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Happy Bear
@happybearcares.bsky.social
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📚PhD student in history
🎮 Twitch streamer
🕹️Retro game enthusiast
🌲 PNW girl forever
🏳️‍🌈Twitch Women’s Guild and Pride Guild

Follow me for gabs about women’s suffrage, games both modern and ancient, and the occasional fit check.

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Hello people of Bluesky! Happy Bear University has begun another semester and this week we'll be studying Hollow Knight, Banjo-Kazooie's retro achievements, and Skyrim crowd control!!! We're also finishing our subathon on Monday night. Can't wait to see you!!!
Fall semester at Happy Bear University has begun and here is our class schedule!!! Courses this week include Hollow Knight, Banjo-Kazooie retro achievements, and Skyrim crowd control!
September 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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We’re celebrating our five year streamerversary over on my channel! Come hang out!!

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A woman with a purple shirt and red hair smiles at the camera!!!
September 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Today’s fit!!! I really appreciate that the women’s bathrooms here on campus are selfie-friendly lol.
I, an adorable red haired woman, smile cheerfully for the camera! I am wearing a teal top, a black skater skirt, tights, and Doc Martens.
September 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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WOOOOOO we've got a schedule for y'all!!! Multiple collabs on tap + coworking + Pokemon nuzlocke!!!! Can't wait to see you on stream this week!!!
A schedule post describing what Happy Bear will be playing on Twitch this week! We're planning Split Fiction, co-working, a Peak collab, and a continuation of our Pokemon Emerald nuzlocke randomizer!
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Schedule for the week! MORE Hollow Knight is the centerpiece this week!!!
September 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Fit for my first day of teaching yesterday!
A woman in a brown coat with a white blouse, black skirt, and heels! (It’s me.) A woman stands in front of a mirror with a white blouse, black skirt, and black heels!
August 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Blahaj and I are looking skeptically at anyone who doesn’t click into our first coworking stream of the school year. Come get some stuff done with us!

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Blahaj and I are looking skeptically at anybody who doesn’t click into my coworking stream.
August 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Get ready to crack open a (figurative) cold one with me and the boy as we start our first playthrough of Hollow Knight!

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Just a girl and her adorable pet shark, Blahaj
August 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Starting my first Pokemon Nuzlocke tonight! I’m told that doing an Emerald randomizer for my first ever Nuzlocke is a *choice,* but that just means it’s good content! Come watch me get completely wrecked lol.

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It’s me, Happy Bear, in a dark blue top with white flowers.
August 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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My current copy of the guide is NOT my original. My mom saw this photo of Ruto and was SHOCKED that Nintendo would place a PORNOGRAPHIC image of a NAKED human woman in their guide! So she made me throw my guide out. I was so sad! I’m glad I have the means to replace the things I love now.
An illustration of the water sage Ruto, a Zora, standing in a seductive pose. My mom was totally sure this was pornography and so she made me throw my original copy of this guide out. So I guess you could say that Ruto was responsible. Thanks Ruto! Also thanks Mom for raising me in Mormonism and making me fear sexuality until adulthood! Definitely no therapy bills or mental scars from that! Anyway have a great day, people of Bluesky!!!!
August 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I finally have the spoons to finish my retro game guide posting! This is the JEWEL of my collection. I love it so much. Ocarina of Time was the first Zelda game I ever played, and having this guide to help me through it as a girl was really important.
The cover of Nintendo Power’s strategy guide for Ocarina of Time! It features Adult Link pointing his bow at an unseen enemy.
August 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Twitch schedule for the week! We're gonna push hard to finish Sea of Stars :D We are also trying out some new games to celebrate the Tiny Teams festival on Steam! If you like retro-style RPGs, you won't want to miss Sea of Stars.

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Happy Bear's Twitch stream schedule this week. Tuesday at 7 PM EST: Sea of Stars. Wednesday at 4 PM EST: Tiny Teams Festival games. Friday at 4 PM EST: Sea of Stars. Saturday at 7:00 PM: Sea of Stars.
August 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Live on TWITCH! Not entirely sure what I want to do tonight, come help me pick!

