Teddy Bears

Teddy Bears have appeared regularly in fanworks. 
Sometimes characters are shown holding them, and in the case of one Blake's 7 zine, the characters themselves are portrayed as teddy bears.
==Origins: Hokas==
Teddy Bears in fanworks may have their start in a much older, science fiction tradition, as "Hokas" created by science fiction writers Poul Anderson and Gordon Dickson. "Hokas are disunited and – childlike. They have a hard time taking anything seriously. Worse, they cannot distinguish between fact and fiction, and the IL’s serious manuals on good government are ignored in favor of the more exciting Earth fiction: Westerns, pirate sagas, jungle ape-man thrillers, and so on." 
From Millennium #2: 
==Fandoms with Canon Teddy Bears==
*Brideshead Revisited: Aloysius is Lord Sebastian Flyte's teddy bear in Evelyn Waugh's novel and adaptations.
*M*A*S*H: Radar O'Reilly has a teddy bear which he loves very much.
*Star Trek: DS9: Julian Bashir has a teddy bear called Kukalaka, which appears in several episodes.
*Star Trek: TOS: In the Star Trek: TOS episode "Journey to Babel," Spock's mother Amanda describes his childhood pet, a sehlat, as being similar to a "fat teddy bear."
*Starsky & Hutch: In the Starsky & Hutch episode "Starsky's Lady," there is a sweet and caring BOTW named Terry Roberts, who has a teddy bear named Ollie that she keeps on her bed. Knowing ahead of time that she is going to die, Terry writes a note to Hutch entrusting him with Ollie... and Starsky. She adds that he should "love them both." Ollie the teddy bear shows up in many S&H stories, both slash and gen, ckua-pepper, Tagging Bay City - CANON OBJECTS. Teddy bear fic is listed under "Ollie: (Starsky's Lady)." Last accessed November 22, 2010. either as a main character (in stories such as "Ollie's Thoughts--Thoughts from the Teddy Bear" in the zine "Ties, and Tough Love" by TLR) or simply getting a mention in stories such as Justice by Sue David and Valerie Wells, or Memory's Ashes by Susan Proto.
*Doctor Who: When Steven Taylor makes his first appearance, he has been trapped on the planet Mechanus for two years with only his toy panda bear, Hi-Fi, for company.
*One Direction: The Rainbow Bondage Bear is an elaborately dressed-up teddy bear featured on-stage during most of 1D's shows in 2014-2015. His companion Sugar Baby Bear (a smaller version of RBB) later joined him on stage.
*Garfield has Pooky, which has appeared in the strip going back to 1978.
==Fan Reactions==
The Professionals: One Professionals zine, Guilty Pleasures, made fans a promise: "Caution: This zine includes: Girls, girls with boys and girls, H/C, SM, press-ganged flogging victims, AUs, crossovers and death. No elves. No teddy bears."
===1994===
==Fannish Bears==
===Custom Character Teddy Bears===
Some fans made teddy bears in the likeness of certain media characters. 
A fan in The K/S Press #53 (2000) talks about “custom bears” that one could purchase: “I have a good friend who makes custom bears in all fandoms, all with attached furry balls and penises. She would make a Kirk and/or Spock bear for you WITH or without the ‘private equipment.’ Actually, she can make the ‘family jewels’ and put them on elastic so you can choose whether or not to make your bears adult… An individual bear with uniform BUT not private parts is $35. The ‘family jewels.’ whether attached or on elastic are $5 extra.” 
In the Ger Bear Project Ger Bear Project , Brenda F. Bell dressed six teddy bears in clothes based on costumes worn by actor Geraint Wyn Davies in various roles he had played on Forever Knight. The bears were dubbed Klaus Bearsing (Klaus Helsing in Dracula: The Series), Nicholas B. Knight, Nicolas de Bearbant, Bear of Harps, Beartual Reality, and Nick Bearskill (Nick Haskell from Black Harbour). Except where noted, the bears' clothes were based from costumes from Forever Knight episodes. Three of the bears were donated to the Geraint Wyn Davies Fan Club to raise money for charity.
A fan makes a con purchase. From The K/S Press #13: "I am now the proud owner of the Vulcan Teddy Bear I've read so much about in The K/S Press. Very handsome he is too, with his pointy ears and fuzzy black hair. I treasure him, both for himself and as a memento of this wonderful con, and try not to wonder about where he hides his six-inch fangs."
KRin Pender-Gunn (aka "The Pink Lady") is a well-known creator of fannish bears which she sells at various Australian science fiction conventions (among other items) to raise money for charity.
===Portraying Characters With Teddy Bears===
There are a lot of fanworks which portray or describe Blake's 7 Kerr Avon with teddy bears. Read more about the origins of this custom at Avon's Teddy Bear.
There are many in the Star Trek fandom, specifically for Spock, something that is probably a nod to a sehlat being described as a large teddy bear with fangs.
The Professionals fanworks also mysteriously features a lot of teddy bears.
For Sentinel teddy bears and Jim Ellison, see Snufflefic.
===Actors and Teddy Bears===
Frank Spotnitz, an X-Files writer, was involved in a fan-run charity action called the 2009 Frankenbear Worldwide TourFan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century edited by Kristin M. Barton, Jonathan Malcolm Lampley, page 100 ff, where a stuffed teddy bear named after Spotnitz was sent from all over the world from one X-Phile to the another to raise money for the UCLA-Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center'. Frankenbear's last stop was in November 2009, where the bear was given to Spotnitz together with a scrapbookFrankenbear Facebook profile. The action originated by XFilesNews and the fan group SkypePhiles.
Many fanworks feature the Blake's 7 character, Kerr Avon, with a teddy bear. A fan explained how this became a Blake's 7 meme: 
==Fan Fiction with Teddy Bears==
*"Gruff and Grim" by HG, a Pros circuit story which some believe started the genre in that fandom. A magical realism piece, it has Bodie and Doyle realizing that they spent some of their youth in houses across the street from each other, and that their teddies are still there.
*In Fever by Pamela Rose, a Professionals story, Bodie gives an injured Doyle a teddy bear as comfort
* Spider-Bear by Solarcat, a Marvel Ultimate Universe story where Johnny Storm has a Spider-man bear.
* The Mascot by Darkerchild is a Doctor Who story exploring Steven's relationship with Hi-Fi.
==Gallery of Teddy Bear-Related Fanworks==
File:Spaceoddity1-2.jpg|from Space Oddity #1, artist is Emily McEwan (1987, Blake's 7 
File:Horizon13-1.jpg| from Horizon #13, Servalan with a teddy bear, artist is Fliss Davies
File:Beyondfarpoint5-levy.jpg| from Beyond Farpoint USA #5, portrays Jean-Luc Picard, Renee Levy is the artist: "No one on the ship really believes the captain falls asleep with a good book!"
File:Distortedvisions5back.jpg|from Distorted Visions #5, Worf and his teddy, artist is Jody A. Morse
Image:bearsontheroof.jpg|from Blake's 7 zine, Bear's on the Roof and We Can't Get Him Down
File:Contactchrist1art1.jpg| from Contact Christmas #1, Star Trek: TOS, Sonia Gringas
Image:Noholds4.jpg|from No Holds Barred #4, The Professionals character Bodie
Image:azraelblock-3.jpg| from Azrael Block, Jean-Luc Picard and a teddy bear, Leah Shaw is the artist
Image:whodoteddy.jpg| from Who Do We Trust Times #5, Starsky and Hutch and their teddies, artist uncredited
File:Interphaseteddybear.jpg| from Interphase #4, D.L. Collin, Spock and Jim Kirk have a moment
Image:Olliethology.jpg|from Starsky and Hutch zine Olliethology
Image:Copkillerkurz.jpg| from the Starsky & Hutch zine Copkiller by Ruth Kurz
File:Grup5inside1.jpg| from Grup #5 by D.L. Collin "Something bothering you, Miss Chapel...?" asks Spock
File:Babel3art2.jpg| from Babel #3, Star Trek: TOS
File:Bearhugscover.jpg|from the Harry & Johnny photo-collage zine, Bear Hugs & Bunny Kisses
Image:beyondantaresthirteen.jpg|from Beyond Antares #13, Santa gives Spock a Christmas treat
File:Sehlat5art10.jpg| from Sehlat's Roar #5, a Star Trek: TOS zine, by Clare Bell
==References==
Category:Tropes & Genres