then eventually explained, or the fact that it has the elements of a first contact story, and thus is "generic?? It feels like shitting on someone for saying the word "the" too many times in a book, it's too simple to call it anything more than looking for things to hate about it. Add on top, a comparing it to Twilight basically because there is a human and non-human character with a strong connection, and because Twilight is a stock reference for a "bad book". It's really shallow criticism. The idea that in your words, "Everyone is happy" that Bush resigned is just plain not true. To quote the book you apparently didn't read very closely, "-There was an intriguing split between people who were livid at Bush for being dumb enough to lie about something as momentous as First Contact under oath, the people who were trying to suppress their joy at the development, and the people who didn't care." there are acknowledged to be mixed opinions on how this all transpired, also the idea that the political climate driven by what Cora's father was doing has no impact on the plot is once again, either you not reading the book very closely or you just going in ready to hate it from the get-go. That, along with the fact that an alien race would look at humanity's own struggles against each other and fear that they, as aliens, would be treated far worse, to look at that and see it as SJW propaganda, is just insane, considering that it's effectively no different than concepts that have existed in Sci-Fi since it's invention, like this passage in War of the Worlds, "We men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them [the Martians] at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. […] And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?" So, overall, 0/10, I'm starting to think I might have put more time and effort into why your review is bad than you spent actually thinking about anything other than your own personal issues against Lindsay Ellis and coming up with jokes about her sex life."

And finally, his response:

" No boys... Lindsay is not going to sleep with you."

 

[Higgins]

Those comments on that Harman Smith video are really something else.

"You could have made this video a lot shorter and just filmed yourself saying "I'm a colossal virgin and I didn't read the book properly, thanks"


"Your review is trash. So I’ve also read the book, and I have to commend it, for its attention to detail... the parts you call boring, the descriptions, of Alien biology,the setting up of plot points, and then revisiting them late, are the hallmarks of good writing and classic science fiction. But let’s be honest you don’t care, you’re just blasting it for being woke/sjw which honestly is so incredibly minor in this, it makes me think you have strong apposed political affiliations. Hey but at least you gave her money, that will help her push her the fake agenda you believe she has in the future."

"this guy thinks he’s onto something lmao. Imagine the lack of self awareness to hop on YouTube (while wearing a N64 shirt) and start bashing on a women author simply bc u don’t like her (evident as soon as he referred to her as the nostalgiachick). Homie, wouldn’t keep making review videos if you’re going to be so condescending. You seem to think of yourself as one of those under-appreciated genius’s who in reality has absolutely nothing actually critical to say abt this. Take a shot every time he says SJW or WOKE."

"lol. Imagine being this guy's parents. "So how is little Cody doing these days? Making his parents proud I bet!" "He....uh....he has a youtube channel where he screams at women."

"So like, same as some commenters below, I admit to being a fan of Lindsay, and thus biased, but this is honestly just nasty. No doubt you won't read all of this but this bad take in particular has so many holes and biases that I feel like I need to dig into it a bit. The fact that you spend time taking shots at her formerly being part of Channel Awesome doesn't help you seem like you're just doing fair criticism, much more importantly, taking random shots at her sex life just makes you seem like you're just wanting to insult her as a person. And that's because you are, let's be honest. And apparently you used to be a fan of Lindsay but are angry about the fact that she has political views that you don't agree with? Your tangent about your opinion on Lindsay Ellis and her feminist views are pretty unimportant to the overall review, considering outside of being written by a person who holds feminist views in real life, there isn't really a strong theme of feminism in the book, unless having a female protagonist is feminist propaganda to you??? No one is asking you to be a feminist, but the parts where you actually talk about elements in the book were addressing things like, concepts being set up early on, not addressed for some chapters and then eventually explained, or the fact that it has the elements of a first contact story, and thus is "generic?? It feels like shitting on someone for saying the word "the" too many times in a book, it's too simple to call it anything more than looking for things to hate about it. Add on top, a comparing it to Twilight basically because there is a human and non-human character with a strong connection, and because Twilight is a stock reference for a "bad book". It's really shallow criticism. The idea that in your words, "Everyone is happy" that Bush resigned is just plain not true. To quote the book you apparently didn't read very closely, "-There was an intriguing split between people who were livid at Bush for being dumb enough to lie about something as momentous as First Contact under oath, the people who were trying to suppress their joy at the development, and the people who didn't care." there are acknowledged to be mixed opinions on how this all transpired, also the idea that the political climate driven by what Cora's father was doing has no impact on the plot is once again, either you not reading the book very closely or you just going in ready to hate it from the get-go. That, along with the fact that an alien race would look at humanity's own struggles against each other and fear that they, as aliens, would be treated far worse, to look at that and see it as SJW propaganda, is just insane, considering that it's effectively no different than concepts that have existed in Sci-Fi since it's invention, like this passage in War of the Worlds, "We men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them [the Martians] at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. […] And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?" So, overall, 0/10, I'm starting to think I might have put more time and effort into why your review is bad than you spent actually thinking about anything other than your own personal issues against Lindsay Ellis and coming up with jokes about her sex life."

