• alexei_1917 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    This. The next person to imply Pooh is a communist and mean that negatively, or use him to insult China, gets the fucking wall. After, of course, they are made to climb a bee tree and fill a hunny pot or two for him while dodging the disturbed bees. That nice bear needs a hug, not to be used as an insult.

    (I don’t imagine he’d be particularly willing to read theory, or fight in a revolution, but once you explained to him that communists really just want society to progress to its next stage of being and for people to have greater equality and more collective decision making, I do think he’d be supportive of the cause and happy to provide hugs, manage the honey supply, and generally raise morale. But calling him a communist as an insult isn’t cool, even if I do think he’d side with whoever promises him enough hunny for everyone and equality for society as a whole, and communists are more likely than any other ideological alignment to promise that and achieve it.)

      • alexei_1917 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Yep. Himbs the best bear. Love Pooh. He’s just such a nice cuddly bear. The archetypal living teddy bear character. He’ll split his last pot of hunny with you if you’re hungry, and give you a hug if you’re sad or hurt. He’d probably give you a warm fluffy hug and his shirt if you were cold.

        He’d probably lose attention half a sentence in at a leftist book club, and refuse to carry a weapon and actively fight a bourgeois state… but he damn well understands sharing, and would agree that people should be better at doing it. He probably isn’t interested in politics, but he’s also probably the same kind of socialist I was at age five - wants people to share and everyone to have their needs met, and if that makes one a communist, well, he does wear red already.

        But I don’t just like him because he’d probably agree with me politically, and would have even more so when I was a little kid. I like him because he’s hug shaped. Because he’s the cutest little bear ever. Because he’s a good friend. Because the only thing he ever gets truly upset about is his friends getting hurt or being completely out of hunny. Because he’s so nice. Because he’s so careful to not let little Piglet get hurt. Because he tries to be understanding of his friends, even if understanding things isn’t his strong suit. Because his response to every scary situation is to stand up for his friends. Because he’s always up for a hug. Or teatime. Or a picnic and Pooh Sticks.

        Because he’s the Archetypal Teddy Bear. And that, is why I want a Pooh hug. Because sweet cuddly bears give the best hugs.

          • alexei_1917 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            Aww, thanks.

            Yep! That is indeed very funny. You’d think after the first couple times that happened, Rabbit would have installed a larger “Pooh size” door, or stopped feeding Pooh when he visits… but then, Pooh gets stuck a lot. He gets his head stuck in hunny pots, he gets stuck in bee trees… it’s funny when he gets stuck, even funnier when he’s pulled out of somewhere he’s stuck and goes flying.

            Pooh’s basically always doing something utterly hilarious, when he’s not being cute and huggable. I love that silly old bear.

              • alexei_1917 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
                1·
                6 days ago

                That’s adorable. I have quite a few plush Pooh Bears myself, Pooh Bears give the best snuggles.

                I do have a stuffed panda bear that wears my favourite hat when I’m not wearing it, funnily enough he has a red jacket and he’s roughly the same shape as a standard plush Pooh Bear. He’s a lot more political than you’d expect from a teddy bear, and extremely sectarian, he loves asking people “so, are you a Maoist or are you wrong?” and he’s tried sharpening his claws on my Soviet flag a few times because he’s still mad about the Sino-Soviet Split, but… Well, can’t expect much else from a panda bear. At least when he’s being sectarian, he’s too busy with that to try to steal and chew up my bamboo cutting board.

                Here’s a pic of him in said hat…