“You remember what a Polar Bear looks like, right?”
“Oh yeah, don’t worry about it.”
this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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I have a feeling, those who got close enough to see the details, didn't get a chance to sculpt.
In the artist's defense, they'd only just returned from an expo w/ some illuminated text scribes, so 💁🏽♂️
Polar bear? Looks to me like they just carved some funny little guys. I'd hate for future archaeologists to find my highschool doodles and decide what animals I must have been depicting
Lotsa unicorns way back then. Hung.
edit: meant "hunh", but I'm leaving it.
Unicorns just have the same horn down there. It’s all one diagonally placed bone all the way through.
IIRC, horns are keratin and antlers are bone. ☝🏼
Interesting. What else can you tell us about Unicorn physiology?
Pretty horny from top to bottom, and all the switches between. 💁🏽♀️
That "polar bear" has seen some shit.
Yeah, sure, those totally look like polar bear faces and bodies....
Did the artist see any polar bears before carving this, or were they blind and working from verbal description?
Personally, I'm petty sure this is a normal example of 19th century porn.
Mondays, amirite?
Looks like it was carved out of a potato - neat!