#151 Walker

[saltwife]

856, 151 Walker, 128 Grazer. Some people love to hate them; but I just think they’re neat. :3  (Image descriptions below the cut.)

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Image Description: A trio of brown bears. On Top is a large medium-brown bear with light tipped ears: bear 856. Bottom left is a dark brown bear with darker circles around his eyes: bear 151 Walker. Bottom right is a light coloured bear with large, blonde ears: 128 Grazer. A banner below reads: MEAN BEARS

[fuckyeah-bears]

Beyond fucking pissed people didn’t vote for Walker. How the actual fuck is he not in the finals?!? Let alone the goddamn semi finals?!??!!! That’s insane. He is the fattest fucking fat bear of all this year. LOOK. AT. HIM.

It is not physically possible to be fatter than that!!!!! What the actual fuck people. I don’t care if you like Grazer’s personality (she is a great and marvelously chonkin fierce mama and I love her dearly), she is in no way whatsoever even remotely anywhere near as fat as Walker. It is truly criminal that Walker is not in the semi-finals. I am so disappointed in everyone right now

#JusticeForWalker

[legalizegoblins]

It's another Fat Bear Friday! Look at the belly hang 151 Walker has going on! And it's only August, can't wait to see how fat he gets by the end of the season.

[fatbearweek]

Voting starts 12pm EST / 9am PST.

Cast your vote here!

(Votes cast on Tumblr do NOT count! I am not affiliated with Katmai National Park.)

[bonesawfemme]

Almost forgot abt fat bear week this year but I DIDNT!! My money’s on Grazer I think, girl’s rotund. Also pulling for Electra but I think she’s gonna lose this round

[creatorofcalmqueerchaos]

Fat Bear Week Spotify Playlists!!!

GRAZER GRAZERIN’ Playlist!

(From Facebook's Official Fat Bear Week page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/380742310383236/permalink/853378449786284/ )

Welp! It seems like 2023 may finally be the year for our Grazer to claim her rightful throne. For those looking to celebrate her, check out her playlist at http://open.spotify.com/playlist/5WyEU5PY5kmBicvMVJrPf3....

Don’t worry. There are playlists for Chunk, Otis, and many of the other bears too! These are open, made-by-y’all-for-y’all playlists. So if I’m missing a song on any playlist, just let me know what song you’d like added and where!

32 Chunk - http://open.spotify.com/playlist/3thKBGsPxc2gSt7TwqWSKA...

128 Grazer - http://open.spotify.com/playlist/5WyEU5PY5kmBicvMVJrPf3...

151 Walker - http://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aVBhbITWAFmcEoX2IFYPG...

164 Bucky Dent - http://open.spotify.com/playlist/0cFGLwclL8XCU3f1U6hnxS...

335 Jolly – http://open.spotify.com/playlist/30aZCUEFDQwAikk837mLNa...

399 Mystery/No Pants Bear - http://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Rt5AoH93WXdNvis5Nh1QI...

409 Beadnose & Family - http://open.spotify.com/playlist/6n7cSBNDl9suerVndgjEyL...

435 Holly - http://open.spotify.com/playlist/2L9zOBTvTmMr6umRkBFs0K...

480 Otis - http://open.spotify.com/playlist/1PxmAgZ8mxcbhAV8Q28RGI...

Cubadult 503 – http://open.spotify.com/playlist/1vMdhZBmx0qslBdTjsynEO...

634 Popeye - http://open.spotify.com/playlist/5reSOLQLqFHIFDu0r4Upsy...

747 - http://open.spotify.com/playlist/0zkJo5NxtTDOdEz4Gn43dB...

854 Divot – http://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XA0Jkzxfd9CMtxCZbpKOm...

Bear 856 – http://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mj8DNSPPRfXPIvthyDRf2...

Bear 901 – http://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uV3MYJCUYSXNodLENM5nB...

Bonus Playlists!

Alice – http://open.spotify.com/playlist/3PZgd50Ykw1HinB3rCStVN...

Brooks Falls Salmon - http://open.spotify.com/playlist/7m38zCvoundUjR77RejRaW...

