That which remains
All right, looks like everything’s up and working! I’ve been sitting on this site redesign too long, and just needed a couple days to get everything remade. And in a strange bit of good (?) timing, my Wacom tablet died a few days ago, which I assumed was the universe’s way of telling me to get off my ass and update the site already. Thankfully Wacom made a speedy repair and delivery back, so I’ve already sketched up the first few panels of the next OOPs page.
And a special shoutout to Xandispin, who first suggested a site update several months ago, then set up this snazzy new WordPress layout for me to customize (which I then sat on until this past week). Thanks man; it took me long enough to get around to it, but without you the site would still be looking like something from the early 2000’s!
Seriously, I was manually creating pages and re-entering every altered link when there was a new page, using a long-defunct version of Dreamweaver 2001. That gets tiring real quick.
Anyway! There’s some new stuff in the Art & Extras section now as well, which you might not have seen if you don’t frequent Deviantart and such.
MEAT HOLE
MEAT HOLE
MEAT HOLE
MEAT HOLE
it is made of MEAT!
This reminds me of the notes from Metroid Prime.
“Subject partially converted by substance.”
“Subject did not survive the process.”
Eh, as a Yinglet, de idea zhat we are an Artifically created species is kind of moot. If “Zhat Zhing” is created by Lesser Yinglets as a self defense mechanism, or it comes from de glowy shit in de sky, and we are a cosmic mistake, we don’t remember. We had to borrow language and culture from Humani just to be able to be more zhan what de lesser Yinglets are, culturally. Sure, we might have been able to figure out somezhing in ten thousand generations zhat wasn’t a orgy, but our genesis as a species is unknown to me, and honestly our being “uplifted” (a term taken from Sci-Fi, which my native planet doesn’t have, so Yay Holodeck library!) is of much greater import to me. Zhat we exist at all is a mixed curse/blessing, as I am glad to be alive, even as I am. But to be able to zhink, and to have access to learnings zhat only make we want to learn more, as so many more questions are made for each new idea or learning zhat I kind of get Ran, somewhat in regards to wanting to know more zhan what’s in a book.
This may not mean the entire species is an “artificial” creation. For all we know, there was an ancient civilization of Greater Yinglet super-geniuses who made artifacts like this for themselves, but they were cast into the stone age by a civilization-ending cataclysm, leaving only a handful of survivors with no memory or record of their history. Or maybe the memory wasn’t lost, and the council from the old enclaves who sent Narklet to the Valsalian enclave to hunt for artifacts like “that thing” have been hiding deep, dark secrets from the world for centuries.
In any case, this revelation is sure to inspire a wave of fun theories about who made it, how long ago, and why.
Maybe we did have a Ancient Ying civilization, or not. Earzh Humani have all kinds of stories about Atlantis, or ozher lost civilizations like Romulus, home planet of what used to be de main asshats of de alpha quadrant before zheir star went bang, ending zhem. However, even if Zhat Zhing was simply a way to seed life onto ozher planets, I cannot say zhat it matters to me, nor likely to most Yinglets. To Kassen Akoll, certainly, and de secret to “Zhat Zhing” matters a lot to de Council of Yinglet Asshats, certainly. But what we don’t know is why zhey care.
Kassen may be a so, so pretty Feemale, zhough so far not a very productive one, egg wise. Where all zhis ends up at, won’t be a major issue for Ying-kind unless zhat zhing becomes far, far more common. And I don’t see zhat happening as de abuse of such a miracle as a weapon is razher likely. De Boss already used it as a weapon in a comic already. https://www.valsalia.com/art-extras/of-ends-and-beginnings/
And if zhere is a supernatural diety out zhere, guiding Zhat Zhing to special people wizh de potential to alter our people’s lives for de better, remember it was Kassen Akoll who got it. Zo much for saving us wizh brilliance and level-headedness. Kass may be smarter zhan de average Yinglet, but is not beyond what we are capable of, minus for being very stubborn, and earning zhe all time Yinglet record in regards to keeping zhier virginity intact for zheir apparent age.
I think it’s more likely that it absorbed yinglet DNA, and that primed it to convert someone to match that DNA. And perhaps its purpose was specifically to create the other gender than what it absorbed… which could be useful for creating viable populations.
Because I’m sure several others were wondering too:
“A teratoma is a rare type of germ cell tumor that may contain immature or fully formed tissue, including teeth, hair, bone and muscle.”
Stephen King fans: Remember The Dark Half? That’s what that was.
Oh I see: it is an eye, albeit a half-baked one. I guess this confirms it’s a one-way transmogrification, and Kass isn’t ever going to be human again. That’s a good enough reason for Ran to avoid showing it to Kass for a while.
