OOPs #230, Field Guide: Yinglet Social Groupings
May31
How these little things do, together
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Are the grammatical errors supposed to tell us something about Ran, or are they just typos?
You think that Ran copies all zhis by hand for distribution? Lopin does more zhan wear frilly dresses for Ran, I’d zhink.
It probably depends on how many copies of the regional field guide are published at a time. If it’s a couple dozen, maybe Ran’s assistants could make copies without a crazy amount of effort. But if it’s hundreds, like a newspaper, I’d hope they have etching press technology. I don’t know if Lopin is literate, but if he is, or if Ran has time to teach him, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him helping out with the publication. Kass might not like the thought of it, though!
If Lopin isn’t literate now, I imagine he will be soon. He is spending a lot of time with Ran, and if he is going to be some sort of informal assistant, he’s going to need lessons. Plus he is, though not a formal employee of Ivenmoth, at least a close associate. That means he is a de facto representative for the future of Ivenmoth-yinglet relations, and it’s quite unacceptable for a person in such a position to act like some common street scav: As soon as the current series of crisis situations is dealt with, he’s going to be getting some formal education. Just so that he can have a dignified conversation with the upper classes without embarrassing House Ivenmoth.
A good point: The existence of cheap penny-dreadfuls like Yinglets Ripped my Flesh shows that Val Salia does have movable type printing technology. It make look like a medieval society technologically, but only because the latest advances are not affordable to the most of the population: We’re looking at a Renaissance period. The place will have electric lights in another two or three centuries.
I don’t think you need anything as advanced as moveable type. Some kind of intaglio, printing from a carved, engraved, or etched original, would work fine, and might really be more practical for printing sheets with drawings illuminating the text.
Movable type dropped the cost of small-volume printing greatly. Government-sponsored pieces like this, you can do with earlier types of printing. But newspapers, and penny-dreadful horror stories? That indicates low-cost printing.
Ah yes, for the publication of “Yinglets Ripped my Flesh!” you have a good point. The yinglets in that story probably also had a few good points.
zomg! you are here?!?
That younglet’s face is so expressive! is Ran also a talented portrait artist?
“C’mon dad, pumme down. Ewwybody is pwayin in da weeds an’I wango too. I’m tireda bein’ showed off ta allda peepwl, and dis one … is … weely …… weeuwd.”
This is the only society I’m aware of that outlaws Monogamy.
Brave New World, as well – the society in that setting prohibits monogamy, regarding it as selfish and possessive.
The Gao from the web serial Deathworlders have a similar sex imbalance (far more males than females), and similarly forbid monogamy or otherwise having a single male monopolize a female. This is on account of the Bad Old Days when female Gao were basically sex slaves, something that only came to an end because a fellow named Fyu took issue with it and decided to conquer the world to put an end to it (technically, it was a female named Tiritya, whom Fyu loved, who initially tried to put a stop to it via subterfuge; when she was captured and executed, Fyu went on the warpath). The only exception is the new Great Father who is appointed such during the events of the story and is the only male allowed to take a wife.
The Gao also have eugenic breeding programs they use to encourage the proliferation of desirable characteristics. They honestly have a lot of similarities to Yinglets – although they are markedly more advanced, less impulsive, and less prone to severe mutation.
I hate it when you get lazy and do this boring narration style crap. This isn’t a National Geographic Yinglet special, this is supposed to be ENTERTAINMENT and FUN. This kind of crap isn’t fun. Not at all!
That kinda sounds like a you problem? I’m not trying to be mean but like.. If it’s lazy and low effort then it doesn’t cut much into the time for a normal page so you can just skip reading it and no harm done?
“This isn’t a National Geographic Yinglet special”? I don’t think it’s your place to decide what this comic is meant to be.
^This.
Very much agreed! I love getting little lore drops and information into the world here! Doubly so when it’s about yinglets!
You want garbage comics? That’s how you get garbage comics.
