Out-of-placers #32

press [F] to pay respects

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>>84217354
>ey trator

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>>84217354
Farewell, Lopins Fancy Hat, may your fanciness shine forever.

>>84217428
My eph key disappeared though.

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>>84217354
>Feel bad about how you're going to smek his ass later.
>Still going to do it.

Good to know he still knows the context.

>>>/trash/3838540

OOP has a trash thread now.

>>84217354
Poor lil faggot bird-rat-lizard.

Gotta be a real pain working in a society where the females are so rare and well guarded. Always striving to work hard enough to be inducted into the upper classes (assuming you've ambitions of breeding anyhow.) Whats their sex ratio again 1/20 or somesuch? I reckon they must have large litters to support their population growth.

>>84217428
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>>84217354

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>>84217903

>>84217903
I feel like we're inviting burnout.
Especially now that I've acknowledged it.

>>84217354
>fancy guy is naked now
THE SHAMEE!

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I was just about to make a thread about this.

Fancy confirmed for female though. How interesting.

>>84220519
How d'you mean?

>>84220606
>How d'you mean?

I didn't see this thread because of the hyphens, so I was about to make one for the new page. But luckily I saw this in the catalog.

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>>84217354

>the yinglet high elders are gathering magical transformation items to turn themselves into something thats not a yinglet

>>84220641
No, I was referring to "confirmed for female". Something I've missed?

How can yinglets make a "z" and a "s" sound, but not a "th" sound?

I can imagine with those teeth they wouldnt be able to make even half of english word sounds.

>>84220745

Oh sorry, I thought you were talking about me making the thread. Woops. That does make more sense though

All those zs makes me imagine yinglets as French

>>84220795
No worries. I probably shouldn't have hyphenated it (though in my defence I was following the name on the site).

Anyway, I know there's a theory that Lopin is female (with a shaved tail), but is there another hint I've missed?

>>84220945
>Anyway, I know there's a theory that Lopin is female (with a shaved tail), but is there another hint I've missed?

Just a hunch. A couple of very far fetched ideas and some inferences. But it just exists in my mind.

Quite frankly, it would be better story wise is Lopin is a dude. I just like throwing around ideas to hear what others thing, you know? Gets a conversation flowing. Its nice.

>>84220519
>confirmed female
>called fancy "lad"

Lopin is a guy.

>>84220945
>>84221004
Morbi said something over in the Poppy thread that I feel all the time:
"I love watching people working together to figure out a mysterious plot thread, even if they aren't necessarily on the right train of thought sometimes."

Although I gotta admit it's equally fun to see who people want/predict the main characters to end up with, and/or fuck.

>>84217428
>>84217649
[Presses F forever]

Seriously, if only you guys knew the backstory of this hat you'd know what a terrible loss the world has suffered here.

>>84222842

Hey, I've just started looking at your comic. Would you classify it as a high or low-fantasy setting?

>>84222842
Please I need lewds of Isher with human Kass

>>84217475
waddup

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I hope someone will hug Lopin and say things will be alright.

>>84224536
More importantly, we need lewds of Lopin's fancy hat.

Like it coming out of a fresh wash from the river, soaking wet and clean.

>>84220708
>they're gathering artifacts so they can use them to transform humans, hoping to gain the next Great Leader

>>84226588
calm down anon

>>84226588
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frDamZjCbkI

>>84226591
I'm thiking the reverse.
They're gathering artifacts to transform higher species into yinglets, to assimilate their traits into the yinglet genome

>>84229950
Yeah that is possible, given that Valsalia hinted Kass's tits are supposedly due to being an ex-human. It's likely that some form of human traits remains in the transformed Yinglets

Interesting idea, anon

>>84226591
>Great Leader
>of the Yinglets
Oh man, imagining a Yinglet North Korea right now.
It's not just funny, it's hilarious!

>>84229988
their tech levels aren't too different already

>>84229988
>a bunch of technologically inadequate shorties with a strict sense of tradition
>volatile
>laughed at by everyone

hmmm

>>84229988
>Yinglets with exactly two nukes
>not quite sure how it works or what you're meant to do with them, they just have a broad understanding that it means people are meant to be to afraid of you to start trouble

>>84230034
>They heard about nuclear power plants
>They set up the two nukes they have and collide it against each other
>"Now ZHIS ish nuclear fisshion!"

>>84230114
>they end up trading the nukes for a bucket of oysters

>>84220783
tongue against the back of the shell-tooth and vibrate

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after seeing these threads for the past month, decided to read it. Pretty great. Every three pages had me grinning like an idiot.

I'm thinking if I were statting out Yinglets for Pathfinder/3.5, they'd easily get -2 int, -2 wisdom.

>>84230774

Just use Kobold stats, but take away affinity to traps.

>>84230785

Kobolds have a sadistic cunning.

Yinglets are extremely dopey, like a mistake of evolution.

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>>84230785
but Yinglets canonically have a huge affinity for traps

>>84230795

Behold, the mistake of God.

>>84230936

Or his joke. How long do they live, anyways?

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>>84230756

>>84230900
ahuehuehue

Do other female yinglets have visible breasts, or is Kass unique in that regard?

>>84231298
unique, but unique yinglets aren't unique at all. as in, a relatively large number of yinglets have prominent unique mutations compared to other races. so it's not like having breasts would be a huge giveaway that Kass wasn't a natural yinglet

>>84231327

If everyone is unique, then no one is? But that doesn't make sense because they are all different then. So being different means being the same? Doesn't sound right.

If every yinglet is different, then they are all different. That is it.

>>84231481
>If every yinglet is different, then they are all different.
For some reason this made me think of 'If every porkchop were perfect', and now I desperately want an enclave being threatened by a larger enclave with 3 retarded matriarchs raising a human child to be their Great Warrior and defend them.

Their Combat Fuszheen is just the 3 matriarchs riding the toddler, one on his head, one on each arm waving knives around while he toddles around the battlefield babbling baby talk.

Feeeena is best yinglet

>>84231880
>NOT Lippie or Vesaria

I thought you had better tastes,Anon.

>>84222931
That's a tough one. Somewhere in a grey area between low-fantasy and soft sci-fi.

>>84226396
Well then why aren't you there for him?

You monster

>>84226588
Listen man, I'm okay with doing some fetishy stuff in my commissions, but that's just too extreme.

>>84229988
>>84229996
>>84230009
Well damn, that's uh... pretty accurate, up to the fact that the people in charge probably have no idea what they're doing.

Introducing Kim Jong Ying

>>84230774
>>84230785
>>84230795
There's at least 3 tabletop campaigns that I'm aware of that include, and/or revolve around these little jerks. With all the racial stat sheets I've seen, I get the feeling I'm gonna have to release an official conversion at some point.

They're definitely low INT/WIS/STR (except for a special few), but are small and run around like crazed chickens, so their DEX is through the roof, and they'd probably get an innate spear specialization.

