#Porky painting

[skullislandproductions]

Porky’s spreading Christmas cheer by singing loud for all to hear.

[prismcreative]

It Can Happen Here

[chrissignore]

Wanted to practice drawing proper comics again, and this was the result 😊

[rextoons]

Mischievous little duck

[ducktracy]

he needs what us city folk call "a bath", but my vintage cartoon collection grows as i accidentally drown myself in more pigs because nobody made any Daffy merch in the 40s

swine shrine

[artoflooneytunes]

Background painting from Porky's Badtime Story (1937).

[mnemonicpneumaticknife]

Daffy: *screams as he falls off the ledge, his beak separating from his body from fright, still having the ring in his beak*

Yosemite Sam: "Sad. He could have flown away if only he weren't weighed down by the ring."

Daffy: *splashes in red liquid* "I can't swim!"

Sam: "Can't even swim, for the weight of the cursed ring is so great."

Bugs: *munches carrot* "(sarcastic) Yes. Of course. It's the weight of the ring that prevents Daffy from doing 'dose things."

Daffy: "I'm drowning! and somehow not mercifully dead from the heat!"

Sam: "Should we help him?"

Bugs: "I'm pretty sure 'dat side of 'da cliff is a hot tub with red tiling. Daffy'll be fine when he realizes he can just stand up."

Daffy: *coughing and sputtering* "I'm doomed... If only I had less ambition!"

Bugs: "(deadpan) If he realizes he can stand up, Daffy will be... no worse than he was before this adventure started."

Daffy: "(indignant) I heard that!"

Sam: "Yep, he's... Like he was before. Tragic. Wait, where's his beak?"

Daffy: *has no beak* "Yeah, where is my beak? (shouting) Marco!"

Bugs: "Oh, there it is, in the lava."

Daffy's Beak: "Polo!"

Sam: "How'd he do that?"

*Bugs puts on a welding mask and fishes Daffy's beak out of the lava using a long set of tongs. After a quick inspection, he hammers Daffy's beak back into shape, then quenches the beak in the pool next to Daffy*

Daffy: *holding his now quenched beak in his hands* "It's about time." *Daffy sticks his beak back onto his face, then climbs up out of the pool* "I felt naked without this thing."

*the camera lingers on a full body shot so we can see Daffy isn't wearing clothes, as usual. Bugs stares at the viewer and raises one eyebrow, which gets a musical cue*

Bugs Bunny could have simply walked into Mordor. He would have shown up at the gates of Mordor in a disguise and been like "Evil volcano inspection unit" and flashed a fake ID badge to the confused orc.

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

Drip-Along Daffy: Miths, I'm from Dubuque and I'm headin' Sthnakebite way.

Comedy Relief Porky: W-w-w-what was your name in D-Dubuque?

Drip-Along: Drip-Along Daffy - sthame as here, and I'm headin' New Mexico way. At leathst I was

[glances at Melissa Duck]

Drip-Along: while I had a horthse.

[theoutcastrogue]

Cartoon depictions of the homeless increasingly reflect the hostility of today’s political leaders toward people on the streets. We’ve gone from images of charming hobos with bindles to zombies taking over cities. If you consume any news at all, you’ve probably noticed that the United States is pathologically cruel to its homeless citizens. This May, the brutal killing of Jordan Neely—who was strangled to death, at the age of 30, simply because he was unhoused and shouting on the Manhattan subway—captured the national spotlight, but it was just one of many such cases of unprovoked violence. In January, two cops reportedly kidnapped a homeless man in Hialeah, Florida, drove him to an “isolated and dark location,” and beat him unconscious. That same month, art dealer Shannon Collier Gwin faced battery charges after he sprayed a homeless woman with a hose outside his San Francisco gallery, barking “Move! Move!” at her. (Predictably, Gwin got a lenient plea deal of just 35 hours of community service.) Elsewhere in the city, homeless San Franciscans have been attacked with chemical bear spray on at least eight occasions. Other assaults have been more impersonal but no less vicious. On July 14, the city of Houston abruptly closed its only public cooling center in the downtown area, potentially condemning anyone without shelter to suffer heatstroke in 90-degree weather. Among the property-owning class, the phenomenon of hostile architecture—sidewalks with spikes that stab anyone who tries to sleep, benches with iron bars, and the like—has become de rigueur. The widespread callousness and lack of compassion are both infuriating and hard to comprehend. How on Earth, we might ask, did things get this bad? [...]