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A red-haired woman in a blue top smiles for the camera to announce that she is going live on Twitch! Her trusty stuffed shark Blahaj is at her side.
August 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Game guide post! Diddy Kong Racing is one of my favorite games of all time and its strategy guide is so fun and colorful!!! It has plenty of those 1990s CGI models that we love. Can you find the spelling error in the second image?
The front cover of the Diddy Kong Racing players guide, by Nintendo Power! It features Diddy with his toes FULLY out while driving at high speeds A page from the Diddy Kong Racing players guide showing off part of the map for Dino Domain, the game’s first sub-world.
June 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Retro game guide post! I love my Majora’s Mask guide. Nintendo Power really turned up the psychedelics to 11 with some of the art in this one!
The front cover of the Majora’s Mask player’s guide from Nintendo Power! A page from the Majora’s Mask player’s guide: the introduction to the “Southern Swamp.” It has a truly psychedelic background of Majora’s Mask looking warped and menacing!
June 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Blahaj wants you to join us for our first Sea of Stars stream!!! You wouldn’t want to disappoint HIM, would you?!

Broadcasting live at www.twitch.tv/happybearcares!
The incomparable Blahaj teetering dangerously on a couch cushion!!!
June 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Aidyn Chronicles. This game is turbo-Quest 64, taking all the bad things about Quest and turning them up to 11. It’s slow, janky, confusing, and all the characters have one polygon for a face with all their features painted on. This game is a mess.

But it’s MY mess.
The cover of the game “Aidyn Chronicles” for N64. A man in a suit of armor and a woman in a frankly impractical bikini look out over a valley toward a menacing tower protected by a cloud dragon.
June 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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We’re celebrating my graduation from my master’s program with some silly Pokemon XD adventures!!! Come hang out, my lovelies!

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A photo of me in a purple shirt with Blahaj lurking in the background!
June 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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VERY pleased to announce I am kicking off the Together for Pride raid train as part of the Pride Guild!!! All you night owls and Europeans come hang out with me TONIGHT at midnight PDT/3 AM EDT! We'll be ringing in Pride Month in style with Pokemon XD and Miror B, the GAYEST MAN IN POKEMON!
my announcement graphic letting everybody know I'm kicking off the Together for Pride raid train on June 1 at 12 AM PDT/3 AM PDT!
June 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Happy to announce I'll be on Twitch's "Together for Pride" front page shelf all year!!!
An announcement graphic for me being featured on the Twitch Together for Pride shelf!
May 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Stream schedule for the week! I am feral for Clair Obscur omg. We will also be trying out some Steam games that we were gifted keys for + doing some coworking!!!
Happy Bear's stream schedule for the week! We will begin with co-working, do some Clair Obscur, and try out some new games on Steam!
May 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Retro game guide post! I think this is one of Nintendo Power’s most beautiful game guides. The sumptuous maps and full page illustrations are stunning!
The front cover of the game guide for Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance! A page of the Path of Radiance game guide depicting Rhys the healer!
May 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I've been named an official co-streamer for the Women-Led Games showcase by @womenledgames.com !!!! I'll be live during Summer Game Fest on June 7 at 10 AM PT to help show off some awesome games produced by women or woman-led game studios!!!

#WLGxSGF25
The official announcement for the Women-Led Games showcase, starting at June 7 at 10 AM PT!
May 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Retro game guide post! It doesn’t get any better than the ‘90s perfection of the Mario 64 guide. I’ve had this guide for years and still treasure it. The layouts, the font, the plasticky Mario models - ugh it all makes me so nostalgic!
The front cover of the Mario 64 game guide by Nintendo Power! A picture of Mario sneaking. A layout of Whomp’s Fortress is behind him!
May 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Retro game guide post! Does anyone remember this Game Boy Advance guide that Nintendo Power put out? It featured strats for luminous titles like Mario Kart, Advance Wars, and … Jurassic Park III: Park Builder????? Lol lmao
The front cover of a Nintendo Power guide for several Game Boy Advance games! Maps for Cheese Land and Bowser Castle 2 in the Game Boy Advance players guide!
May 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM