Seriously, it’s not like he does it on purpose every time.
Just like… most of them.
Thanks again to Caedere (NSFW www.furaffinity.net/user/caede…), who handled the character colors/shading on this page, letting me keep up a decent schedule while giving my arm and its stabby nerves a chance to rest! She has a comic of her own goin’ on (which just started to involve some TF), so check it out!
Hopefully Kass won’t be expected to donate a few eggs during the visit….
Is there a “Take an egg, leave an egg” tray?
Naw, it’s only Kass’ 2nd visit to the enclave! That’s totally a 4th visit sorta thing.
imma take that as a “it’s gonna happen just not now”
The name of the game is ‘Agitate the Yinglet’.
Thats failry easy to do with Kass.
So that’s what “aglet” means.
No, an Aglet is that little hard plastic tip on the end of a shoelace…
“Ran Upsetting Kass” is getting to be a far too regular event. Won’t he learn?
Well this is an ark I’m looking forward to. I wonder if this might awaken some sort of motherly instinct in Kassie.
Or insure Kass never wants to have kids, ever, either as a human or a Yinglet.
Hey, whats up, you looking forward to me?
You and a bunch of other people apparently, from how many times something like this has been expressed already!
Oddly, not that suprised by this Ran. He is a bit too focused to be that much of a jerk willfully all the time. Though I am not suprised to find that at times he does do some of thoes things deliberately.
You have to consider his mindset. In a way, he started out with Kass as a ‘research subject’ To him, at first, Kass was not really a person, nore the rest of them. He is too focused in trying to do his ‘research’ to actualy consider them to be people. Its only when he gets to know them that Kass and everyone becomes people to him.
Also, to be fair, I am pretty sure that he really does not really understand that Kass really does not want to know this stuff. Its counter to how he thinks. Kass has become a person to him, so he assumes that Kass is going to want to learn all this still, totaly blanking on the fact that Kass is still at lest partly in shock and learning to deal with whats happened.
On the other hand, I am really interested in learning about how the yinglets deal with there eggs, and with the children. I hope that Vizlet has managed to set up some sort of schooling, cause thay really need a heck of a lot more than most seem to have been getting. Still, schooling will take time to make an effect, as its not tell the next generation that the effects of schooling will start showing itself.
Yup, geniuses and the like tend to be hyperfocused on the subject of their interest, sometimes to a fault like this!
Just because Kass is very much aware that the tiny leaky rocking fragile boat is in the middle of a famous Egyptian river, doesn’t mean that he isn’t perfectly happy there and currently attempting to build a floating bunker from which the horrible view of the shore can’t be seen. “out of mind out of mind, please be out of mind” as they say…
hahahaha the brightened my day
This is a good visual right up in here
Oh, oh my. I only just realised that Yinglets can’t say “the Nile” and am very very sad that Kass uses the z-method. I can’t possibly be the first person to have this thought? Please, all of you, come forth with tales of when you first realised that yingspeak could transition into very old jokes.
On the bright side, you can get in some “Zebra” puns…
Oh. Oh no. Oh poor Kass. I very much hope that you brace yourself for maternal instincts…
What? No! Of course I’m not going THERE. Ergh! I hadn’t even thought of it! I just meant, like, looking at baby yinglets, and eggs even, in ways that he can probably recognise as alien but she probably feels REALLY strongly anyway…
The yinglet female thinks “Awww, an egg!” while the man thinks “Mmm, an omelet.”
Uhm? How is she saying the “Th” sound? I thought Yinglets can’t say that sound.
Typo I expect.
Recurring minor issue, a lot of pages go out with normal English instead of Yinglish. I’ve written enough myself to FULLY understand how hard it can be to keep weird verbal tics in mind when writing, especially when you write relatively infrequently and spend most of your time arting instead. Just picture zhe ‘Z’ sound in your mind and let Val attend to it when he gets a spare moment.
I have a lot of time at times at work and was preparing to role play one at the time. So to practice I sat zhere and sang songs I know well while using my best impression of a yinglet. Luckily I’m alone a lot but anyway, it was sometimes awkward to keep up at first.