Looking back at older cartoons, one of the things that stands out immediately is the absence of negative attitudes toward the homeless. In fact, during the Golden Age of animation, creators seemed to have had a real affinity for the poor and unhoused, often placing their most iconic characters in that role. There’s a wonderful 1948 Warner Bros. short called “Riff Raffy Daffy,” in which Daffy Duck is looking for a place to sleep—first on a park bench, then a trash can, and finally a furniture display in a shop window—and has to dodge the harassment of the police, as represented by Porky Pig in a little blue uniform. (Literally, the cop is a pig!) Or, in the 1950 cartoon “Homeless Hare,” Bugs Bunny’s rabbit hole is destroyed by a new construction project, leading him to unleash his usual slapstick mayhem against the developers until they put it back. In these cartoons, homelessness is something inflicted on people by outside forces—gentrification and the real estate business, in Bugs’ case—and something which can be successfully resisted. Even Disney cast a homeless dog as a romantic lead in 1955’s Lady and the Tramp, contrasting Lady’s sheltered naivety with Tramp’s superior knowledge of the world. The title invokes the memory of Charlie Chaplin’s “Tramp” films, which similarly brought dignity and humanity to the role of a homeless man. (Bugs Bunny, too, takes inspiration from Chaplin, and multiple Warner animators have drawn him as the Tramp.) In 1961, Hanna-Barbera’s profoundly underrated Top Cat followed the adventures of a gang of wisecracking Manhattan alley cats, who, like Daffy, are always outwitting a meddling policeman. At worst, classic cartoons may trivialize the suffering and danger associated with homelessness—there’s a certain recurring image of the carefree hobo carrying a bindle, which paints the whole subject in a romanticized light—but the homeless themselves are rarely disparaged or made the butt of the joke. Quite the opposite. 

It took a few years, but cartoons caught up to the Reaganite turn. In episodes from the ’90s and early 2000s, there’s a palpable shift in the way homeless characters appear compared to earlier decades. The perspective is different: we’re now seeing them through the eyes of comfortably housed characters, rather than their own. Often they don’t even get proper names. [...] This trajectory leads us, perhaps inevitably, to SpongeBob SquarePants. [..] Squidward gets accused of stealing a dime by his comically greedy boss, Mr. Krabs, and quits his job in a fit of outrage. We then flash forward to see Squidward, now bedraggled and unshaven, living in a cardboard box on the street and begging for change. [...] Mercifully, the ever-cheerful SpongeBob gives Squidward a place to stay—but the moment he’s safely off the street, Squidward turns from a sympathetic victim of circumstance into a lazy, entitled freeloader, straight out of a Reagan speech. He makes no effort to find work and loafs around SpongeBob’s house for ages. [...] Eventually, an exasperated SpongeBob writes “GET A JOB” in his alphabet soup, before shoving him (bed and all) back to work at the Krusty Krab. [...] Worst of all, though, the episode suggests that homelessness can be solved on an individual basis if the people in question simply stop being lazy and “GET A JOB.” This is the biggest myth of all. In 2021, a statistical analysis by the University of Chicago found that 53 percent of people in homeless shelters, and 40.4 percent of unsheltered people, do have jobs. The problem is that their wages are too low, and rents are too high. According to statistics from the same year, it’s impossible for someone working a full-time, minimum-wage job to afford a single-bedroom apartment in 93 percent of U.S. counties, and there are no states in which someone can rent a two-bedroom space on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. In other words, homelessness has little or nothing to do with personal responsibility, or lack thereof. It’s a consequence of large-scale economic decisions made by landlords and bosses. [...]

— Alex Skopic

[eegasleega-will-change-this-l8r]

WELL I WAS PLANNING ON PLAYING CELESTE THIS EVENING BUT INSTEAD I WILL NOW DEVOTE IT ENTIRELY TO INDULGING MY HYPERFIXATION

IT'S FINALLY TIME FOR A PORKY POST

Are Ness and Porky Friends...?

Let's talk about that 😏

First things first, I think this single moment from the beginning of the game is by FAR the most important thing to consider when thinking about how Ness and Porky's relationship is presented to us

Right at the start, when you make your way up to the meteorite, you will encounter the cops and their blockade This also serves as our first introduction to our wonderful neighbor, Porky Minch, who is currently making a nuisance of himself trying to get up to the meteorite, much to the cops' chagrin

One of the cops asks if we could help deal with Porky, and asks this vital question:

What's Ness's answer? Yes!

