#Beart

[iris-polaris]

thank you, very loud wolves at the zoo

[bearotonin-international]

I return with more beart to impart some joy to the team

beautiful beautiful gorgeous magnificent beart. we love it immensely. thank you for this marvelous dose of bearotonin 💙

[emeraldastral]

It's a fun day to post some more art on my main! 😃

[just-a-sketchbook]

special thanks to @bearotonin-international for fueling my bear enthusiasm :)

[detournementsmineurs]

“La Piscine” de Roubaix - Musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Diligent - de l'architecte Albert Baert (1927-32), octobre 2024.

[ursynes]

I made a silly little Fat Bear Week poster for the campaign contest! Featuring the ever handsome Chunk. You can vote for it here, if you dare >:3

When I get my new scanner, I will try and post all my bearcam sketches from the summer. It's, uh, a lot. Bears are surprisingly good live models.

[littlealienproducts]

Crochet Mini Bear Plushie by cloudyberryco

[onbearfeet]

So I had this photo on my wall for years. It was a beautiful picture of a coyote in a rustic wood frame, a gift from a friend who bought the print from a small photographer on a vacation.

And then the friend and I had a falling out. I won't go into the details except to say that by the end, after a 20-year relationship, the friend was accusing me of endangering her children with my asexuality (?!) and I was fielding text messages from a veterinary professional informing me that the kitten would survive the surgery with only a minor limp and was quite sweet, actually, when she wasn't actively being tormented.

You know. One of those friend breakups.

I felt bad for the coyote. It wasn't his fault that I was sad about losing a friendship. But I WAS sad, and I couldn't stand to look at him. When I moved, I boxed him up and left him in the dark.

Today, I was thinking about how I needed an 8x10 picture frame to hang a nice giclee print in my new place, but money is tight right now...and then I remembered the coyote. That frame was 8x10, right? I thought I knew which box it was in.

So today, three years and change after I walked out of my former friend's house with a screaming cat in a cardboard box, there's something else in the frame.

This is a watercolor painting of a Kermode bear, aka a spirit bear. They're a rare color morph of the American black bear, with cream-colored fur rather than the usual black or brown, and they're profoundly sacred to several North American indigenous cultures. The forest in British Columbia where many of them live is a protected place known as the Great Bear Rainforest. And I find it fascinating that even when one of these cubs is born outside that area (which can happen--these are black bears with the equivalent of redhead genes), pretty much everyone looks at them and goes, "Oh, that's magic as fuck, and I'm not touching it."

I like that in a beast. So Kermode bears are my absolute favorite bears.

May we all find ways to replace our old wounds with something that is both beautiful and magic as fuck.

Also, if you'd like your own, here's where I bought the jpg that I took to a local giclee printer.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Guy Beart on a vintage postcard, mailed in 1978 to Paris

[christanbrowneyedgirl]

Baby Ezran!

You know, before…..everything

[tacofriend]

@bearotonin-international got into stamp carving. Have a bearmp.

[iris-polaris]

woke me up from a Ding Dang Nap

[bearotonin-international]

I have created some bears! They’re wonky as hell but I love them

Marvelous! Little friends created by the stabbity staby stab! Thanks for sharing this fine beart friend

[emeraldastral]

Some nice Bear 747 art to maybe brighten your day 😃🐻

(also tagging @bearotonin-international because it's fun lol)

[saltwife]

Can you feel the Benergy? 230 Ben is the new hotness (watch out, Walker!).

A very good bear!

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[detournementsmineurs]

"Paire de Vases" anonyme en marbre et bronze doré (XIXe siècle) au sein de “La Piscine” de Roubaix - Musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Diligent - de l'architecte Albert Baert (1927-32), octobre 2024.