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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · Jan 15

Realized I lost my pinned post in spring cleaning, so time for a new one!

Hey folks, I'm Sparx, just a humble otter taur on the internet.

I stream a variety of games on Twitch, and I've been learning to paint. I'm also a mathematics professor IRL!

Thanks for dropping in! ♥️

Sparx the otter taur standing in front of a classroom at a blackboard. He has light brown fur with darker brown boots, gloves, and ears, along with a yellow cream underbelly, blue tipped head scruff, and red pink irises. He is wearing a light blue business shirt with the sleeves rolled to the elbows and glasses that sit on the bridge of his snout. With a forepaw raised and pointing to the board with chalk in hand, he demonstrates the Calculus concept of integration by parts.

Watercolor painting on cotton paper depicting a wide stretch of forest at the base of tall, snowcapped mountains. The sky is a bluish grey and the mountains slowly get clearer as they near the valley. In the foreground is a small clearing with various yellow and red flowers amidst light green grasses.

Acrylic painting on canvas of a road along a rolling landscape at dusk. The cars are shown only through their head and tail lights on either side, and tall pines and power lines rise up to meet a watery orange, yellow, and teal sky punctuated by dark clouds near the viewer and off near the horizon.

Acrylic painting on canvas of a cat sitting upon a fence on a tiny planet, looking up at a moon and the stars.

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LenoraTheYinglet @mysterycryptid.bsky.social · 7h

This started out as just a sketch on one of my streams but over the course of a stream or two it was upgraded to this standard!
It was a lot of fun to do this one tbh, really enjoyed the process of it.

Thank you so much ZarryUnderpaw!!

#furryart #mousetaur #digitalart

A mousetaur dancing, legs swinging out either way and hir arms lifted up, presumably twirling the glowsticks. Its dark, and it looks like there is a crowd around hir.

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 6h

SQUEAKYTAUR! 👀

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 1d

Holding Hands with the Titan

#art #painting #watercolor #TraditionalArt

Watercolor painting on cotton paper of a short bridge over two ends of a quiet inlet, looked over by tall plateaus vaguely reminiscent of knuckles in the background, and set against a sky with scattered clouds. Evergreen trees dot the landscape in various shades of muted green, and yellow grasses proceed up to the banks of the water before transitioning to dark soil.

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 1d

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#art #painting #watercolor #TraditionalArt

Loose watercolor painting on cotton paper showing a tree on a grassy hill beneath a sky awash in orange and purple hues.

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Luna the Artist @princesslunavt.bsky.social · 9h

3️⃣ Little Fall Painting #3 3️⃣

Oil paint on a 6x6" canvas. 🍁

Oh no! It's been 8 days since the last painting!

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

Fall landscape painting with mountains in the background, 6x6" oil paint on canvas.

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 9h

I've always wanted to try jackfruit, but I've never seen it carried here.

OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 9h

Love me a good black bean burger. Killer when it's done right.

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 12h

I adore Indian food, but the closest place is about an hour away.

We do have a Thai place, which is really the only place in town that has good vegetarian options, but that also gets pretty expensive pretty fast, lol.

OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 12h

oh, and for some reason it's also the most expensive thing on the menu

OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 12h

For a specific example: the Chinese food place has exactly one vegetarian option and it's just cabbage in vegetable broth.

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 12h

The problem with vegetarian options where I live is that 90% of them are super phoned-in. Seriously, most of them are just some shredded carrots in a tortilla that hasn't been seasoned, nor cooked, nor sauced.

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 13h

It's me. I am the teacher.

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Honk Honk~ @goattrain.bsky.social · 17h

"This game only uses Ai-generated art for promotional purposes, but not in the game itself"

you need to understand
that gen-ai does the exact opposite of promotion

your product and everything you do is now in the garbage bin forever and I will kick you into the sun

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 15h

DOIN THE STEPPIES 👀

OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 19h

LOL

OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 19h

lol, I hope not

OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 20h

This post brought to you by another which described foxes as becoming domesticated at an exponential rate and making it very clear that they're referring to their behavior, not the number of them in captivity.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 1d

🐮🔥 COVER REVEAL TIME 💚🐺
Another amazing illustration by @caraid.bsky.social. Look at those colors! The buffalo's name is Lune, and you'll meet her VERY SOON, because Feral Flame will release NOVEMBER 11!
#NossSaga #BookSky 🌈📚

Cover for Feral Flame - Book Four of the Noss Saga, by Joaquín Baldwin. A one-horned buffalo holds her hands forward to control a green flame shaped like a running wolf. Her brown fur is draped with long white fabrics that flow in the wind and blend into the pink mist behind her. Her horn is decorated with golden caps and rings, her nose and ears pierced. Her green eyes stare directly at the viewer.

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 20h

Gets a pass if you're just making a funny, of course. But I see it used seriously unsettlingly often, lol.

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 20h

Ngl, I find it kinda annoying when the growth of a thing that isn't obviously quantitative gets described as "exponential."

"I am exponentially more sleepy today."

You counting the number of sleepy thoughts or something?!

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 20h

This is the way, lol

OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of the time, I feel okay-to-kinda-decent at a lot of things, but not actually *good at much outside of math.

I mean, I don't *have to be good I suppose, but still. Noisome.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about that time I saw a painting video that started with

"You've heard of wet-on-wet. You've heard of wet-on-dry. But have you heard of WET-ON-DAMP?!"

as if they just discovered that water evaporates for the first time.