Remember kids, doing things ironically is just a gateway drug to doing them unironically.
@blaue_sophie1317
3 жыл бұрын
I don't believe in doing stuff ironically. I own my cringe.
@brickalmonds3531
3 жыл бұрын
is that irony, cos if so i really cant tell
@TulilaSalome
3 жыл бұрын
@@blaue_sophie1317 it is hard to be Eurovision fan without tho.
@bogdaddy
3 жыл бұрын
the school of new sincerity shall reign supreme
@moss5356
3 жыл бұрын
pog
@dithon14
3 жыл бұрын
"A linguist is not a translator." As a linguistics degree holder, I got chills. Someone knows.
@seastrawberry4
3 жыл бұрын
As a translator.... same.
@petesmith4498
3 жыл бұрын
"Axiom's End". Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Megan Fox and Chuck Norris.
@expertionis794
3 жыл бұрын
Directed by Michael bay.
@Fabonj
3 жыл бұрын
Don't you think Chuck Norris is a bit old to play the role of Cora?
@expertionis794
3 жыл бұрын
@@Fabonj not at all. Cg has come a long way and he can look like whatever we want
@luiginastro8831
3 жыл бұрын
Oh, God.
@Kaithlar
3 жыл бұрын
@@Fabonj They made Gary Busy look like a midget in The Mandalorian; just sayin'
@lotteg.1311
3 жыл бұрын
Low key thought she hurt her hand due to throwing hands with allison caine's 'lawyer'
@6thwilbury2331
3 жыл бұрын
Forget the Logan Paul/Floyd Mayweather blah blah blah... I want to see THAT. (And I predict Lindsay first-round TKO)
@ieatgremlins
3 жыл бұрын
Your comment is aggressive and, honestly, psychologically damaging. Expect to be contacted by my attorneys soon.
@SheeplessNW6
3 жыл бұрын
Dismissed with EXTREME prejudice, bish!
@anonymousname5860
3 жыл бұрын
@@ieatgremlins These comments are distressing to me and MY CHILD!
@millsrome
3 жыл бұрын
@@anonymousname5860 That damn baby!
@danjlp9155
3 жыл бұрын
As a writing tutor, I always advise my students to avoid rereading their work too many times over. I tell them to take breaks before revising again because, as you say Lindsay, the words lose meaning which makes revising less productive.
@SophisticatedBanjo
3 жыл бұрын
31:53 Ampersand's starship: *PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER* _itty bitty living space_
@Fealuinix
3 жыл бұрын
I was expecting an Aladdin clip after she said that.
@AdamDrew
3 жыл бұрын
"As an author, I would like to die." Ain't that a slogan for 2020.
@DumbIdeaPresentedStupidly
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe we don't need death of the author, we need phantom of the author. We only see glimpses of the author and he just leave notes on their thoughts and feelings
@m1k3y48
3 жыл бұрын
@@DumbIdeaPresentedStupidly As always, the best solution tends to be a middle ground.
@brynjolf3974
3 жыл бұрын
All the time in the world And no inspiration is every creative person this year
@milkteamachine
3 жыл бұрын
Now I'm no author, but as an artist, I would also like to die
@Vitoria-tx4xh
3 жыл бұрын
Roland Barthes aproves this message.
@Fabonj
3 жыл бұрын
It would be the funniest thing ever if Lindsay posted a video entitled "Axiom's End Movie - Sneak Peek", and the video was just the water rescue scene from Mac and Me.
@Influx27
3 жыл бұрын
I didn't realize Lindsay was secretly Paul Rudd in disguise
@The11thEvilEx
3 жыл бұрын
This video has everything: - Content about a book - a wonderful KZitemr - a bored dog - Christmas colors - LORE, SO MUCH LORE Here for it
@theothertonydutch
3 жыл бұрын
You forgot content about transformers.
@patreekotime4578
3 жыл бұрын
And dragons.
@The11thEvilEx
3 жыл бұрын
I stand by my initial point though THIS VIDEO HAS EVERYTHING
@TashJansson
3 жыл бұрын
(but we want wolfcock karen!!!!)
@geraldgreen6794
3 жыл бұрын
Me when I see Axiom's End content: "Consume!"