Oh that’s a good point.
Zhat Zhing also followed Lavoisier’s rule about conservation of mass, oddly enough. To become human again, it is likely zhat Kass would need more biological mass to reform a Humani body, eizher dat, or he’d be a infant. (De Internet is a wonderful zhing, no?)
Mmmmyeah, I can see why showing this to Kassen probably isn’t advisable. This image is dealing psychic damage to ME, and I’m not the one who got body morphed by this horror substance. Kassen might suffer a seizure and die on the spot if shown this.
It has to be nanotech, right? This is humanity’s second or third go around at technological civilisation. Wonder what ended the last one…
I zhink Clarke’s second and zhird laws are fully in effect here:
2: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3:Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Zo, magic, science, or supernatural, it is kind of one and de same. Zhat Zhing dat turned Kassen Akoll into a sopretty feemale exists. We know what it does, and that it’s result is stable once activated. But we don’t know a lot more zhan dat. How it works, is zhere someone making it still, or can it be reversed wizhout de risk of looking like de picture above?
De mechanics of how it happened is interesting, at least to me, but understanding what zhat zhing is, is less important zhan knowing why de Council of Yinglet Asshats wants it so badly.
Kinda reminds me of a Sarlacc Pit.
Behold the glory of yinglet potatoes.
perhaps zhat zhing relies on the structure of a human to create the structure of a yinglet
if it had a log it would be filled to zhe brim
I’d zhink Isher would be in for testing if she could be turned Yinglet. Certainly her sex life would improve drastically if it worked.
pov: you are soil, chilling below a dinnish bunkhouse…
man it would be so cool to have an inanimate object become a fully functional yinglet, with memories of being an inanimate object
Somehow, I zhink de inanimate object would be offended
For those of us looking for a mid-month Yinglet fix, we got instead an episode of Lusty Argonian mad’d over on Deviant Art from de boss. Yay, boo, or whatevers.
Meh. I’m only a fan of this comic, not the other one, but I’m not petty enough to boo when the other one gets a page. It’s allowed to have its fans too, and we’re not on any desperate cliffhangers, so it’s relatively easy to be patient at present. :Þ
Well, from the data gathered I can draw no conclusions beyond what Ran already has.
The substance seems to convertes anything (capable of extensive metabolic action) into a template of a brown furred greater yinglet female.
I say “extensive metabolic action” as subject Kassen Akoll was exposed to only a fraction of the substance, the same as the subsequent biological material in “The Hole,” yet transmogrified completely into the presumed template, yet “The Hole” did not transmogrify into one or more brown furred greater yinglet females except in parts.
I reject the supposition that an exposure and subsequent sampling of the subject, “Kassen Akoll,” lead to the formation of the specific structures in “The Hole” as due to the subject’s presumed flailing at the time, having been sprayed by an unknown substance, would not have resulted in all of the catalyst contacting the subject and subsequently dripping onto the floor.
Therefore I suppose that the template form was already set in the substance before contact.
Also, the limited nature of the contact and subsequent complete transformation of the subject but not “The Hole” leads to the conclusion that contact with a sufficient amount of the substance is not required for complete transmogrification, but that a supporting structure, such as a fully operational body of sufficient mass, is required for the catalysation of the transmogrification is required, as evidenced by the partial transmogrification of organic and even inorganic substances in “The Hole.”
As such, the substance acts more like a disease than a chemical reaction, only requiring an inital “seed” into “fertile soil” to sprout into full fruition.
As the substance did not completely transmogrify any substance in “The Hole” into a greater yinglet in any substantial fashion it can be concluded that a support system is required for the full process.
However, as the substance did partially transmogrifý many substances in “The Hole” into partial copies of a (presumably female) (presumably) greater yinglet it can also be surmised that the substance has substantial transmogrifying abilities all on its own even without a support structure and therefore only even a very minor exposure would result in complete transmogrification.
It is persumed that the exposure to a male yinglet would result in an unsatisfactory transmogrification due to their much lower body mass, similar to the burrowing legworm in “The Hole,”despite structural similarity between male and female yinglets. Any suchxperiments are advised to be conducted covertly and away from the notice of the local martiarch due to current diplomatic ties and efforts.
Being a Yinglet, reproduction for us is a biological oddity in inself, as eggs grow from the moment of conception to hatching. I don’t mean just de Younglet inside de egg eizher, de actual egg grows. Zo, dis “Zhat Zhing” residue leftover zhing we see here, does work wizhin what is known about de absurdity of our existance already, taking non-yinget stuff, and turning it into Yinglet. Wizh Kass, it worked a helluva lot faster, sure, but it is how each of us began life once upon a time.