Going insane reading this wikipedia quote about the real life Cocaine Bear, which is taxidermied and kept in a mall in Kentucky (though it may actually be a different, unrelated, taxidermied bear)
According to the bear's owners, the Cocaine Bear has the authority to officiate legally binding weddings in the mall where it is kept due to Kentucky's marriage laws. This claim is only partly true; the bear does not have the authority to solemnize weddings, but the state of Kentucky cannot invalidate marriages performed by unqualified persons if the parties believe that the person marrying them has the authority to do so. As such, it is a belief in the Cocaine Bear's authority that allows it to officiate legally binding weddings in Kentucky.
You have to BELIEVE in the power of your Cocaine Bear Marriage for it to take effect. Fucking magical.
I tweeted this Tumblr screenshot from @one-time-i-dreamt at Elizabeth Banks bc I thought she'd get a kick out of it, being Effie Trinket and also writing Cocaine Bear, and she retweeted it!
I didn't even think she'd see it, let alone acknowledge it! OTID, you're famous!
the barbie movie. cocaine bear. dracula!nic cage (renfield). movies being silly and colorful and not taking themselves so seriously. 2023 is the year that cinema heals
I'm not over the fact that the Cocaine Bear was female.
All. Along.
AND.
Spoilers...
Cocaine Bear did NOT die, she got away with murdering like half a dozen people, AND she had two little cubs that she got to live happily ever after with.
After doing a monstrous amount of cocaine.
That's a fucking win for feminism and women everywhere.
This is what a real girlboss slay queen looks like: