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Out-of-Placers
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SO his eyes aren’t naturaly pink, they get irritate because of all the shit he rubs them with.
Still makes better sense to me than rubbing deadly nightshade in your eyes so the paralysis dialates them to make you look sopretty
Don’t uh,.. don’t tell Lopin about this or he is sure to try it and get himself poisoned
I’m pretty sure Yinglets are inherently un-poisonable. Even potassium cyanide would like consider them too annoying to react with.
I think it’s more like evolution in action. There are plenty of Yinglets who poison themselves. All. The. Time.
Less casualties these days because the survivors either have natural resistances and/or can develop tolerances to poison very fast. A new poison would work for a while, but if it can make them sopretty or get them high, expect a bottleneck in population for a generation or 3, and then for it to stop working.
That is stupidly dangerous, but still not as bad as swallow tapeworm segments as diet pills.
He’s talking about makeup. That he applies as eyeshadow. You can see it especially well in the fourth panel.
I understand that. I’m just saying that rub dirt and bug fluid around his eyes probable cause some side effects.
Uh you’d be surprised. Modern perfume, as well as foods such as gelatins, flavored candies, chewing gums, alcoholic drinks, is often made with an ingredient called castoreum which can be generously otherwise called ‘beaver butt butter’. And carmine is a common food dye used everyday that’s derived from grinding up cochineal insects.
I didn’t even know cars came out of mines.
They don’t, it was a typo. Cars come out of mimes. It completes the circle of life along with mimes bursting out of clowns.
Its eye-shadow, not eye-pigment. His eyes are naturally pink, Lopin uses his home-made cosmetics on his eyelids. Not his eyes.
A SOUND THEORY
I’m pretty sure ther’re talking about the eyeshadow, not the color of his sclera.
I agree that the comic is discussing the purple eyeshadow. However, I am pretty sure that Dan is positing a distinct theory that the pink eye colouration is caused by irritation from the eyeshadow. That said, Yinglet eye colouration seems to be highly variable, so “pink just ’cause” is a similarly valid competing theory.
That face of terror/horror in panel 3 is glorious.
It also a interesting trait. When excited they seem to go derp but are in fact broadening their perception by uncrossing their eyes field of vision. The ears aimed down on the other hand reduce the auditive perception. The vibrices tenced is a good thing too.
…And here I just thought he was doing his most glorious Potoo imitation.
That’s not horror. Lopin’s attracted to humans.
Well, butt beetles are a little better than using bird poop for makeup.
That frightened pose that Lopin has when ran touches his head is exactly what animals do. This is a very good use of it.
Ah, the usual comedic subversion in the last panel. Nice to see Lopin is in good hands.
Of course, we all know the deep, thorough physical exam came later. Ran’s just calming him down beforehand. Next time we see Lopin he’ll be all like “zhe horror, zhe horror…” 😉
Ran is smart enough to not perform the vivisection portion of research on a yinglet that is attached to one who is currently politically powerful.
Not to mention he’s probably already dissected several yinglets who died of “natural causes” like staying under water too long hunting for clams.
Vivisection is different than dissection (my mom is an Omnipractician) in med school you cut cadavers in second year to learn where everything is, that’s dissection. If you go into surgery you will do vivisection witch shows how it looks when it works and how to repair it when it does not properly. To do a Vivisection Ran would need a Yinglet that is exiled and not under Kassen protection. Negotiations are sure to come up for such a specimen if the story goes in the direction I presume.
“Maybe he’s born with it. Maybe it’s Lopinlene.”
Lopinlene, part of Lopin’s all-natural line of Yinglet beauty products.
Got to say I love Lopin in the last panel, I hope he is naked more often. (Or at least get’s a more embarrassing outfit.) And look at how happy Ran’s grooming is making him, it’s nice to see him get all prettied up. So Ran also has in interest in cosmetology should have guessed based on his looks.
Kindred souls. Not totaly suprised really, and it shows a lot that Ran is starting to except the others that hes now interacting with as people. A few days before hand and he would be talking very diferently.
Also that really is a clever idea, and one that, to some extent, is used in modern cosmetics, and been used in the past for cosmetics. Nice to see a yinglet thinking it up.
