Absolutely gorgeous! Third one looks so so so so lovely!

Aaaaaaaw, thank you so much, boyo!!!

ITS COMING OUT SO PERFECT AAAAAAA

AAAAAAA THANK YOU THANK YOU!

I can't wait to line and color them! (Actually, I can. I will work with all care of the world )

Are you a physicist?

i'm an undergrad physics student! hopefully ill be officialy a physicist by the end of the year xD

What kind of physicist are you going to be?(Theoretical,Condensed Matter,computational,ect?

i intend to do research on computational cosmology (focusing on large scale structures) and extragalactic astrophysics (if possible) !

It sounds like you might have to take a long time to get your PhD

PS:It appears that those who are interested in science and those who have a degree in science aren't uncommon in furry fandom

sure will! hopefully next year ill star my masters, so at least two years before starting the phd. But i really enjoy it so its more of a motivation than an obstacle haha.

and yess thats true! there really is an overlap

Scene or straight up portrait – your character pieces shine on like the brightest stars!
Fantastically atmospheric detail in these pictures; there are stories going on
in these neat little quadrants, and the characters look like they're living
in these stories, and not like they've come around for a photoshoot
in a studio.

Is that a tribble in the North-Western picture?

Can't wait for the color versions!
Thank you for sharing both them,
and the sketches! Each have their charms!

Thank you so much, I'm glad these are coming out expressive because... well, that's what a sticker is for, to help people to express themselves :). And yes, it is a tribble! These purring little things bring joy to any setting (at least in small quantities)

Emotional support fluffballs!

And yes, these will work wonderfully as emotes!

"Busy-busy, I'll need some time to rest after this..."
"I'll drink this moderate quantity of Earl Grey tea to that! Cheers!"
"Oh? You have got my undivided attention!"
"See, it's perfectly simple! Quantum chromodynamics is easy once you write down all the formulae!"

Fun fact: for the 4th one, I asked  LeoBC which is his favorite equation :D. These are the Friedmann equations for the expansion of space. I didn't know a single thing about it, Leo explained me. I just know that this subject tends to give me existential crisis, it's too much time and space at once :D

Thank you so much for sharing the history behind your creations!
I remember Lorentz transformations crushing my brain into a pulp back in college,
and those were supposed to be pretty simple... Anything that has to do with
relativity is guaranteed to give someone who is not an expert in the field
a powerful headache, yeah.

Cheers for your scientist friends, who destroy their brains
so the rest of us won't have to!

I don't remember Lorentz transformations 😶 I'm not sure if I learned about them, and in which extent. But it really sounds like a cool tokusatsu move (sorry Ineas answering the comment about Power Rangers!)

I just remember being found of Euler's indentity. It's cliché, but I really like it. And Van Gogh.

And YEAH, thank you, scientists! You make the world a better place! (A big majority of you, at least.)

/Thank you for teaching me about Euler's identity!
Wiki calls it one of instances of ~mathematical beauty~,
so it makes sense that an artist like you would take note of it!

And huzzah for Van Gogh swirls!

I also like how quarks can be strange, charmed or beauties!

Odo agrees with you about Quark. He will not talk about it, but he agrees!

I thought you'd mention Quark, the character!
The Wiki article on Odo is a bit of stub – did they have an involved relationship with Quark on the show?

If romantic relationship - unfortunately not! But Odo and Quark worked very nicely together onscreen (if i'm not mistaken part of this is because Shimerman and Auberjonois were more than brilliant professionals, they were also friends - past tense because unfortunately René died some years ago, Armin is still out there!) and the writers were mindful to write many scenes where they ✨shine✨. So Quodo is a very popular ship. Last not least, there is this gorgeous, lovely blooper running around.

Found this little music video for the pair!
Having read up about the two characters, I can understand their dynamic better:
Quark keeps finding new shady methods of turning a profit,
and Odo's job preventing this exact kind of thing
from happening. No wonder they have
a grudging mutual recognition,
that so often grows into
a kind of friendships,
or something more...

That blooper sure was something!
As one commenter put it,
"The folks on Tumblr got what they wanted
before they knew they wanted it."

I've been playing BioShock recently,
and I've only just found out that Armin Shimerman
voiced Andrew Ryan, one of the game's main antagonists!
Considering that Ryan keeps espousing the virtues of capitalism
the entire game, it seems like that was a case of Quark's actor being severely typecast!

*SCREAMING BECAUSE OF THE PERFECT VIDEO*

The song is flawless - well, the original is kinda creepy and stalky too, the band is called POLICE, it's so perfect for them. It took me some time to get it was a parody, at first I was most "lol the voice is different of what I remember" xD

And the video features some of my favorite moments and aspects from these characters - Odo being a rat and some closes of the smol, cute, tiny Quark's hands, with these blue nails 😭💙

I need to see more of Armin's work! I was delighted to know that René dubbed a number of cartoons too :D. And also in some more instances they acted together.

The rat shapeshifting took me by surprise, too!
It's bizarre to think that the Changelings were in control of the malevolent Dominion,
while Odo was such a nice person, but then, that is the Star Trek way –
the series' writers love adding representatives of the "evil" cultures,
like the Klingons, the Borg or the Cardassians.

Thank you for relentlessly teaching me new things!
I feel like I know twice as much as I used to
after having chatted with you
for just a couple months!

Yeah, it was kinda sad that Odo started the series alone, only one of his kind, trying to find his place - to later discover that he was part of the Dominion.