I'd probably add a Random Mutation table to make character creation extra fun. Mysterious huge boost to WIS, or an eye-foot? Who knows/cares, you're a yinglet.

>>84231298
They all got small ones, but they're there. And admittedly the only time we've seen ying-Kass braless is when I was still feeling out the character designs, and I've toned those boobs back a bit since.

>>84231327
And the ones living near human urban centers have definitely noticed the bigger boobs = more attention = more success equation, which has influenced some breeding patterns.

>>84232288
>which has influenced some breeding patterns.
oh great, we're gonna get big titted male bimbo yinglets trying to awkwardly seduce people

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>>84232288

Hey, Morbi likes your Yinglets!

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>>84231481
They share a basic body shape and phenotype blueprint but have a high mutation rate.
Plus their unique mating biology means that each infant draws descent from a jizz jambalaya.

>>84233145
>jizz jambalaya

Heh...gross

>>84230756
This the first thread I've noticed about this webcomic.

Now I've read up to current.

It was a fun ride, but now the waiting game kicks in.

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By popular demand and permission from Val, I made a DL link for the Stellaris Yinglet Mod.

http://wellofsorrows.deviantart.com/art/Yinglet-Mod-NOW-WITH-DL-LINK-608732137

>>84233506

Awesome. Too bad stellaris turns pretty boring mid to late game.

>>84233309

Welcome! If you like the dialogue from OOP, you might like the comic A Tale of Tails By Feretta. Though that has a ton of porn in it. Well, it IS porn, but has a good story and funny dialogue.

>>84233615
>Awesome. Too bad stellaris turns pretty boring mid to late game.
Give it another 3-5 months and 2 more patches, imo. Their games always go through this convoluted post release refinement.

>>84233506
Isn't Yinglet society a matriarchal plutocracy?

>>84233743
Indeed, thats why I abondoned it after a ~20h
Tho it was funny to have a game where a random generated ultra expansive Yinglet based race sends a message like
"We sent out our flesh collectors, we are going after your babies you animals!" or something, with Kass on the screen XD

>>84233877

There is both a matriarchy and patriarchy serving two different purposes in their society.

>>84230955
20-30 years

is anyone gonna start posting art from the collection of 20something pics the last three threads have produced?

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>>84234038
What art do you mean?

>>84234015

20-30 years is the average. Not from old age, but because they die a lot in accidents thus skewing the number

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>>84234074 It can be a sad thing when you have the benefit of "Project Longevity Vaccine" and stuck on the planet.

>>84234070
You people are blowing the "smek" thing out of proportions. It's just a fucking sound effect for a pitiful attempt at bitchslapping by creatures with twig-like arms and the strength of a starving hamster

>>84234348
you know how memes work, don't you anon?

>>84234379
Yes, and i know when one is being run into the ground.

>>84234074
They wouldn't have a long lifespan. Their hearts would give out far quicker than a humans, because of their smaller size and overly-excitable nature.

>>84234348
Dont blame me(the shit artist), I only accepted a request, what I never done before.

I never got this smek thing like this, I were more concerned by the fact that someone (Kass) took the risk to hit an upper in rank (Vizlet).

>>84234406
Anon, there are about 80 people who read the comic on /co/. That is barely enough to warrant any excessive usage of meme.

>>84234456
>I were more concerned by the fact that someone (Kass) took the risk to hit an upper in rank (Vizlet)
She's an ambassador. It's not like she could be punished. It would be putting an end to the relationship between this Yiglet clan and Cass' people, and nobody wins anything with that.

Worse that could happen is her being returned to her people alongside polite request for a new more respectful one, and that's not going happen because both Vizlet and that one human dude in charge want Cass in there for their own personal reasons.

>>84234535
Good thing she is not in Sparta, ambassadors kinda had a bad time there.

Feels like the comic did a fake-out early on about what it was going to be about.

I did not see that transformation coming.

Hopefully we'll see more of the weird rag-tag group of red shirts back in town in the next chapter (I assume this goes in chapters and this is currently chapter 2).

Yannit seems to have been shafted the most when the actual plot kicked in.

>>84235458

If you look closely at some of the panels, you can see that Yannit has been trailing them from a distance

>>84235544
If that's true, then I haven't noticed.

I only just read this all this morning.

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>>84235458
>I did not see that transformation coming.
Oh anon.
Adorable, naive anon.

>>84235774
well yeah, if you read the comic with no idea of the premise starting from the beginning it does come out of nowhere.

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Would you lead scavs in battle?

>>84235830

I reckon there wouldnt be time for battle on account of all the sex we'd be havin'

>>84235821

I agree

>>84235774
My only point of reference for this comic before reading from the beginning was the comic in the OP, which in no way indicates that transformation had taken place.

So before reading this I thought it was going to shift focus from one species to the next while some kind of economic plot unfolded.

>>84235544
Wait what

>>84235821
It's just funny to hear that. Considering I've yet to see anyone who was reading BEFORE the transformation. Everyone knows the hook before going in, or at least has a morbid inkling (followed by them reading from the start to check if they're right).
It was probably the "fake-out" comment that tickled me more. As though anon thinks the transformation was an act of impulse Val drew whilst high instead of the idea that inspired the comic's creation in the first place.

>>84235914
Well fair enough. The strip that kicked off these threads has dialogue that specifically implies the sexy ratbird wasn't always a sexy ratbird. And the posts in every thread since discuss it so I assumed new catches would get the picture.
Credit due: there isn't as much as I thought there was in this specific thread.

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Ahh I see ppl started to discuss how you got into OoP as a reader.

I found OoP more then a year ago, and if I would not see a fanart from Packmind on FA, I would never ever find it.

The story/setting highly reminds me of a Dos game called "Albion", kinda the same feeling what I had back then...

Then I decided to draw them and make my own iteration of the setting while staying as true to the original as I can.

I would not be drawing this much if I would not find OoP, and at some point Im not entirely sure if its a good or a bad thing.

>>84235830
i can imagine scavs might be useful in trench warfare

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>>84236671
Yinglet digging Team ready for zervice,zir!!!

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>>84236611
S'a good thing.

>>84232288
>Somewhere in a grey area between low-fantasy and soft sci-fi.

Travelling Moon revealed as semi-parked human empire colony ship that occasionally drops ultra-high-tech garbage related to genetic modification and terraforming into the oceans for Yinglets to find washed up on shore when?

>>84236060
Again, no point of reference or prior knowledge of this comic outside of the OP and seeing the "smek" fight posted in a Poppy thread when that sound effect was used for a goodnight kiss.

So I didn't have any idea at all what I was getting into.

First impression I got was from a crop of the "smek" fight page and I thought it was some kind of Egyptian cats fighting.

>>84237173
Come on anon, wasn't the comic's tagline a clue?
"A story of inconvenient changes."

I want to see a yinglet eat a watermelon slice

>>84237332
I want to see a yinglet try to eat a watermelon that isn't cut apart.

