OOPs #188
Jun22
Oh, the stories the ivenmoths could tell of the things they’ve seen within these mountain walls.
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Ay! Get a room you two! LOL! Zhough I do expect the Lopin to be happier in say, 15 minutes or zo. Living with ze least horny feemale in a season’s walk means it is not just Lopin’s hat zhat has been blue for some time now.
Aren’t dey already in a room? Lopin’s “Wait how did you get here” certainly sounded like he was supposed to be alone in here.
Ha! I meant a room wizh some guaranteed privacy! Zhat and a place zhat folks won’t be commenting zhat it smells like eau de yinglet for a week or two.
Well, I mean, de privacy only got breached via de vent tunnels, which aren’t supposed to do dat, so it probably IS a room wit’ guaranteed privacy… or at least, as guaranteed as a room can be.
Perhaps, or we find out zhat Lopin’s favorite hidey hole is ze Baxxid napping room where a certain baxxid zhat is being punished was sleeping off guard duty and now is entirely mortified but still as stone and not noticed by even de clever Beizel. It is fun to imagine alternatives, zhat and what de poor sot would tell de Baxxid Underworld about Yinglet Same sex relationships.
…I sincerely doubt it.
What, zhat we knopw de Baxxid in zheir feral lives were consumate ambush predators, and de instinct for dem is to remain rock still for de long, long ass time? Was zhinking of the rooms nearby de Baxxid’s “flower room” as being a quiet place dat de humani know to stay away from, but who would tell Lopin or Beizel dis?*Shrugs* Was just messin around, but dere has been a notable lack of Baxxid-Yinglet interaction zo far. So we just don’t know if de Baxxid of Valsalia zhink Yings are cute as Humani do, or look delicious? Or even bozh!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaahhh hhhrrrrwell, thattt’sss hhhaaaaanotherrrr wwweeekk offf gguuarrddd ddduuttyyyy….
Yes! De baxxid being desert ambushers love to burrow into zhings, and de zomezhings like a pile of rope, or de tarp (used in de flower room’s awnings) would be irresistible for de baxxid wanting to nest and rest in de storeroom. As for de extra week (or weeks) of duty, I don’t zhink de poor sot would mind as much as de ones being watched! As for the AAAAAAAaaa’s? Being cought by Beizel being a spectator to de humpin?, Oh my how embarrassing! But don’t forget the AAAAAAAAAaaaa of Lopin matching Kalgkur (zhe baxxid) in legnth, if not volume! Zo funny to imagine!
I would love to see Kass’s reaction to walking in on Lopin and Beizel getting it on. Would she be appalled or jealous? Would she be both because of fighting with her instincts, as we’ve seen in other situations?
If you are asking me to guess Kass’s reactions, remember Kass has a problem wizh impulse control. She cracked up wizh ze sound of someone farting randomly, and what Lopin takes as Kass being annoyed, is Kass holding on to her dignity by repressing the absolute hell out of her emotions. Zo, what would Kass do? Would she be aroused? And what would zhat do to Kass’s fragile hold on ze emotions she has? Kass is Valsalia’s to write, zo we wait and see. But I zhink for now, Kass’s heart remains wizh Elim, so not zo bad if zhere were a episode of 50 shades of Yinglet going on.
Oh! Not sure why that was a reply and not a normal comment. My typist must have been very tired last night to make such a silly goof.
I’m really just curious, and am bad at this whole words thing.
My guess is she’d react exactly as she did when she walked in on Ran and Lopin. Drop whatever she was doing and Nope herself right out of za room and za zots right outta mind.
That’s a love bite. Lopin is in for some trouble
Lopin is in better hands zhan if Matriarch Vislet had brought Zally instead of Pekkit. Too Too much like her fazher is zhat one!
And remembers… A “GWEH!” is just a “WEH!” wizh a “G”(ooh soso Good) added to za fronts of it.
Oh yes… Nibbles zhose cutie earz. Alzhough personalies… I likes big tail-poofs an I cannots lie… (but I hides from za terrorz zhat is Lady Zally)… O_o
Oh and yesyes… I knowz nozhings, Nozhings!
I am suspicious of that lone ivenmoth.
Ha, I was not expecting zhis! As long as pointy Spy-vs-Spy boy makes Lopin happy, all is good.
You know, I never thought about the resemblance.
Until now.
Beizel is, after all, a male yinglet. I had my suspicions he was having those thoughts the first time he called Lopin “cutie”, but the idea of a Patriarch doing something with an exile is kinda… hard to fathom.
