#the bear roars

[blackbearmagic]

so ya boi has been super depressed, like clinically, for way longer than usual and it led to me heading down to the local psych urgent care for an evaluation today

During the eval, which was over zoom, the person assessing me asked me if I keep any "gods or ancestral gods" in the house.

I'm thinking "weird question for a psych eval, but okay sure", and I get about two sentences into describing my weird pagan ways before she leans into her screen and says "GUNS. Do you keep any G U N S or have ACCESS TO GUNS in the house."

so that's probably the funniest thing that's happened to me recently

#the bear roars #I'm safe #I got a referral to their outpatient day program #I'm kinda looking forward to it? #it's time away from work but it'll be structured and dedicated to figuring out what went kaboom in my brain a month ago #and unkabooming it #and giving me the tools to prevent future kabooming

[ursa-ironii]

My digital circus OC who’s literally just a cinched pillow with a bedsheet cloak and those star mobiles for baby cribs

#the amazing digital circus #the amazing digital circus OC #digital circus oc #the bear roars #my art #ursa ironii #this took a whole six hours can u fucking believe that 😭

[an-actual-bear-oh-god-what]

roar

yeah i'm a bear

yea the animal

he/they/it

that's all the important stuff I think

#the bear roars

[cervinesuggestion]

holds up the entire Straw Hat crew

These are my emotional support nakamas

#the bear roars #unironically I started One Piece at exactly the right time #this is the exact energy I need in my life at this exact moment

[yesterdaysprint]

The Goblin, Toronto, Ontario, February 1926

#1920s #roaring 20s #jazz age #comics #bears #vintage #history #animals

[fuckyeah-bears]

#I must confess I have been enjoying the image caption feature #And no thank you to the person who told me I was captioning them wrong on bearotonin #If I’m gonna remember to caption images #I’m gonna have to make it an enjoyable task #And I’m sorry but I think my image captions convey the mood of the picture far better than #‘Thick brown bear standing on his hind life’s roaring in a pretty field”

[rulamantic]

WHAT SILLY BEARS!

(They are going to commit so many accounts of mass genocide together)

#art #artist on tumblr #digital art #htf flippy #htf fanart #htf #pretty blood #rinny #pretty blood rinny #happy tree friends #unicorn wars #unicorn wars azulin #azulin #unicorn wars fanart #bear #bears #roar #yknow... #the normal BEAR things... #no i did not add Freddy Fazbear #...should i add Freddy Fazbear?...

[ride-a-dromedary]

The tempests and storms that lurk just beneath Halsin's skin; how ferociously he defends those who cannot defend themselves; how protection and defense is sometimes messy and blurry and blinded by fury even when coming on the heels of passion; how he chooses to be placid and calm and gentle - how he insists that violence is not always the answer - but poke the bear one too many times and he will maul you, no hesitation.

#BG3 Musing #Halsin #Halsin Posting #the man contains multitudes #i know that him not having a barbarian yell when you respec him is a glitch but honestly keeping it as the bear roar but amplified #is so much better #halsin is genuinely unashamed of things done in the name of self defense and the defense of others #the man doesn't want to fight - but he *will* win #by any means necessary - his body is a vessel to serve nature with and that includes the strength needed to protect it #i'm still stuck on the fact that halsin should theoretically be just as good in his unarmed and armed attacks #as he is in magical ones #cracking skulls in the name of the oakfather and the like #i know some people are making the 'he has hidden anger issues' arguement but i think that's gross oversimplification #he doesn't have anger issues - he is passionate to a fault that it sends him to spiral #it literally crackles beneath the surface #he doesn't have hidden anger - he displays it quite clearly or warns of it when triggers arise #woe betide any who stand against me

[bonefall]

ouhh..... what if the scientists like, also released more prey into the forests or something and the cats became suspicious.... what would the scientists do if one of the clan cats specifically came to them for help for whatever reason?

You have to remember they are researchers. They are interacting with wild animals, and aren't trying to ruin their data with interference like that.