And finally, his response:

" No boys... Lindsay is not going to sleep with you."

It's something else. No matter what, the argument always devolves into either "you're a loser cause you get no pussy" or "you're a loser because you get inadequate pussy". It's the stereotypical jock way of dealing with thoughts and ideas you don't agree with

 

[Water-T]

It's ironic that they're accusing him of giving a poorly thought out critique based on sexism, by resorting to poorly thought out critiques based on sexism.

 

[ilovejews]

Those comments on that Harman Smith video are really something else.

"You could have made this video a lot shorter and just filmed yourself saying "I'm a colossal virgin and I didn't read the book properly, thanks"


"Your review is trash. So I’ve also read the book, and I have to commend it, for its attention to detail... the parts you call boring, the descriptions, of Alien biology,the setting up of plot points, and then revisiting them late, are the hallmarks of good writing and classic science fiction. But let’s be honest you don’t care, you’re just blasting it for being woke/sjw which honestly is so incredibly minor in this, it makes me think you have strong apposed political affiliations. Hey but at least you gave her money, that will help her push her the fake agenda you believe she has in the future."

"this guy thinks he’s onto something lmao. Imagine the lack of self awareness to hop on YouTube (while wearing a N64 shirt) and start bashing on a women author simply bc u don’t like her (evident as soon as he referred to her as the nostalgiachick). Homie, wouldn’t keep making review videos if you’re going to be so condescending. You seem to think of yourself as one of those under-appreciated genius’s who in reality has absolutely nothing actually critical to say abt this. Take a shot every time he says SJW or WOKE."

"lol. Imagine being this guy's parents. "So how is little Cody doing these days? Making his parents proud I bet!" "He....uh....he has a youtube channel where he screams at women."

"So like, same as some commenters below, I admit to being a fan of Lindsay, and thus biased, but this is honestly just nasty. No doubt you won't read all of this but this bad take in particular has so many holes and biases that I feel like I need to dig into it a bit. The fact that you spend time taking shots at her formerly being part of Channel Awesome doesn't help you seem like you're just doing fair criticism, much more importantly, taking random shots at her sex life just makes you seem like you're just wanting to insult her as a person. And that's because you are, let's be honest. And apparently you used to be a fan of Lindsay but are angry about the fact that she has political views that you don't agree with? Your tangent about your opinion on Lindsay Ellis and her feminist views are pretty unimportant to the overall review, considering outside of being written by a person who holds feminist views in real life, there isn't really a strong theme of feminism in the book, unless having a female protagonist is feminist propaganda to you??? No one is asking you to be a feminist, but the parts where you actually talk about elements in the book were addressing things like, concepts being set up early on, not addressed for some chapters and then eventually explained, or the fact that it has the elements of a first contact story, and thus is "generic?? It feels like shitting on someone for saying the word "the" too many times in a book, it's too simple to call it anything more than looking for things to hate about it. Add on top, a comparing it to Twilight basically because there is a human and non-human character with a strong connection, and because Twilight is a stock reference for a "bad book". It's really shallow criticism. The idea that in your words, "Everyone is happy" that Bush resigned is just plain not true. To quote the book you apparently didn't read very closely, "-There was an intriguing split between people who were livid at Bush for being dumb enough to lie about something as momentous as First Contact under oath, the people who were trying to suppress their joy at the development, and the people who didn't care." there are acknowledged to be mixed opinions on how this all transpired, also the idea that the political climate driven by what Cora's father was doing has no impact on the plot is once again, either you not reading the book very closely or you just going in ready to hate it from the get-go. That, along with the fact that an alien race would look at humanity's own struggles against each other and fear that they, as aliens, would be treated far worse, to look at that and see it as SJW propaganda, is just insane, considering that it's effectively no different than concepts that have existed in Sci-Fi since it's invention, like this passage in War of the Worlds, "We men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them [the Martians] at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. […] And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?" So, overall, 0/10, I'm starting to think I might have put more time and effort into why your review is bad than you spent actually thinking about anything other than your own personal issues against Lindsay Ellis and coming up with jokes about her sex life."

And finally, his response:

" No boys... Lindsay is not going to sleep with you."

