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>Is that someone the cool bear making an appearance on my blog? We’ll never know… and also I’d have to ask fasterthanlime to ask them for permission and didn’t plan this well enough.

Cool bear has breached containment.

I do have to admit I love the recent-ish trend of including dialogues in blog posts. Plato would be proud.

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RalfJ if you see this: you have my permission to use Cool Bear on your blog. Thanks for asking!

Hi Amos, thanks a ton. :)

Is there some sort of licensing program available? Cool Bear As A Service?

Cool Bear Cinematic Universe

Cool Bear has been making guest appearances in a couple places already! I do not intend to pay lawyers to pursue anyone who uses them without permission but I appreciate being asked first — it lets me keep track of where Bear travels.

My only worry regarding Cool Bear is the licensing of the two pieces of artwork: I bought them a while ago on some stock image website but the terms weren't super clear, so I might need to revisit that. Since then I've commissioned drawings of bear and myself (5 variants each) but I haven't had a chance to use those yet — they're not monochrome, which makes dark mode awkward.

I don't have a good way to include the image anyway (or I am too lazy to figure out how to do that in Jekyll, I guess), so its appearance(s) on my blog will be text-only for now. Thus no image license trouble. ;)

[Bear Face Emoji U+1F43B] + [Zero Width Joiner U+200D] + [Smiling Face with Sunglasses Emoji U+1F60E]

Me too! Amos' and Xe's blogs are often fun to read because of the dialogues between the characters and the writer.

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