Fat Bear Holly-Days – http://open.spotify.com/playlist/62wan5foflr7ufWxvkOOOa...

[bearotonin-international]

Give it up for 747 Bear Force One!

Champion of Fat Bear Week 2022

[firetfly]

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[katmaibearfan]

151 Walker, handsome as ever!

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[saltwife]

NPS: we shouldn't anthropomorphize bears me, drawing bears' humansonas: lol. lmao

This is what happens when I have to wait at swimming lessons for 45 minutes with no phone (and no eraser!)

[blueiscoool]

Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the Thames River

Doves Type was thrown into the water a century ago, following a dispute between its creators.

The depths of the river Thames in London hold many unexpected stories, gleaned from the recovery of prehistoric tools, Roman pottery, medieval jewelry, and much more besides. Yet the tale of the lost (and since recovered) Doves typeface is surely one of the most peculiar.

A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump every piece of this carefully honed metal letterpress type into the river. It was an act of retribution against his business partner, Emery Walker, whom he believed was attempting to swindle him.

The pair had conceived this idiosyncratic Arts and Crafts typeface when they founded the Doves Press in the London’s Hammersmith neighborhood, in 1900. They worked with draftsman Percy Tiffin and master punch-cutter Edward Prince to faithfully recall the Renaissance clarity of 15th-century Venetian fonts, designed by the revolutionary master typographer Nicolas Jensen.

With its extra-wide capital letters, diamond shaped punctuation and unique off-kilter dots on the letter “i,” Doves Type became the press’s hallmark, surpassing fussier typographic attempts by their friend and sometime collaborator, William Morris.

The letterforms only existed as a unique 16pt edition, meaning that when Cobden-Sanderson decided to “bequeath” every single piece of molded lead to the Thames, he effectively destroyed any prospect of the typeface ever being printed again. That might well have been the case, were it not for several individuals and a particularly tenacious graphic designer.

Robert Green first became fascinated with Doves Type in the mid-2000s, scouring printed editions and online facsimiles, to try and faithfully redraw and digitize every line. In 2013, he released the first downloadable version on typespec, but remained dissatisfied. In October 2014, he decided to take to the river to see if he could find any of the original pieces.

Using historical accounts and Cobden-Sanderson’s diaries, he pinpointed the exact spot where the printer had offloaded his wares, from a shadowy spot on Hammersmith bridge. “I’d only been down there 20 minutes and I found three pieces,” he said. “So, I got in touch with the Port of London Authority and they came down to search in a meticulous spiral.” The team of scuba divers used the rather low-tech tools of a bucket and a sieve to sift through the riverbed.

Green managed to recover a total of 151 sorts (the name for individual pieces of type) out of a possible 500,000. “It’s a tiny fraction, but when I was down by the river on my own, for one second it all felt very cosmic,” he said. “It was like Cobden-Sanderson had dropped the type from the bridge and straight into my hands. Time just collapsed.”

The finds have enabled him to further develop his digitized version and has also connected him with official mudlarks (people who search riverbanks for lost treasures, with special permits issued) who have uncovered even more of the type.

Jason Sandy, an architect, author and member of the Society of Thames Mudlarks, found 12 pieces, which he has donated to Emery Walker’s House at 7 Hammersmith Terrace. This private museum was once home to both business partners, and retains its stunning domestic Arts and Crafts interior.

Much like Green, Sandy was captivated by the Doves Type story, and mounted an exhibition at the house that displays hundreds of these salvaged pieces, including those discovered by Green, as well as mudlarks Lucasz Orlinski and Angus McArthur. The show was supplemented by a whole host of Sandy’s other finds, including jewelry and tools. An extant copy of the Doves English Bible is also on display.

“It is not that unusual to find pieces of type in the river,” Sandy said. “Particularly around Fleet Street, where newspaper typesetters would throw pieces in the water when they couldn’t be bothered to put them back in their cases. But this is a legendary story and we mudlarks love a good challenge.” The community is naturally secretive about exactly where and how things are found. For example, Orlinski has worked under the cover of night with a head torch, to search for treasures at his own mysterious spot on the riverbank.