Talk about grasping at straws
"You can't talk about author's biases"
"Nooo it can't be called SJW wish-fulfillment if an early work of sci-fi contained a relevant gay, hippie platitude"

Seriously, you can't make a good argument if you're seething.

 

[MediocreMilt]

And finally, his response:

" No boys... Lindsay is not going to sleep with you."

And because this isn't ten years ago, I'm completely ok with that.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

It's ironic that they're accusing him of giving a poorly thought out critique based on sexism, by resorting to poorly thought out critiques based on sexism.

That's the modern left in a nutshell.

 

[HonestJohn2376]

Lindsay discusses her career and work with the first cut crew.

4:05 - Lindsay's regret as the Nostalgia Chick. These comments do not resonate with me. If anything, Nostalgia Chick was measured compared to the other speds at Channel Awesome, and there was at least an attempt to connect whatever nostalgic media with the culture it came from and our culture today. In other words, something a bit deeper than just reviewing a bad movie. If Lindsay listened to her old-school fans instead of her new woke followers, then she would not be ashamed.

The rampant bad faith Ben Shapiro takedowns Lindsay complains about, at least those from the conservative end, didn't start with Channel Awesome but with GamerGate and later Jordan Peterson's beef with troons. At least from where I'm coming from as someone who was very progressive back in the day.

5:00 - The Chicago Sun and New York Times were very snobbish, and still are. They're worse than Channel Awesome. Doug and his shit-eating colleagues at least don't pretend to be elite gatekeepers of high art who measure every movie against Schindler's List.

8:30 - Decent insight in how YouTube stifles new voices as it formalized and settled into a rigid hierarchy of top-tier, middle-tier, and derelict creators. YouTube is no longer a playground or wild west. It is a corporation, and you get your foot in the door through connections with higher ups.

16:10 - The trend for YouTube stars is to have YA ghostwritten. Lindsay follows this path, though she at least wrote the damn story herself.

18:30 - Lindsay acknowledges the flaws of the Me Too movement. I will also add that it presaged callout culture with its vigilante justice and how people abuse it to damage enemies.

20:30 - Lindsay took 10 years to write her book? Are you serious! You'd think 10 years would make something better than a rough draft of a YA novel. If there was a muse for prose writing, she should have bitch slapped the insolent Lindsay by now. Such waste of time and talent is a crime against humanity,

21:45 - Some interesting content on the Cora character, a mix between Latina and Italian, and German. Cora describes herself as white both to pass and because she does not feel brown enough to count as a "real" woman of color. What's interesting is how Cora's feelings of not being brown enough come from her dad being half German, not including her mother's Italian heritage. The more cynical part of me thinks it's because German is "too white", "imperialist", "Nazi", and therefore bad according to extreme progressives.

31:40 - Some discussion on the nature of language. Lindsay followed Noam Chomsky's ideas of all languages having an underlying basic algorithm.

38:35 - "What is true is not as important as how the truth is framed." This is actually a somewhat profound insight. Lindsay makes the first contact part of her novel less about cracking the alien language and more about how the alien language is framed and the intentions of the framer. If there is another first contact book/movie emphasizing this extra layer about language, please let me know.

47:45 - Even Lindsay thinks the Ampersand art looks like a Pokemon.

48:25 - I appreciate the shoutout to Contact, probably my favorite alien movie since it affected me a lot as a kid. I have a soft spot for Jodie Foster, so that helps.

51:05 - Lindsay explains why she made Ampersand a vegetarian. It is a way of exploring how a species will assume its evolved eating habits and the values that evolve from that are the norm. So an alien evolving to be a vegetarian will look at opportunistic omnivores like humans with horror. A species that indulges in cannibalism and eats sheep brains must look psychotic to an alien like Ampersand, who is more scared of humans than the other way around.

54:20 - Lindsay is planning four more books. Excellent. The cow has more tard cum in reserve.

 

[Den Gigantiske]

Anyone remember Lindsay's first book? She wrote it with Nella and 5 or 6 other ghost writers. It was a parody but Axioms end seems like a parody that forgot it's a parody.


Don't know if this is already here but if it is it's worth seeing again

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Anyone remember Lindsay's first book? She wrote it with Nella and 5 or 6 other ghost writers. It was a parody but Axioms end seems like a parody that forgot it's a parody.

That was supposed to be a trilogy but they never made the second one. So I won't be holding my breath for Axioms End 2.

 

[Owlflaps]

That was supposed to be a trilogy but they never made the second one. So I won't be holding my breath for Axioms End 2.

If it took Lindsay 10 years to write this bottom shelf drivel, it's gonna take twice as long to write the sequel.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1300892691199213568?s=19

Not familiar with how patreon works aside from the money but what does this mean?