Alex
@alexriesart · Australia · joined 24 Mar 2016
Concept Artist and Illustrator. Sites: https://t.co/P1wQ6yy6bP
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@alexriesart I would argue that this doesn't entirely apply to the 1st Starship Troopers film, as it is implied that the asteroid that was "sent by the bugs" was just a natural occurrence used as a false flag. However it absolutely does apply to the sequels.
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And the risk is then that a Fascist scifi fan can then conclude “Well, there actually are planet eating bugs at the door, so what would YOU do?”
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So the genre ends up being more a performance of a Fascist fantasy of how the world works, rather than a parody of Fascism itself, in the way its universes operate /3
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Fascism in real life dehumanises a group that is not an immediate existential threat, because that group is a useful scapegoat; one that can’t plausibly win, or is unlikely to /2
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I enjoy space opera satires of Fascism like Starship Troopers, 40K and Starcraft, but their satirical premise always has a key problem which undermines it:
The humans in these stories really ARE facing genocidal destruction by inhuman horrors /1
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Fan art I produced some years ago for the Xeelee Sequence books by Stephen Baxter, some of my favorite space opera. It introduced me to a lot of mad Big Dumb Object ideas.
This artwork is based on the description of the powerful Xeelee species in his most recent trilogy. https
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Alien of the Day
A lovely Selection from Masters of Orion 3!
These have inspired some of my own designs as far back as high school. Particularly love the gas-bag Ethearian... https://t.co/NKsYSQJXRI
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The continuing saga on the infiltration and doom of comedy https://t.co/RexkE8BU3P
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@alexriesart Culture citizens can literally change gender just by thinking really hard about it, and most will change gender at least once in their lives
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@alexriesart if they know how to read they'd be really upset
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@alexriesart apparently that is a thing with a number of sci-fi works, they just dont process those parts of the world. somewhat unsurprising tbh.
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Do right wing fans know that The Culture was full of trans people, in canon, with no taboos against it at all?
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@alexriesart You bet I’ll buy the book, also I hope you can use the alien race of the Birrin on some project one day. Maybe on a Subnautica-like game but mostly on land, it could be on water too since I recall the planet of the Birrin has great oceans.
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@alexriesart めちゃくちゃかっこいいし、架空の生物好きとしてはとても興味がある。
日本語版って今後出す予定ありますか？
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My art book 'Other Worlds' is available for order!
Here are some purchase links :)
Non-Amazon Retailers: https://t.co/G1DEv8Olp7
Amazon: https://t.co/1H2LDLzjV8 https://t.co/mZxgwucyVd
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Against accounts of the same size
12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views10 744this account935median for 10K–100K
Reach, %16.37%this account3.43%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %3.23%this account1.55%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 10 744 | 935 | 11.5× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 16.37% | 3.43% | 4.77× |
| Engagement rate | 3.23% | 1.55% | 2.09× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
72414 May
1.2K
12.3K9 Sep
799
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538
2.9K11 Sep
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565.3K15 Sep
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.41%14 May
0.25%
3.15%9 Sep
2.88%
2.44%
2.42%
0.17%11 Sep
10.03%
10.25%13 Sep
1.73%15 Sep
3.75%
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.55%.
What the audience does
Likes87.4%20 112 in total
Reposts2.5%578 in total
Replies2.3%519 in total
Quotes0.5%121 in total
Bookmarks7.3%1 686 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
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