OOPs #238
Aug11
-Beizel spends a lot of time observing and listening to people from the shadows, and has picked up on a lot of words.
-Yannit enjoys being called by her name.
Colorists: Koof, Oniontrain, Raptie
(High-res and textless version available for free over on my Patreon!)
Yes, please more of pretty boy Beizel
Pretty and practical. I wonder if his fur color might be over-represented in the scouts, giving them something of a stealth advantage at night. As well as the ability to sneak through vents without getting a suspicious coating of soot.
I love Yannit, the way she behaves and think, while obviously alien, is adorable.
No mystery to her function, really. Her presence is no big secret: Half the house must have heard about her. She’s a volunteer research subject.
People want to be more than research subjects.
I know she wants to contribute in a tangible way. You can SAY that she is by expanding their ability to communicate with Indrel, but that often doesn’t really hit the right “accomplishment” buttons. Let’s imagine for a moment that Beizel was Evil and a direct threat. Bringing back his head would be SOLID EVIDENCE OF WORTH.
“This thing was sneaking around trying to kill us. I made it do a stop it. All the time.”
“YAY! YANNIT PROTECTOR!”
It’s not exactly Shakespeare, but it’s a rather reliable story that gets told a lot to much applause.
On the other hand, “You smelled something and I drew squiggles about it.” doesn’t really have the same primal HOOK.
I just binged this entire series in a couple hours. I’m now very sad there’s not more of it. But what is there was life-changing.
If you like more Yinglets in your life, give “Learn to Live” a view on Deviantart. Umbrascythe is de artist zhere. It follows a non-tf’d male yinglet as he follows his hero’s journey, and learns to live.
Also if you like Valsalia, he does have a second comic he has published alongside zhis one. It’s on deviantart as well, following the exploits of zhe Lusty Argonian Maid, who used to be some dude called Zhe Dragonborn in some Skyrim place, but is now much, much happier, even if zhose she gets close to gets TF’d.
Also, toss de boss a copper or two if you liked zhe read. Call it a Elim healthcare contribution.
I’ve now read Umbrascythe’s entire comic. Ty.
Welcomez tos za Yingverse! Here has a clam… *gives clam*
Bewares za green glowy-zhingies… rememberz to feeds za hoppy jumpy bitey dino-bird zhingy… an tells no-ying bouts za healzhy-healzhies juice. O_o
And so Beizel recruits another spy.
If you go over to FurAffinity, not only can you find Valsalia’s and Umbrascythe’s works there, user Shard_of_Confusion also has two stories in Valsalia’s world, one called Little Foot/Drift about a subspecies of yinglet that live in the snowy Far North, and another called Chasing Bolide which is about a visiting nonhuman species living in The Teeth with a pair of transformed yinglets.
Along with Lusty Argonian Maid’d, Valsalia also has two commissioned comic shorts on FurAffinity and some free stuff originally offered on Patreon.
I find FurAffinity easier to navigate than DeviantArt. YMMV
This was supposed to be a reply to Chompy Riley. How does this happen?
De site was designed, and is maintained by Yinglets. Apparently we don’t qualify for minimum wage in Valsalia, but zhings like dis happen every so often. Did you login wizh wordpress before posting?
Indeed. I have never been able to post from my windows desktop at all, but it works on my linux laptop.
I don’t use Windows, ever, but zhe hidden, so, so secret way to post easily is to use de hidden wordpress login mezhod. At zhe top of de screen, refresh once, zhen hit tab a couple of times until de menu appears just below de OOP banner just below de Yinglet side. Click Login, and do so. Once logged in, navigate back to here, and if zhe wordpress banner don’t appear immediately, refresh once, and you should more easily be able to post as long as you are logged in.
If zhis appears to be overly complicated, remember zhis is de boss boyfighting dis site being creamed by bot spam. Only mezhods made wizh Yinglet logic truly make bots cry.
I do use Windows, and at least for Chrome, this is accurate. I’ll note the menu can be difficult to read due to the way it overlays the banner, but once you’ve hit Tab twice you’ll see a white search box with a gray box beneath it that says “Meta.” After that are, in red (so a bit difficult to read all of with the red in the banner being there as well), “Register” “Log in” “Entries feed” and “Comments feed;” click login (or register if you haven’t), and once you’re in that’ll take you to your homescreen; there should be a link up top to get back to OoPs, but if not you can just navigate back to the site manually. You may need to refresh a time or two for it to actually show you as logged in in the comment field, however.
Bug in za ventz! BUG ins ZA VE… Ooohh iz Yannnit. *twitch twichie*
Iz… is OKs. Yannnit is a… goods bug. Yesyes. *twitch*
*goes ta getz a clams-juice or zhree… and comedicallies trips overz an empty clams bucket… CLUNK KLANK fwop!*
*blink blinks* Lopins… Youz gots zomes splainingz to dos! O_o
(*replacies empty clams bucket wizh fills one… cause zhats what I dos*)
Panel 5: Beizel is made of so much yinglet.
Beizel hasn’t guessed how much of the “menagerie” was recruited by (or thrust upon) Kassen Akoll, but he’s definitely a thinker, so he might figure it out before long. I wonder if he’s ever met Isher?
He also knows Lopin’s ‘official’ duty: Personal assistant to the diplomat.
As well as the unofficial reason for his assignment: Protective custody, because he knows things.
I just read the comic for the first time today, and I am very interested as to the premise and plot lines I’ve read so far. I’m adding this to my list of comics I follow, well done!
Also, welcome! If you enjoyed it, toss de boss a copper or two! Dere is more Yinglet comics on deviatart called “Learn to Live” by Umbrascythe. Also de boss has anozher comic starring “Lifts her Tail” called “Lusty Argonian Maid’d”. Zhough I zhink it may be a bit more…kinky zhan OOP is.
My fucking *gods* is that yinglet a bendy little fucker.
This flexibility is endemic to the species.
I feel like this is an order of magnitude past normal scav wiggle-bones.
Kass has pretended to have a broken neck with that very bendiness. I’d say it’s well within Yinglet capabilities.
Besides, Beizel’s the spymaster. He’s probably got a lot of experience with big directional changes in cramped confines, more than the average Yinglet at least.
I agree with Judas Jurgen, and being extra-flexible, even for a yinglet, is a good talent to have if you’re the patriarch of scouting (and knowing things).
I wasn’t going to ask this, but 10 days later, here I am asking it. In that first panel, is Yannit giving Beizel a “boop” on the nose with her antenna, or is that just a coincidence of the perspective?
It is intentional, she is using her antenna to smell/taste him, and remember him if she smells him in de future. That it is his nose she is touching, is coincidence revolving around his nose/snout being de tallest zhing near her antenna.