The idiot would probably try eating it like an apple.

>>84237406

I want to see a yinglet eating a watermelon while on a slip and slide

>>84237443
I want to see a yinglet trying to eat a watermelon frozen into a block of ice.

>>84237406
>implying it wouldn't use the shell-tooth to crack open the outside, then just shove it's head through the hole to gorge itself

>>84237480
>Implying it wouldn't try to eat the watermelon whole like a grape

>>84237494
>implying a yinglet knows what grapes taste like

>>84237506
>implying a yinglet is that stupid

>>84237521
>implying I meant anything to do with intelligence and not the fact that grapes would be used to make wine by humans and yinglets would have little to no access to them

>>84237536
>implying you know the intricacies of the overall trade system within the lands enough to make a statement like that.

>>84237565
>implying I can't make reasonable assumptions based on the shown yinglet society and diet

>>84237587
>implying you know about the other yinglet society that was talked about which is wary of the new yinglet society that is seen.

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>>84237406

Im pretty sure they would eat the whole water melon, all part of it with out a problem.

>>84237302
I thought it was about how the guy's life on the social ladder and position in society got all jumbled by the war.

>>84237847
>all jumbled by the war

Ah yes...the...'war'

>>84237847
Man, you are innocent, aren't you?

Word of advice, the term "watersports" does not involve pool toys or actual sports.

>>84237876
First few pages kind of made a point of the "war" that messed up the region.

So exploring the site, there's a side story comic about another guy who gets turned into a female yinglet.

So this isn't an isolated incident.

what was your 'war', /co/?

>>84237406
I want to see a Yinglet taking a watermelon.

>>84237911

Ahh yes....the...'transformation' incident...

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>>84237053

Off: In my version of the planet, it was a testing ground of a long dead civ. (protoculture).
The green rock thing contained a very advanced genetic re-sequencer (not a virus, like in Star Trek: Enterprise) programmed to make Yinglets.

The amount of sentient life also supports this, because naturally only one or two animal species reach the stage of evolution to gain sentience (see Neanderthals vs early humans).

The Protoculture may added new species to the planet and or set up a defense what makes any spaceship crash on the planet (and maybe destroy all tech what would surpass a level, like all nuclear reactor amount of energy).

Ofc this all would not clear up the fact that: why would the shipwrecked crew would lose their knowledge and remaining tech?
Once there was a French animation series with a sci-fi setting... I forgot its title, but it was like "Once Upon a Time... Man".

There were an episode what were about a crashed ship, the crew started to live and act like the Greek gods and the natives worshiped them XD Until a (fool) came down and started to teach the natives... Prometheus :)

but yeah, enuff from my own semi-related ramblings.

>>84237899
Don't be mean to him.

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>>84237955
>>Once there was a French animation series with a sci-fi setting... I forgot its title, but it was like "Once Upon a Time... Man".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time..._Space

>>84237911
That's a commission. Not necessarily canon (although Val's said it' the closest to being canon since it's explicitly the same setting).

>>84238068
I wasn't, that's why I gave him advice. You wouldn't want someone like that stumbling across something like that. That's how trauma happens.

So I've been trying to pronounce "hyanoisyskank" to figure out what supposedly derogatory words it's supposed to be, but I can't seem to figure it out.

It's making me feel dumb.

>>84238580
"Hi, ya noisy skank!"

>>84238580
What
>>84238616
Said.

"Hey ya noisy skank!" is also acceptable.

>>84238616
>>84238644
Ah, the bunched up sys is what kept throwing me off.

Thanks.

>>84217354
i don't no why but this really really got to me, why wreck his fancy hat it was so fancy and he loved it so much, it's just pointless cruelty.

>>84238679
Bet you the first sign of Kass coming to like him is either getting it repaired or giving him an even fancier one.

>>84238732
FANCIMUS PRIME! Yingbots roll out!

>>84238679
Because TRAITOR!!!!

Consider us lucky we didn't have to watch the hat die.

>>84233145
>Plus their unique mating biology means that each infant draws descent from a jizz jambalaya.
Yeah, and at first I thought I'd come up with something original, but I only recently learned that that's kinda how cat sex works.

>>84232347
Ooh nice idea! Gonna make this the sole focus of the comic now.

>>84232504
Eyyy, awesome! That's gotta count for something.

>>84237332
Actually, they could probably slice them up by popping a shelltooth in, then shaking their heads side to side, which is how they kill fish, rats, and whatever else they catch that's still moving.

>>84237476
This would probably result in multiple deaths, however. Don't ask me how, they're just yinglets.

>>84237847
Welllll that's ONE way that certain characters were put "Out of Place!" See, it works on multiple levels because the depth of my genius is unmatched

>>84237911
That story is about as close to canon as any commission I've drawn, but even that falls into a sort of "semi-canon" territory, as a big theme in this story is that what happened to Kass is unique, unexplained, and nobody's ever heard of any such thing ever happening.

>>84238971
>Ooh nice idea! Gonna make this the sole focus of the comic now.
Not that guy, but now I find myself wanting a short comic about a yinglet with breasts attempting to be a prostitute and failing horribly.

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Found a perfect example of how I imagine Yinglets move around.

>>84230900
they look tasty and easy to roast...

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>>84237406

I want to see a Yinglet with wings.

>>84238971

Be honest with me so I can adjust my expectations of the comic now.

Will Kass become human again?

>>84239674
Holy shit.

Yinglets are gremlins.

The matriarch is the smart gremlin from Gremlins 2 who wanted "civilization".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byW49j2YSjE

>>84239719
...

They pretty much are Gremlins with a lot less chaos on the human race.

>>84239674
>Yinglet born with gliding flaps
>Gets really good at gliding from roof to roof, few crashes after the first year
>Decides to go for the coolest and longest glide ever
>Jumps from a seaside cliff
>Glides half a mile
>Splashes down
>Drowns because he can't swim

>>84239755

What is with this murder lust against Yinglets?

>>84239755
was this yinglet perhaps especially fluffy

>>84239802
They canonically have a pretty high mortality rate due to a combination of misfortune, being small, and the vast majority of them being kind of dumb.

>>84239755

https://youtu.be/GPCK2ndQUNA?t=1m3s

>>84239802
It's funny cause it's not happening to us.

>>84238971
>but I only recently learned that that's kinda how cat sex works
I looked up the page it's from before posting because I had exactly this in mind. It ain't. Unless I'm mistaken all mammalian biology (maybe all binary reproductive biology) boils down to one egg + one sperm. Each kitten has one specific daddy. Your take of all the male genes getting shaken & stirred is the kind of originality that could only happen in a fantasy setting.

>>84230774
>>84230785
Anyone ever stat Skritt for tabletop?

>>84239425
I'm just gonna assume that's innuendo.

>>84239674
That sounds terrifying.

>>84239363
That's what I figured too.

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>>84237406
Like this?

