The Lesser Yinglets were dependent almost entirely on mollusk meat, their bodies seemingly getting absolutely every vitamin and nutrient they need from this very specific type of meat.
The Greater Yinglets, however, have the stomach for just about anything. Yet despite this, mollusk-flesh seems to still contain a balance of nutrients that can nourish a yinglet almost perfectly as a foodstuff possibly can; or so we must surmise, from the comparatively intense reward the brain sends a yinglet who tosses any down its gullet…
Page 46 of “Notes on Local Wildlife of the Val Salian Passage”
A new page!!
No, it just looks and sounds like one!
“100% pure illusion away, guaranteed to remove illusions.”
Pretend to get yours NOW!
It looks just like the last page only everything is different.
Have you been getting messages through Patreon or the email link?
YES a new page!
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Pretty Lad Lopin wanted thooooooooose!
But seriously, I really like panel 3. Haven’t seen anything like that so far, with askew perspecive like that, and it’s really cool. One problem though; Kass’s thumb is backwards in it.
Actually it’s the left hand and the thumb is pointing outwards, but the unichrome coloring in that spot is making it look like it is not.
Hey a new page yay! Oh panel one Kass says than instead of zhan in ze zhird word bubble. Also I have had clams, I found zhem… interesting.
Somebody please code-up a yingletized spellchecker!
…This put’s Lopin’s selflessness in an even better light! He gave those to Khass because she NEEDED THEM MORE!
Good little fancy rat lad, yes!~
Lopin is male. Khass is female. He is hoping to be very well rewarded for those oysters. No matter what his IQ, that is what he is thinking, even if he can’t think.
& Khass is likely wise to at least count it as a point in his favor. Yinglet eggs and young seem to need considerable care and Lopin is showing himself as possibly willing to make the needed sacrifices.
I love oysters! No shame in that, Kass.
But liking clams? That’s an intolerable abomination!
😛
Beter get some more oysters from the kitchen Kassie, and don’t forget to get extra so you can share some with Lopin.
HUZZAH! Encyclopedia Britannica ( aka the “Val Salia Ran-I-C-A”) is an amazing wealth of information and nutrients for the brains meats!
Now if only Kass had the condiments to classy those oysters up with some butter and tabasco, he would be cooking!
P.S. any day seeing Isher is a good day :3
Woot! New page and I was right (see my comment at the top of the last page to see what I was right about).
So this is a wonderful story you have here, and I am really enjoying this, which you released more pages more often.
but I have to asked. have you base the Yinglets on this thing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerboa
and I have taken inspiration from the Yinglets to make my own playable race in Dungeon and dragons called Flewdu xD
Regards
FC
Haha; not quite, but a few people did show me these hoppy little things shortly after they started appearing in the comic, and I agree that there’s definitely more than a few similarities!
I absolutely love this series, and I’m always excited when a new one comes out. I guess we’ll see what happens to a yinglet when they go on an oyster binge?
Oh, and Kass pronounces a “th” word in the first panel, just to let you know.
Of course he does. He’s dreaming, so he pronounces all the words just fine like a human would.
Man, Lopin would have been so mad at Kass if Kass had through the oysters out the window.
Also: such self-sacrifice on Lopin’s part! He’s earned himself some proper respect!
This reminds me of a Sci Fi book from the 70’s. On the newly colonized planet of Zarathrusta humans found a race of little tiny furry primitives. The Fuzzes loved to eat human survival food bars. They called it “good food” and would make sure everybody in the tribe ate some. It turned out that the bars were made in a factory using Titanium cooking pots and cooking sheets. Titanium was a trace element that was necessary to the Fuzzes diet and they could not get enough from the local environment. Why you ask? Because it turned out the the Fuzzes were the descendants of colonists who landed centuries ago on Zarathrusta and because if the lack of titanium they suffered high mortality rates and stunted growth. Hmmmm. Yinglets are the new kids on the block…………
Ah, H. Beam Piper’s Little Fuzzy series. Classic.
Waiting for Lopin to become the founder of a Yinglet cult that worships blue oysters…
Haha! Today’s NYT:
Oysters: A Love Story
If Kass could patent and invent yinglet scuba gear… Elim-Kass Oyster Co. could become a powerhouse business empire!
I wish I could enjoy anything as much as yinglets enjoy oysters. Also, as someone whose primary artistic talent revolves around gratuitously over-detailed swords, I love yet remain envious of your facial expressions. Lopin’s semi-perpetual despair amuses me.
Did the Yinglets ever develop cooking were they take other healthy food stuffs like potatoes, onions, cabbage, garlic, chicken/turkey ect.. then cook or marinate it with oysters to then increase there nutrition/calorie count while satiating there primal need thus making more food available?
Like how sugar, salt and fat is highly reworded in humans because they were hard to find resources at one time. Or were cooking with fire double the size of the human ancestor brain while reducing the size of the stomach by half.