They don't give food gifts, flood the forest with animals (except when other conservation efforts overlap), or attempt to acclimate Clan cats to humans. This fear of people is considered a good thing; it would be very bad for cats to rely on humans or interact with hikers regularly.

(Even SkyClan can end up on thin ice with their willingness to steal and beg.)

So it's unlikely the Clan cats come up to ask for help and that is a positive. If it did happen, they may do the bare minimum (like when a shark asks a human to remove a fishhook), and then write it down in their notes.

But hikers are given a LOT of warnings, and even fined, for bothering the wildlife. Clan cats WILL hurt you if you grab them. You're encouraged to only walk and camp in marked areas.

The cats aren't the only reason for that either!

Sanctuary Lake boasts a sizeable boar population, a red deer herd, over a dozen species of protected songbirds, badgers, otters, foxes, and beavers were (indirectly) re-introduced.

Motor boats are also banned in the lake, to protect water quality. The water is so pure that it's able to host the endangered Freshwater Pearl Mussel, and probably has its own species of endemic fish.

So in a nutshell; no. The Clan cats are not messed with. Interaction is kept distant very purposefully.

#The most unrealistic part of what I mentioned is boar btw #Boar have only recently been reintroduced to the UK period. But I'm putting them in the same boat as the eagle population #Plus if I didn't include boar I'd have to keep foxes and badgers ridiculously unrealistic #As they are in canon #My partner self refers to britan as Tutorial Island lmao #The wildlife is SO gentle compared to america #The erins write foxes like coyotes #And badgers like tiny bears #And like NO LOL you're thinking of a HOG. You want a BOAR. #A BOAR ROARS #They don't go oink oink like cute piggies those things are horrifying #If you've ever heard the 'Stock Beast Roar' in any media ever? That was a boar. #Millie's radio collar

[danjiisthmus]

Were Plant Bear

Monster plant bear coming out earlier than Halloween this year I didn’t use reference it probably needs editing lol

#furry #furryart #furryartist #furrysfw #plant bear #bear #portrait #green #plants #paws #claws #teeth #growl #roar #werebear

[blackbearmagic]

So I recently learned how to spin yarn, and I'm enjoying it immensely. But yesterday I was at the craft store before work, and I saw this:

And I thought "that looks enough like roving that I bet I could spin it", so I got it, knowing full well that my one spindle is already engaged in spinning some wool.

Because I also thought "people were spinning fluff into string for thousands of years before they were able to just buy a new spindle, it can't be that hard to make one".

Turns out, it's not.

Is this going to be a good spindle? Almost certainly not, and I can't wait to see how much it sucks and in what ways. But it should at least be a functional spindle, and that's all I really need for this.

#the bear roars #my art #hand spinning

[ursa-ironii]

A picture I was able to take thanks to @9fe2bf !!!

#Thank u MY BESTIE OTTER FOR GETTING ME IN THERE I LAVA U ALWAYS <3 #sky COTL #the bear roars #forest elder #sky kid

[cloverhighfive]

So I see this pic and it reminds me of something...

hmmm but what...

#cockles #jib8 #jibcon #jibcon8 #roar #nesnej #the epic moment of the showing of the bear briefs #classic #jenmish #kilt #pam meme #mymeme

[yesterdaysprint]

Judge magazine, January 19, 1927

#1920s #roaring 20s #jazz age #comics #penguins #polar bear #1927 #winter

[roukabi]

Do you have the things I asked for?

(The Four of Pentacles symbolizes wealth, security, control, and possessiveness.)

(click for better quality :’D )

[Image ID: A digital illustration of the bear from Ghost Quartet, head off to one side while drooling. With him are four glowing orbs - the Pentacles without the actual Pentacles. One holds the pot of honey inside, grasped in the bear’s greedy claws. Above the bear, the piece of stardust. On the bottom right, the secret baptism. And at the bottom left, the photo of a ghost. Each orb is golden and glowing, casting their light on the bear. There is a golden star in his eye as well. Behind him are the woods in which the bear lives, and the Astronomer’s treehouse can just barely (...bear-ly) be made out. Stars dot the sky above it. The background and shading are varied shades of violet. At the top of the image is the Roman numeral for 4. The artist’s signature is in the top right corner. End ID.]

