Alex Ries
@alexries.com
Concept Artist and Illustrator
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Other Worlds: The Art of Alex Ries: Now Funding on Kickstarter! https://bit.ly/403C70b
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Contact: alexriesart(at)gmail.com
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Alex Ries
@alexries.com
· Mar 11
News for my art book 'Other Worlds', which releases in August; pre-orders are now available!
Here are some purchase links :)
Non-Amazon Retailers: bit.ly/3FwsC18
Amazon: amzn.to/3QYsn1s
#conceptart #illustration #scifiart
Here are some purchase links :)
Non-Amazon Retailers: bit.ly/3FwsC18
Amazon: amzn.to/3QYsn1s
#conceptart #illustration #scifiart
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Manipuloyx, a new alvarezsaur with really fascinating hands!
The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new!
The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new!
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Manipuloyx, a new alvarezsaur with really fascinating hands!
The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new!
The condition of the fingers isn't that unusual for the clade but the OSTEODERMS on the hand are new!
Evil is so fascinating to learn about. You can just look it in the eye, and it smiles back.
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s leader while her blog published jokes about immigrants sent to CECOT, writes @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social:
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Weiss touted El Salvador’s leader while her blog published jokes about immigrants sent to CECOT, writes @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social:
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.
zeteo.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Evil is so fascinating to learn about. You can just look it in the eye, and it smiles back.
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That protagonists should be likeable. Fuck that, who wants to read about functional people??
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
That protagonists should be likeable. Fuck that, who wants to read about functional people??
The last few years has been very informative as to how I approach writing the villains in the Birrin story.
Something tells me that in fiction over the next decade we're going to stop having complex villains that represent actual social issues, or villains that are Literally Just Your Parents™, and go back to the most one dimensional evil villains anyone has ever seen.
Fictional villains: Society has failed me and now the only way I can save those I love is to break the law. I'm not a monster, but I'll break you to protect those I care about.
Real world villains: I now call this meeting of We Love Sex Crimes to order.
Real world villains: I now call this meeting of We Love Sex Crimes to order.
December 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The last few years has been very informative as to how I approach writing the villains in the Birrin story.
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Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.
Good lord.
I am absolutely going to get in trouble for this but it ain’t like the industry is healthy so might as well.
It disgusts me that someone like Emily Brundige could write for kids shows about empathy and respect to nature only to immediately batter for an apartheid state that kills thousands of kids.
It disgusts me that someone like Emily Brundige could write for kids shows about empathy and respect to nature only to immediately batter for an apartheid state that kills thousands of kids.
December 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Good lord.
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Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital
MPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Chris Minns' protest ban in the wake of Bondi attacks is racist, authoritarian and must be resisted
@nickriemer.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
@nickriemer.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
Minns’ protest ban: breathtakingly racist, authoritarian, and must be resisted - Michael West
Chris Minns’ protest ban is not just authoritarian: it is breathtakingly racist and must be resisted, writes Nick Riemer.
michaelwest.com.au
December 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Chris Minns' protest ban in the wake of Bondi attacks is racist, authoritarian and must be resisted
@nickriemer.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
@nickriemer.bsky.social #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/minns-protes...
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every day this becomes more true
December 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
every day this becomes more true
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hmmmm.... found on the steps outside
December 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
hmmmm.... found on the steps outside
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Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Here is what I don't get: conspiracism is rife within the Far Right... and they want to see the Epstein Files.
So posting CLEARLY, COMICALLY redacted files is in no way going to be satisfactory to most of them.
Is it just damage mitigation?
So posting CLEARLY, COMICALLY redacted files is in no way going to be satisfactory to most of them.
Is it just damage mitigation?
December 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Here is what I don't get: conspiracism is rife within the Far Right... and they want to see the Epstein Files.
So posting CLEARLY, COMICALLY redacted files is in no way going to be satisfactory to most of them.
Is it just damage mitigation?
So posting CLEARLY, COMICALLY redacted files is in no way going to be satisfactory to most of them.
Is it just damage mitigation?
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Happy EPSTEIN Files Release Day Eve for all those who celebrate!!! 👍
December 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Happy EPSTEIN Files Release Day Eve for all those who celebrate!!! 👍
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The Epstein Files, everybody!
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Epstein Files, everybody!
My views on Fionna and Cake S2 that no one asked for.
I think it is quite wonderful, but flawed in terms of characterization /thread/
*Spoilers*
I think it is quite wonderful, but flawed in terms of characterization /thread/
*Spoilers*
December 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
My views on Fionna and Cake S2 that no one asked for.
I think it is quite wonderful, but flawed in terms of characterization /thread/
*Spoilers*
I think it is quite wonderful, but flawed in terms of characterization /thread/
*Spoilers*
Its been repulsive to see the fascist political opportunism.
Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"
Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot
Breathe, slowly. It helps. Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...
theshot.net.au
December 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Its been repulsive to see the fascist political opportunism.
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Was a big fan of the monolith from 2001, had no idea it visited Epstein Island. Donating my Blu-Ray to charity.
December 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Was a big fan of the monolith from 2001, had no idea it visited Epstein Island. Donating my Blu-Ray to charity.
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hi, cis folks!
this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers.
they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both.
tap into the 🧵for a quick action.
this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers.
they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both.
tap into the 🧵for a quick action.
a sequel:
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
hi, cis folks!
this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers.
they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both.
tap into the 🧵for a quick action.
this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers.
they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both.
tap into the 🧵for a quick action.
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I like this guy in Pluribus
December 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I like this guy in Pluribus
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How I design a creature.
I often find 3D models, even VERY basic ones, are useful in guiding a painting if there are complex elements at play (wiggly fins, too many legs etc).
I often find 3D models, even VERY basic ones, are useful in guiding a painting if there are complex elements at play (wiggly fins, too many legs etc).
December 19, 2025 at 5:33 AM
How I design a creature.
I often find 3D models, even VERY basic ones, are useful in guiding a painting if there are complex elements at play (wiggly fins, too many legs etc).
I often find 3D models, even VERY basic ones, are useful in guiding a painting if there are complex elements at play (wiggly fins, too many legs etc).
The artist I have hinted at did this. Frankly i’ve not been able to think about much else.
I would call them out, but frankly its dangerous in this climate to do so.
I would call them out, but frankly its dangerous in this climate to do so.
Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"
Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot
Breathe, slowly. It helps. Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...
theshot.net.au
December 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The artist I have hinted at did this. Frankly i’ve not been able to think about much else.
I would call them out, but frankly its dangerous in this climate to do so.
I would call them out, but frankly its dangerous in this climate to do so.
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Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.
Kristen Stewart on Men and Method Acting
YouTube video by The Interview
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.
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Delete TikTok if you haven’t already
TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.
TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Delete TikTok if you haven’t already