...or no.

I cannot understate how obsessed with this I am. Ness can't say whether or not Porky is really his friend. This is something he's unable to answer on his own. I really think this is a fantastic way to introduce Porky to the player. If he is Ness's friend... it doesn't seem like he's a very good one.

Now shortly after this, Porky begs for Ness's help in finding Picky. We get a pretty good look at Porky's character here. He's obnoxious, rude, doesn't take responsibility for his actions, and above all is pretty meek and cowardly. Now, I think some people go a little far in interpreting him as "bad" here. Porky's undeniably a jerk even now, but he's still just a kid, and a pretty pathetic one at that. If you look on the Earthbound wiki, you'll see that his age is listed as 14. As far as I'm aware, this only has one source, being Saori Kumi's Earthbound novelization. If you know even the slightest thing about this book, you will understand how ludicrous it is to use this as a source. Porky's age is never specified ingame, but I think his overall presentation implies that he should be the same age as Ness. It's fairly well-known that Ness's age is given as 13 in the American guide, but 12 in Japanese. 12 is also the age given in, again, Saori Kumi's novelization, unfortunately I don't know if this is stated elsewhere. It can also be noted that Shigesato Itoi has actually said he never thought of a specific age for Ness, just that he had his daughter in mind who at this time was in grade 4 or 5. So this gives us a range that could be as old as 13 or as young as 9. Personally, I skew toward 11-12 for how I envision the characters. In any case, Porky's clearly very young, so you really have to keep that in mind when considering... kinda everything about him, actually. But in this instance, it really contextualizes the stuff he says. For example, if you say no to him when he asks for your help, he threatens to "say something that'll cut you like a knife." I think it's silly to take this seriously (i've even heard someone describe it as Porky blackmailing Ness). He's clearly just gonna call Ness some mean name or something. ...Except he doesn't. Say no to him again, and he'll immediately deflate.

Porky is in no way a bully. He's annoying, but he's pretty lousy at being intimidating. Instead, his favorite way of getting what he wants is to appeal to others' sympathy. He's relying on Ness to help him by virtue of being "his bestest friend." Or think of his actions in battle: smiling insincerely, apologizing profusely, pretending to cry. He plays up being a sweet innocent kid whenever he's in trouble.

So, I think the picture we've painted is of a kid who's sort of a jerk, and tricks others to get what he wants. It becomes pretty clear why Ness isn't sure if he can really call Porky his friend.

...But what about Porky's side? Is he really only pretending to like Ness for his own gain, or are his own feelings much more complicated?

First off, just some minor things. While Porky leaves a pretty bad, if not altogether inaccurate first impression, there's a few things in his dialogue that speak to him thinking of Ness as more than just 'that loser who thinks we're friends.'

He promises that he'll tell Ness all about the meteorite in the morning. Probably this'd be in his typically boastful Porky-fashion, but even so, this shows that he wants to share things with Ness.

It's easy to miss because most people playing Earthbound have played A Video Game's before, and also tend not to ignore directions the game is clearly telegraphing, but Porky will actually give you advice if you're not properly prepared.

If you don't grab the Cracked Bat:

You're not taking anything on our big adventure? Why don't you look around for your Cracked bat or something?

Taking the bat but not equipping it:

Sorry about giving you this game-type advice, but you should equip your weapon! Do you know what "equip" means?

Yes:

Okay, that's good. Be sure to pay attention to details like that.

No:

It means "use" or "wear." You must equip items in order to use or wear them. "Equip" is used a lot in games like this, but you already knew that...

Finally, not answering your dad:

The phone is ringing! Answer it! At my house, my dad gets bent if I don't get the phone... within the first three rings!

These aren't anything groundbreaking, but they do show how Porky acts with Ness in casual contexts, plus how the game presents Porky surprisingly neutrally in the beginning, rather than just immediately telegraphing him as the villain. Also, nobody's seen these so hey, some obscure trivia for you.

Finally, Porky's reaction to hearing the prophecy is pretty telling of the kind of character Porky is pre-Giygas. He just talks about how much trouble Ness is in now, how he hopes he doesn't have to come, and how freaked out he is. I think this sums him up pretty well. He's the meek comic-relief friend character. Sniff from Moomin, for example. Or go watch Monster House, because Chowder is literally exactly Porky.