@brynjolf3974
3 жыл бұрын
“All dressed up with nowhere to go” really hit as I’m watching this video in a trench coat that matches my scarf with a pair of nice boots on. No pants or shirt tho
@DumbIdeaPresentedStupidly
3 жыл бұрын
That feels like a g string kind of look
@juliadandy6019
3 жыл бұрын
That’s a look for sure
@brynjolf3974
3 жыл бұрын
@@juliadandy6019 oh yes
@brickalmonds3531
3 жыл бұрын
thats the opening line to the Oingo Boingo song "Dead Man's Party" - i think it was a reference
@0ceanOfStorms
3 жыл бұрын
the name of your account is *chefs kiss*, especially with this comment
@kirbyizlife
3 жыл бұрын
The main thing I learned from this Q&A is that I was pronouncing half the character’s names wrong when I read it
@Navywalrus09
3 жыл бұрын
Gotta love audio books. Even if your pronouncing the namea wrong, it's not your fault.
@19031589
3 жыл бұрын
@@Navywalrus09 The Witcher audiobooks don’t pronounce the bard Dandelion’s name the same way in all the books. Drives. Me. Crazy. In the beginning it’s Dan-dilly-un and then it changes to Dandy-lion 🤯 I’ve never heard of an audiobook doing that! Broke my brain.
@CharletteAndMo
3 жыл бұрын
Same I kept thinking Nils was just a different way of spelling Niles
@clayflix9569
3 жыл бұрын
I kept going back and forth between thinking it sounded like “Niles” and “Kneels” until the book actually said that Ampersand’s speech software mispronounced Nil’s name as “Kneels”.
@NebulousCreature
3 жыл бұрын
Halfway through reading I looked up the pronunciation of Č so I could pronounce Čefo right. Should have considered I was pronouncing other names wrong too.
@thatsnotmyname9647
3 жыл бұрын
"Does everyone else picture Cora as Lindsey" Oh god, it's my worst fear as a writer put into a QandA.
@theuncannydag
3 жыл бұрын
Due to seeing a bit of fanart on Tumblr, I kinda picture Cora as looking similarly to Charlie from Bumblebee 2018, but with darker skin & my poofy hair
@innegativeion
3 жыл бұрын
"Do male authors ever get this question?" lmao
@MisterTTG
3 жыл бұрын
I dodged doing that by assuming from various names around her that Cora was latina, and brain-casting her that way. Turns out later she's less latinx than those names suggested and self-identities as white, but I guess that lead me to avoid sticking Lindsay there, heh Edit: oh hey, lindsay confirms she's latina later in the video. neat.
@terrysankey3982
3 жыл бұрын
The reason I asked was there are few authors with such a high visual profile as Lindsay with whom Cora has certain character similarities, the parallels between the novel and some of her video reviews (Transformers, Monster Boyfriends) , the dogs, the 'in jokes' and particularly at the start of the novel she is what I hung my visualisation on (you have to pick someone don't you?).
@somedragontoslay2579
3 жыл бұрын
@@innegativeion Well, I imagine Tyrion Lannister as a tiny George R.R. Martin. So, we can say males should be asked this question too.
@ILikeTheThingsIDo
3 жыл бұрын
27:25 "Do male authors get this question?" No but Stephen King should. How many of his books feature an author character?
@subbrian773
3 жыл бұрын
Male authors get COMMENTS about their relationship with their mother: men usually prefer to "drive-by" insult other men.
@lydiathornton1999
2 жыл бұрын
I kind of feel like Stephen King just wouldn't care though, since he really seems to barely make any effort to disguise the fact that so many of his leads are versions of him. I mean, so many of them share a hell of a lot more autobiographical details with King than just being authors (Jack Torrance from The Shining and Bill Denbrough from It come to mind) and I can't imagine he believes we all just don't notice! And that's fine with me--there are some artists out there who actually can make the "creating stuff about me over and over again" thing work and I think he's one of them. But there are not that many and I certainly don't assume it's what most artists are trying for.
@McBackstabber
3 жыл бұрын
Lindsay: "Don't think of me when reading my books." Also Lindsay: *makes the main character say "The WHOLE plate!"*
@JacobYaw
Жыл бұрын
I SOMEHOW DIDN'T EVEN CATCH THIS
@thrawn4emp
3 жыл бұрын
I never pictured Cora as Lindsay, but I def had a hard time separating KZitem Lindsay's voice from the novel in general
@LoonAtticLtd
3 жыл бұрын
Same. Something Lindsay-esque about that witty, brisk prose.
@kellyk.4596
3 жыл бұрын
I honestly am shocked that anyone thought this was a self-insert given everything we see/know about Lindsay.
@wjzav1971
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I mean anyone who ever participated in a Role Playing Game knows that the biggest fun is to make your characters as different from yourself as can be.
