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[adventureaday]

Lunch out and found new street art on Abbot Kinney. #ilovrbears . . . #adventureaday #streetart #bearseverywhere (at Abbot Kinney Boulevard)

[pesh555]

I adore this advert! How cute 💕 #heathrowbears #bearseverywhere #tubecuteness #iwannaflyaway

[grungles-blog]

[WP]The world is in the midst of WW3, The lost city of Atlantis emerges from the sea with technology unlike anything we've ever seen and begins an all-out war on the surface nations.

A prompted writing from r/writingprompts.

"The movies got it wrong. Not just the movies: The comics, the toys; hell, PLATO got it wrong. We imagined cheerful merfolk or time-lost greeks, perhaps ancient aliens or some combination thereof, but never could we have forseen this horror.

They're just humans of course but their technology is... baffling. It's unlike anything we could have dared to imagine. Gargantuan mechanical constructs forced into motion by steam and hate. The pilots are warriors like some mixture of old Poseidon and lumberjacks, wielding tridents and crude firearms. They march their machines ever onward, the malice in their eyes so hot it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up before you ever see them... before you're bathed in that scorching steam. We thought our weapons would be more than a match for them but taking out the functioning whole released its parts: That terrible warrior and the creatures that churn the steam into motion in the core of the titan. The thing we got the most wrong.

The warrior, and the titan only takes one, is a terror to behold: somehow they trained beneath the sea to attain a level of physical perfection hitherto unseen in a human specimen. Their hides shrug off lesser bullets and their unbelievable endurance means they take a dozen armour-piercing rounds before they stop their slaughter. Oh god, and such slaughter... those men can leap impossible distances to cleave men in two with their tridents. They are infallible with their firearms and their terrifying demeanour spreads chaos among the troops. Backed up by their monstrosities, taking out a titan can lead to higher casualties than having it walk right over your men.

When I saw the things that emerged from within a downed titan, I am not ashamed to admit that I ran. I know it is unbecoming for a man of my station but I knew if I didn't there would be no-one left to warn the rest of mankind. Steam swirling about, tears in my eyes, I could hardly be sure what I beheld was true. You see... on land, we domesticated dogs. We taught them to protect us, to accept us as members, masters of their pack. In Atlantis they didn't have dogs. Of course they didn't have dogs. All they had were the bears.

They domesticated them all right. In the group I saw there where clear indications of different "breeds". Some of the bears were snub faced with wiry hair, most were similar to the North American brown bear. There were two things they all had in common though: Not a one of them made any move to attack that frenzied berserker pilot and they were all near the size of a small house. There were variations in size of course. The largest one would comfortably house a family of five while the smallest would have been more suitable for a bachelor. Of course in some circumstances you'll sleep anywhere that has a roof between your head and the sky so I suppose a regular bear could be considered the size of a small house. At any rate, these hou- er BEARS brought down such murder that none of the forces assembled that day could match them. So many dead... so... many..."

"At this point the chancellor trailed off and was unresponsive to further questions. It is believed that had he perished in the initial assault and not delivered his warning, tens of millions would have died in this war. After relating his horrific tales, the UN has plans to offer their unconditional surrender to the Atlantean overlords. Though attempts to communicate have thus far been unsuccesful, it is believed many lives will be saved this way. For your news at 10, I'm Cheryl LaForge."