>>84240101
You're mistaken. That's generally how it works but there's a lot of exceptions. They've recently learned that humans, including the reproductive system, can be naturally frankensteined if they absorbed a sibling in the womb, or in rare instances were fertilized by multiple eggs. Then those offspring sometimes do not genetically match the mother, as it's the mother's sister's child.

Biology is fascinating and weird.

>>84240223
Yes.

>>84239829
Ynffly. We need a spin-off comic of fluffy lesser yinglets being abused.

>>84240314
never again

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>>84239755
>>84239802
>Yinglets become the new fluffy ponies

>>84240223
heeheeeeeee!

>>84240246
Those are some very specific exceptions, though. I was talking species-wide.
At any rate, cool trivia. Thanks for sharing.

>>84240331

That is exactly what I do not want. That shit was horrible.

>>84240530
As long as we don't bring too much attention over here, we won't attract the kind of people who gets off to that stuff

This guy got a website now? Damn. I was reading his stuff when it was only posted on FA

>>84239802
>>84239829
>>84240314
>>84240331
>>84240530
>>84240630
Sorry guys, it was a joke that was supposed to fit the tone of the comic and make you feel sorry for the poor, silly little Yinglet.

I do not condone Yingabuse.

>>84240795
it's too late now

>>84240795

You dun goofed

>>84240795
DESTROY US ALL
DESTROY US ALL
DESTROY US ALL

>>84240795
It's too late now. It's happening

>>84240795
>I do not condone Yingabuse.

Spoken like someone who likes to abuse Yinglets.

>>84240814
>>84240887
>>84240937
>>84240962
>>84240975
Well, shit.

I shall henceforth head off to begin the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Yinglets.

I'm taking donations of oysters and other shellfish.

>>84239425
Haha no they eat all sorts of stuff that's toxic to most forms of life, and they're all sorts of gamey and stringy. What better way to avoid being hunted than by proving to be wildly disproportionate in terms of effort required to catch one of these ADHD squirrelly things vs. theoretical reward of actually catching one?

>>84239363
YESSSS this really illustrates the way their stupid little legs look in movement. I love this gif.

>>84240223
YEAH PRETTY MUCH

>>84239705
Maaaan that's one of those things that's tied into the plotline so closely that I cannot spoil that, even if I really wish I could.

Can I ask, though; what's the reason you want to know? Would taking the story one way seem especially disappointing, and/or is there one you think should happen, given what you've seen in the story so far?

Getting an idea of what people are thinking when they read this thing is really helpful.

>>84239322
Damn, every time I convince myself that I should hold off on commissions and focus on the main comic, someone pitches an idea like this. Damn you people.

>>84239719
Oh wow, that's a really good comparison, actually. I gotta rewatch that now. If a spider-yinglet gets included in the story soon, you'll know where it came from.

>>84240101
>>84240246
Oh good! My thing is still a special snowflake. Thanks for looking that up.

>>84240314
So the question then becomes whether or not they secretly like it.

>>84240331
>>84240530
Yeeeeahhh that's something I'd really like to avoid, although it's hard to get upset by anyone who not only took the time to read the stuff I've drawn, but also enjoy it enough to want to draw something about it, and make the effort to do it, which makes me all sorts of happy.

I'm saying this having not yet seen a yinglet in diapers yet, though.

>>84240706
Yeah, I wanted to have enough stuff to read built up to justify making a site for it, when posting to DA/FA takes just a couple minutes.

>>84240962
>>84240962
Seriously though, things have been fun and happy long enough, it's time for everyone to be sad now forever

>>84241626
>it's time for everyone to be sad now forever


...that isn't ominous at all.

>>84241595
>I'm saying this having not yet seen a yinglet in diapers yet, though.
Goddamnit Val, don't say those sorts of things around here. Someone will do it!

I'm gonna need an establishing shot sometime in the future with a lesser yinglet standing around doing its thing

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>>84241626
You're going to have to study at the feet of a master to pull that off.

>>84241595
>spider-yinglet
Only if a Baxxid and a Yinglet somehow manage to make offspring together.

>>84220708
>>84226591
>inb4 they transform themselves into sergals.

>>84241595
>Can I ask, though; what's the reason you want to know?

Cause I just want to know how I am going to be rooting for Kass. Will he become a paragon for the Yinglet, and help lead their society? Will he become human again and because of his experience really help defend the Yinglets so they can grow higher but on their own?

Honestly the transformation stuff really weirds me out but the comic has my attention because of the world building and stuff has piqued interest.

Honestly I just want Isher and Kass to bump uglies. She deserves it.

>>84241815
Meh, give Val some Prequel and Endtown to read, he'll be good to go.

>>84241595
>Can I ask, though; what's the reason you want to know? Would taking the story one way seem especially disappointing, and/or is there one you think should happen, given what you've seen in the story so far?
Speaking for myself, although I would prefer one ending over the other, I wouldn't want to be told until we get there. Gambling with potential disappointed adds to the drama.
And besides, there's ways of doing the "disappointing" ending that are as good as the preferred one. If not better. I've got faith.

>>84242118
>Honestly the transformation stuff really weirds me out

Then this isn't the comic for you. Im sorry, but that is intrinsic to the story.

>>84242358
Been there, done that.
Kass is doomed.

>>84242409
Man chill out. There's plenty to like besides. The normies aren't gonna take your toys.

>>84242454

I know there is plenty to like. Im just saying TF isn't leaving anytime soon.

Hell, I don't even really like TF, but it works so well in the story.

Ha ha, this current line of discussion about will he or won't he ever change back reminds me of a character /d/ made called Dragon Cuntboy Knight.

The various stories of a knight who was cursed by a dragon to have a dragon snatch and all the things that come with it.
Now he quests to find a way to reclaim his dick while having so many encounters along the way.

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No offense to the creator but I though this was just a really uncommonly good fetish comic. I had no idea there was a big following here or anywhere. Does it actually have mainstream popularity?

>>84242638
>I though this was just a really uncommonly good fetish comic

Thats the weird thing. Like, it has TF in it, but that really isn't the main draw. It is the fleshed out world and the characters I care about.

As for your question, idk. Some known artists talk about it.

>>84242638
It's on it's way. The fanbase got a bump once it started having threads here, and once Chochi did some fanart it got a massive bump in numbers from Chochi's fans. Not the most popular webcomic in the world yet, but then again we are just now getting to near the end of the first chapter, and webcomic fanbases tend to grow with the archives.

>>84242638
It seems rather niche to me.

I had never even heard of it until today despite there having been threads made as far back as October of last year according to the archives.

It's probably around the same level of notoriety as Dragon's Burn.

>>84242694
>It's probably around the same level of notoriety as Dragon's Burn.

Now that is a bold statement.

>>84242638
as somebody somebody who doesn't read this comic it kind of does look like a fetish comic. Then I read the threads and it isn't porn image dumps so i don't know.

>>84242733
No, it's my dated point of reference since I haven't checked if Dragon's Burn's popularity suddenly went up since any months ago.