@theelectricwalrus
3 жыл бұрын
I definitely had a different experience: I really just heard it as "A fiction book which happened to be written by youtuber Lindsay Ellis"
@helenanilsson5666
3 жыл бұрын
I wish I had heard Lindsay's voice. I listened to the audiobook and especially in the beginning the narrator read the text as if 4 out of 5 sentences ended in a question mark. She sounded so incredibly unsure of everything that if the dialogue hadn't been so confident I would have thought the poor women hadn't seen the script before she started recording. Especially since the things she sounded most unsure of was fairly normal stuff.
@OlPalJoe
3 жыл бұрын
cool to see you outclass Doug in literally everyway lol
@ByeByeDeadName
3 жыл бұрын
I’m enthusiastically waiting for the day when she surpasses him in subs
@OlPalJoe
3 жыл бұрын
@@ByeByeDeadName it's coming pretty fast. suprising that a bunch of people didn't jump ship after "The Wall" disaster lol
@ByeByeDeadName
3 жыл бұрын
@@OlPalJoe I’m still traumatized by that dreadful excuse of a review. Fingers crossed it ends up on Todd’s Trainwreckords series one day
@OlPalJoe
3 жыл бұрын
@@ByeByeDeadName i couldn't watch all of it, his shtick is just too cringe man lol
@petros6013
3 жыл бұрын
I love that she hearted this comment
@McBlazington
3 жыл бұрын
"I will never kill a dog, [pause] in a book. That is a lindsay Ellis promise" JASON PARGIN/DAVID WONG ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?!
@J_Kwan
3 жыл бұрын
And Patrick Ness! He lost me the second he killed that dog :’0
@yurinabesima
3 жыл бұрын
So this makes Hirohiko Araki her rival?
@oyecomova5478
3 жыл бұрын
@@yurinabesima always was
@BradyPostma
3 жыл бұрын
I took that as "I would never kill a dog ... IN A BOOK. Outside of books, ALL PROMISES ARE VOID."
@UTU49
3 жыл бұрын
I would totally kill a dog in a book -- but only if the dog was small enough to fit in the book. Seriously though. I would totally kill a dog in a book -- but only if I had a good reason to do so -- and even then it might be a good idea to try going another way.
@danielsimmich1858
3 жыл бұрын
I do hope some official alien art happens because until that day I will continue to imagine the aliens as the Pokémon Genesect (not due to poor writing but because I can’t take book description and turn it into imagination)
@LindsayEllisVids
3 жыл бұрын
lol it’s not that far off
@thatjillgirl
3 жыл бұрын
I was imagining a weird Scyther the whole time, but only because I didn't know about Genesect.
@Fealuinix
3 жыл бұрын
I always imagined Ampersand as a large Mirrodin Myr but with Apple-brand aesthetics.
@jakfosarn9257
3 жыл бұрын
I through of Ori in the blind forrest.
@orangeslash1667
2 жыл бұрын
@@LindsayEllisVids Ariels apology to triton was going to be slower, but because Katzenberg wanted a climax, the apology was sadly rushed.
@celtytompkins5294
3 жыл бұрын
Totally unrelated, but you look so beautiful in this video.
@ZipplyZane
3 жыл бұрын
It makes me happy, as she used to have videos about how haters or lewd comments made her feel like she couldn't wear what she wants. I also just think it looks really pretty and colorful and Christmassy. The lipstick matches, even.
@celtytompkins5294
3 жыл бұрын
@@ZipplyZane Lindsay has been my favourite youtuber for years now, and I've always found her stunning. Although I can't imagine how the way she looks would be grounds to leave negative comments... I just thought her look in this video was so cute and festive 🎄
@Democratic_Republic_of_Iacon
3 жыл бұрын
@@ZipplyZane are you kidding she looks great in every video
@StefanoBorini
3 жыл бұрын
She's beautiful, smart, knowledgeable, insightful. I could listen to her explaining movies for hours, days, years. I learned more about moviemaking and storytelling from her than any other youtuber. She's an absolute treasure.
@ClaireDuhLune
3 жыл бұрын
True
@Djinsin
3 жыл бұрын
"Even though it's realistic, it doesn't NEED to be there." Thank you for summing up every fantasy work of fiction that has racism for racism's sake.
@emiliobustamante2401
3 жыл бұрын
Well theres also the argument against whitewashing (no pun intended) specific periods/places of history... I think Princess and the Frog got called out for this
@sleepyandroid6904
3 жыл бұрын
@@emiliobustamante2401 I think it depends on wether or not the setting is fictional.