Yeah, whatever. Nobody said you actually had to go out and find and read a GOOD comic. If you’re happy with settling for this then enjoy! I mean, the author doesn’t have to get better at what he does. After all, the author of the comic strip “kathy” did great for YEARS with shit-tier work. If he doesn’t care then why should you, right?
You seem upset.
Have a clam.
I’d even suggest that Poak sit on them.
S/He’s a troll. “Do not feed the trolls.”
(Notice s/he’s even hiding behind a temporary user name?)
By now, you’ve hopefully started to realize that pretty much everyone else thinks this is a ‘you’ problem.
So let me reiterate, in case it hasn’t sunk in yet: This is a ‘you’ problem.
As KeystoneInspector said, this isn’t actually narration. It’s an in-narrative document, ostensibly written by Ran. And as Lehanna said, this is typically done when Valsalia is too busy to do normal comics. Would you prefer this (so you at least know he hasn’t abandoned the comic), or one page “whenever he gets around to it” – which, in the past, has been just two, or sometimes even just one, page per month.
By the way, there’s approximately 20 pages of this “boring narration style crap” out of 230 pages. That’s about 8.5% of the comic. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to read it. But don’t whine about it and expect people to agree with you, since most of us appreciate the effort he’s put into world-building.
Your words are, sadly, wasted on such people. After all, they are only here to spew worthless half-digested clam phlegm (as they are clearly not of yinglet heritage), and nothing would please them more than to receive more validation in the form of unintended invitations to continue spewing.
Speak for yourself, the deep thought and lore put into this world and given to us through the field guides has made me love this world, story, and comic far more than I would have otherwise. If you really hate it so much then just don’t bother reading it.
To be fair, this is the fourth page in May, where the target is three a month, so don’t criticize the author for what we could call bonus content. And there’s almost always something new to be learned from these field guides. Something I learned here is that Narklet is being harder on Kattajak about his father-daughter relationship with Zally than normal, by “outright discouraging” the relationship. Maybe he’s extra-worried because of what happened in the past with Zeska, and because he’s worried about the enclave’s eccentricities, or maybe he’s just a puritanical type who interprets the rules more strictly most others.
I mean, if he writes anything like me he had most of this already written out, so the only timeloss are the drawings, most of which look pretty simple. Also, we wouldn’t have that dude raving about his mini-him, and that would be a tragedy.
This isn’t even narration, it’s an in-narrative document. It’s not like he’s taking the story he wanted to tell and summarized it in “narration style”, whatever that is.
This is typically done when the author is too busy IRL to do normal comics. So it’s either this or he does like MORE comic creators. which is go completely silent for weeks with absolutely no content.
So it’s this or nothing, you selfish bastard
your pretty much demanding one of the big reasons people enjoy this webcomic. people love fleshed out worlds and stuff like this really flesh it out! honestly I’d be happy if more webcomics did this sort of thing
*demanding to remove
You know, i recently found this comic and i absolutly adore this lore things, not sure why you gotta go full rage for this, there is millions of other webcomics no need to shit on this, just because you dont like it dosent mean its bad.
Ha! I can’t tell if you’re serious or trying to roleplay.
Either way, … hah!
Look at the little ying-baby and his proud papa!
C’Mon Boss, that proud daddy needs a “Pride Rock” moment from de Lion King!
IT’S THE CIIIRRRCLE OF LIIIIIIFFE
Actuallies… is kinda square wizh rounded cornerz.
O_o
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It’s the squircle of liiiifffffeeee!
Yinglet Mufasa:”Simba, see everything the light touches?”
Yinglet Simba: “Yes, Fazher, it’s so huge!”
Yinglet Mufasa: “Yes, and you know what? De Humani own all of it~!”
Yinglet Simba: All of it?
Yinglet Mufasa: “Well, see zhat muddy hole down dere with the house that is on fire? Dat..Is your inheritance.
Yinglet Simba: Looks stunned “Can we live wizh de hoomans and share de light areas?”
Yinglet Mufasa: “Go talk to your Uncle Scar, he seems to zhink so.”