>>84242782

That is my point. I dont know a single fur that doesn't know what dragon's burn is.

>>84242733
>>84242782
Dragon's Burn is fucking garbage
people read that trash?
people know it for anything other than the first image with the bigger sword line?

>>84242813
Calm down, bro. The question was about notoriety.

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>>84242847
no im angry
angry about shitty furry comics

What are the natural predators of Yinglets?

Do some humans like to use their hide as coats?

>>84242638
>No offense to the creator but I though this was just a really uncommonly good fetish comic
Nobody's denying that.
Not even the creator, I think.

>>84242917

What is that reference originally from? Is it Dorf fort?

>>84242947
/tg/. /tg/ had a habit of ranting and raving about how they hated elves, someone took the old Simcity(I wanna say 2000) image of that guy saying "YOU CAN'T CUT BACK FUNDING, YOU'LL REGRET THIS!" and changed it to "I'M ANGRY, ANGRY ABOUT ELVES!". Then it got changed from some guy to a wizard. And that's the current form of it.

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>>84241626
Oh, everyone will certainly be sad forever

>>84243011
Wasn't the original message being angry about budget cuts?
>>84242944
Man, I liked the comic and I won't deny that I have an obsession with ramifications of TF but seeing people finding yinglets sexy weird me out to no end.
The commissions the artist gets also make me a bit uneasy but I guess whatever makes them money, and they probably like doing them too.

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>>84243011

>>84243133
Once again, the creator would agree with you.
They designed Yinglets to be the most repulsive creatures they could think of and still got flooded with porn requests.

>>84243110
Oh God, what did I start?

>Goes back to making "Save the Yinglets" t-shirts

>>84243161
I get the vibes he's not really that opposed to it.
My only two wishes for him is seeing him improving his human drawings and not fucking up with going full fetish later on.
After all, he's making sure to point that Kass' new instincts are taking a toll on his mind.
And I think the latter can make interesting character development but I don't want no smut.

>>84237955
>because naturally only one or two animal species reach the stage of evolution to gain sentience

You can't really make statements like this when you only have a sample size of one.

And I think you mean sapience. Sentience is the ability to feel and perceive the world, so cats, dogs and bunnies are sentient.

>>84243133
Well, it was either that one, or the one where the guy is saying "QUIT HITTING THE TORNADO BUTTON YOU CHUCKLEFUCK!"

>>84243206
>My only two wishes for him is seeing him improving his human drawings and not fucking up with going full fetish later on.
Well, you are in luck then. I think it was the first thread where Val visited people mentioned his humans kinda sucked. He agreed, and said he would work on it, so there's probably gonna be some improvements there sooner or later.

And as for the second one, many people expressed interest in his NOT turning the comic into fetish fuel, and Val agreed. All the full fetish stuff is just for non-canon and commission stuff, he's planning on keeping it out of the comic proper.

>>84243217

Not the guy you quoted, but fuck me. You're right

>>84243011

Thanks. I couldn't place it for some reason. Haven't been to /tg/ in years.

>>84242782
why is katia in this i dont understand

>>84243459
>Ok, what the fuck is this Dragon's Burn shit everyone is talking about?
>google
>four page pool on e621

Jesus, that's a lot of material.

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>>84242638
>tfw you have a fetish for skintight clothes and leotards

>tfw per your definition this makes every cape comic a fetish comic

>>84242118
Yeah, I can understand that. And hearing that you're not into the TF stuff but are still reading makes me glad that I've gone with the content balance I've struck with this story; you're apparently not the only one. I'm aiming to make this entertaining, first and foremost.

>>84242358
Oh I am totally familiar with these, and just how much a protagonist can be stomped into the ground. While I like that aspect in those comics, I'd rather take a different approach in this one.

>>84243161
Haha, not so much repulsive as really awkward-looking, yet not so aesthetically displeasing that they're hard to look at. But yeah a lot of them eat trash and stuff; they're kinda like hobos

>>84229950

Or acquire their fancy elder race knowledge, like fire.

>>84229970

I thought fat breasts were a common female trait for yinglets. Although Kass' human DNA may make her the equivalent of Tiffany Towers.

It's beginning to be easy to forget this comic isn't all about yinglets.

>>84243776
>But yeah a lot of them eat trash and stuff; they're kinda like hobos
Dat fresh citrusy scent, though.

From toxic swamp plant soap.

... can you get a rash just from touching them?

>>84243776

Anyone ever tell you that your dialogue is very similar to Feretta?

That is a good thing.

>>84243217

Ah yes thx, Im have been living in falsehood of the meaning of this word since SM:Alpha Centauri then...

I dont know where did I heard/read this 1-2 sapient species, but it was a well built up theory, ofc based on the only available source (Earth).

It also theorized that the Neanderthals were driven to extinction by early humans, tho they did not knew if it was direct conflict or simple competition for better territories.

I cant provide a source, but I think it was a documentary in tv.

>>84243951
>It also theorized that the Neanderthals were driven to extinction by early humans, tho they did not knew if it was direct conflict or simple competition for better territories.

I heard Neanderthals interbred with crogmags. I've seen some guys that you'd think go about more than average neanderthal genes, ya'know.

>>84243951

I think it is true that only 1-2 human-like sapient species can co-exist, but humans are a bit of a perfect storm of traits.

A sentient species without the ability to create and use tools (like the Baxxid), the ability to learn to read/write, or the ability to form complex social groups could probably not explode and out-compete everything else like the human race.

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>>84244246
I can top that.

Sea.

You can be a Bottlenose Dolphin, with a huge brain (compared to body size) yet never had the chance to become a full sapient species because you happen to live in an environment what does not let you develop tool use.

I could say use of hands, but then someone could say Octopus and other nautiloid, witch are also very advanced brain wise.

Think of it, how much more evolution time do sea based life has and yet the Mammals did the thing within a tiny margin of that....

Its 5:18am, I go and try to sleep now.

>>84242922
ANYTHING bigger than them...
ANYTHING smaller than them,also.

They're walking rat-bird snacks for ANY wild animal predator,that's why they keep that hive-like way of life.
There's no report of sentient species eating other sentient creatures up to this point.

>>84244410
>that's why they keep that hive-like way of life

Colony, not hive.

>>84244437
Oh,yeah...I stand correct,thanks

>>84244374
Check your DA PM, yo. I updated the mod to 1.2 but haven't tested it yet.

>>84244374
The Octopus, and most relative multi-armed Cephalopods with high intellect (cuttlefish for instance) suffer from terminal breeding. They only breed once, which means they never meet their offspring, and thus there is no reason for them to advance beyond their current intellect as the kin-benefit of complex social structures cannot benefit them.

>>84242638
>I had no idea there was a big following here or anywhere
It garnered attention when someone posted the smek bit a few times. Same sort of thing as what happened to Endtown

>>84242922
They're a brand new species, basically. The Greater Yinglet only appeared a little over 100 years ago.

