I love how these mob bosses in LotRO are like, "Kill them." Not taking into consideration that we just killed a hundred of those two ugly goblins coming up the darn mountain.
My little farmer elf, obviously shooting apples at them. He's trying to hit a prince in the head for stealing his father's horse.
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#48 — 07/31/2022 2:37 PM
Discussion on Porky's favourite person outside of acting + hcs (Pt 1)
Present day thoughts:
I went into such a tangent there lmao (I'm the one with the Sonic pfp)
To answer my own discussion question now... I think that, offscreen, the Porky of present day gets along with the Daffy of present day the most. Daffy in the 2020s is much different from who he was in the 2010s and further back.
Watching Looney Tunes Cartoons has gotten me more convinced of Dafpork's deeper affections beyond the shouting and violence. Their amicable portrayal has become much more consistent and reciprocal than what it seemed to me in the original shorts that depicted the "friendly rivals" dynamic.
Though I'll say I think their relationship still involves regular moments where Porky feels out of his depth due to Daffy's disconnect with reality, and general disregard for people's comfort. I think this change in perception is due to writing and frequency. Because writing wise, Daffy's nastier aspects have been toned down nowadays, and Porky is being treated more like a character than a plot device.
Also. The sheer amount of hcs I have in these screenshots are dense as heck -- but to address some of those, I liked to think about the characters developing independent of how they were originally conceptualised. So I still hc that Daffy was a catalyst to Porky's development in personality -- Chuck Jones has discussed how he developed Porky's personality in shorts by developing them in relation to how it could compliment Daffy's (to paraphrase anyway).
However, I've basically nixed the concept of Daffy going "off-script" in his debut short. Cuz the looney tunes carry an approximately grounded depiction of hollywood and the industry -- so the notion that Daffy was some nobody duck that was meant to be canned after one short he hijacked is unreal to me now. Because I now think that in a meta interpretation, the directors/people involved in Daffy's conception wouldn't have thought that far to deliberately decide on whether any character should be "one-off". Especially back when the motive seemed to be leaning towards acquiring mainstay characters.
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I was thinking about these species swapped lab rats designs again. What if they switched around naming conventions too :]
Ramblings under the cut <3
So to be clear, the details that get swapped:
From Moe - living cartoon, has some short, old-fashioned name
From Ollie - genetically-altered human, named after flower/plant
From Rat - demon from hell, uses scientific animal name 👍
So we have swap one:
Moe -> Aster- Human given toon powers via science, only a partial success. Wears a plastic cat mask and can never keep their shoes tied. The cartoon violence is a little more unsettling when they still look human.
Ollie -> Insecta- A demon of envy working under Beelzebub, very proud of her work. Commands an army of little demon bugs. Secretly very fond of human things, but she swears she's totally not staying up here.
Rat -> Dick- Cartoon mascot that came to life as part of some experiment in the 20s, broke out of containment to become a Real Boy. Like if mickey mouse had a pinocchio arc that involved naming himself a swear. Tends to drip ink.
And swap two:
Moe -> Felis- A cat-like imp with supposedly "no alignment", escaped from Hell and having a hard time blending in with humans. Trying to be a nice little guy, but sadly they are tall and scary. Spikes at the end of their tail may be poisonous.
Ollie -> Olive- Cartoon bug person created in a lab accident (i want to say spiderman-style, "bitten by a radioactive cockroach", but idk how that'd work ><). SO much stronger than she looks, will throw an entire car at you. Extra set of arms tucked under sweater.
Rat -> Thyme- Test subject with a little bit of rat DNA in him. Got disease-controlling powers out of it, but it turns out the human body doesn't handle that well. No one can tell when you're sleeping if you're always wearing sunglasses.
Now, the fun part about the labs' inter-dimensional bullshit is that canonically these characters could show up in the lab. Not that I'd actually pull some comic book "fighting alternate universe selves" thing. Unless I really run out of ideas. But it's an option!
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