Zese days I have to remember to type ‘th’s when sending corporate emails. Ozzerwise I do yingspeak more zan proper English
Kass sure don’t like being teased, Ran should be worried about poking the bear, or in this case rather, poking the danger noodle
It is dangerous; when provoked, it might squirm angrily at you
He does so squirm, its really quite unplesent. Why the last time, we lost some people, found out later that thay had passed on. Such a horrable thing.
Why does the link to Caedere’s FA page route through Deviant Art’s outbound website warning?
Because it was late and I was sleepy and did it all weird like!
an explanation that works for many things
Huh, so they do lay eggs. And here I thought that comment about laying eggs one of Kass’s former brothers-in-arms was making was just a joke or out of ignorance.
I am sure that life isn’t always perfect for yinglets. Enclaves no doubt fall or are raided from time to time. So eggs are probably known about in various circles.
Then again, Yinglest are various secretive about females and youths, so ignorance no doubt abounds.
It could easily be honest knowledge or a joke born of ignorance. We might never learn which…
Well, there are also lesser yinglets, which are presumably in the same genus, so I would say it’s common knowledge that lesser yinglets lay eggs, just as it’s common knowledge that platypusses lay eggs, and a safe assumption that the “greater” variety does too.
The point is that they are very great
I just stumbled onto this comic a couple days ago. I’ve read it twice now. Delighted to see a new page!
Good timing, you juuuust missed a bit of a slow update period!
Is it just me or does it look like Kass is wearing mascara, I could have sworn that her eyelids were lighter colored than that
It’s bags under his eyes.
And on top? The upper eyelid has very dark coloring too, I mean since the transformation the eyes have been darker but I did not think that they were that dark
They are, but the shadows are definitely strengthening that effect here!
Yinglet Race uses “Egg Laying”!
IT’S SUPER-EFFECTIVE!!!
Kass shrugs in disgust, fear and shame hating everything about his life!!!
You have won!
(But won what, and at what cost)
the horror….
Monotremes for the win! You’re the platypus and the echidna of your world, Kass! Enjoy it!
If he’s lucky, he’ll have 10+ chromosomes and barbed venom glands on his feet too!
Chickens lay infertile eggs all the time. Perhaps he’s guessing that Kass will eventually lay one regardless of intent or timing.
While irrelevant to your comment, I must note that corgi paws are indeed pretty great
Uh oh. We have a “th” sound. Maybe that is a good thing. Kess is changing back? *hopeless optimism*
It’s already fixed. Long Live the “Z”!
Hmmm… egg laying species typically don’t stop producing eggs… How long has Kass had their new body? How long before they lay an egg? Or does it only occur after breeding? Well hopefully Kass doesn’t have to worry about laying an egg every month, that would get really weird.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS HERE, GOOD FOCUS
Actually… it seems like they are kinda platypus… so they only lay eggs when fertilized… Also the species that dont stop laying eggs are usually the human-breed ones used for food, like chickens and similars… The Yinglets seems to be mamals (and mammals can indeed place eggs… i wonder…. their milk is blue?)
There will always be a menstrual cycle regardless of fertilization, and an egg WILL result, but how long the cycle is only yinglets know.
Yes, yes, I know our monotremes don’t have a cycle but Yinglets seem much higher evolved mammals.
Actually, egglaying is a triggered biological event. The reasons chicken lay all the time is that they where bred to be that way. There are also a lot of other birds that will lay without mating, again because the trigger is not the mating itself. Often its something like light cycles, food availability, the change in brain chemistry that happens when thay pair bond. Many diferent things might be the trigger.
I used to breed parrots, trust me, I know a lot about eggs and egg laying.
As do I, I have a more than a dozen chickens, but no rooster at all. Eggs happen regardless.
I’m no expert on all birds nor on monotremes to be sure, but Yinglets seem rather higher evolved mammals and a cycle of some kind is a common mammal trait. Must be some reason for that. …but then why did Yinglets kept their egg laying, IDK.