@Leeqzombie
3 жыл бұрын
@@sleepyandroid6904 I personally think it has to do with what purpose it serves the story, which I think OP means by 'racism for racism's sake' - bigotry that really has no useful reason to be there. Does the character's bigotry reveal anything about them? Does it have any consequences, will it come back to bite them, will it lead to conflict with another character, will the character change their ways? Is there a way to depict this bigotry without being graphic, explicit, or using slurs? Does the depiction fit the tone of the story, do you want your readers to suddenly think about oppression or be reminded of times they've been descriminated against in a light hearted fun little romp? For example, Axiom's End has a very obvious setting, we don't need to witness casual homophobia without consequences to know that, and the scene nor the story as a whole is about the homophobic culture of the 00s. It's not a story about a gay kid being bullied in school and learning to overcome, or anything like that. Meanwhile, Princess and the Frog is pretty explicitly about race and class in the '20s, the depictions of oppression do serve the plot.
@caelmack
3 жыл бұрын
@Peter Lustig congratulations on your bravery in this conversation. I'll try to remember to be an excellent writer before I can care about racism. But I am genuinely wondering why you're here, if you care so little?
@michaelhenry3234
3 жыл бұрын
But what if I like realism? If you're gonna make an immersive world, I'm gonna expect social issues. That's just how humans work. Not every world needs to be realistic though.
@rafaelaguirre1528
3 жыл бұрын
There's something so comforting about hearing you talk, Lindsay. I wish I could have attended your book tour in person and I hope there will be one for the sequel.
@tstevens1004
3 жыл бұрын
I love how the first example of “a thriller ending in a hospital” is Bright. Yes.
@LindsayEllisVids
3 жыл бұрын
I still think about Bright a lot
@tstevens1004
3 жыл бұрын
Don’t we all :)
@maximeteppe7627
3 жыл бұрын
@@LindsayEllisVids Since none did when the movie was made, I guess NOW someone has to.
@obiwankenobi9141
3 жыл бұрын
Lindsay, I don’t want you to think about Bright after I saw you go insane when you were talking about bright.
@redwitch95
3 жыл бұрын
I always roll my eyes at self insert questions, because one of my favourite series as a kid was "The Saga of Darren Shan" which was written by the author... Darren Shan. It's literally a vampire AU of his own life where he's the secret son of an eldritch monster/god who wants to use his half-human kids to destroy the world, and I've never seen anyone look twice at *that*. Not to mention that male authors almost never get asked about self inserts, despite the only literary self inserts I know about are from male authors. Like the sexism isn't subtle, really.
@TactownGirl
3 жыл бұрын
it always makes my crafters soul all warm and fuzzy when I see you wearing that necklace I made and gave you at the language talk in Eugen last year
@KaceyRepublic
3 жыл бұрын
It's a cute necklace.
@TactownGirl
3 жыл бұрын
Oh uhhh my shop is www.terrariumtreasures.com if ya'll want your own pride stuff (even though I'm out of pride stuff at the moment)
@phadenswandemil4345
3 жыл бұрын
Wow that's so cool
@fatocaster97
3 жыл бұрын
Okay so it IS a bi pride flag then? I love it ❤
@TactownGirl
3 жыл бұрын
@@fatocaster97 Thanks!
@oleanderwyvern
3 жыл бұрын
"She prefers Morrowind" well, Cora has good taste it seems.
@KaletheQuick
3 жыл бұрын
10/10, much Nerevar. Ya know, maybe.
@gabrielhersey5546
3 жыл бұрын
My favorite is elder scrolls IV oblivion
@godzillafan4033
3 жыл бұрын
I got to go with skyrim
@KaletheQuick
3 жыл бұрын
Stew and Gab reported for corpus. Pls report to the corpusarium.
@arnvonsalzburg5033
3 жыл бұрын
You N'wahs don't even drink Skooma!
@Tom_Nicholas
3 жыл бұрын
Scrivener is incredible, I write everything which needs to be longer than a few paragraphs in it. It was also developed in Cornwall where I grew up which makes me 1000% more evangelical about it!
@gabinooodle5308
3 жыл бұрын
what is this a crossover episode
@ZijnShayatanica
3 жыл бұрын
@@gabinooodle5308 IT GETS FUNNIER EVERY TIME.
@pmcgee003
3 жыл бұрын
So ... 11x then? :)
@DemonKingMidas
3 жыл бұрын
14:58 “Truth does not do as much good in the world as the appearance of truth does evil.” - Danil Dankovsky
@doom_delrey9736
3 жыл бұрын
Omg what a deep quote! I bet the guy who said it is super chill and nice and definitely not a prickly prick who’ll bury us all!
