#piggy thoughts

[queer-and-bloating]

Currently whining loudly being very brave about how hungry I am 🥲

[sadhoglet]

Maybe I need to embrace my sadness more, idk

Sometimes it feels like it makes me more powerful when I own it instead of doing the old pretend I'm happy and fine thing

Especially when I use it for writing

Idk, it's been awhile

I'm just scared of getting too deep in it

[piggygirlpop]

you know you’re truly a hog at heart when the simple McDonald’s colour scheme of red and yellow is enough to make you horny and hungry

[jijibaby]

Ready for a day at the office 😉

[x-i-l-verify]

Something that I've noticed ever since the Smiling Critters were introduced is that they can so easily be paired off into complementary duos, ones that are specifically designed to teach children fundamental lessons about life and self-care from two different angles. It's really interesting to me.

Like obviously you have Dogday and Catnap, with their sun/moon, dog/cat dichotomy, that stress how important it is to have fun and get things done during the day, but also that it's important to wind down, relax, and get a good night's sleep.

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Bubba Bubbaphant and Craftycorn were introduced as a duo in the Smiling Critter show's intro, and their dichotomy is quite obvious. They are basically the right and left sides of the brain personified. Bubba is the left side of the brain, logical, analytical, focused on math and science. Craftycorn is the right side of the brain, creative and imaginative, focused on the arts and self-expression. They represent learning and academia in all its forms, the different ways people engage with and understand the world.

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Hoppy Hopscotch and Kickin' Chicken form the sportsmanship duo. They are both portrayed as enjoying sports and the outdoors, but in different ways that highlight the different ways sports can be played and enjoyed and also what it entails to be successful at them. Hoppy Hopscotch may be loud and impatient, but she is also a team player, shown in her willingness to slow down her fast pace to make sure none of her friends are left behind. Kickin' Chicken, on the other hand, is laid-back, relaxed, and chill, the described "cool kid" of the group, but he's also described as having a ton of perseverance, more of a "slow and steady wins the race" type of person.

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This leaves Bobby Bearhug and Picky Piggy as the last pair. Fittingly, these two are all about how to meet the fundamental needs of yourself and others. Bobby teaches children how to nourish themselves emotionally through showing and receiving care from others, while Picky teaches them how good food is important to nourish the body and soul. Depriving oneself of either of these things only makes oneself and therefore everyone around one miserable, because those fundamental needs are no longer being met.

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Like fr, this is some pretty genius marketing right here. You have enough characters that every kid will have their favorite, but not so many that any would get lost in the shuffle, because the lessons each one of them would teach would be integral to the group as a whole. It really makes me that much sadder we saw basically nothing of the Smiling Critters during the game itself, because Mob Games struck gold with this concept, only to ultimately do nothing with it. :/

But I guess that's what fandom is for, eh?

[thenewhogboy89]

You better stuff me some more. Hogs is made for growing 🐷

[paddlescuddlesbubblesgurgles]

I can’t help it. I wake up. I want to eat so much I can’t think straight. I don’t want to think anymore. I want to be full. I don’t want to use my brain. I want to use my fat gut. I want it to make my decisions. I want to eat so much I just pass out again. I need my belly to be so much bigger.

[reallilystuff]

dogpile!!!

alt version below readmore ooo spooky

they sleebgy......

[pinkiepig]

It only took one trailer to get me silly again (tragic)

[thegayneapigs]

no thoughts in his tiny head. just good vibes.

[queer-and-bloating]

I've actually gotten my appetite back and it's back with A VENGANCE

I get *so* hungry and stuff myself stupid, take a nap, wake up starving again or I'm just hungry again 20 mins later if I don't nap

The literal only problem is how expensive it can get but I've been very lucky to have had food be pretty available to me lately and it's lovely!

[sadhoglet]

Many years ago, when I first moved to Louisville, I was on the receiving end of some incredibly transmisogynistic bullshit from a person, an AFAB enby, who is now a well-regarded local business owner. I lost several friends in the mess, and some deeply personal details about my trauma were exploited in transphobic ways to isolate and shame me into silence. This person, a long with several other AFAB queer people, leveraged disgusting stereotypes about trans women to ostracize me. The experience contributed to a shit storm of other things at the time which ruined my fresh start in a new city away from my abusive mother, and even today, I'm still struggling to break out of the depression and isolation I threw myself into after being hurt.

Years later, I often see products from this person's business at various local places around town. And a few days ago, I learned that this person stole wages from their employees, and I'm like....hmm. I wonder when folks are going to wake up and finally realize that this person uses their identity and activism as a cudgel to deflect genuine criticism and responsibility, all while stepping on other queer people. I'd speak more about it, but I doubt anyone would listen to a trans woman. No one did back then, after all. But I hope that one day, someone else figures this out. Maybe then I'll see this person deal with some real accountability.

[piggygirlpop]

excited for HRT very soon not only for the obvious changes but also for the prospect of my metabolism shifting so drastically that I start blowing up like a fat sloppy balloon of lard. hoping to grow like a pig stuck gorging in the feedlot

[jijibaby]

Jean shorts and a tank top!

I’m so glad I have an outfit to wear out in this heat 😮‍💨

[x-i-l-verify]

Being honest, I think using Miss Delight and Ollie in this chapter instead of the Critters was a mistake. Dogday would have been a great candidate for the role Ollie filled. It would explain why he already knows us when we find him in the dungeon, why he calls us "Poppy's Angel," why he already seems to know what she's planning. It would also just be thematically appropriate, because of course he knows Playcare like the back of his hand, of course he would be the one to bring back the power, the light, in order to chase away Catnap's darkness. It would make the fact that we couldn't save him at the end of the Playhouse section that much more of a gut-punch, because he would have already saved us multiple times at that point and he would have felt like a friend.

As for the other Smiling Critters, a couple of them could already be dead, sure, but others could have been lurking in various buildings and locations within the Playcare. Bobby Bearhug and Picky Piggy could have been who we run into in Home Sweet Home, with Bobby languishing in the bedrooms that held the children she once loved so dearly, while Picky, who has gone insane from hunger, haunts the kitchens, desperately prowling for fresh meat. We could convince Bobby to help us, while evading Picky, lending a sense of true danger and urgency to the level that was lacking in the original, since we are never in any actual danger inside Home Sweet Home in that version outside of running into the red smoke without our gas mask.

Craftycorn and Bubba Bubbaphant could be who we run into in the school, or Bubba could possibly be found in the caverns or in one of the power rooms, giving us a key piece of equipment that we would need to progress or helping us with solving puzzles. Craftycorn could take the place of Miss Delight, with the same mechanics and everything, but instead of being insane with hunger like Miss Delight, she could be desperately seeking out new art supplies, since she has long since run out. Fresh blood makes great paint.

The antagonists in the Playhouse could still be the mini Critters, or it could possibly be Kickin' Chicken or Hoppy Hopscotch, who are trying to get your grabpack and take it for their own in order to escape. Whichever character isn't trying to steal your grabpack would be helping you play keep-away with it. Alternatively, Kickin Chicken and Bubba could already be dead (since their voice lines end in screaming in their cutouts), and Hoppy could be trying to help us get the power back on after Dogday's death (since her symbol is a lightning bolt). When Catnap finally makes his appearance, she could sacrifice herself to distract him, giving us key time to get away and set up our defenses with the batteries.

[thenewhogboy89]

Anybody up to rub my big swollen gut? And possibly fatten me to a 400 pound hog? ;)

Also you horny guys who have been teasing me in my dm for letting my jock bod go. I have one thing to say. I fucking love you ;)