They wouldn't have any natural predators, they're akin to an introduced species. If anything they should be ruining the ecosystems they appeared in

>>84243825
I should have been more specific. Yes. Kass is a Yinglet DD compared to their paltry Bs because of human.

>>84244437

I'm sure some yinglets have tried living in trees in structures made of their own vomit, it probably just didn't work.

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>>84244868
>Kass is a Yinglet DD compared to their paltry Bs because of human.
>All those females blushing in jealousy making snide remarks how her fat sacs are hideous and not as sensitive as their flesh bumps.

>>84245013
Yinglet females seem much less backstabby than human females. I suppose not viewing one another as competition does wonders, huh?

>>84245124

The one of the field guide pages in the comic talks about how Yinglets are pretty adapted not to seriously fight among themselves, because they're so dependent on the group to survive.

Well even if they do have any natural predators, they are hard to catch due to their high dex, which may take off more energy than their stringy meat provides, in which the meat itself is too gammy that it may cause food poisoning. So those predators have long learned that it's not worth it and keep their distance.

>>84243110
pls no jump

>>84244200
More recent DNA evidence suggests that Neanderthals and homo sapiens had essentially merged to become modern Europeans. It seems their DNA was more compatable than was hypothesized.

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Don't you die on me

>>84246278
This is gonna be useful for X-men threads.

>>84238971

Are yinglets so incompetent that their attempts to do things can count as unnecessarily complicated involuntary attempted suicide? Like that time on American Dad where the CIA pulled a Jurassic Park and cloned a dodo from old dna? EVERYTHING he did was curiosity and attempted suicide all in one.

>>84244906
Pretty sure a couple yinglets said "Fuck this place, we'll live how WE want, without responsibilities!! Hakuna Matata!" Got 30 feet away from the colony, then crushed by a passing cart they didn't notice because they were still pimp-walking proudly with their eyes closed and heads proudly thrown back in a display of confidence, and not paying attention to their surroundings.

>>84240136
gross! I meant literally eating them, not.... THAT

>>84241595
aww, stupid swamp planets and their stupid toxic fauna, ran into this same problem on Nal Hutta

>>84250818
dammit anon you're killing my boner

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>>84217354
YES
I miss this comic far too much.

How high-pitched are yinglets?

>>84251164
http://www.valsalia.com/index_files/Extras/askAverageYinglet2.swf

>>84251152
But it's not gone?

>>84251310
The thread dies after a day usually.

>>84251321
Then don't say that you miss the -comic- when you mean the -thread-, you stupid scav.

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>>84251419
Here's your (you).

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>>84251433
were you saving my screencaps

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>>84251499
Aren't we all?
We need more reaction pics from this anyways.

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It has been a good thread, but it is now time to die.

Till next time

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>>84252344 RIP

>>84252344
I REFUSE

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New animations when?

>>84243855
Well if one's used "soap" recently, yeah! If you catch the scent of something nose-meltingly citric and there's a yinglet offering big hugs, it's probably best to punt it across the street and run.

>>84244645
Oh crap, I bet that's why I could never get octopi to build a sustainable civilization in SimEarth, no matter how many monoliths I dropped on 'em.

>>84244437
They're almost closer to a giant flock of trash-birds in the way thei view others of their species; the colony aspect is more due to the way their culture and leadership has developed.

>>84244868
>If anything they should be ruining the ecosystems they appeared in
Oh boy, do they ever. Mostly in the form of bringing their native semi-toxic swamp flora from their homelands with them and transplanting it wherever they set up enclaves.

It grows quickly and in all sorts of harsh conditions, which would be great for farming and paper production in inhospitable climates, if it weren't so awful for non-yinglets.

>>84244906
>>84250765
This really is a good illustration of why it's so rare to see any outside the enclaves.

>>84245752
Yep! They're not hard to kill, assuming you can catch one. But it's only for the truly hungry/desperate.

...Man, I am still surprised and delighted to be answering questions about these fictional little things I made up.

>>84250710
Kinda! There's no lack of gullible idiots, but there's also those who have lived long enough to convince the gullible idiots to take risks on their behalf. If they get good enough at this, they might rise to Patriarch status at some point.

>>84243110
>>84246023
But if he doesn't, then the rest of the species will never know if they can fly or not! Most leaps forward in yinglet culture have come from the commendable efforts of the risk-takers, and their equally commendable 99.5% mortality rate.

>>84254080
Whenever I get the time/motivation to make an "Ask a Baxxid" flash or something!

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>>84254438
Hop to it m80

>>84254438
>>84244645
In order to have intelligent octopus/squids that form social communities, a large portion of the population would need to be born sterile.

Whoever can breed breeds young and the sterile ones pick out whichever kids from the brood they want to raise.

Threads on it's way out, so I went ahead and screencapped Val's last post for the next thread.

>>84256451
... why?

>>84256451
The thread is only a little over half way to bump limit.

It still has a lot of potential life left in it for anyone who wants to keep it to go about keeping it up.

>>84256476
In case anyone missed it, not everyone sticks to threads until they die. Hell, not everyone even visits daily.

>>84256516
Yeah, this is usually the part where the thread dies.

>>84257215
Even after they die, they're in /co/ archive for a week and Val doesn't really give any heavy worldbuilding that isnt in the comic

Yinglets lay eggs?

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>>84257906
yes

>>84257906
4 - 7 a clutch if I remember the page that stated it right.

>>84257943
>>84257953

What if the thing that transformed him was a yinglet egg that broke on him.

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>>84256451
>>84256516
>>84257215
Do you think the amount of time we keep a given thread alive is proportional to the amount of time we have to wait between strips?
If we didn't distract Val for 3-4 days with questions and fan art would he get down to the next update quicker?

>>84258068

That is a silly thought.

>>84258068
Don't rush him, man
He's still learning and trying to settle on a solid way of doing things
Trying to push him for sheer quantity of updates isn't gonna help

Calm your ratbird lust

>>84258124
>sheer quantity of updates

Yeah. Look how shit Endtown has become.

>>84257976
They're repeatedly called it an artifact and as has been said ITT, the idea is that it's never happened before.
Besides, bring able to menstrually produce handheld transmogrifiers would put A LOT of power in yingletkinds court. Totally undermines them being Valsalian society's punchline.

>>84258144
What if they call eggs artifacts?

>>84258124
Oh I'm happy with one strip a week.
Considering this latest one was on Saturday and the one before that was a Wednesday though I'm a little paranoid atm.

>>84258141
No look you don't get to use Endtown as an example. It's an outlier and to claim otherwise is a load of shit.

Endtown has been going solidly for like 7 years. It has hundreds of strips. Aaron worked himself into the fucking hospital for Endtown. It's his life's work.

He's had a SHITLOAD of experience and practice to get himself to where he's comfortable updating as much as he does.

Valsalia only picked up drawing a few years back. He's still working things out, as you can see by the conversations he's had here on /co/ regarding his shading. To compare them, even loosely is just plain wrong.