@chaircheck2424
3 жыл бұрын
My copy of Axiom's End arrived on my birthday, despite me not planning it that way. Had a great time reading it, my favorite of 2020. That said, I've had my brain ruined by the internet really hard this year so my reading has really fallen off. Axiom's End was kind of rare in that it managed to hold my concentration.
@jackgude3969
3 жыл бұрын
I kinda wish that Cora and her Dad wouldn't meet. I loved how he was so important in his own mind and so unimportant in reality (of the book)
@x-s6002
3 жыл бұрын
"So much of my adult life has been shaped by my frustration with Michael Bay" 😆😆 Pain makes us stronger Lindsay!
@emilyfrahm4118
3 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to say that this book and hank Green's are definitely getting me back into sci-fi in a way that I haven't in years.
@goldogwolly
3 жыл бұрын
me too, will be checking out the book recommendations in the video!
@SaintBroken
3 жыл бұрын
OMG I just finished the book and this is exactly what I wanted! I love it sooo much! *scream of joy in Pequod - phonemic*
@MLangenbroome
3 жыл бұрын
"Is it a bad dragon?"... *starts to sweat*
@oleanderwyvern
3 жыл бұрын
I was about to like, saw how many comments it had, and went "nice" instead
@beeaggro2593
3 жыл бұрын
oh God
@doom_delrey9736
3 жыл бұрын
In regards to the ending, I have a habit of reading the last lines of books before anything else, so I read that final line from Ampersand and was incredibly intrigued but didn’t really think much of it, but when I finished the book, the line just really hit me in that way one of the tweets described. I just didn’t know what to think of it in a fantastically ambiguous way. It’s a wonderful book.
@Firefly-mb6pl
3 жыл бұрын
I’m glad I’m not the only one who does this
@FortuitousOwl
3 жыл бұрын
I literally just finished the book, it’s like you knew...I definitely needed this today! Edit to add: I NEED THE SEQUEL RIGHT NOW. Also I did not picture Cora as Lindsay, I mostly had trouble not picturing her as Korra from LOK cause I had just watched that and whenever I read Cora I would think of that lol
@IsaacMayerCreativeWorks
3 жыл бұрын
I just sat down and read the entire book today like I was back in middle school. Can I just say 1) I love it, it’s amazing and I can’t wait for the sequel 2) it didn’t read as a self-insert at all, and I have no idea where these people got that from
@person9872
3 жыл бұрын
Even Return of the King ends in a hospital.
@RealLukeWilson
3 жыл бұрын
12:07 It’s interesting that you bring up the “YA curious” problem with Cora’s age. One of my undergrad professors had a lot of difficulty selling his book, too, because the main character was a 15-year-old, but it was decidedly *not* a YA novel. It took him about seven years before it finally got picked up, I think, and that was two agents and a dozen publisher bids later.
@PatrickBoyda
3 жыл бұрын
I was kinda hoping each book's time period would correspond to the release year of a Transformers movie 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2017
@movieblocks9164
3 жыл бұрын
10:52 Um I'm sorry lindsay but when you have references like "She ate the whole plate. The WHOLE plate." I just cannot keep the videos out of my mind.
@lodgin
3 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, when I got to that part, I made a sound halfway between a laugh and a groan.
@ashleyo4849
3 жыл бұрын
I just bought the book an hour ago! I knelt down to pick up Good Omens and found myself at eye-level with the store's last copy of Axiom's End, like it was fate or something. Then I come home and see this video uploaded a few minutes prior and now I'm convinced it was fate. SO excited to finish it!
@AkashWShah
Жыл бұрын
"As an author, I would like to die" is a line that makes sense both with and without context.
@Bluebaritone
3 жыл бұрын
TWO videos in one month?! She’s treating us this Christmas!
@movieblocks9164
3 жыл бұрын
Just finished all the musicalsplaining episodes and now theres this.
@wesreleases6346
3 жыл бұрын
Hope we get more Musicalsplaining later on, it’s a fun show. Unfortunately this year was just the worst time for a podcast focused on live theater
@wjzav1971
3 жыл бұрын
One question I was surprised wasn't here was how this is more or less influenced by Phantom of the Opera. A "monster" with a traumatizing past which sees humans just as toys meets a young woman with daddy issues. But not through her looks but through her kindness he changes his ways and learns that humans are not mere toys and starts to treat her with respect.
@ieatgremlins
3 жыл бұрын
You look so gorgeous here, truly.
@Alexcoman51
3 жыл бұрын
She always looks beautiful tbh
3 жыл бұрын
I just bought your book. It's the first one I read in english so wish me luck!