Sorry for spelling mistakes. My human brain is rewarded for consuming the fermented liquid of grains.
http://www.valsalia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/record_of_known_yinglet_inventions.jpg
Kinda?
It seems more like ghetto alchemy than actually cooking though.
And as a fellow imbiber of the fermented and distilled spirits (purely for their medicinal value, of course), I completely understand your predicament, and absolve you of your unwarranted worry.
(Translation : Didn’t know ya were sloshed until ya told me, you made sense and any misspellings were unnoticed (if ya even made any) since what you said flowed so well)
They do a little of that, and some of them may specialize in it, but in general they just mimic human cuisine/cooking methods, and/or throw different amounts of stuff into a pot and see which combinations taste good and don’t kill anybody.
Calling it – Kass is totally gonna go crazy and stress-binge on oysters.
Oysters are the sheet cake (and grilled cheese sandwiches) of yinglets.
Sheet cake! Yes! I miss all the fun pastries I used to get to eat around the world.
I am currently craving (now like mad, thanks for that btw :b) this chocolate layered sheet cake that had a cocoa coffee mousse and a kind of gelatian (agar?) top with a heavy coffee flavor.
Looks simple and rather generic, but veeery good :3
Hahaha, laughing at your comment below you just posted. 🙂
Eat that cake bro!
I can’t find it though! Why must thou torment me so with the confctions that are of my affection!
Totally unrelated note, if we ever get a forum going, I totally nominate you as one of the Mod bosses. You are very engaging as a fellow commentator.
(But also cause I’m biased, since we both like and dislike a lot of the same things) :b
The oysters are gone…WHY ARE THE OYSTERS GONE?!!!
Shup-up Chochi, we all know it was you who ate them.
Didn’t even save me a single shrimp either.
Ocean Food for the Food Chain!
FINDERS-KEEPERS, CHAP!!! >:v
I suppose it’s my fault for showing up at the beach late…
Well, at least the seaweed-wrapped lobster was good.
Really wanted those oysters though. D:
Is it wrong that I prefer dried seaweed over lobster?
Good heavens! I haven’t been to a clam bake or a beach bonfire in an age. I must gather some ladies and gents, and get a box social going before the Fall months render beach frolicking null-&-void.
Though I would eat shark again, and octopuses (before I believe them to be too intelligent for the dinner plate / snack pack)
Still not feeling sorry for Cass. She still has the human attitude of looking down on the yinglets because she keeps using the human’s derogatory name for them. She’s going through heavy cognitive dissonance and there is no way to rationalize it away. So she has to stop looking down on them as if she were better than they are, especially as she is now walking in their shoes as it were, and realize that she treated them unfairly, even if all the other humans and beings were doing it too. We know that male human Cass would chase away female yinglet Cass if she came to him for help.
Yes, she has come to terms with some aspects, but only begrudginly.
Is that really unrealistic? Many works, this one included, use differences in species as a figurative stand-in for racial issues that have existed in the real world since time immemorial. Kass is having to re-learn everything that he thought he knew, and… well… privilege runs deep.
I think we are reading the same book, just on different pages.
Do I feel Kass’ reactions are unrealistic? No. Do I feel she deserves a pass just because this is happening to her? Again, no. She hasn’t given me any solid reason to feel sorry for her. The human privilege that carried over into her yinglet mind has made her, for lack of a better term, an asshat in my eyes.
– She continues to use the derogatory human term for the yinglets.
– She was giddy as a yinglet in a room full of clams when learning how much power over the Ivenmoth staff she was granted.
– She had a holier than thou attitude when she visited the enclave. Granted Vizlet had about the same when dealing with Cass along with her own ulterior motives.
– She is constantly yelling at Lopin whenever dealing with him, only calming for just a moment after Lopin expressed regret for what happened, even though it wasn’t his fault.
Only during the couple of times she did manage to stop bashing her head into the door and simply turn the knob to leave the room did I give her a golf clap.
That being said, I tip my hat to the artist for creating believable, flawed, characters because here I am discussing the morality of a male human turned into a female rat-bird thing.
Can you honestly say you would behave any better if you had suddenly been transformed from a male human into a female yinglet?
And keep in mind that it’s only been, at most, 3 days since he was transformed. You can’t get rid of a lifetime of habits developed while you were still human, in that short a time.
Sorry, that blockquote was not supposed to be there. But since it is, I might as well add this:
Do we really know that? After all, Cass paid twice what Lopin asked for zat zhing. While he might still have used the derogatory human term for the yinglets, he probably would have stopped to help if he could.
We all stereotype and most of us learn to overcome a majority of them.
Hnnnsuch is lifffe.
Stereotyping has it’s flaws. It’s why I am more partial to monotyping myself.
Its quite eye catching and makes an artist use the media in a different way than they are used to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotyping
You’re a card XD
A ‘pack’ of lies! It is you, Jack, who is a ‘credit’ to our realm. You are the proverbial King/Queen of our realm, and a ’10’ all around! You Ace out all the competition, and leave everyone else “all 6s and 7s.”
