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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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Mace (ΘΔ) @wovenroots.bsky.social · 2d

Comm for @ottersparx.bsky.social

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Luke 🐾 @nevesceramics.bsky.social · 2h

coyote and badger dance 🐾
UFS in Nov! ❄️
#pyrography #woodburning

a oval shaped cut piece of bass wood with a woodburned design of a coyote and american badger dancing, sitting on a wooden plate holder with a white background

close up of the woodburn design of the coyote and american badger touching noses

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Team Fastest Furs @fastestfurs.com · 6h

It's a lovely morning at Fastest Furs #FallFest2025.

And @Risuruuu.bsky.social is a horrible goose completing all the main tasks in Untitled Goose Game.

http://twitch.tv/fastestfurs

Promotional art for Untitled Goose Game (by House House), featuring a red and white triangular warning sign with a goose silhouette, the titular Goose running off to the right, and a small mob of ten people chasing after it.

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Team Fastest Furs @fastestfurs.com · 14h

It's time to tee up for Mario Golf Advance tour. Join us as @yoshi86up.bsky.social goes par for the course in this GBA classic! twitch.tv/fastestfurs

Art provided by the ever talented @elfreckles.bsky.social
#FallFest2025

PB, the Fastest Furs cheetah, is dressed in a mario style outfit with a teal hat and shirt, and dark blue overalls. They look very concerned. World 4-2 is written above their head in black pixel letters.

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

SPARKLETAUR! 👀

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

Thank you! I'm hoping it looks even prettier after I watercolor it so maybe it can get put up in a local gallery. :3

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

WIP

#art #sketch #LandscapeArt

Paper and ink sketch of a bridge over two ends of an inlet, looked over by tall plateaus in the background against a sky with scattered clouds.

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Trans Lifeline @translifeline.org · 21h

We can’t ignore today’s political climate and how it impacts your safety and mental health as you consider the coming out process. So, we’ve made a website to support you!

heyimtrans.com has vetted articles, guides for coming out, pre-written templates, resources for allies, and free downloads!

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Team Fastest Furs @fastestfurs.com · 1d

We reached our milestone of $7500 benefiting Trans Lifeline! Thank you all so much for this milestone, but we still have a lot to come, so consider joining in! #FallFest2025

twitch.tv/fastestfurs

FastestFurs - Twitch

Fall Fest 2025 - Kirby Planet Robobot by @GlitchAston benefiting Trans Lifeline !donate

twitch.tv

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BIRDBRAIN 🔞 @vurrsys.bsky.social · 1d

fuck it. taurs your alternate personality (e/em/eir)

a corvid birdtaur smiling and waving (e/em/eir)

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

FLAPPYTAUR! 👀

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

I've largely taken to embracing the chicken scratch, lol.

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 3d

Experiments in looser compositions.

#art #painting #watercolor #TraditionalArt

Watercolor painting in a notebook. A suspension bridge over a forest, set against a clear, red and blue sky.

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 4d

Claim

#art #painting #watercolor #TraditionalArt

Watercolor painting on cotton paper. A derelict truck emerging from dense trees and bushes, its paint a peeling rusty red with a hole in the hood and in the windows. The tan foreground grass waves lightly in the breeze, giving the scene a quiet stillness.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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

RE: that posting meme from a couple days ago

Worcester is absolutely the word whose pronunciation can distinguish a tourist.

Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 2d

Panel 1: Shen is stoically holding up a sign with his right hand that says "W O R C E S T E R" on it.

Panel 2: A man clearly from Boston, in a black Red Sox cap and Bruins jersey and holding a Market Basket bag slung over his shoulder, says "WOOSTER!" Under the cap, he has messy brown hair, and is smiling innocently.

Panel 3: Shen, still stoic, now holds up a picture of a rooster with both hands.

Panel 4: The man from Boston smile lights up, sparkles in his eyes, and says "ROOCHESTER!!!"

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

BINTAURONG 👀

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

I mean, you might be able to blast the sword into a moulinet / cut around, but that application seems niche in itself, lol.

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

The audience for this one is niche, but I gotta say that conceptually, I don't really grok the krumphau since it seems to direct the opponent's sword toward your midline (albeit low), which kinda seems suboptimal.

#hema #fencing

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Slightly Furry® Beverage Co. @slightlyfurry.bsky.social · 3d

Get our take on Planter's Punch - feat. our PineappOWL Cider, partial proceeds going to Trans Lifeline - and come cheer on amazing speedruns from @fastestfurs.com at our taproom each night this week!
#SlightlyFurry #SouthEndPublicHouse #cocktails #charity #translifeline #drinkPNW #Seattle

Planter's Punch. PineappOWL Cider, dark rum, fruit juices, grenadine, and ango bitters. Available all this week at SouthEnd Public House - a Slightly Furry® taproom. We're located at 851 Rainier Ave S, Seattle WA, and are open 5-11pm Tuesday to Thursday and 5pm-12am Friday & Saturday.

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Team Fastest Furs @fastestfurs.com · 2d

Yo yo!
we'll be back live with Day 2 of #FallFest2025 with Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo! Wanna see some cool tricks? Join us at twitch.tv/fastestfurs to find out what MHFSilver's got to show!

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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 BLFC (Reno, NV) & Chico Anime (NorCal) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 2d

Day 2 of #FastestFurs Fall Fest 2025 is LIVE! The next 16 hours are about to be CHOCK FULL of skips, shmoovement, and other speedrun tech.

And what's more - *I'M HELPING HOST*! You can hear me today for:

8:30 am PST - Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro

3:00 pm PST - BOMBERMAN TSA!

twitch.tv/fastestfurs

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Sabrina ✦ ScissorsRunner ✧ @scissorsrunner.bsky.social · Jun 9

✦ COM - ONE LAST MOMENT ✦

Full BG piece done for diokana
Thank you for commissioning me!

✧ #SogCatArt #Commission #Art #FurryArt #DnDArt #FantasyArt #Dragon #Kobold

Zix has been reunited with his wife Teeri. Keldaros is of course present, because wherever Zix is, Keldaros is as well. Zix is enjoying getting to live a happy life with his wife and Keldaros after having saved the world.
Keldaros is a male Silver Dragon Wyrmling. Teeri is a coral female Kobold woth a nose horn, general body shape is mostly similar to Zix’s. Zix is a black male kobold wearing a belt and straps, arm wraps and leg braces.
Both Zix and Teeri have a thread in a criss-cross weave around one of each of their horns matching the other’s primary scale color and they're holding tails.

#commission #Scissorsrunner #digital #art #digitalart #firealpaca #noAI #SogCatArt #fantasy #roleplay #rpg #ttrpg #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #DnDcharacter #DnDart #DnDOC #dragon #kobold #zix #keldaros #teeri #wisteria #flowers #dawn #silverdragon

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 2d

Side note, but Bluey's dad is a real one.

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OtterSparx | θΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌕 | 🔙 FWA @ottersparx.bsky.social · 2d

Your commitment to your values is worth infinitely more than any review.

Absolutely a class act of a development team.