@colcutie5694
3 жыл бұрын
I worked at a movie theater when Bumblebee came out and I'll never forget that these two women came in not knowing what to see, realized bumblebee had come out, and LOST THEIR MINDS. like they yelled BUMBLEBEE IS OUT and started recording themselves buying tickets. Hope to find that kind of joy.
@MacLachlan
3 жыл бұрын
"Even Though It's Accurate, Doesn't Mean It Has to Be There" Needs be a wider held philosophy
@colleenorourke1433
3 жыл бұрын
Same. It's storytelling, not historical reporting. The things you choose to put in the story tell more about you than the history you're trying to emulate.
@MsJeanneMarie
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I thought that was a good philosophy too. It IS a bit of a fine line to walk but I’m glad she chose the route she did.
@SayaCeline
3 жыл бұрын
This book made me have feels and thoughts and totally got me back into listen to audiobooks again. The narrator for the version on audible was great btw. The two little aliens, Woodward and Bernstein made me so happy and I would legit read a mini series of them just wandering around and being curious. Also idk why but I kept picturing the aliens as like metallic chocobos.
@pokinDave
2 жыл бұрын
I am glad the narrator worked for you because I had the opposite experience. I found it distracting in that I felt she added so much to everything rather than let the text do the work. If everything is in italics then nothing is
@melskunk
3 жыл бұрын
Yes yes yes yes yes finally the deep lore about which transformers you want to smooch... wait wrong Q&A
@charlesmaddison212
3 жыл бұрын
Probably Starscream
@kilelorencen2085
3 жыл бұрын
I will say that King has definitely been ribbed a few times for his self inserts. How many of his protagonists were authors? I am fairly sure he doesn’t intentionally do it. It’s just part of the natural creative process.
@thrownswordpommel7393
3 жыл бұрын
Authors, yes. And white. And middle-aged. And American. And from Maine. And former alchoholics. And... Ok, enough.
@RainWelsh
3 жыл бұрын
Stephen King: I don’t write self-insert characters, I just write what I know. Also Stephen King: I’m literally a character in this book, and if I die the world ends hahahahaha [chugs codeine]
@ShutItKyle
3 жыл бұрын
"President Cheney" [Kill Bill Sirens]
@danielbrush1294
3 жыл бұрын
When you realize this may be the first Christmas season where you didn't hear "War on Christmas" stuff because there's so much serious shit already happening.
@BradyPostma
3 жыл бұрын
There was a little bit of that war on Christmas stuff, but yeah, it was way reduced. Lots of other paranoid conspiracies to spread out the outrage.
@lu-vu3xk
3 жыл бұрын
How come no one has asked if the names Demi and Cora are meant to be a play on Demeter and Kore, this question has been on my mind ever since the very first paragraph, LINDSAY ANSWER ME!!!!
@lu-vu3xk
3 жыл бұрын
Is Ampersand meant to be Hades?
@JessHessMusic
3 жыл бұрын
"As an author, I would like to die" 🙏💀 I love this channel
@muaowa
3 жыл бұрын
Throughout the book I imagined Cora to look like a hot mess express, at least after the first kidnapping
@AsadtheTutor
3 жыл бұрын
I always take the hot mess local.
@erinjkrizakk
3 жыл бұрын
@@AsadtheTutor very specific but I always envision Cora as a slightly chubbier Florence Pugh
@clayflix9569
3 жыл бұрын
Hey, I pictured Florence Pugh, too!
@gingerroot961
3 жыл бұрын
I can’t believe Lindsay invented books
@heyryanisonx3141
3 жыл бұрын
Iconic
@MidLa23
3 жыл бұрын
Was in the middle of my 8th rewatch of the GoT 2-parter when this notification came in. The content gods bless this day
@NotAMuse
3 жыл бұрын
STOP WORLD. LINDSAY’S HOLDING AN AXIOM’S END Q&A!!!!
@sallylee4924
3 жыл бұрын
It's very interesting to learn about the change to Cora's age, because she reads much younger than 21 in the book for me. She definitely struck me as somehow who was still in school, and I would've pinned her age closer to 16 or 17 based on how she acts and reacts in the book.
@heidy1791
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe that's reflective of her dropping out and her mom being so upset with her. She is a bit naive
@sallylee4924
3 жыл бұрын
@@heidy1791 For sure! Another interesting thing: Cora strikes me as a very mature teenager, like someone who had to grow up faster than their peers because of lack of emotional support at home. This is strongly suggested to be the case, as she is seen to assume the parental role with her younger siblings in multiple scenes. However, a mature teenager is still very different from being a 21 year old adult.