But none of that is super juicy. Let's dive into something juicy. This little bit murdered my brother when we got to it in our playthrough.

A quick detour to Magicant...

Ness... I envy you. You have all the luck. I have no luck. Ness... well, okay... Let's be friends forever, alright?

still hurts

Yeah so first off, I think this totally clears up Ness's feelings towards Porky. He can't say if they're really friends... But he WANTS them to be.

This is Ness's vision of Porky, the Porky he used to know before Giygas corrupted him, and the one he wishes was still around.

But even if this is just a manifestation of Ness's consciousness, I think it also gives us a look into Porky's inner self. This is what Ness sees in Porky, the confession that Porky is too insecure to say out loud. He hides it behind all his boasting and rudeness, but he really, really wants to keep his friendship with Ness.

Well.

If only.

Let's get to MOTHER 3.

This game gives us SO much more of Porky's character, and it's all sooooo deep. I cannot understate how much I hate seeing Porky reduced to 'that Eric Cartman kid who is an absolutely irredeemable suchnsuch.' King P is the culmination of a lot of aspects of Porky's character arc (you think this post is long, it's only the first of many more...), but one of the most prominent aspects is his unbelievably, painful, PATHETIC loneliness. This kid... man... is so desperate for a friend after he left the only person who ever wanted to connect with him that he literally brainwashes a whole city's worth of people into loving him.

And of course that's not enough, because all he wants is his next-door neighbor, his good buddy, his bestest friend Ness.

In closing, are Ness and Porky friends? It's complicated. Both clearly, desperately want to be. They have a history, they know each other intimately, by Itoi's own words they literally grew up playing together. But, for a number of reasons (that I've thought all too much about...), Porky just can't help but make it difficult. I'd sum it up by listening to the song that plays during Earthbound's cast credits. In the end, there are good friends, and...

[skullislandproductions]

Happy Birthday Porky! Eighty-nine and lookin’ fi-fi-fi…you look wonderful!

[helloemptyset]

[ Image: A digital pencil and watercolor drawing of Master Mini-Porky from Mother 3. He is a half-painted robot recreation of Pokey Minch from Earthbound. His head has a red alarm light on top of it, with pink paint dripping off his cheeks as blush. His body is unpainted with the exception of the top part of a pair of overalls painted on his round body. His legs are thin and out of place, coming out of holes in the bottom of his body. He is standing with his arms out as if he was balancing, with his ventriloquist-puppet-like jaw slightly ajar. ]

Master Mini-Porky was always really eerie to me in contrast to the Porky Bots later. He's just so haphazard and poorly made, but he's the most visible of all the Pokey-based bots. It feels like a weird joke being played on everyone, which makes sense, but the fact that he's 'dressed' in Pokey's original outfit and the whole goal of the game is to stay just a step behind him, it feels like Earthbound all over again.

[itsmaybitheway]

That’s All Folks

7.3k | E | Crack, Roommates, Getting Together, Love Confessions, Explicit Smut

The scene plays in Alex’s head in full fucking HD. 1080p quality, crystal fucking clear. He can make out the sweat dripping down Henry’s forehead making the golden blonde strands stick to his forehead, lips pink and swollen, bitten in an attempt to muffle all the pretty sounds he wants to let out, his chest heaving, breath hitching with each pump of his fingers.

He imagines in his head the way Henry’s dick twitches, leaking precum to his chiseled stomach. Then the snap happens. Henry’s entire body convulses, back arching from the bed, the round of his ass shallowly thrusting with stilted movement, grinding down on his own fingers, riding out his orgasm. The force of it makes Henry slump back down to bed, thick ropes of come painting his chest and chin.

And with the Looney Tunes ‘That’s All Folks’ tune, Alex’s brain shuts down. The melody is accompanied not by the Porky Pig but with a cartoon image of his dick closing down the ‘Sane Alex’ show. And considering his dick is going to be the conductor of the show until Alex loses his ability to use it, that seems about right.

OR

Henry has a sex related injury and Alex spirals

[fae-kitsune]

Drew all the Genderbent Critters. Names and character summaries down below 👇🏾

Their names (if you can’t read my handwriting)

Sunset

Sunset is the bubbly, optimistic, and caring leader of the Smiling Critters. The most trusted companion who has everyone’s back Sunset, also known as Sunny, always has her friend’s best interest in mind! Rest assured she is the glue that holds this rascally band of Critters together.