Chickens oddly enough do have a trigger for egg laying, that trigger is hours of daylight. One of the tricks that is used by egg factorys, is to extend the daylight hours with lots of light.
Now chickens will continue to lay, but much more slowly, when they are not exposed to enough light, but, partly thats because the breeds created for egg production have been bred just for that thing. Technicly, its a genetic defect, but its one thay want to keep going cause thay get more eggs out of the mess.
A bit of a misconception. Every species on the planet is technically ‘higher evolved’ – they’ve all been doing it for over 4 billion years, after all. Humans have this amusing tendency to assign ‘higher’ or ‘more’ evolved to species most like us. Because of course we’re the best things out there! But we’re not more evolved in that sense than birds or platypi… platypuses… monotremes, or rattlesnakes or beetles or even jellyfish. Just that we evolved in a direction that included smarts. But we can’t survive in a jellyfish’s environment any more than it could in ours.
Love that venomous “WHAT.”
Haha…yes…I almost just want a frame of Kass with that “….WHAT.” to hang up and point to when people annoy me
Haha
“Venomous” is in fact exactly the adjective I thought of when drawing that speech bubble
Spectacular conveyance!
I wish we had dialogue-less versions of these comics or just stills of Kass without them and other characters overlapping. The reaction image possibilities would be quite good.
This comic really is a goldmine for reaction images.
There is, just go to the Patreon site and look for the NOTEXT link
Like Frobozz said, I’ve made a habit of attaching the pre-shrunk and textless versions on my Patreon and keeping them publicly available! If only because of all the great reaction images I’ve seen people make with this stuff.
Oh, wow would ya look at that. Now I realize I’m gonna have to spend several hours looking through the patron and downloading all of these. Ffffff
This will be interesting. I wonder if that yinglet will get a glimps see the oddity or a female Yinglet officer in Yingsmoth.
I’m also curious about how baby yinglets look like.
Likely spindly legged baby mole-rats. But perhaps nature is kinder than that and gives them a downy first coat to keep warm since I kinda doubt there’s any motherly love shared among the throngs of siblings to keep them warm. Probably why they grow up to be such train wrecks at a clown college.
First and last pages of the side-story(I have no idea how canon it is) have yingchicks. Which seems kind of ironic for some reason…
http://www.valsalia.com/art-extras/of-ends-and-beginnings/
I meant freshly hatched baby yinglets.
they could possibly have stubby chubby legs to make up for their future long legs
Otherwise, I can only see very very bad things that could come of this visit. What if the eggs trigger some breeding instinct in Kass??? The horror as she’s consumed by yinglet lust and goes on a sexual rampage that results in her laying as many eggs as a free-range chicken on a bender. Hopefully we’ll get to watch.
HAW!. I can see Kass now shooting out Eggs like a machine gun in shock. Sorta like This. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaKHH02IJIY
Haha yes
Very bad, I sure would hate to have to draw that, I would!
Poor Rann. He can’t help it. There are just soooo many big shiny buttons to push on Kass. Some of them glowing.
This guy gets it
Eggcellent ideas all around.
AHHHH NOOOOO
YEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!
Color and shading on this page look *really* good, actually. Props to Caedere, and to Val I’d like to see more dramatic contrast in lighting/shading once you take back over in the future. Bit of Chiaroscuro never did any art wrong.
How’s the badarmthing coming, btw?
Yeah, glad to see Caedere’s getting the recognition her solid shading work really deserves!
Medical stuff is coming along slowly, but thankfully very well otherwise.
I like how Kass’ expression came out in panel 5.
Speaking of which, there seems to be a seam along the middle of Kass’ tooth. Is it a single tooth, or is it actually a pair of front teeth?
It’s technically a single tooth, but is actually two roots that merge together into a single tooth just past the gumline!
I still think it’s quite interesting that I gave my Nism females tufted tails, just like you gave to your Yinglets. Only I created my Nism about 17 years ago, not long after I bought my first computer and finally got to play with The Web. Seeing Kass in the second panel reminded me of this.