@heidy1791
2 жыл бұрын
@@sallylee4924 I don't know. I'm in college right now surrounded by other 21 year olds. Cora didn't actually read that out of place to me, just emotionally immature in some places and overly developed in other places
@sallylee4924
2 жыл бұрын
@@heidy1791 That's fair. The inconsistency in the description really confused me, and my conclusion was a mature teenager from it... but it's really just inconsistent characterization.
@wolfgirl535
3 жыл бұрын
Just finished your book finally. Very pleased, especially to see my underrepresented kink, consensual hand holding, being front and center in this relationship. I will however be expecting some telekinetic mind smut in the sequels to come. You must give the people what they want.
@GopherAtl
3 жыл бұрын
"I will never kill a dog.... in a book." Was that qualifier *really* necessary? D: xD
@dangermonkeygostones
3 жыл бұрын
I was surprised that Ampersand and Cora never have a conversation about Sybiosis, what with how much concern Cora had for her abandoned canids.
@corydharma
3 жыл бұрын
This makes me want to reread Axiom's End so much. I guess I know what I'm falling asleep to tonight.
@seaofglass77
3 жыл бұрын
You will not fall asleep. You will read until it's finished. And you will feel that amazing happy of having read something amazing, and that deep depression of a great thing having ended.
@corydharma
3 жыл бұрын
@@seaofglass77 Such is the way with all great art. It is a mirror is life. Fleeting, beautiful because it is so, and you can only experience it for the first time once.
@tanyap4907
3 жыл бұрын
For the question where they said they envisioned you as Cora, I honestly never even thought about that. To be completely honest, I forgot that you were even the author once I got immersed in the story itself pfft,,
@Madison-xc8qv
3 жыл бұрын
I had the same experience!
@PopeGoliath
3 жыл бұрын
I was not aware of the alien romance angle when I started listening to the audiobook. I was, however, familiar with and loved your Shape of Water video essay. I was both unsurprised and totally on board when the interpersonal tension in Axiom's end started ratcheting up.
@Kaithlar
3 жыл бұрын
"The publishing trends" can be understood with an analogy: By the early 2000's there was a trend in music of "The Metallica Effect" -- where there was no way to break into music unless you sounded 'like Metallica' because everyone LOVED Metallica... but you weren't allowed to sound TOO MUCH like Metallica, ya' know?
@aryelynet228
3 жыл бұрын
When are we getting the Genome plushie
@pamelawestphal7037
3 жыл бұрын
Me watching the dog the entire time 👁️👄👁️
@Jinballify
3 жыл бұрын
36 years? Wait, Lindsay is an '84 too? Cool! A High-five for all kids of a fine, fine vintage!
@kimedwards6425
3 жыл бұрын
Hearing people ask for Cora x Ampersand smut when I never viewed their relationship as sexual is when I start to wonder if I might be on the asexual spectrum. 😂
@alexbennet4195
10 ай бұрын
No, you’re just normal lol
@Aladar0utmod3
3 жыл бұрын
Love all the Starscream figures in the background glad to know you're ok hope you still have fun despite the global grinch
@chasingdaze
3 жыл бұрын
BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT OF ALL TIME MORE LINDSAY CONTENT
@odistabettor
3 жыл бұрын
The book felt really unique and made a strong impression. Thanks for working so hard to share it with the world, and thanks for making this video.
@Brendanstop
3 жыл бұрын
my hold just came in from my library! gonna read it this month :)
@joju997
3 жыл бұрын
This Q&A made me finally get my copy of Axiom's End, so I guess it worked.
@soaribb32
3 жыл бұрын
Hal, it's about books.
@obiwankenobi9141
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks I read it.
@elliquinn8198
3 жыл бұрын
I did not see Cora as a self-insert character and I'm very curious how did you avoid writing a power fantasy with a self-insert character. Was it even an issue for you?
@LindsayEllisVids
3 жыл бұрын
I cant say I’ve ever written a power fantasy- Cora is very much not that, nor is & for that matter
@carasynthiadune9842
3 жыл бұрын
Ooh i just finished AE and I really loved it!! I didn't think I'd like a book where a human and alien emotionless cyborg develop a relationship but it works because of the fusion... It's going to be so interesting to see how it develops with this creature being so emotionless but also linked physically (and maybe emotionally too?) in some way with the human. I cannot WAIT!! Is one of the main themes of the book that an emotionless alien that is fusion bonded will have a better relationship than a lot of us humans find ourselves in.
@samwise210
3 жыл бұрын
"The Vlogbrothers exist" I would kill to see Brotherhood 2.0 going on during Axiom's End's timeline.
