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Viracroix knows what the ladies like.
While clams, oysters, mussels and the like are their primary superfood, yinglets can derive an enormous amount of nutrition, as well as the signature dopamine release, from most other forms of slime-meat, such as snails and slugs.
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Viracroix knows what the ladies like.
While clams, oysters, mussels and the like are their primary superfood, yinglets can derive an enormous amount of nutrition, as well as the signature dopamine release, from most other forms of slime-meat, such as snails and slugs.
(High-res version available for free over on my Patreon!)
Colorists
oniontrain & 
koofins & 
Caedere !https://unitedhelpukraine.org/ https://www.comebackalive.in.ua/
Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
Species Yinglet
Size 900 x 1378px
File Size 1.19 MB
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Ah, the politics of a fantasy world.
I genuinely love how charismatic Viracroix is.
We've seen just a SAMPLE of what this dude is capable of, but also at least some of the lines his ethics and ideals lay on. I'm sure we've only scratched the surface of his character, but it's been an fantastic scratch so far.
"If you let me kill this dude, it'll be beneficial for both us AND our people. But totally understand we gotta do this the less interesting way."
I genuinely love how charismatic Viracroix is.
We've seen just a SAMPLE of what this dude is capable of, but also at least some of the lines his ethics and ideals lay on. I'm sure we've only scratched the surface of his character, but it's been an fantastic scratch so far.
"If you let me kill this dude, it'll be beneficial for both us AND our people. But totally understand we gotta do this the less interesting way."
But still, a difficult and slippery road to tread, probably helpful knowing that if things do go south unexpectedly, she has backup. Always good to know there is a plan b, c, and d available if A doesn't work out as there are so many balls to juggle, and not all of them under her influence.
That single valiant slug attempting a daring escape. >:3 I shall name it Pietro The Imperiled! *gives it a tiny hat with a feather in it*
I wonder if some manner of gelatin or the like could be derived to provide a similar dopamine release for the Yinglets? o.O Though that would probably lack the nutritional benefit, though perhaps the inedible bread could be processed into it thus allowing them to consume that food with greater ease. >.>
Anyway. Another FANTASTIC page! :D These always perk my curiosity. ^^
I wonder if some manner of gelatin or the like could be derived to provide a similar dopamine release for the Yinglets? o.O Though that would probably lack the nutritional benefit, though perhaps the inedible bread could be processed into it thus allowing them to consume that food with greater ease. >.>
Anyway. Another FANTASTIC page! :D These always perk my curiosity. ^^
Viracroix would NEVER have a group of people murdered for "wrong-think" without evidence or trial. Definitely not, cuz that would be fascistic. And that's definitely not what our loving leader, Viracroix, is all about. Ignore friends or family that have been "disappeared" recently after saying ill words about our loving leader. That is purely coincidence.
Local hereditary monarch: "I'm not a tyrant, everybody loves me. Sure I did get my job by inheriting it from my dad, who inherited it from his dad, who inherited it from his dad. And sure, I do murder anybody who opposes me, but only because I'm doing such a good job there's absolutely no way anyone else could do it better than me! All the ones who I don't murder totally agree with me. Btw, don't you just freaking hate traditionalists?"
He kinda reminds me of the Patrician from "The Colour of Magic." He is good at running his city, he does care about it deeply but everyone is absolutely terrified of him.
(its also kinda funny, he can speak to rats and use them as informants in his city, meanwhile Viracroix has yinglets doing the same thing for him.)
(its also kinda funny, he can speak to rats and use them as informants in his city, meanwhile Viracroix has yinglets doing the same thing for him.)
Do yinglets have a preference for any particular variety of mollusk, or does it vary from yinglet to yinglet? Given some of the unique fauna and flora of their world, I should imagine a wide array of interesting traits to their preferred snacks. The mental image of a slightly plump Vizlet in a mix a bliss and discomfort after a massive slug/snail/clam binge is highly amusing.
It seems like the description text on this page, mixed with some other contextual info from the rest of the comic, states that while they are BUILT for the swamp marshes, mollusks everywhere can give them a great amount of what they need IF not everything.