That's one of the aspects I like most in Star Trek. Even in TOS, there was that Arena episode with the Gorn, or even some episodes where the war with the Klingons was depicted as pointless. The face reveal of the Romulans was fantastic too. And going further - at the height of the Cold War, as cheesy as Chekov may be, an USAmerican series added a Russian character on the bridge, and as the cutie guy. Again, he was not accurate, but still a charismatic and sympathetic guy. Much like I squealed when a Brazilian branch of Science Patrol was mentioned in Ultraman - ok, it was an episode with a Cocoa Eating Kaiju and diamond smuggling, but... but... still... our science... is respected :')

Back to Trek, that is a major problem I have with some more recent iterations like Strange New Worlds and the Kelvin timeline; these feel still flat to me in comparison. Lower Decks holds itself nicely too.

And about "teaching new things", I thank you too! Chatting via these comments is being a wonderful experience to me, and yeah my knowledge and awe with this world is way bigger after these dialogues. You are really a kind and thoughtful person/pinniped/deer :)

Yes, the original Star Trek was very progressive for its time,
and although Starfleet feels a lot like U.S. Navy in many ways,
United Earth is supposed to be a post-scarcity socialist
world government, even though it had only gotten there
after surviving a nuclear war, and decades of
post-war chaos.

That really puts the mission of Starfleet explorers in perspective:
they don't just tour around the galaxy, but seek new worlds
to welcome into the United Federation of Planets,
hopefully breaking some of those civilizations
from the cycles of violence
that nearly destroyed
Earth, and that was
only remedied
by the first contact with the Vulcans.

Still, Chekhov, Uhura and Sulu were groundbreaking characters,
demonstrating a better future for the nations of the world.

I remember thinking it was very cool that Babylon 5 had a Russian Jewish woman
in charge of the show's eponymous space station's military security,
especially since she had a very dim view of Russia's imperialist past.

Walter Koenig played the pretty big role of Alfred Bester in B5.
That character was the chief operative of a telepath control agency,
a deadly and ruthless character, very much the opposite of Chekhov.

Thank you for sharing your opinions on which Star Trek versions
held true to that original bright and complex vision!

And thank you for the kind words! You are delight to talk to, too, naturally!
I've not yet formalized my deerification with a reference or anything,
so I guess I'm still mostly a sea lion in furry terms!
I also ran with a dragon character for a good long while,
even though adapting that character was originally
supposed to be a joke.

YES! As much as I like Starfleet, its militaristic model holds still. They have a post scarcity society and it was fantastic at the time of airing, but now I go further and "why not less hierarchies", or even "why still a prisional system?". I really hope to see recent series facing these issues.

And yeah, Uhura and Sulu were icons too! Nichelle Nichols stayed in the show after a ask from Martin Luther King Jr., George Takei lived on an internment camp... he really needed even more of them in Star Trek.

Thanks for bringing a bit of Babylon 5, including what it seems to be a mirror!Chekov. I'm curious to see how our former soft boy goes being this operative.

I think we can agree we enjoy to talk to each other, my dear pinniped/ongoing deer/former dragon! (I'm curious about the joke now)

Yeah, even the greatest minds can only think past a few of humanity's chronic problems
when envisioning the future, but many other issues are carried over into that prediction,
or else that vision becomes so alien that there is no audience for something like that.

Thank you for those facts about Nichols and Takei, I didn't know about that!

Here's a collage of Koenig as Bester,
although it focuses on the character's corny "I'm trying to act human" façade.
The other scene that can be found on YouTube with Bester being
more true to himself, he kills a suspect during an interrogation.
In Babylon 5, a small percentage of humans are born telepaths,
and an agency called Psi Corps was established to bring them
all together to control and condition, to keep non-telepaths
from having their minds read. The only alternative
to becoming part of Psi Corps is to have one's
telepathic abilities suppressed with
potent debilitating drugs.
Some telepaths choose
to avoid the Corps and drugs, and live as outlaws,
and Bester is responsible for hunting them down.

So yeah, he's a very different character from Chekhov,
but Koenig was very good in that role, amazingly.

As for the dragon thing, at one point there had been a joke
going around that lots of people were making dragon OC's,
and I made myself a purple dragonsona for April's Fools.
Here's one depiction of it by a friend of mine.
Weirdly enough, my friends liked the character
more than my avatar, that the joke character became
my proper personal character for a long time.
I've only reverted to the sea lion a few years ago.

Thank you so much for showing me this other Koenig's role! It's a big contrast from the cute smol bean Chekov, yeah, and Mr. Koenig pleayd it so nicely too! Hm, maybe I can try Babylon 5 after Ultraman and Ultraseven :D

And so nice to showing me the dragonsona, because: 1- WAIT YOU DRAW TOO? 2- A gem of words combined like pearls in a long string from 2008! Time goes and we don't feel it that much! These are duets in time!

Babylon 5 holds a place in my heart, but like the earlier Star Trek series,
it can get a little corny at times, and the CGI is pretty dated.
But it can also be very moving, and carries a good message –
again, like Star Trek. It's four or five seasons long,
depending where one draws the line, and it has
a couple of feature movies, but it's fairly
small series.

Thank you for showing me that lovely old picture of yours,
it's looks like a product of earnest love for those characters,
and is radiates affection and happiness!

Yes, it makes me shudder to realize I've been on FA for almost twenty years.

And I used to draw, but I never got anywhere with that skill.
I did have some good times trading pictures with my
friends from that back then, though, and I value
that experience dearly.

You know the "corny" part is an incentive to me, right :D?

Time goes fast.

I hope you have some time to draw again, even for fun and for the closest friends! People sing on the karaoke for fun, or play football just casually, drawing should be the same. Nowadays art is my profession, but could be my hobby, and that's not wrong with that.

Thank you for the words of encouragement and support,
you are always so kind, considerate and generous!

I hope I'll get back into drawing someday, too.

And I do love me a good corny show!
It reminds me how cool it was
to enjoy the show
the first time around,
when the corniness wasn't that obvious.