#merbears

[surflessonscomics]

Realized last night that otters are merbears. That is all.

[cheesypoofies]

no nosy brothers! only angsty clownfish allowed!

[comtedemoney]

Hairy, Potbellied Mermen Are Taking on the Busty-Women-in-Bikinis Genre in Canada

They’re reinventing a region’s maritime culture—and its idea of manhood.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/01/merby-merman-calendar-history-masculinity.html

From the article:

The mermen began to appear in the summer of 2017, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, roughly midway between Montreal and Greenland. Sunning themselves on rocks by the harbor, or on the graffiti-strewn pylons of an abandoned waterfront fort, they caused quite a stir. One merman even ventured into a local tavern, where he splayed himself out atop the bar, puffing a long cigarette.

It turns out that the mermen did not suddenly emerge from the sea, but from the head of Hasan Hai, a Pakistani-Newfoundlander who works at a St. John’s tech start-up and as a bartender on the side. Several years ago, Hai, a gentle giant with tattoos, a shaved head, and a foot-long beard, started the Newfoundland and Labrador Beard and Mustache Club, a social organization, he told me, that has evolved into something akin to an enlightened Elks Lodge. “The intent is to promote healthy and non-traditional expressions of masculinity,” he said recently.

[cheesypoofies]

“annoying”

[eshcetera]

#inktober #inktober2017 #day4 #underwater #merbears (at Oakland, California)