So I'd presume like, 92% of daily nutrients of a slug diet are met. Or, if they could dare to bag it or if it was small enough, squid. After all, more than half of clam species are as related to snails as they are to squids. A slight bit less, but the same proteins and neurochemistry and biochemistry occurs there.
As humans were adapted to the border forests and plains, whereas homo erectus and their immediate predicesor was more and more of a bark chewer than us, so too are the yinglets able to open their horizons to the riverbank plains from the toxic swamps they arose from with the relative amount of wit it takes to survive against the less smart beasts.
See, for the smartest thing on the planet, humans are sort of close minded as to what constitutes sapience and intelligence. Science, skeptical and pessimistic and demanding debunking of every factor and variable, is showing every indication right now to prove corvids (ravens crows jays parrots), octopii, and several species of cetacians (whales, dolphins) capabpe of EVERYTHING we can define as humanely intelligent. Parrots and crows and orcas have names for each other, mourn each other, plan ahead, use tools, recognize a reflection for what it is, themselves. They have clearly emotional responses that do nothing for their survival. Orcas humpbacks and dolphins all have a vastly larger, even comparatively, emotional section of the brain to us. There are signs that certain raven flocks are actively domesticating wolves to themselves. And while octopii are as close to an **utterly alien intelligence** to us as is possible, considering their split with humanity's genetics was damn near the beginning of everything, our closest mutual relative is a FLATWORM with likely two or three really distinct organs... they are not social creatures, they are not capable of using sound, they have more neural connections through their arms than concentrated in their brain... they still visibly and provably dream. Play. Learn, pass on techniques to other octopii they meet. They use their chromatophores as a sort of language to fish they hunt together with. They are DEFINITELY the oldest tool users still on the planet that we know about. And considering all that, is the absolute highest bar we could think to set? And bears, wolves, even loner mountain lions, teach their young and absolutely mourn and revenge them? I think that high bar being blasted by the most recent corvid studies, proves that the bar was silly anyways.
So I wouldn't call canines stupid, the african wild dog has the HIGHEST success rate in hunting of any other well doccumented predator on the planet. Wolves are pretty up there too in the nieches that they occupy. Even now, wolves target livestock far more than they do humans, and now even then only when there is clear signs of desperation to be seen in their packs. They are smart enough to see the link between humans and a LACK of wolves, entirely aside of if they've personally seen human ferocity themselves. In regards to survival, the yinglet would likely take a similar nieche to an african wild dog, mixed maybe with a slightly more omnivorous fox.
....
.. okay where was I even going with this? Haha. Sleep deprivation. Idk. Too long not to send.
So I'd presume like, 92% of daily nutrients of a slug diet are met. Or, if they could dare to bag it or if it was small enough, squid. After all, more than half of clam species are as related to snails as they are to squids. A slight bit less, but the same proteins and neurochemistry and biochemistry occurs there.
As humans were adapted to the border forests and plains, whereas homo erectus and their immediate predicesor was more and more of a bark chewer than us, so too are the yinglets able to open their horizons to the riverbank plains from the toxic swamps they arose from with the relative amount of wit it takes to survive against the less smart beasts.
See, for the smartest thing on the planet, humans are sort of close minded as to what constitutes sapience and intelligence. Science, skeptical and pessimistic and demanding debunking of every factor and variable, is showing every indication right now to prove corvids (ravens crows jays parrots), octopii, and several species of cetacians (whales, dolphins) capabpe of EVERYTHING we can define as humanely intelligent. Parrots and crows and orcas have names for each other, mourn each other, plan ahead, use tools, recognize a reflection for what it is, themselves. They have clearly emotional responses that do nothing for their survival. Orcas humpbacks and dolphins all have a vastly larger, even comparatively, emotional section of the brain to us. There are signs that certain raven flocks are actively domesticating wolves to themselves. And while octopii are as close to an **utterly alien intelligence** to us as is possible, considering their split with humanity's genetics was damn near the beginning of everything, our closest mutual relative is a FLATWORM with likely two or three really distinct organs... they are not social creatures, they are not capable of using sound, they have more neural connections through their arms than concentrated in their brain... they still visibly and provably dream. Play. Learn, pass on techniques to other octopii they meet. They use their chromatophores as a sort of language to fish they hunt together with. They are DEFINITELY the oldest tool users still on the planet that we know about. And considering all that, is the absolute highest bar we could think to set? And bears, wolves, even loner mountain lions, teach their young and absolutely mourn and revenge them? I think that high bar being blasted by the most recent corvid studies, proves that the bar was silly anyways.