For Sandy, the thrill comes from the discovery of both rare and everyday artifacts, which can lead to an entirely new line of inquiry: “The Thames is very democratic. It gives you a clear picture of what people have been wearing or using over thousands of years. And it’s not carefully curated by a museum. The river gives up these objects randomly, and you experience these amazing stories of ordinary Londoners. It creates a very tangible connection to the past. Every object leads you down a rabbit hole.”

By Holly Black.

[legalizegoblins]

Here's 151 Walker to help you celebrate Fat Bear Friday!

[beardedmrbean]

The bears should be emerging soon to begin the chonkening that will lead us to Fat Bear week.

Will 151 Walker here take the prize this year?

Either way there will be chonky bears a plenty

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

151 Walker by Betsy Bear

[beartoebeans]

Why should I vote 128 GRAZER in Fat Bear Week 2022?

So glad you asked!

She's a giant, firstly. An absolute balloon of a bear. Gaze upon her hibernation bod:

Truly worthy of the title. Compare to June of this year:

Grazer is second from the left; her cubs are to the right of her. They all look like different bears when looked at next to their fall selves. They've worked their giant butts off to get to where they are. Incidentally, that's a screenshot from a clip titled "128 Catches Two Fish at Once". She is a phenomenally skilled fisherbear who's taught those skills to her cubs, so that they too can be successful adults someday.

Consider also that Grazer is the only mother bear in the bracket. While every other contestant has only had to fatten themselves up, Grazer has been nursing her giant 2.5-year-old cubs (transfer of fat from her to her cubs; it would be for any animal, but bear milk is especially high in fat), allowing her cubs to share her fish (again losing out on fat in order to fatten her cubs), and defending her family in true Grazer style (burning calories, and thus fat). Her cubs have begun to catch their own fish after watching such a skilled mother, which has lessened her burden, but the fact remains that Grazer has been fattening up two other bears in addition to herself this year. And oh, boy, are they fat:

Family naptime, with one of her cubs standing up on the left. They both look like Grazer if you put her through a low-powered shrinkray.

To sum up, Grazer has achieved peak fall bear bod, as good as anyone else's on the bracket (look at her, y'all. what a round bear), while giving away a lot of fat to her family. She has therefore gathered more fat than anyone.

If that's not enough for you, maybe her personality will win you over. She is the fiercest and most defensive mother bear on the entire river. Check out this video: here. Mike Fitz, a former ranger still involved with bearcam (a livestream where the FBW bears can be seen during the summer), chose memorable moments to highlight for the 10th anniversary of bearcam. He seems to have thought, "Really, Grazer's entire personality is a memorable moment." And, honestly? Accurate.

Personally I will never forget that time 747, most dominant bear at the time, snuck up on another male bear in her vicinity and she charged in to shut the whole thing down. After yelling at the other bear, all she had to do was glare at 747 and take a few pointed steps in his direction, and he slunk off, intimidated. (She got involved because bears fighting in the area is dangerous for cubs, since they can get caught in the crossfire and killed. If other bears have to be around cubs, the safest environment for them is a peaceful one.) Video link!

Or the time she went for 856, an absolute giant, also the dominant bear that year and known to bears and humans alike for his bad temper:

Look at her, she's like half his size. She doesn't give a shit. All to make sure her nearby cubs were safe.

She has a similar attitude when it comes to gaining access to fishing spots for herself and her cubs. She doesn't go straight to charging in and roaring, but she will approach anyone in her spot and make it known that she wants it, and whoever is there had better make way so her cubs can eat. She's made her reputation this way, and other bears often just go ahead and leave whenever she shows up to fish. She and her cubs grow into giant blimps every year off this tactic.

The top of the dominance hierarchy is typically full of male bears, but there are a few female bears that can achieve situational dominance. When Grazer has cubs, she and her family are right at the top. (Although she is smart, too, and knows when it's probably not worth it, which is what makes her dominance only situational.)

When there's no danger and no competition, however, she and her family can be very sweet. Here are some videos: 1, 2

Also, if this matters, 151 Walker, her competition in her first round, is scared to death of her.

So remember: Vote 128 Grazer for Fat Bear Week champion 2022! The queen deserves her crown.