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FOUND THESE ANCIENT DRAWINGS FROM 2019 OH WOW... my LT knowledge (and Dafpork knowledge) was only just beginning... i'm pretty sure i drew this as an excuse to just draw them being close, as per the Clampett version? but wow

i also had an infatuation with smug late era Chuck Jones art at that point

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i hate it when a ship is so popular fhat you cant go into a character tag without seeing the other guy too... i dont want him. go away

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do you see my vision. do you see my dafpork babies vision

these kids have no chance zero speaking normally

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Your level of obsession with dafpork, the media surrounding them, and all the details with time period research and everything is what I aspire to be like with my own character obsessions. You’re literally one of the coolest artists I’ve ever seen. Too scared to send this with my user lol but still wanted to say something. Keep doing what your doing man, it’s inspiring 🫶

ANON!!!! MY GOODNESS how i lament that there aren't enough words in the English vernacular--much less my handling on them--that can describe how utterly thankful and the deep, deep gratitude i feel to hear this!! i hope you know my "THANK YOU VERY MUCH" is as heartfelt as possible: THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! i've very much been needing to hear this. thank you so much for taking that risk and sending it at all!! i can't tell you how much it brightened my day and, realistically, week to hear this!!

i--GOSH what do i say?? thank you!! i'm so glad i can be an inspiration... especially because, in many ways i still find myself holding back, even on here... i'm really trying to just let loose and be obsessive and passionate and LOVE--love the characters, the series, the medium, the history, their relationship to me and vice versa--so this comes at an excellent time.

i'm very glad to have this blog! as i keep saying, it's certainly been my link to sanity through hard times. i made this blog as a throwaway, apathetic archive that turned into a secret shame corner of repression and guilt, and now it's just my little free-for-all pick me up where i can cut a little looser and have a centralized space to gush over everyone's talents and thoughts, who also shares this space and these characters and even my ideas with me... my gratitude is utterly boundless!

sometimes i can ostracize myself, feeling like i'm putting in too much for too little, that i need to pull back, that i'm somehow alienating others with how niche my approaches and interests and, again, relationship with these guys can get... i can get frustrated at how isolating it feels to have these very unique feelings and dynamics with the characters, and how so few people share or even show any interest in it. so, again, i truly cannot stress how meaningful this is to hear. thank you SO much, i am so flattered and overwhelmed by your kindness! this is a message i will be thinking back on for a long time. i'm so happy to hear this!! 💛💛💛🦆🐖

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more dafpork parenthood (impending parenthood?)

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boooo get out

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summer stroll

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loser doodling siiighhh

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best m/f dynamic is a flamboyant bisexual show-off desperately in love with an extremely practical girl who’s difficult to impress 🤩

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I actually passed away quite a few years ago, but I'm a very private person and never told anybody.

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special dafpork tumblr sneak peek

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SO QUICK AND SCRIBBLY but this just popped into my head and it made me laugh. Daffy spends the rest of the day yelling "IS THIS QUIET ENOUGH FOR YA" and Porky is murderous

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this became one of the most profound pieces i’ve drawn, by complete accident!

i’ve been going through a rough time, as is no secret. been trying to take it moment by moment, as it’s all i can do—lot of back and forth, slingshotting through moods more than i usually do. questioning and contradicting my every single action and suffocating because of it. i’ve really been questioning my outward positivity and how i’m able to inspire other people through that, when i absolutely do not internalize the same positivity and sort of feel 50 times worse than i appear. is it meaningless if i can’t feel it myself? it’s genuine, i’m not trying to force it—but i simply can’t feel it for myself. have i just gaslit myself into being an actor? what direction should i go in? is my positivity burdensome to others? does it make me seem flippant or insincere, especially since i’m unable to direct it to myself?

a lot of questioning my purpose and identity and feeling stuck between a million hard places with no way out, as they’re all booby trapped with something different. and as soon as i want to go a certain direction, i immediately want to go the other, and the sheer confusion is too overwhelming.

