The yinglet enclave is located about half a mile south from the main city, where upon its founding, they dug a small saltwater stream in from the sea, in order to farm the mollusks and saltmarsh plants that make up the majority of their diet and building materials.
This method of beachside irrigation might have changed the way Val Salia produces food, if anyone but the yinglets could stand the taste of the plants.
I hope that Yinglet doesn’t die from that accident.
But then the other yinglet would have nothing to laugh at.
So they are smart enough to dig an agriculturally viable canal. Seems advanced to me
They also have knowledge enough to create basic weapons and leather headcaps. This shows multiple things:
They can sew and make thread.
They can make leather.
They can sharpen rocks to a edge
They can tie knots.
It looks like the “professional” tier of Yinglet society (the ones who have picked up a useful skill but haven’t risen to patriarch status) are numerous enough to keep everything from falling apart completely.
There appears to be a yinglet up in a tree. This amuses me greatly.
Great scene!
NONE CAN DEFEAT THE GREAT TRINGLET
Sentry duty? Keeping an eye out?
Talk about “gallows humour”.
Up until this point I hadn’t thought it….. I hadn’t been reading comments either, so it’s possible it’s been said, but….. I was mostly just enjoying the Yinglets silliness till now, but the moment I saw that one in a silent scream…. I just heard Scrat’s “oh no my acorn” screech of terror burst out…. And now im doomed!
What the fuck happened in panel four?!
Trying and failing to build a new long-house, by the looks of it.
That tree looks like a Game of Thrones weirwood.
So, two of the male yinglets on this page seem to have natural tail tufts — the one at lower-right on the first panel, and the laughing one in the fourth. Is that just some natural hair attached with an adhesive, or what?
Apparently the most feminine of males grow small tail tufts.
The more you know.
I bet the foods yinglets cultivate could work in some circumstances. It’d probs be rather cheap because you got a coast that can all be used as arable land now, so good ol’ rations and other such “it’s all I’ve got” foods come to mind. I could see House Ivenmoth buying cultivated plants, drying them, and selling them to sailors to help prevent nutrition related issues.
Since Val Salia is a trading city, there’s plenty of spices for sale that can be piled on to hide the yucky taste with, and because it’s probably pretty cheap, it’s now a tolerable meal that doesn’t break the bank and gives a bit more nutrition than just moth abdomens. Imagine some of the buds shown in a later comic marinated in chili or something like that, it’d taste ok if you got a spice tolerance high enough.