Nay, I am but a 3, trying to not step in any deuces.
This is my 4589th comment btw heheheh :b
I am fairly certain Kass has every right to look down on a yinglet in the same way an educated man can look down on someone who hasn’t been educated. He is smarter than most yinglets in existence. and just because he became one of them and can understand to an extent why they are the way they are, doesn’t mean he has to respect them. and where did we ever learn that Kass would turn away a yinglet in need. the only interactions we have ever seen Kass have with non humans has been him being kind and neighborly to them, He even says that he has to put on a good example towards the younger species to show them that they have a right to live in society if they work for it.
I agree. Yinglets are in a whole young and fairly stupid species. And Kass is being nice to them doesn’t mean they’re not acting like a young and stupid children. He’s understendably angry, afraid and stressed out from all this ordeal, but still he’s doing things and looking out for others.
aw Lopin
I hope youre happy with yourself. I binge read this from shell tooth to tail tuft, and now its 5am. The story is absolutely fantastic, and your worldbuilding is ludicrously good.
Not sure if you’re able to read the avatar, but there it is.
(If you can’t, it’s an edit that says, “I really want more updatesss!”
Well nevermind, it’s not even showing. What a rip.
It may be whatever you set the Gravatar for a rating. Set it to ‘G’, not ‘PG’ or above.
Found this out buried in the old WordPress version of Housepets! webcomic.
You know it does make me wonder if it would be as bad if that guy was turned into a male skiv instead of a female…Although this would likely create a entirely new problem. I can picture the Matriach trying to make him mate with as many females as possible to try to get some of the human traits into the scav gene pool as possible. The only problem is that how do you seduce a scav with the mind of a human. Due to how smart he is he would easily be classified as a patriarch.
Yup, there’s gonna be problems either way!
Was doing some work to stream line my machines and accidentally, rendered my accounts “unstable.”
This website was one of the 3 that I was able to remember the address to, WITHOUT having to resort to a search engine.
I even forgot my current favorite search engine too btw (the link of which, is in my name).
Congrats Val! You have successfully made a meteoric imprint on my long term memory and emotional centers of my brain meats!
Side note : My updates/grades have made my machine faster, but have caused me to have to (at times) “manually refresh” my screens, to view any data changes. Hurray for scripts/macros!
To Val : Would you be so kind and perhaps change the voter reward for the top 100 web-comic?
The one there makes me rather “uncomfortable,” to say the least. I don’t even know the lass, and the scene I see makes me think she doesn’t even want to get to know me.
I’d honestly prefer a nice chat and get to know one another first. Maybe over some lager and kippers perhaps, or tea and biscuits/cookies.
:3 O
Oh, good point! Almost forgot about that reward image : D
Seconded.
I look over my shoulder before voting, hahaha!
There are lots of possible replacements…
I’m really happy that I found this series after going down the usual weird rabbit hole a couple days ago. This comic is just the fucking best! Now I just really wish that I had enough money to support this on Patreon 🙁
I eagerly await the next pages Val!
Excellent! This rabbit hole has some of the best rugs, lemme tell ya
Yes! Finally someone writes about genus Naucrates.
-Update
No add fire and ze di-hydrogen oxide togezer, Zis ends bad for ze fire.
Hey I was planning on making Yinglets a custom pathfinder race, and i’ve been having trouble figuring out if they are small or tiny. Also I’d be willing to post it here when I’m done. I can also see if I can convert them into different table top games if our interested.(All for free, not sure if I need to say that, but it make me feel better :] )
Probably “small”, Shanog. I’ve seen lots of PC races, but none have ever been smaller than Small. (And, outside of Giant Paragons in Monte Cook’s Arcana Evolved, none that were bigger than Large.)
Thanks! I was planning on giving swarming if they were tiny just due to the nature of Yinglets. Still might see if one like that will fit.
Yinglet race template
Monstrous humanoid 3RP
Size Small 0RP
Speed Normal 0RP
Greater Paragon 2RP (+4 dex, -2 str, -2 Wis)
Language Standard 0RP
Plagueborn 1RP
Poison Resistance 3RP
Flexible Bonus Feat 4RP
I just found this, binge read all of it, and now I can’t come to grips with the fact that there’s no more to read.
I want more. Like oysters, but more.
Well awesome! Always glad to hear when someone’s binged this thing. Plenty more to come; hope it continues to entertain!
I just realized Winglet are basically bird sergal
*Yinglet
They almost were “winglets”, so, close-enough! 😛
Awww just found this. Oddly heartwarming and hillarious story. Poor guy
“The Greater Yinglets, however, have the stomach for just about anything.”
I thought Mass couldn’t eat bread because grains gunked up their insides?
*Kass, not Mass
“Almost” anything… they can eat out of the garbage, as Kass bemoans about a couple of times, but something ahout leavened bread was apperently disagreeable.