OOPS #364
Aug03
Vizlet stress levels rising exponentially
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All right, looks like everything’s up and working! I’ve been sitting on this site redesign too long, and just needed a couple days to get everything remade. And in a strange bit of good (?) timing, my Wacom tablet died a few days ago, which I assumed was the universe’s way of telling me to get off my ass and update the site already. Thankfully Wacom made a speedy repair and delivery back, so I’ve already sketched up the first few panels of the next OOPs page.
And a special shoutout to Xandispin, who first suggested a site update several months ago, then set up this snazzy new WordPress layout for me to customize (which I then sat on until this past week). Thanks man; it took me long enough to get around to it, but without you the site would still be looking like something from the early 2000’s!
Seriously, I was manually creating pages and re-entering every altered link when there was a new page, using a long-defunct version of Dreamweaver 2001. That gets tiring real quick.
Anyway! There’s some new stuff in the Art & Extras section now as well, which you might not have seen if you don’t frequent Deviantart and such.
(If this posts twice it’s because I had some error trying to post it the first time)
Some interesting tidbits I can point out now that commenting works for me and these two are on the same page.
Narklet and Kass look almost identical. Color, markings, build, everything. The only real differences are hair color (which we know Kass retained from his human self) and Narklet having a bit of fluff at the tips of his ears (but not always).
With this in mind: we never see the tip of Narklet’s tail. And while Kass has a fairly masculine snout for a female, Narklet has a feminine snout for a male.
It’s true that we never see the tip of his tail, we come close on several pages but it is always slightly cut off. That’s a good observation.
Is it possible that Narklet is ‘Sweet Polly Olivering’?
But isn’t Narklet supposed to represent and uphold yinglet traditions?
Conservatives conserve their power and the structures that enable that power. They will often talk about tradition, family values, community, protecting some group, or something else seemingly positive when positive words might change the behavior of others. Conservatives will just as often talk about “the other”, disease, danger, military matters, controlling purity, or other negative things when they think fear will sway people. When anyone puts conserving their power at the forefront, they can’t help but eventually run afoul of truth.
Erm… you lost me there ^^”
Your politics. They are dumb and based in presuppositions rooted in your own prejudices.
Holy shit, well spotted. That’s not an accident, it definitely means something for the story. Either Narklet was created by similar means to Kat, or Zat Zing turned Kas into a (partial?) clone of him for some reason.
As a Narklet x Kass shipper, this is a positively delightful realization. And now I’ve got a whole new theory to posit (based entirely on “it would make for a hot ship”): Narklet as a gender-nonbinary time traveling Kass from the future, here to help Kass realize that what they want is in front of them, not behind. Narklet won’t make it, but the comic will end with Kass dying their hair and stepping into the time machine to become an unending moebius love story.
That strikes me as unlikely given if that was the case, Narklet would peobably try to push this from a different angle to get Kass on board with it. But looper stories are wild in general, so who knows.
I think that Kass was turned into a generic female yinglet
Narky being from one of the main enclaves is a mixture of purebred yinglet so really close to generic yinglet.
Being one of the outliers, Val salia has a higher number of genetic weirdos and founder effects.
Even without assuming that greater yinglets weren’t created by zat zing in the first place , Kass is deliberately brown paint and Narky is brown because he’s all the paints thoroughly mixed together.
Ohhh, Narky Narky Narky.
You have no idea what’s really going on, do you?
Then again, Kass probably doesn’t, either. Is he even aware of Narklet’s position in all this, how important it is to maintain appearances?
It might have been better to not be… QUITE so forward with that information, buddy… Sorta, leading Narklet on, like ‘Oh yeeeaaahhh maybe someday, zhanks for zhe offer’.
I can see he tried, but I think he went a BIT too hard on establishing his position to get Narklet off his back, but… Vizlet should have prepared him better, really.
Vizlet has indeed informed Kass about Narklet’s positions. Kass is doing good diplomacy-wise, in my opinion, except he is as stubborn as Narklet.
One smart thing for Kass would have been to pretend being distracted by something else, and change topic, taking advantage of Yinglets being flighty. That has the disadvantage of appearing weak-willed, when compared with Viz, Nark.
Another solution would have been to evade forward, making promises to eventually “return” into the loving arms of family, but not right now thank you very much. This has the disadvantage of Narklet returning to the topic at every meeting in the future.
I’d be impressed if Kass is able to hold it together, depending on what Narklet says next to expound on his point. Worst case scenario, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s violence.
I know it’s mainly for cartoon emotive reasons, but it does raise the question; do yinglets actually sweat? Anything with that much fur, especially fur that I assume it quite oily waterproofing reasons, doesn’t seem like sweating would be very practical.
Lmao, Vizlet’s reactions are golden 😂
Agreed! She starts to sweat right in the first panel during Kass’ opening welcome speech, and it just get more intense with every panel. 🙂 And I suspect Ambassador Kass really does NOT know what s/he just said.
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This is going to be good… 😉 🙂
This is the first update I’ve seen since I started reading and caught up last week! I wonder how many details I’ve missed, because I read it all so quick or what I might have retained because I read it all so quick. Things like how similar Kass and Narklet look, but, because I’ve read it all over the course of a couple days, I remember Narklet plotting with another yinglet about the different antiquity dig sites, implying he has some kind of connection. There are so many cool ways this could play out.
Someone else proposed that maybe Kass is a clone of Narklet. I think it’s more likely they’re both similar because they were both made by antiquity potions.
Vizlet is not one given to the classic “Oh, Crap” reaction.
Right now that “Oh, Crap” reaction should be in a museum, it’s that classical an example.
Meanwhile, Kazz is showing why they are the Diplomat here.
I’m surprised she’s able to be so polite to Narklet, given that his name was on the lips of her attacker, who he employed to help with whatever skullduggery he’s got going on. Let’s see how long it lasts.
Narklet better be “really” careful here with the patronizing… “Mansplaining” to Kass is NOT going to end well from the standpoint of treating him like some brainless, naïve individual with no common sense… This little “innocent misogyny play” Narklet seems to enjoy engaging in could VERY EASLILY backfire into Kass reading him some kind of “riot act” in the least, and outright turning the tables to a return-fire of back-handed insults to Narklet’s own obvious “weaknesses” in Kass’ opinion… This could end up being a real “foot in mouth” moment for EITHER of them, either figuratively OR literally, depending on how it pans out…
Wonder what it’s going to be like when Kass figures this dude basically ruined his whole life.
Oh, Narklet you’re being cringe. Do yinglets have a concept of cringe? They probably do. Narklet should brush up on that.
Zhee hee. Am I zhe only one who thinks Narklet is pweddy? Narklet could brush up on me instead….
(‘ows zhat for cringe? Ehehehe)
Oh, they definitely do. Just look at Vizlet’s face. It has “CRINGE” written all over it.
It’s… about to get messy, isn’t it?
Narklet the narc. Someone really ought to introduce this guy to the sport of ying-flinging.
I think from Narklet’s point of view Kass is spouting some sovereign citizen crap. “Oh no, I belong to Ivenmoth”.. Like. No lady. You’re a yinglet , we have a yinglet government and our rules apply to you. You’re running around on your own NOW but there’s a timer before you have to make with the egg making.