Clearly, tailpoofs are too good of a concept to be constrained by time and space, and have therefore always existed subconsciously in the minds of every living thing from the moment the first true consciousness came into being
Makes sense to me…
from now on, the Russian community will also vote for you because of the translator’s request, we all love your comic… (Maybe you should talk to a translator?)
https://acomics.ru/-Hukumka
Man, That makes me really happy to hear! Hukumka’s been doing a great job, and I’m glad his hard work has been allowing my story to be read in Russian. I wouldn’t have been able to make that possible by myself.
Please forgive me as I use machine translation so that some words may not be translated correctly but I think the General sense has informed you?
It has! : D
I bet Kass is still getting used to the whole “phantom dingus” and can’t POSSIBLY imagine passing an EGG through what used to be more narrow than an ear canal!
On the plus side, Kass’ s tail looks extremely fluffy and plush today! (Possibly the yinglet equivalent of a dog’s bristling nape fur?)
I mean what is giving birth if not just passing a really big squishy kidney stone
…that screams
Or needs to be sat on till it cracks.
*traumatic flashback* O_o
Thankfully when it comes to pups though, I’ve already read Heidi Murkoff’s “What to expect when you’re expecting.”
If Ran would just leave his lab door unlocked, Kass could research some of this stuff on the sly and in secret-horror, rather than having Ran unleash a new humiliating hell for him everytime he opens his mouth!
But I think he enjoya pushing people’s buttons too much and seeing their reactions :b
Honestly I expect a lot of the crap Ran pulls is not deliberate. Ran is too focused. In a way, he is so focused on what he thinks is the right thing to do, that he literaly does not notice when hes being an idiot/jerk twords others. Also, Ran does not like people, of any sort. Most folks he runs into do not quantify as people to him, they are just things that are there, to be studyed. On the other hand, having Kass and co now and close hand is effecting him as well. Hes having to learn to except them as people. Notice that he is actualy treating Kass rather diferently than when thay first met.
Old Habits Die Hard
Honestly I could see Ran on the milder side of the autistic spectrum. He’s simultaneously brilliant and socially oblivious. That would be an interesting characterization to lean towards down the line, as long as it’s done with nuance instead of stereotype.
I just wanted to say that you are amazing, the comedic timing in your comics is great (both in this and the one about a certain not so argonian maid) and your art in general is improving a lot, i’m just blow away by the expressions of the characters, the bottom left pannel in particular is amazing.
And i’ll stop here before i start recycling “amazing” and “great” too much.
poor egg laying scav… now to the color of the milk!
Ah, I thought the coloring looked somewhat different on this page.
Well at least they have mammories. They are one step up from another egg laying mammal the Platipus
I really wanna see some yinglets yelling at each other in German for some reason. I feel like it’d be the best language for them
So I cam to this comic after I saw a drawing of a yinglet on an art site and asked the guy what the smeg it was and he linked me here. I gotta say, I effing love yinglets now; they’re the most adorable, hilarious sociopathic little rat-birds ever. I kind of want to hug them and at the same time put a combination tracking/shock collar on ’em to keep ’em in line. Everything from the way they think (“Guys! We’re all bones!”) to the way they argue (*smek*) is hilarious.
The setting is interesting, too. Haven’t seen too much of this world, but the general lack of magic, the complete lack of any recognizable animal species other than humans, and the Hubble-esque sky porn makes me think this is a far future planet colonized via sleeper ship by humans who’ve regressed both scientifically and culturally. The glowing green stuff (i.e. “zat zhing”) makes me think that it’s some kind of corrupted nanotech.
Anyway, excellent work. I love this thing and I hope you make many more comics to come to fill out this interesting world and a nice, character-driven story.
I’m pretty new as well, and I love the yinglets. The plot so far is great as well. I love how pretty much everyone except Ran is having a bad time, including the villains. There’s no evil puppetmaster or anyone thinking they have the flawless plan, at least not yet. It’s refreshing to read a story where everyone is equally miserable