#Lindsay Ellis

[witchkillers]

my favorite part of the video essay cinematic universe is when video essayists voice act each others screenshots. an unfortunate side effect of this though is the first two minutes of lindsay ellis’s omegaverse lawsuit video where folding ideas and hbomberguy read explicit wolf porn to you.

[no-mr-powers]

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[madlori]

The downward spiral of YouTube video essays is so seductive.

One minute you're watching Lindsay Ellis's 90 minute video about Yoko Ono and the HBomberGuy's 4 hour plagiarism takedown, and the next thing you know you're watching not one but TWO different videos about Ned Fulmer.

Anyway recommend me your favorite YT video essayist. Not Jenny Nicholson, Sarah Z, Strange Aeons or Hannah Alonzo, I already watch them.

[notaplaceofhonour]

something I realized looking at the stats for “breadtube” creators like Hbomberguy, PhilosophyTube, ContraPoints, etc. is, as much as we may tend to think of them as all having comparable platforms, it really isn’t even close.

yes, many of the core group have a similar number of subscribers (1-2M) and many of them are friends or have collaborated in the past, but in terms of actual viewership, none of the others even come close to having the same reach as Hbomberguy.

at time of writing, his last video got 24M views. 6 of his last 8 videos got ~10M or more. The average viewership for his essays is ~5.6 million, a number that ContraPoints has cracked a total of four times, Lindsay Ellis and Shaun once each, and PhilosophyTube never.

there isn’t a huge point to this other than that it kinda reframes the scale of their platforms, for me at least. none of them have a platform even remotely comparable in size to hbomberguy.

[theforswornelite]

Yoko and The Beatles

(She never went away and i dont have a nebula but still)

[euniexenoblade]

[snortoborto]

I fucking love RENT!!!!!!!!! You hating bitches can never take that away from me!!!!!!!!

[sajirah]

Ampersand, Cora, Kaveh, and Nikola from Truth of the Divine.

I started this forever ago and have finally accepted that I’ll likely never finish it. So if you see any unfinished parts, no you didn’t.

[galaxygolfergirl]

Axiom’s End, a science fiction drama written by Lindsay Ellis (directed by Michael Bay and score by Fred Durst).

This is a digital remaster of the poster I did 2 years ago! Seeing as Lindsay’s third book, Apostles of Mercy, is coming out next week on June 6th, I thought I might rework this piece now that I have this new tablet. I think it turned out pretty well! Hope you guys like it. 💙👽

[ellapastoral]

okay, y'all my homestuck deep dive is live on youtube. let's boost this one.

[fe-noumenal]

Durian munching on a durian fruit!

A digital version of a model I gave Lindsay at London book event

[starwarspissorgy]

Me at the start of Axiom's End: she set this series in the Bush administration to critique post 9/11 American politics

Me most of the way through Truth of the Divine: she set this series in the oughts to justify Cora having custom song ringtones for everyone in her contacts

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[salamanderinspace]

gooooood the new Lindsay Ellis book is like someone dialed directly into my subconscious. Is connection and understanding an illusion, like when you talk to your cat and think it understands you? What degree of authoritarianism is necessary to make you feel like you can save everyone? Is there really an objective truth or just competing stories? What makes a person? Are people worth saving or helping? What is love, really?

I'm only on page 122