>>84258280
Just be chill anon. It takes as long as it takes. As long as we don't start getting into Prequel territory we're all good

>>84258359
>No look you don't get to use Endtown as an example. It's an outlier and to claim otherwise is a load of shit.

I can and I will and I just did. Putting yourself in a hospital for a web comic is not something to be lauded over. That is insanity.

>>84258523
Exactly, and he's still not a picture of health.

Just because Endtown or SSSS can update a lot doesn't mean every webcomic should be able to, especially with the sheer difference in experience between the artists.

>>84258565

I think we are arguing the same point but you got angry that I likened it to endtown.

>>84258608
I thought you were being sarcastic about Endtown. I see no problem with Endtown's quality. The way the story is playing out isn't to everyone's taste but in the end it's always been steered more by what Aaron wants than what the fans want.

>>84258646
>I see no problem with Endtown's quality.

We are having that conversation of the endtown thread right now actually. The issue is how convienently things happen in the comic with emphasis on the last couple of panels. (for the record I do think this arc is the worst arc in all of endtown)

But that is neither here nor there. Val is doing a great job, and I look forward to every update. Rather slow and good than fast and bad.

>>84258068
No.

As far as I'm aware this has an irregular update schedule, so having a thread up about it would in no way impact the amount of time between pages.

>>84257943
>Male of great intelligence and ability, who developed the hunting/war tactic that yinglets still use today
>Conquered the entirety of the yinglet triers
>established a new, unified culture, claiming to receive guidance from the stars above to bring his species to greatness.

inb4 this yinglet king was a some human noble woman or knight who got transformed into a male yinglet.

>>84258906
Doesn't even need to be a noble or knight

Greater Yinglets are dumb as fuck and the great leader basically just gave them rudimentary knowledge, things any normal human would know or work out.

The war tactic he taught them? Surround them. If they turn on you, back off. If they look away, jab. One of the most basic pack animal fighting techniques.

It's pretty obvious that the Leader was a human, but yeah doesn't need to be a soldier or noble.

>>84258068
>If we didn't distract Val for 3-4 days with questions and fan art would he get down to the next update quicker?
Maybe *very* slightly, but all the good feedback gets me motivated to draw more, so I think it's a net gain.

>>84258359
>He's had a SHITLOAD of experience and practice to get himself to where he's comfortable updating as much as he does.
This is a huge factor, yeah. Both Endtown and Poppy started with the artist being already experienced and everything looking much like it currently does by page 1, whereas half the reason I started drawing this thing is because I knew it was just about the only way to keep myself drawing consistently enough to improve over time.

>>84258691
>The issue is how convienently things happen in the comic with emphasis on the last couple of panels.
This is something that has a lot to do with the page formatting used, something that Endtown, Poppy and OOPs all have different takes on.

Endtown (which I really like by the way) uses the more traditional newspaper "strip"-style comic format, which means that things have to be set up and wrap up in quick vignettes, yet also tell a larger story when read in order.

Poppy uses a normal comic book-style format, which reads like a seamless graphic novel when you read through the archives, which allows the author to take plenty of time to pace out the interactions and plot.

The format I'm using is kinda something in between; self-contained vignettes that contain their own little story and tell a larger one when read in order, but also without any limit on page size/number of panels that the other two formats use. If I think a couple extra panels of reaction shots could help, I can just slip as many as I need in there.

This makes it a bit more difficult to pace the page releases though, as some are as short as 4 panels, and others might take up to 16+ if there's something big going on that might lose its impact if divided into separate comic strips.

>>84258975
Ya maybe the yinglets high elders planned this all along, they're slowly amassing a huge stockpile of weird magical trinkets and when the time is right, they hope to slowly transform humans into greater yinglets, that way it solves the ridiculously skewed male to female ratio, as well as propel them from a stone age hunter-gatherer society into at least a Medieval/Renaissance era one.

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Hey Val, your comic was the talk of the town at the Transformation panel at Anthrocon

>>84259166
Or maybe, since they're the ones in power and would thus have the greatest access to females, they are hoarding the artifacts to AVOID a new Leader

they might be anti-progress

>>84259179
Really! Well that's gotta count for something. How was it mentioned/brought up/discussed/etc etc? You've got me all curious.

>>84259686
It was brought up as an example of transformation dealing more with the repercussions rather than the change itself. A few other people heard of it including me. I wasn't even the one that brought it up either. Talked about it for like 6 or 7 minutes, and Chase Skunk, the guy hosting the panel, definitely wanted to get into it after hearing about it

TROS-newfag here (The Riddle of Steel, tabletop with great damage system).

How well would Yinglets do with Chinese straight swords or rapiers? Those are weapons designed to compensate for a serious lack of upper-body or arm strength, relying more on cutting or slashing rather than powering through armor.

Since these are usually light weapons, I think it's a better weapon for a species who lacks significant muscle mass.

Admittedly, IIRC they weren't used against fully armored opponents, or are not commonly depicted in those situations.

>>84260023
Interesting! That is pretty much the focus of Kass' storyline, so it's nice to hear that stands out.

>>84260129
Scaled down to their size, they might take well to weapons like that. The only area where they're not weak is making hard forward thrusts from their upper arms, originally developed to plunge forward into shallow waters to catch fish.

So modern yinglets have a fair amount of quick-twitch muscle fiber there, which is why spears and daggers tends to be their preferred armaments.

>>84260129

Yinglets are best served as Dragoons or trappers

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>>84259179
>the Transformation panel at Anthrocon
I've been getting funny feelings in my peepee since Rock-A-Doodle-Doo and seeing this string of words still weirds me the fuck out.

>>84256239

That's how Sam's species in Freefall works doesn't it?

"You wanna have kids? Because the Smiths down the road had sex so there's a pile of them in their yard."

>>84257943

That could work if the fertilized gametes underwent a secondary meiosis in utero then recombined.

That would mean that the children would have 3/4 of the mother's genes though.

Unless the secondary gametes could either merge with another egg, or be fertilized by another sperm.

Of course there's also the possiblility that Yinglet don't have a distinction between egg and sperm cells. If fertilization is possible between two male gametes but the embryo can only develop in a female you could get that kind of cross. But then there's the problem that the mother may wind up with a kid who has no genetic relationship.

In summary, Yinglet sex is a land of contrasts.

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>>84260410

You some kind of medicine man or somethin'?

>>84260410
I'm used to freefall being somewhat not well received on /co/, so, looking what happened further up, I didn't want to name drop it in the thread.

>>84260482
I haven't seen anyone badmouth freefall, its just not that popular

>>84260508
Main complaint around here is usually the art.

I'm not following it for the art though.

>>84260410
>But then there's the problem that the mother may wind up with a kid who has no genetic relationship

Would that not describe why each Yinglet is very different and that the species has a penchant for mutation?