Ran dosen’t see anyone as people. All he cares about is his own academic curiosity. Lopin is just lucky that on that particular day, Ran wasn’t curious about yinglet musculature.
You might be surprised at how many decorative dyes in human history came from bugs before it could be artificially synthesized!
Hah they often still are because those ‘synthetics’ don’t come out of thin air.
Oh I know, I know, I was trying to point that out, but everyone wants to panic about how ‘unsanitary’ it is.
Human history is highly unsanitary. Just because it is widespread tradition and the height of refined and trusted technology doesn’t mean it won’t kill you.
Celebrating now 100 year of surgeon WASHING THEIR HANDS before surgery. But we live in an over aseptic environment. Less antibiotics more vaccines. With vaccines you build your resistance to foreign invasion to your body, antibiotics just flush everything, the invading menace and the foreign coworker, when you’re on antibiotics you need to eat yogurt to replace your intestinal flora because you just killed part of it. Worst some antibiotics become less effective because the germs develop immunity with each generation (our generation not theirs, otherwise…)
Or molluscs! Can’t forget the molluscs.
Ooooh, did the site update it’s layout? It looks nice!
HE’S SO FLUFFY I’M GONNA DIE.
<3<3<3<3
honestly, he’s probably interested in it because purple is a very hard to come by dye in nature, so if he knows how Lopin makes his eyeshadow he might be able to produce such a dye for cheap since Lopin is obviously too poor to afford the usual sources of such coloring. His benefactor would probably love having such an export to boast of.
It was the color of royalty for a reason.
Also, making stuff for one is not so hard, making it to sell, well, thay will run out of thoes beetles pretty dang quick let me tell you.
So, Ran’s reputation preceeds him, even amongst the yinglets.
ALL HAIL LOPIN, MOST PRETTY YINGLET PRINCESS!!!
A princess is nothing without a crown
(He is probably gonna get a crown)
I mean, he’s already got a sweet lookin hat! Close enough right?
And here I tought he’d take the crimson and gold.
What Lopin is describing is more or less the process for producing the red dye cochineal, or carmine. It’s produced by certain scale insects as a deterrent to predators, but it just so happens that if you grind them up and mix the powder with ammonia (or a few other things), it turns into a brilliant red dye — and if you add lime (calcium hydroxide) you get a deep purple.
Lopin : “But … he’s …” :S
Ran : “Right behind you.” ^w^
Lopin : “!” O_O
– – elsewhere – –
Yannit : “Hair fondling senses … tingling!”
Meet the Ran.
*plays the ‘Meet the (TF2 class) music’*
… why did he have Lopin take off all his clothes to braid his hair?
Is this going to be a spa day episode?! ºwº
Brakka trust me, you do NOT want to be where lopin is right now
Ran has got to be my favorite character.
I adore that even Lopin, the human chaser, fears Ran.
Fear, is it? Given what we know, I wouldn’t be surprised if the third word Lopin was going to use would have been “hot”
I mean, human chaser or not, a ladyboi’s got to protect his reputation! And Ran is really hard on the…reputation…
If you know what I mean.
So is that the same bug dye used by the Skin Lizards in Digger? 😛
we like purple, yes
Yes.
…stupid bugs.
I’ve always wondered, can yinglets whistle? It would seem like their shelltooth would get in the way.
Why bother learning when you can just SCREEEAM
Some whistling techniques require incisors and don’t use the lips much, so they might be proficient at that type.
I whistled through my teeth all the time, I never was very good at the regular kind of whistling.
The expression in your third panel is utterly brilliant!
Hey I didn’t come up with it I just drew the face Lopin was makin’!
Later: lopin teaches ran about the yinglet philosophy of “all we is, … is bones”
And that’s how a biggest fire of the century, happened in the Ivenmoth? Everyone blamed yinglets and their nigilism, but in truth it was Ran that got too affected by the idea. o_o
Goodness, I somply ADORE all those faces you’ve made in this page, they’re brilliant and gosh friggin damn it, Lopin is too darn cute for his own good! ^w^ <3
I wonder how Lopin ended up discovering all that about how to make the purple eyeshadow, what was he doing that lead to that series of events? That panel really does bring out the curious nature of yinglets, though! Great work as always!