@blinkfilms1
3 жыл бұрын
axiom's end was the first book i read in a long time that really got me engrossed. the first section was slow (i definitely picked up on the over editing) but as soon as they got to the base i literally couldn't put it down. i was halfway through on christmas eve and was gonna stop at midnight but then Obelus happened and i didn't stop reading until i finished at 4am on christmas morning. you've got a really neat writing style and it's refreshing to read classic sci-fi with a female protagonist (written by a female author). i could also relate scarily well to cora's daddy issues, but that's for a video essay of my own. the romance aspect was SO well done and i mean that entirely subjectively. i h a t e romances based on sex. i generally just don't like romance genre shit because of how the romance is executed. i personally don't experience romantic attraction (esp without a lot of build up) so that's always squicked me out. if i get into a romance at all i gravitate toward slowburns because they allow the characters to develop as individuals before committing to a relationship. all that to say axiom's end as a book was my ideal relationship novel. i won't say romance because romance as a concept is generally defined by sexual attraction, which was barely a theme of the book. you could read cora and ampersand's relationship as a queer platonic one for many reasons. it's just so REFRESHING. i truly felt seen through cora's character in how she interacted with everyone in the book, but especially ampersand. the growing intimacy without the pressure of sex felt so validating and UGH. especially with the emphasis on consent. thank you for writing a relationship centered story where the protagonist didn't lose herself in her relationship with the love interest. even if/when they do have More Intimate Interactions™️ it feels earned and genuine. i believe they care for each other and that's more important to me than any other romance trope you could fulfill. seriously, thank you for that. i wasn't expecting this alien love story to validate my aro-spec self but im so glad it did.
@Crypt-Kitty
3 жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear about not getting to see your family for the first year, Im in a similar boat. Can't wait to read your book, and happy holidays though.
@paulzecharia
3 жыл бұрын
Damn it, Lindsay, I actually have work to do. But I simply can’t not click when I see a new video of yours.
@mizushimo
3 жыл бұрын
I always thought that Ampersand was supposed to be a lowkey Soundwave interpretation
@LindsayEllisVids
3 жыл бұрын
The John barber version, I could totally see it
@AnarchyJess
3 жыл бұрын
"I will never kill a dog in a book" *Lana sweats nervously*
@inarisu_7138
3 жыл бұрын
God the editing in your videos have gotten fucking hilarious big kudos to your editor. I love them
@cjwisler4021
3 жыл бұрын
Haven't even finished your video yet, but... anyway. I adored your book. I thought it was one of the best First Contact books I've ever read, with a dynamic protagonist and a healthy dose of 00's nostalgia. Cheers to you, Lindsay, and happy holidays!
@katerwaul9574
3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow, my question got answered! My ears are burning because, yeah, you're right that a linguist is not a translator.
@praetentious2925
3 жыл бұрын
And a translator ain’t no bible salesman.
@sanni7340
3 жыл бұрын
I get really single-minded when I'm reading something I like, so I wasn't thinking about the author being a yt personality. Except for the whole plate bit. It was powerful enough to awaken me from my book hypnosis state.
@theluckyaceco
3 жыл бұрын
I'm super excited for any Lindsay video, but especially as its about my favourite novel of this year. And then to get bonus puppy?! Heaven!
@alexmatias6865
3 жыл бұрын
I just finished the book ten minutes ago and I just wanna say **INCOHERENT SCREAMING**
@Fairly-odd-kel
3 жыл бұрын
We're going to hold you to the 'dog promise' haha
@TheDrouge19
3 жыл бұрын
Well your publisher won, I just got around to picking up a copy. Hope your holidays still go well without family I know it can be rough
@rs-flamingo
3 жыл бұрын
Great Q&A! Definitely got me interested in reading the book
@beeaggro2593
3 жыл бұрын
I think the most surprising thing is Cora's playlist being so indie chill. No early-00s emo/punk or reggaeton in sight
@miramorrigan5464
3 жыл бұрын
~ Leaving a love & support comment ~
@MaddyBlu9724
3 жыл бұрын
I would be really excited about seeing official art of the aliens.
@cdiv2460
3 жыл бұрын
I love the playlist and I feel very nostalgic and slightly attacked... and hearing the words 'President Cheney' gave me a full body shudder'
@73mleduc
3 жыл бұрын
I always feel ashamed when I make a purchase due to some sort of advertisement but grabbed Axiom's End while still listening to the Q&A in the background. To fight my shame I'll tell myself it was a donation for all your content I have consumed for free and it had absolutely nothing to do with the emotional appeal about Christmas putting me in the correct mindset.
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