#leave it to me to take one of the only animal characters lol #but i AM a fan of brent arnold as well so #i think there are still cards left to claim for this collab so go nab one if you're on the fence! #ps don't worry about the missing pentacles. yes i know it's in the name but the Four Tasks were cooler #ghost quartet #malloysicals #bear #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #dave malloy #musicals #bears #rook draws! #rook roars!

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

I love the idea that Nobby likes James; even sorta respects him! What about Nobby and Gordon? I bet Nobby isnt so impressed by bossy big blue babey Gord

Oop, started to respond and then saved this to drafts. And then I forgot about it. Sorry.

I didn't want to answer at once, though, because when I received this we were only about two-thirds of the way through Springtime, and I thought it would be better to talk about this after the story was over.

Because now you've had a chance to see Nobby bossing someone else around mercilessly — and then, on a dime, going into utter, catastrophizing meltdown the minute he himself suffers a mild indignity.

So I hope it makes sense when I say that Nobby and Gordon have some similarities!

Another is that Nobby actually was, in his youngest years, a similar sort of all-important savior-of-the-railway company flagship. His domain was much smaller than Gordon's, of course, but he had the same absolute primacy and pride. And much like the youngest Gordon it's really not that Nobby was a bad sort, but a fellow engine trying to make him see sense when he was on his high horse was just a fool's errand. (Nobby was a lot more respectful of human authority in those early years... which you may consider to make the situation better or worse, lol. He definitely had—and still has!—more of a temper than Gordon, though, and can be way pettier. The counterbalance is that he has higher ideals and a better ability to relate to other engines.)

A final thing they have in common is that they conceive of and hatch rather daring ideas. Leadership qualities run strong in them both.

Of course, none of this means that Nobby will recognize these similarities. Or that they will in any way dispose him to think kindly of the infant galloping sausage.

Hmm, I reserve the right for this to change as I write, but in general I just think Nobby doesn't at first take much notice of Gordon particularly (heresy, I know!). In the same era Gordon is arriving, so are several absurdly large new Sodor engines and to him they are all ill-mannered whelps.

He doesn't get as steamed up about any of them as much you might think, though, because they are fundamentally Not His Problem. His railway is undergoing Grouping at the time — he has bigger fish to fry. Anyway, if any of his lot were a fourth as rude as the Big Blue Bastards, he'd tear them to shreds, but that's because he knows they were taught better and he expects more from them. Nobby kind of regards Gordon in the at first as a sort of orphan. Not in the sense he pities him but that he kind of half despises him as a poorly brought-up urchin and half thinks it's a shame that no one did better by him.

Nobby has definitely at times told Edward, when Edward has the dubious fortune of bringing a train over the bridge, that he must really tell that Gresley to do this or not do that or to act in such-a-such way.

At which point you can imagine Edward just staring at him with weary disbelief. Nobby, you don't tell Gordon things... it's a waste of good steam.

Nobby thinks this is making excuses, lol. To his mind it's entirely Edward's responsibility to Coppernob all those lost boys into respectable engines. Put your frames into it, son.

#this is an early impression #i have another idea for nobby's take on gordon but... let's see how it works out when i try to tackle it in fic form #chatter #coppernob things #ttte gordon #queue some hard work for a change #actually the absolute shambles everyone must have dissolved into #watching these 90+ ton 12-wheeled engines roaring towards the bridge #... THERE WAS A WEIGHT RESTRICTION ON THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE CUMBRIAN COAST LINE UNTIL A BRIDGE WAS STRENGTHENED IN 1930 #GORDON COULDN'T HAVE FUCKEN WORKED THE FURNESS MAIN LINE #🤔 constructing a sodor line on wartime budget and materials that could bear Gordonian hammerblow may have been thomas #the tank engine's greatest achievement #... wondering now how circuitous gordon's route from doncaster to vicarstown WAS