catbountry:

kenyatta:

A photo of a Canadian RCMP officer taking a pic of a young bear makes the news in 2011.

The photo gets famous on Tumblr in late 2013. Someone in the reblog suggests that it’d make a great cartoon:

An artist (lemonteaflower) creates single pane art of the imagined cartoon about the officer and the bear. lemonteaflower titles it “Miss Officer and Mr Truffles.”

The ‘Miss Officer and Mr Truffles’ art inspires other artists to make fan art as well.

There’s drawings and animations and theme music and fanfic. There is an au crossover prompt. There is headcanon about the fancanon. THERE ARE NEW CHARACTERS. There are fandom complaints about the unfair treatment of Miss Officer and Mr Truffles compared to other shows (deservedly so.)

This is an entire fan ecosystem grown out in a matter of hours, all without official canon (h/t Mike Rugnetta for the idea.)

Oh yeah, and thanks to DailyDot, the RMCP officer created a Tumblr just to say hi and show her appreciation.

This is beautiful and fascinating.

You guys are nuts, you know that. I mean that as a compliment btw.