#Teddy Bear 🧸

[taytayize123]

I wish I was someone to someone… 💞

[cookie4liran]

He's never gonna beat the converse allegation

[notmanagingmymischief]

jesus fucking christ do people actually still send hate to people anonymously?

dear anon

sit the fuck down and either come off anon and stop being a pussy, or just leave nico alone

nobody gives a fuck about your stupid opinions, so just don’t waste your time by typing them out - it achieves nothing

sincerely,

teddy

ps- seriously, if you don’t stop sending stupid messages, i know a few people who can hack your ip address 😗

y’all are very nice…thank you teddy. <3 and i second his final statement 🥰🥰

[xtruss]

How Did the Teddy Bear Get Its Name? President Theodore Roosevelt Had Something To Do With It. So Did A Real Bear.

— By Erin McCarthy | August 30, 2024

The Teddy Bear Has a Very Specific Origin Story. Carol Yepes, Getty Images

Perhaps the question first occurred to you in the toy aisle when you were picking out a present for the kid in your life. Or maybe it was when you were cleaning out your old toys from the attic of your childhood home that you asked yourself, “How did stuffed bears come to be called ‘teddy bears,’ anyway?”

It’s a story involving President Theodore Roosevelt, a bear hunt, a political cartoon, and a candy shop owner in New York.

The Hunt

The Cartoons

The Toy

The Hunt

In November 1902, Mississippi governor Andrew H. Longino invited Roosevelt on a bear hunt, and the president—who would be in the state to try to settle a border dispute it was having with Louisiana—eagerly accepted.

His luck, however, was terrible: For the first few days, there was not a bear to be found near Roosevelt, let alone shot. Anyone on the hunting party who did spot an ursine was forced to hold their fire. According to biographer Edmund Morris in Theodore Rex, Roosevelt “insisted on first blood,” writing ahead of the trip, “I am going on this hunt to kill a bear, not to see anyone else kill it.”

President Theodore Roosevelt speaking to onlookers in Vermont. Historical, GettyImages

(Roosevelt had an interesting history with bears: He was nearly killed by a grizzly on a solo hunt in Montana in 1889, and some of his supporters from West Virginia sent him “a small bear”—which his children named Jonathan Edwards, after the revivalist preacher—as a pet in 1900. He wound up giving the bear to the Bronx Zoo the next year because “we do not have the accommodations to keep him.”)

Things came to a head on November 14. Holt Collier—a formerly enslaved man and legendary bear hunter who was serving as Roosevelt’s tracker—and his dogs flushed out a black bear into a clearing where the president was supposed to be waiting. The dogs chased the bear into a pond, where, Morris wrote, “Collier threw a lariat over the shaggy neck and pulled tight … and cracked the bear’s skull with the butt of his gun—carefully, because he wanted it to stay alive.”

Unfortunately, Roosevelt was not where Collier thought he would be. After waiting in the designated area for hours, the president and his hunting companion assumed no bear was coming and returned to camp for lunch. A messenger was dispatched to get Roosevelt, who rushed back to the scene to kill the bear—but when he saw that the scrawny creature was tied to a tree, he refused to shoot it. Someone else ended up killing the bear (not with a gun, but with a knife).

Ultimately, Roosevelt didn’t bag a single bear on the trip—but in a strange twist, he would soon end up lending his name to one.

The Cartoons

Reporters checked in on the hunt once a day, and it wasn’t long before reports of Roosevelt’s refusal to kill a restrained bear made the papers; the president was lauded for his sportsmanlike behavior. (The papers had harsher words for the bear, derided as “incorrigible and uncultured,” and for “these Mississippi people,” which one paper opined “seem as ignorant of modern methods as they are lacking in the finesse and technique of true sport.”)

Washington Post political cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman, reading about the event, found himself struck by inspiration: He drew a black bear—“a poor measly little cub with most of its fur rubbed off,” he would later write—with a white handler holding its leash. Roosevelt holds one hand out; in the other is his gun, butt on the ground, muzzle up. The illustration appeared on November 16, 1902, and was captioned “Drawing the Line in Mississippi.”

“Drawing the Line in Mississippi” by Clifford K. Berryman. Library of Congress//Public Domain

“I drew the cartoon of it from the description as sent by the Associated Press,” Berryman recounted later. One senator “thought it so good that he ’phoned to me and asked me to make another bear cartoon when Roosevelt returned to the city.” The resulting illustration, published November 19, was captioned “After a Twentieth Century Bear Hunt.”

“It seemed to make a hit,” Berryman said, “with the result that I continued the bear in all future cartoons in which the President appeared.” The bear got more adorable with time; you can see all of Berryman’s bear illustrations in this collection from the Theodore Roosevelt Center.

The Toy

As Berryman created illustration after illustration featuring Roosevelt and an adorable bear, Morris Michtom sensed an opportunity. The Brooklyn-based candy store owner had his wife Rose hand-sew a cuddly stuffed bear, which he placed in their store window; it quickly sold. Rose made more, ultimately selling so many that the Michtoms began mass producing what they called “Teddy’s Bears” in 1903 (apparently with Roosevelt’s blessing, though the president apparently believed the toy would amount to nothing). Around the same time, the German toy company Steiff made its own stuffed bears, shipping 3000 of them to U.S. toy stores. Soon, the cuddly toys were going by “Teddy Bears.”

Teddy Bear With Teddy Roosevelt Tag. Hulton Archive, GettyImages

Roosevelt himself used the teddy bear in his 1904 re-election campaign, even though he hated the nickname Teddy (perhaps because it was used by his first wife, Alice, who died after giving birth to their daughter, also named Alice). When a lawyer used the nickname in his presence, Roosevelt declared it an “outrageous impertinence.”

The toy took off, selling in the tens of thousands, enduring a brief controversy, and paving the way for beloved bears like Winnie the Pooh, who was inspired by a teddy bear purchased for A.A. Milne’s son Christopher.

There was also an unsuccessful imitator: Billy Possum, which was presented to then-President William Taft, Roosevelt’s successor, on a trip to Atlanta in January 1909 and was, according to the Theodore Roosevelt Center, “designed to replace Theodore Roosevelt’s ‘Teddy Bear.’ ” Taft endorsed the cause, and soon, there were Billy Possum stuffed animals, buttons, and posters. But Billy Possum was ultimately a failure; the toy’s time in the spotlight was over by the time the holiday season rolled around in December.

The teddy bear, however, has never ceased to be popular. Today, the stuffed animal remains a popular gift and the industry was valued at about $6.4 billion in 2022. It’s also the state toy of Mississippi, and a Michtom-made bear owned by Roosevelt’s descendants has a spot in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

[sallyfaces-world]

[starbvrryhwa]

IT’S BACK ON MY DASH @yoonguurt @anyamaris I’M SCREAMING AGAIN 🫠🫠🫠

how to be a piece of confetti

[ilikeicecoffee-blog]

He is starting to embrace his nickname and proudly be known as her Teddy Bear😊🧸

[hyunpic]

hyunjin on bubble: when i was taking a selfie, the clicking sound was so loud, it was hard to pretend like nothing happened

[lyssophobiaa]

Hello everyone! I got a call about Teddy today at 10 AM, he is eating and no vomiting but they would still like to keep him longer because his diarrhea hasn’t gotten any better yet, because of this- Teddy can’t take any oral antibiotics so it’s imperative that he remains getting medication intravenously in the pet hospital!

He also had to be put in a cone because he was naughty and kept trying to chew his catheter out, I’ll hear more about Teddy tomorrow when the vet calls again and give another update!

He’s doing okay but he’s not out of the woods yet, I’m trying my best to come up with the money we need to keep him there longer, thank you to everyone who’s donated even just a little bit so far, it all really means a lot and makes a huge difference to me ❤️

Vet Bills

Hello everyone!

My baby ragdoll, Teddy Bear has been diagnosed with CCV, his prognosis isn’t looking very good, he requires a stay in the vet hospital and while I have paid one thousand for his first three days with the help of my friends, my family and I are already struggling in an abusive situation with our mother that leaves us struggling to buy food and pay our rent and my friends can’t afford to keep helping us, I would appreciate if there was anyway we could get some help for Teddy Bear’s hospital stay otherwise we are going to have to have him euthanised, he’s only five months old and I don’t want to see him have to pass without a fighting chance.

The vet has said he will likely need a week or two and I will receive a call later tonight to update me on his current condition but all I can afford is a three night stay for him, he’s my baby and my beacon of light after losing my best friend, Lucifer, I don’t want to lose him too

Please share, like or donate if you can, every bit helps with our current situation

(For every reblog I will reblog back with a picture of Teddy!)

[iluvhollands]

Just Nace with a teddy bear 🧸

[booigi-boi]

Kitty has claimed Tinky 🐐💛

[notmanagingmymischief]

“i was just messing around”

WHAT THE FUCK

you literally harassed someone for hours on this app. what the fuck are you on about

if you were “just messing around” then you wouldn’t have wasted hours of your life tormenting someone about things that they’ve grieved and had breakdowns over

you have NO RIGHT to say that you were just messing around

you’re a sick human being and i hope you get what you deserve

mum, i’m so sorry that this piece of shit has treated you like dirt. i wish people weren’t such moronic wankers :/

(also it’s teddy. i’m the rizzinator 💪)

People are cruel. I don’t know why I expect anything different at this point.

But thank you teddy /gen

[starbvrryhwa]

GGGGRRRRRRRR WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF BARK BARK SNARL

jongho ∙ 230625

[l1ttlepup]

Day 2 of 25 days of moodboards

Teddy bear moodboard

I found these on pintrest

My requests are open so feel free to ask for one. I'll make stimboards and moodboards just clarify which one you want!!

I will NOT do: the dream team, religion based, anything offensive (including problematic people)

[fearcanbeagift]

the bear au where carmy turns into a literal teddy bear every time he stresses the staff out or his stress level hits maximum. it forces him to take a break/timeout but he will still try to cook so everyone has to stop him from trying to chop onions with his soft fuzzy hands.