Felidaze

This smooth, collected coolcat makes sure every Critter gets a good night rest. Felidaze is Sunsets unofficial second in command, usually seen as the unbiased mediator of the group Daze can settle any dispute among the Critters. Felidaze always had hers friends backs just… silently… and at a distance. 😸

Hopster

Hyperactive and witty Hopster keeps his friends on their toes. Always up for the latest adventure Hopster dives headfirst into any situation whether good or bad. Hard-headed and strong willed Hops never backs down from a challenge. Even though he sometimes bumps heads with some of the other Critters, this hare is extremely loyal to his Friends.

Chikita “Chikky”

Chikky Chicken is “a totally awesome radical rebel”, or so she exclaims. Chikky is always up to date on the latest trends, knows the best hangout spots, and makes sure everyone is having a good time along the way. Most don’t know this but Chikky is the most perceptive of the group, knowing all of her friends on a deep personal level means she the easiest to get along with.

Chroma

The “Creative” of the group Chroma tends to keep to themselves and just… exist. Introverted and happy to stay in their lane his calm attitude rivals that of Felidaze's. Chroma loves all sorts of artistic avenues whether its writing, painting, or music he excels in all of them. Chroma loves creating projects alongside their friends and is very hands -er Hooves on!

Porky

This pink portly little hog is Porky Piggy, he’s brash, loud, and proud or so his Mammy says. Porky is the self appointed “chef” of the group, he makes sure his friends always have snacks to keep them energized. Porky has that southern charm that draws people in, happy to make critters smile and laugh Porky just wants to keep his friends happy and fed!

Billy

Billy Bearhug has by far the biggest heart, the sweetest Critter of the bunch Billy is always happy to be around his friends. Though he can be a bit overbearing (badum-tss) Billy always sees the bright side of everything, sometimes his friends need to bring him back down to earth. There’s no harm in viewing the world through rose tinted glasses right… right?

Bulba

The brightest of the bunch Bulba is the group scholar and is most sought out for her expertise on a variety of subjects. Bulba never uses her smarts to demean her friends instead she helps and educates them on certain topics. Bulba always makes sure that her lessons are fun and interactive for her friends.

[ducktracy]

this evening, on August 5th, 2024, around 8:50p.m. or so, i had an epiphany. a revelation that has chilled me to my core

i have spent the past HALF DECADE DRAWING AND VIEWING AND INTERPRETING PORKY'S EARS COMPLETELY WRONG. I AM SO MAD. GOBSMACKED. BETRAYED. I HAVE SPENT NEARLY 5 YEARS THINKING THAT THE RIGHTMOST EXAMPLE WAS HOW HIS EARS WORKED

TO MAKE IT WORSE! to make it worse. i have seen screenshots such as this one as a specific animator interpreting his ears as like, cat ears or something with furry insides. and i've always been like "lol that's weird but makes sense, pigs have little hairs". still assuming the cartilage explanation was a default.

TO MAKE IT WORSE WORSE. i have been using images such as this one as a go-to painting reference, INCLUDING FOR THE EARS. and have just been like "oh it was a stylistic choice here".

i literally just got up and lifted every piece of Porky merchandise i had, looked closely at his ears, and contemptuously threw it back down realizing that they are all indeed concave. 5 YEARS. HALF A DECADE I HAVE BEEN SO CLUELESS. I'M SO MAD.

this would also not nearly be as big of a deal if I WERE NOT THE SELF PROCLAIMED #1 PORKY PIG FAN AND HAVE SPENT HOURS AND HOURS AND WEEKS AND MONTHS AND YEARS scrutinizing every single detail about him imaginable that nobody else has ever bothered to care about, bringing up new observations and connections and the most menial details possible. i can, have, and will again give breathless diatribes about his significance as a character AND YET I CAN'T EVEN INTERPRET HOW HIS EARS WORK.

[sadlynojellybeans]

"The man facing me was small, but porky. He had a red nose, big watery eyes and curly hair so black it was almost purple. He looked like those paintings of baby angels – what do you call them, hubbubs? No, cherubs. That’s it. He looked like a cherub who’d turned middle-aged in a trailer park."

The Lightning Thief