this is all to say: i was working on storyboards for work. the linked song comes on my playlist, and i get hit with this drawing idea. i scribbled it out in the margins of my storyboard, to remember to clean up for later. just something quick and cute—i liked the idea of the detached intimacy of it, and i’ve sort of been mourning that the lightning bugs are beginning to go away for the season around here. something casual and cute!

so i start cleaning it up when i have some spare time a few days later. i’m not really thinking much about, just other than i hope i can get it to look nice and cozy, finagling with the values and seeing if the shading makes sense. business as usual

and i don’t know what made me have this realization, but at some point i just stopped. i think i was finagling with the lighting of the lightning bug and seeing how it blended. but i just had this realization of:

lightning bugs are so tiny. they just have this tiny little light that doesn’t really radiate a ton of light—they’re just this cute little thing. but even in spite of their size, and how “”useless”” they may seem (as in, a lightning bug is not going to be a very good light source), they’re immediately noticeable in the darkness. no matter how consuming the darkness is, their light—as tiny and “”impractical”” as it is—is immediately noticeable. people are naturally drawn to the light, you always point out when a lightning bug is nearby and you try to capture it and enjoy watching it do its thing. it operates on its own terms. sometimes, its light isn’t always on. it flickers. that doesn’t make the darkness worse, per se—just that when it does light up, it’s noticeable. you’re not demanding that it have its light on all the time and wondering why it’s not blinking. you just appreciate it when it’s there, and its light makes such a difference of small joy and memorability. especially considering that light attracts other lightning bugs.

and i felt very stricken and i suppose representative of that—it’s not futile for me to spread positivity and light. even if i have trouble feeling it for myself at times, i shouldn’t just completely shut out my light and melt into the darkness. likewise, i shouldn’t have to feel like my light needs to do something. i shouldn’t expect to be able to light up an entire yard with my single light and wonder why i can’t. especially when people will be happy to see it at all.

some people may want to reach out and touch this light. they might want the lightning bug to crawl on their arm, land on their finger, watch it move around and appreciate it up close. the Daffys. the Porkys may be content to just sit back and watch, but that doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate or value or aren’t moved by the same light. your light, no matter how small it is, makes a notable difference. it can create so many fond memories for people,even if it’s something as “small” (but no less significant) as “remember when we’d watch and catch lightning bugs?”.

and as someone who’s really been struggling with my own light, wanting to shine more of it and feel it for myself but fearing it being too blinding or burning and steering people away in the process, or feeling like i don’t have enough light to shine in the vast grand scheme of things… it was just this incredibly profound realization that was completely accidental. i definitely slip a lot of intent in my art, and these are things i would think about… but not this time. it was this happy accident that sort of turned into an out of body experience, of sorts—did i draw this for Porky and Daffy, or did they decide to relay this message to me? i couldn’t help but feeling like i was this tiny little firefly on Daffy’s finger instead. especially considering the comfort these guys have brought me in times of need, and how i keep finding ways where they represent or mirror or filter my own experiences and help me make sense of them—a recurring theme as of late.

such a profound experience that i haven’t been able to stop thinking about, and i wanted to document it—both to show how much these guys mean to be in a very spiritual way at times, and just in case i could inspire someone else and signal my light to them

inspired by listening to a Burl Ives song that came on shuffle

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i've poked fun at myself for being able to relate so strongly to both Daffy and Porky, considering all of the opposites in their personalities and "what does that mean for me?!", but it's been a big help coping wise--this has always been the case, but especially as of late. "i'm definitely feeling more like a Daffy today" "i think i've been too hard on my inner Porky, and my inner Porky's been too hard on me" "definitely feeling my Porky today, i'd love to get back to a bit of that Daffy", etc. my behavior's been a bit more erratic and strongly so than is my usual baseline, and as much grief and frustration as it's causing me, it's sort of funny but also nice to have something so silly to contextualize that with. keeps me seeing the sense of humor of things

that is to say, i'm again sincerely grateful for anyone and everyone's support of the ship. i'm so glad more than one other person beyond myself likes it. this little community has been my sole link of sanity (or a reasonable facsimile) and since i've especially been struggling lately, i just wanted to give a thank you and reiterate how much it means to me in multiple ways 🐖🦆