Lopin: Eee! Ickybug! With this rock I squish you! Squish squish squish…
*hours later*
Lopin: Bored bored… Squish the deadbug into stickypaste… bored bored….
Later comes rain…
And the next day…
Lopin: Where did I put that soshiny rock? Ooo! Is Purple Now! Sayyy….
Rans looking very feminime in that last panel reminds me that they were intrested as much in cross sex changes as they were cross speices
So, by shield beetle, is it the same ones we have? And if so, how is Ran not gagging from the stench? I doubt Lopin knows much about the intricacies of the nasty stuff those things have in them.
I think for the most part, all the animals that aren’t ‘human beings’ are alien to Earth, even if they’re similar.
Why is mass a female yinglet, when he was a male human?
To add humiliating insult to transformative injury.
Really, the world does things to Kass just to piss him off. Everyone else knows it but Kass.
That’s just what those magics do, whack it open on someone and they turn into the kind of scavvy hyperactive ratbird what lays eggs.
Kass ……. Dam auto correct!!!!!!!!
Why is kass a female yinglet, when he was a male human?
SSssshhh… you don’t need to know.
One possibility is the source of Zhat Zing (Henceforth referred to as ‘Zing’). We know very little about its origins. Possible reasons of the Zing’s origins:
1) Cultural Uplift mechanism. Modifying a more ‘advanced’ species member to force it to become a Yinglet would bring more of the culture of the Subject of the Zing.
2) Increase breedstock. Female Yinglets are RARE. Given the species safety practices and high-rate of mutation, Sane/stable females are exceedingly rare, and genetically stable females (without detrimental or life-ending mutation) would be rarer still. This would increase their numbers.
3) Dimorphism: It is Possible that in the Yinglet species, that the females have more intellectual capacity. We have only seen a few so far, so it could be an artifact of sample size, but the female Yinglets seem ‘sharper’. It is possible that the Zing’s design allows for humans to retain more of their intellect in this way, but this is unlikely.
4) Random Selection: If there are More of the Zing, it is possible that they each have a gender/mutation/strain preference, and Kass is unlucky. This is probable, given the state of Yinglet affairs.
5) Source Attribution: The Zing may have been made by a Female Yinglet – She may have only had her own template to work from (or simply thought Females were better).
6) Genetic Uplift: This involves an Outside Source (non-yinglet) who may have wanted to see if they could introduce better genetics Re: intellect by modifying a sapient species. Creating a female Yinglet from a ‘Smart’ Species and just letting instinct take over would breed in intellectual capacity. This Could be the source of the Lesser Yinglet/ Greater Yinglet divide. Also, this is icky, and I do not want it to be true.
7) Comedic Revenge: A yinglet made this and thought it would be funny to turn Mean peoples into Female Yinglets. They made Zings, and promptly forgot they existed before being eaten by a stray dog.
This is the face of someone who will not survive the night.
and now these two are having a girls night. this is glorious to me somehow
They are boys. It is a boys’ night. A boys’ night about hair and make-up and talking about sopretty (former) boys…
Ya know, I kinda forgot to mention this before, but anyone else notice that the yinglets seem to have no problems with getting blue dye? A good clean blue dye was not very common or easy to come by.
Probably Yinglets get their cloths or at least the fabric from humans
How is it that Lopin gets the best end of Ran over Kass?
Makes me think Ran does do half the shit he does to her just for the reaction. His cruelty knows no bounds.
After panel 3, I am convinced that lonely singlets in the night sound just like potoo birds.
Potoo birds scare the hell out of joggers and pedestrians at night. Those things are loud. ….. They can see you with their eyes closed as well.
I just realized… Lopin doesn’t have a shell-tooth! Half of his tooth looked broken off when the scouts captured him, roughed him up a bit seems like… maybe it fell out later? It’ll grow back? How long does that take?
That is actually exactly what happened!
http://www.valsalia.com/comic/out-of-placers/oops-35-2/
Lopin is just precious
Am I one of the few to notice, Ran has a very feminine face, especially without the glasses. I wonder if they are hiding something?