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@ripple-the-otter.bsky.social

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Desert otter... FROM SPACE!!! Artist and creator of The Otter Critic Substack. I'm gay. I'll use any pronouns you want, girl. Occasional 18+ only posts and reposts. https://linktr.ee/rippletheotter

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · Jun 20

I'm opening art commissions! Check out my form here for more information! Keeping prices low since I'm just starting!

forms.gle/WRwctLikXXUy...

#art #furryart #commissions #artcommissions #furrycommissions #uwu

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 14h

Smol

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 16h

“So, that piece there with the kangal dog on the wood, I did that gold leaf halo behind it to kind of deify them because I really do see them as these holy and special critters. I feel like I need to honor them. They’re just so incredible!”

@echomary.bsky.social from our interview

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 1d

“Can you tell me what's in the middle there?”
“It's a bullet, right?”
“Yep, that's the bullet that killed the goat!”

Art and quote from interview with @echomary.bsky.social

Graphic Media Label for artistic bloody imagery

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 1d

Well done, soldier, fighting the battle against the authoritarian regime of bedtimes!
How do you feel?

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 1d

Did you do it?

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 3d

It was great interviewing you, stay awesome!

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 3d

Snopes checked on this story and has deemed it to be true

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 3d

“I really like welding and metal sculpting because it’s like candy for all of my senses. There’s the sound, the feeling, there’s the physical aspect of it, there’s the creative flow, and it also taps into my more academic background... I love the chemistry of metal.”

From @echomary.bsky.social

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 4d

New Interview on The Otter Critic!

A metalworking, fine art sculpture-making furry? It’s more likely than you’d think.

Check out my interview with @echomary.bsky.social at the link below for their full story on becoming the artist and homesteader they are today!

Healing with Furry Metalworking

Echo Mary Interview

open.substack.com

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 4d

Wordle fucks in mysterious ways

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 5d

If you get fucked up in the Wordle, you get fucked in real life

Be careful

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 7d

As a furry who believes in FREEDOM, I reserve the right to make any animal noises regardless of species.

Mow mow mow nyaa, moo moo, woof grrrrr, *squeak*

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 7d

Locktober is when people lock in (by wearing chastity cages for the whole month).

:3

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 7d

OTTober AND Locktober? Nuts

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Yote In Print @yote-in-print.bsky.social · 8d

You guys better get to the voting booth and vote for my guy 856 to win Fat Bear Week 2025. We cannot stand for the injustice of losing the crown, he is elite fat bear build baby!

#Team856 #FatBearWeek #32Chunkmorelike32Chump

Fat Bear Week 2025

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 10d

You're welcome!
:3

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 10d

"Every wave is a water sprite swimming in the current, every
current is a path winding its way to my palace, and my palace,
with its flowing structure, lies at the bottom of the lake, in the
triangle of fire, earth and air."
-Aloysius Bertrand, Ondine

Art for @thesplooey.bsky.social

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 15d

Fuck RFK Jr and everyone who's complicit in giving the quack power, may history piss on his grave when he's gone.

This is my political outburst for today. Stay awesome, neurospicy friends, we will prevail! Back to being a silly otter.

SPOOKY DUNESDAY! 🏳️‍⚧️ @dunesdayart.bsky.social · 16d

An autism creature in front of fire holds the evil autism flag, text reads "I'm joining the war on autism on the side of autism"

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 18d

“I really love this idea that through memory there are going to be focal points that are really clear, and then if you move towards the edges, things sort of fall into this white space.”

Art by interviewed artist @animalshapes.bsky.social

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 19d

I'LL TAKE YOUR WHOLE STOCK 💸💸💸💸💸💸

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 20d

Open

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 20d

“...the art side, the painting side of my art journey, if you want to call it that, started out as kind of a way to de-stress from the PhD… I think me and my undergrad helpers probably measured—I think I counted this out once—probably 10,000 trees over the course of the project.”

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 21d

New Interview on The Otter Critic!

@animalshapes.bsky.social and I talked about their beautiful, soft paintings of creatures escaping into landscapes! We discussed fantasy and sci-fi, memories, and why it’s so hard to tell which of his characters are him or an adventurer from another realm!

Environmental Memories and Fuzzy, Shape-Shifting Creatures

Animal Shapes Interview

open.substack.com

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Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 21d

After 85 years of slumber...

We're so back, chat

Ripple @ripple-the-otter.bsky.social · 21d

Get down in that dirt and let yourself feel rooted to the Earth

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