So I wouldn't call canines stupid, the african wild dog has the HIGHEST success rate in hunting of any other well doccumented predator on the planet. Wolves are pretty up there too in the nieches that they occupy. Even now, wolves target livestock far more than they do humans, and now even then only when there is clear signs of desperation to be seen in their packs. They are smart enough to see the link between humans and a LACK of wolves, entirely aside of if they've personally seen human ferocity themselves. In regards to survival, the yinglet would likely take a similar nieche to an african wild dog, mixed maybe with a slightly more omnivorous fox.
....
.. okay where was I even going with this? Haha. Sleep deprivation. Idk. Too long not to send.
Hello friends! I'm back again to remind you that there's a place called "Top Web Comics" https://www.topwebcomics.com/?home=3 that compiles comics from various places. There's a bunch of cool stuff there. They have monthly votes, so you can support OOPs there. You can vote once a day per device, so your PC, laptop, tablet, phone, etc.
I've noticed that you can sometimes even get in extra votes from different IP addresses, or if you're disconnected from your IP and open up again later.
OOPs closed out last month at I think 39th place and around 975 votes, I believe the highest ranking it's reached yet. It's currently at 627 votes and 46th place. The top vote getters seem to end up with something close to 20,000 votes.
Vote early, vote often! Help OOPs get noticed!
I've noticed that you can sometimes even get in extra votes from different IP addresses, or if you're disconnected from your IP and open up again later.
OOPs closed out last month at I think 39th place and around 975 votes, I believe the highest ranking it's reached yet. It's currently at 627 votes and 46th place. The top vote getters seem to end up with something close to 20,000 votes.
Vote early, vote often! Help OOPs get noticed!
Vizlet certainly has a lot to think about, it definitely gives us insight into her struggles for human knowledge. Viracroix's proposed solution did send chills down my spine though.
It's not a matter of our taste buds; just our culture. I've eaten both sea slugs and escargot, and enjoyed both quite a lot. While in both cases, the seasoning dominated the underlying flavor, humans around the world have included "squishy, slimy" things like snails, slugs, and insect larvae for thousands of years, and many still do.
Yeah, he was the first to find Zhat Zhing and gave it to Lopin, which came in hands of Kassen.
Knowing that Nerklet deals with outcasts to do dirty work for him, it's easy to speculate that Brakka could be held up to an investigation.
Given that he's still alive or at least has his memories intacts, after the yeet he got.
Knowing that Nerklet deals with outcasts to do dirty work for him, it's easy to speculate that Brakka could be held up to an investigation.
Given that he's still alive or at least has his memories intacts, after the yeet he got.
I know this is to mostly show that the trade master is both loyal to his allies and ruthless to his enemies but tropes (the one where the ambitious "youth" bites off more than they can chew) make it that I can't help but feel things are going to go bad for him when he bumps into someone who's either more cunning than him, or more ruthless and god help everyone involved if he mets someone that's both.
Its been tried before and no matter who tries to claim Val Salia, control of it aways (one way or another) always returns to House Ivenmoth. Viracroix also has "seemingly harmless" aliies. Vislet's enclave can infiltrate from places no human can reach and the baxxid are under the city and can basically tunnel right under any target he suggests. Thats not even including his own spies and assassins.
I like how we have two sides of a political coin.