>>84260482

Freefall is an interesting case. It's like the webcomic version of a Coelacanth. It became what it was during the during the late 90's, and hasn't changed significantly since.

>>84260559

Yeah, but why invest the resources to bear a kid that shares none of your DNA, when you could be bearing a kid that does? Of course, evolutionary pressures apply to the group as well as the individual. So making sure that there's strong kin bonds within the group might be worth it, particularly if their social structure and development means that having kids isn't as risky for Yinglets as it is for humans.

That's kind of the problem with evolutionary biology. You wind up telling 'Just So' stories but with kin selection taking the place of talking animals.

>>84260694

This is interesting. I will reply why I think what I said is true due to a sociological aspect of their hierarchy and culture having direct correlation to the raising of young, but right now I am going to make dinner.

Main point:
For Yinglets, Kinship doesn't matter and you are looking through a biased(re:human) looking glass.

>>84260420
I've been marathoning this show as I've drawn the last couple pages/commissions, so seeing it here is kinda surreal.

>>84260559
>>84260694
Good points! There isn't much innate connection between parents and offspring, except for some cases where a particular "donor" might notice that one of the younglets in the most recent batch looks/acts/etc a whole lot like them, in which case they might take a liking to them and/or act as a sort of "big buddy" figure.

They really don't think much about who begat who, except for the Matriarch, who obsesses about it constantly if she's a good Matriarch since she's in charge of directing the focus of an enclave's breeding patterns.

The downside of this is that there's not a lot of built-in support for young ones, and a number of males need to be bribed into staying in the enclave and act as nannies to get the younglets through their early helpless stages.

Some just like being nannies though, and the guarantee of food/shelter certainly doesn't hurt.

>>84260914
>Some just like being nannies though, and the guarantee of food/shelter certainly doesn't hurt.

So there could be a Patriarch of Being a Cool Big Bro?

>>84261006
There could, and that would probably result in a lot more competent childcare, and/or quality of the adults later on!

The emergence of a Patriarch is largely based on chance, though; a yinglet's gotta live long enough to become decent at their particular specialty, and a fair amount of perfectly competent candidates are lost to various accidents before they can start specializing.

And what they'll be good at can be slightly influenced by a Matriarch purposely favoring breeding for yinglets with a particular set of strengths, but otherwise it's pretty random.

An enclave might be in dire need of a Patriarch with farming skills, but instead get an entire generation of Patriarchs that are expert speed-knitters.

It's a problem in the enclave system that has yet to find a decent solution to.

>>84260914

That raises some questions. Can a matriarch enforce either monogamy, or at least specific exclusions on certain pairings, on the females and patriarchs? Or are they more trying to make a big pile of individuals with good traits and hoping for the best?

Can patriarchs be demoted? Say one has no interest or ability to breed; or carries a genetic disorder.

Are males and females traded? In the comic Vizlet mentions them being hoarded, so what governs their movement. E.g. would the matriarch of an enclave that needs physical strength and size come to Vislet and say: "I'll trade you a smart female and a cartload of tools for Poak"?

... I'm starting to edge into creepy here aren't I?

>>84260410

>That could work if the fertilized gametes underwent a secondary meiosis in utero then recombined.
>That would mean that the children would have 3/4 of the mother's genes though.
Something about that sounds wrong, but I'm far too tired to try figure out what it really is.

>>84261260
>a yinglet's gotta live long enough to become decent at their particular specialty, and a fair amount of perfectly competent candidates are lost to various accidents before they can start specializing.

... I just realised that when it came to choosing a way of life for Yinglets, nature basically selected "Roguelike".

>>84261335

I think you're right. I believe I was assuming that the 2nd generation gametes would recombine with the other eggs on an equal chance, when there's no reason that would happen. Either that or I was somehow thinking Yinglet males were haploid. This is why I try to limit myself to talking about entirely fictional genetics.

>>84261488
They could be some mad new form of polyploidy.

>>84260785
>kinship doesn't matter
Something something "selfish gene" something something.

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>>84260410
>>84260559
>>84260694
>>84260785
>>84260914
>>84261335
>>84261488
>>84261663

>>84261663

"Yinglet chromosomes are about as fragile as a biscuit, but they have an awful lot of them, in weird combinations, so it all seems to work out, more or less."

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>>84261954
Polyploidy confirmed.

>>84261299
It's only creepy if eugenics is creepy! Which it really, really tends to be throughout human history.

It apparently does weird things when primate social psychology is involved.

>>84261715
>>84261954
This really is a running theme with these little jerks; millennia of evolution has strictly guided most flora and fauna towards extremely specialized and efficient forms.

With yinglets, it's more like "Well, this is how they are now and they're still around, so I guess it works, whatever"

>>84260535
>>84260482

What's good about it then?

>>84262974

If I'm honest, I'm mostly reading it out of familiarity at this point. I enjoy the characters, and I like some of the concepts he came up with, but eh. I can't really say "this is great you should read it".

>>84262974
Its nice.
Characters are fun and generally likable, the overarching plot is reasonably interesting without being too involved so you don't get lost despite it running for decades, the setting is an actually pretty novel light-hearted take on a post scarcity far future society.
Basically it feels like a newspaper comic that's actually worth reading.
Florence is cute

>>84258068
Nah, I was just trying to save him the trouble of answering the same questions again. Given the thread revived, it's no longer needed.

>>84262974
I read it for the plot. Humor isn't what it was towards the beginning, but still gets a decent strip every now and then.

>>84261394
>... I just realised that when it came to choosing a way of life for Yinglets, nature basically selected "Roguelike".
Massive Chalice Yinglet mod when?

>>84261394
They are locked into an eternal game of DCSS. It makes perfect sense.

>>84263761
Anon what could yinglets offer that isn't already done by kobolds?

>>84263619
It was a rhetorical question senpai don't worry bout it

>>84261802
Shouldn't they be bumping into each other and going "D'OH!"?

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>>84259052
>Endtown (which I really like by the way) uses the more traditional newspaper "strip"-style comic format, which means that things have to be set up and wrap up in quick vignettes, yet also tell a larger story when read in order.
If you put a bunch of strips together it's basically a storyboard.

>>84262031
Needs a sign: "wil du 'stuf' 4 oystrz..."

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>>84264611
>that first beat
Every fucking time.

Oh yeah; lemme ask you lot something.

Did anyone notice that the shading on the characters on this page was pretty minimal?

It's one element that until recently I've been spending a solid chunk of time on, until realizing that (I think) things look pretty decent with just a few touches instead of soft-shading every surface.

Since I've been working to decrease the amount of time I spend drawing each page, I'm thinking this might be a good area to simplify, as it took a good 2-3 hours of overall production time off.

>>84266596
Honestly, it looks fine to me.

>>84262974
The characters and the setting are interesting to me, and I like the story.

>>84266596
It works just fine. Try to read up on shortcuts production animators use if you are interested in saving time on panels.

>>84266596

I didn't notice, so it seems like a good area to simplify.