Oh this is just a treat.
She'a really going to try and skirt the line between being a victim of leftist cancel culture and blaming right wingers and Gamergate... and after a godamned hour, her best defence is "I have black friends".
Best thing she's made in years, though probably not for the reasons she wanted.
It would be funny if I didn't give her some chance of threading the needle thanks to her army of simps and apologists.
This is gonna be great... because it's onmy going to get worse. Ironically because she is continuing to try and paint herself as an author in a writing community, where being a white lady previously chased off Twitter for racist remarks, is like diving into shark infested waters covered in chum.
Because I don't know if Lindsey has noticed... but the Hugo Award crowd? The rainbow coalition largely in control of most of SFWA and spec fiction? A bloated white feminist trying to step into NK Jemison/RF Kuang/Rebecca Roanhorse's spotlight?
They are undoubtedly sharpening thier knives and waiting for her to fuck up. Go look at thr Twitter chatter from earlier this week... damn near every single nominee had congrats/ass kissing from every corner of that crowd... except for Ellis, outside of her usual ass kissers.
Becauae they HATE Lindsay. Mild power level... I know several of them. There is almost as much venom for Ellis as there is for the former Sad Puppy crowd.
On the off chance chance she reads this, good news, a significant part of that is jealousy. Most of the Hugo/SFWA crowd surives off Patreon donations with rare exceptions (NK Jemison has the Macarthur grant and a lot of op-eds, but she was subsisting too before being gifted 3 Hugo Awards) and I mean survives. There is not a lot of money in speculative fiction these days, especially not the kind these people write. A lot of them are barely scraping by, which in an era where rightwing authors like Larry Correia make enough to build a mansion on his own private mountain range, and self published authors can make respectable sums, will never not be funny. Hell, for all the woke authors they doubt, publishers like Tor are kept alive by old/dead/conservative white guys like Brandon Sanderson, Orson Scott Card and Robert Jordan.
So seeing someone who actually makes a shocking amount of money on Patreon who has a YouTube audience and Twitter platform most of these shmucks would cut off a hand for stepping on thier sole claim to success and relevance? They hate her for it.
But the bigger part of it? As she discovered so painfully the other day, she's not woke enough for the in crowd anymore. And she will be crucified for it.
Like I said before, ten years ago, she might have had a chance as a run of the mill basic bitch white feminist. Now? The women of color and LGBT crowd running the asylum now, that are literally still celebrating on Twitter today how few men or white people were even nominated? They have already begun driving out/attempting to cancel white female authors any chance they get. The YA thread in the book forum here actually provides some of the more famous examples.
To this lot? Lindsay Ellis is a rich white lady chasing clout and taking money/views/relevance from them. And they are going to scalp her for it.
Best part is... had she stuck to YouTube, she probably never would have to worry. She wanted to be a legitimate author though... and it will probably be her downfall.
To sum up this rant? She willingly put herself dancing on the blade of a knife... and its gonna be funny as hell to watch her alcoholic ass try not to slip and fall.