One wants to progress forward, but understands the necessity of those she works against. While we have another who will gladly kill to stake claims of power, he's even the charismatic one, bringing in others to claim they are forbthevgrand benefits, but truly it is all manipulation.
Overall, the world is very well fleshed out, and it's great to see you continue this project
One wants to progress forward, but understands the necessity of those she works against. While we have another who will gladly kill to stake claims of power, he's even the charismatic one, bringing in others to claim they are forbthevgrand benefits, but truly it is all manipulation.
Overall, the world is very well fleshed out, and it's great to see you continue this project
I surely hope Viracroix doesn't find murder to be a viable solution to every problem. Especially in terms of problematic people; I still wonder in my head if Omarhan needed to be executed or just a stern warning, demoted, or anything other than killing someone's potential relative because it was for the betterment for the rest of the people. But I suppose as what's implied in this page, his family was fed an "accident" story.
And now that the thought has entered my head, I have to do it.
Me: "Sweet mother of Habzig's tits, Viracroix!"
Trademaster: "Well, you know what they say, 'can't bake a pie without losing a dozen men.'" laughs
Me: "Ah, AH! That was horrible. Your solution is horrible. You're horrible!" points accusingly "You're an irradeemable monster!"
Trademaster: "Oh! Oh! What took you so long, idiot?"
Me: gets executed from behind
Nah, he's not that bad, though.
And now that the thought has entered my head, I have to do it.
Me: "Sweet mother of Habzig's tits, Viracroix!"
Trademaster: "Well, you know what they say, 'can't bake a pie without losing a dozen men.'" laughs
Me: "Ah, AH! That was horrible. Your solution is horrible. You're horrible!" points accusingly "You're an irradeemable monster!"
Trademaster: "Oh! Oh! What took you so long, idiot?"
Me: gets executed from behind
Nah, he's not that bad, though.
Tradition isn't all bad. And sometimes, moving forward is the wrong thing to do, especially if you're on the wrong path.
On the flip side, not all new things are bad either. Change is just scary, and you stand to lose what you have when it comes. It's not easy to give up what you've got to get something new that may be good or may be bad.
I hope Viracroix is at least the pragmatic sort, and looks at the results of his actions, rather than insisting on keeping the path he's one when it's starting to look like it leads off a cliff, or into a swamp. If he gives into Chronological Snobbery and disdains the old ways just for being old, he may find out some of those traditions were keeping the lights on, or the roof over his head. Not a pleasant thing to discover after you've knocked down the load-bearing wall.
On the flip side, not all new things are bad either. Change is just scary, and you stand to lose what you have when it comes. It's not easy to give up what you've got to get something new that may be good or may be bad.
I hope Viracroix is at least the pragmatic sort, and looks at the results of his actions, rather than insisting on keeping the path he's one when it's starting to look like it leads off a cliff, or into a swamp. If he gives into Chronological Snobbery and disdains the old ways just for being old, he may find out some of those traditions were keeping the lights on, or the roof over his head. Not a pleasant thing to discover after you've knocked down the load-bearing wall.
Very well said. It's one thing to want progress - it's entirely another to charge willy-nilly into the next new thing without first understanding what the consequences of that new thing might be. And while tradition may seem stifling and restrictive, there's usually reasons those traditions were established in the first place. Balancing moving forward and adapting to change with retaining those pillars that your entire society stands on (and would collapse without) is probably the biggest challenge a nation faces.
And then there are the idiots, many of whom are very passionate, who seek to topple the pillars they see as walls keeping them from what they deserve. What they are entitled to.
I wonder if they ever consider if all they deserve is a messy, painful end to their existence? If you dislike civilization and its problems, you don't want to know what Nature will do to you.
I wonder if they ever consider if all they deserve is a messy, painful end to their existence? If you dislike civilization and its problems, you don't want to know what Nature will do to you.
I wouldn't say they deserve it. I'm of the belief that nobody deserves that kind of thing - not really. But it is something that can happen when the edges of civilization fray too badly, just like it happens to wild animals. I never understood the mindset that would want to bring that on oneself, but it does exist. As can be seen in most major cities.
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