But then again, I suppose, as a Patriarch, Beizel IS free to choose who to do anything with. Or at least, more free than most yinglets. I’d also add “And it’s not like he’s going to be telling anyone about this detail”, but Vizlet did say Lopin can’t be trusted with a secret…
This also brings attention to Beizel himself being a more masculine yinglet, I guess? Seeing how he prefers the feminine ones.
And this certainly should give Lopin a confidence boost. And a lot of high emotions. I won’t be surprised if he faints from realization he got attention from a Patriarch. He’s already getting fluffier as we speak.
Zhis is less a suprise zhan you make it out to be. After all in OOP 112 when Patriarchs Beizel and Kattajak were discussing the very femmy Patriarch Chakki, dey bozh zhought he was hot. Lopin fits dat taste as de fancy boi. And for Lopin, he does have a passionate side too, he was introduced via a scrap wizh anozher Yinglet, which he won, earning de sale of Zhat Zhing to a certain Kassen Akoll. Of all de current OOP characters, it is Lopin zhat is currently earning the comic’s undertitle, a story of inconvient changes de most. Zhat he is de fish out of water, ya, absolutely. But zhere is a lot of promise in him I zhink.
………………………………………….what do you think I was referring to when I said that Beizel “prefers the feminine oneS” in plural?
Before the plural “S” dere was a “I Guess”. Zo I was confirming dat de Patriarch of Scouting would indeed have zomezhing to do with de fancy boi outcast, especially wizh Vizlet’s express blessing to do so.
I’ve been wondering for a while now, is it possible for Lopin to properly pronounce “th” sounds now? At the end of the prologue it was mentioned that there’s not enough teeth around the shelltooth to make it. Now that Lopin doesn’t have that shelltooth anymore, there should be more of a flat surface to make the sound.
Good comment. It may be possible for Lopin to do so, but zhink of it like a accent, like me using the letter d instead of the letter z zometimes in my writings in substitution of de “th” sound to represent my proud heritage as a Plains Yinglet instead of a Swamp Yinglet like Valsalia’s are. Lopin may wizh speech zherapy make de “th” zound, but his language is dat of being Yinglet, so the “z” would remain beyond him not being mechanically forced to use it me zhinks.
Dat said, de boss may have Lopin’s toozh grow back eventually. If they could not, wizh Yinglet’s propenisty for disaster, dere would be a ton of Yings missing Teezh after all. Wizh Lopin not being de sole Ying wizhout one, learning to say “the” instead of “ze” would just be a matter of pulling one’s shelltoozh out, and believe me, dere woule be some of us who would, in a heartbeat if it was dat easy to sound so fancy and proper as a Humani does so easily.
As someone currently in the middle of learning to pronounce the “th” sound, I can confirm it’s a horribly unnatural sound I could never have figured out how to pronounce on my own, it’s horribly difficult to learn, I can barely actually hear it (I just hear it as a d/t, more or less), and I have to pause both before and after making it, to prepare and process it. Not having a shelltooth doesn’t automatically grant people pronunciation of that blasted sound.
Mechanically, the tongue contacts the roof of the mouth further forwards than de “Duh” of D, plus the “Th” sound is combined with de dropping of the jaw as the sound is made zhat de T/D sound does not. De “Z’ sound for me approximates it the closest for how it feels to say it, as the jaw dropping as I say the beginning of “Zero” would be the same as “Theory” but instead of the buzzing against the midle pallet that Z produces, the sharp T release of air is modified with de jaw drop legnthing the sound. Good luck, and remember, Germanic Languages like English are meant to be sung as much as spoken. Many words have pitch differences as part of pronunciation, like the word Pronunciation being divided into Pro(Lower pitch)nun(middle pitch)ci(highest pitch)a(middle pitch)tion(lower pitch). Good luck, but it really is a language that is sung as much as spoken, which for my Romance speaking friends (and Yinglets alike)is the biggest hurdle.
Ouuuuuuuu~
I think Beizel’s professionalism is about to go out the window
Yinglets ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
HEY!!!…*tries to think of a rebuttal and fails* zhat might be true, but ya don’t have to be zo damm smug about it Nikary :p
No, but where’s the fun in not being smug? =Ъ
“I’m not good enough”
What an unfortunately familiar thought.
De cultural differences between Humani and Yinglet go bozh ways, but dis feeling is zomezhing we share at times despite de difference in our shapes, zhat we share de need to be loved, and in turn the desire to love ozhers. Lopin is not a human trapped in a Yinglet’s body, and does not understand Humani pack relationships. Dis makes it harder for Lopin, who sincerely wants to help a friend feel better. Elim should count himself lucky zhat Lopin was behind zhe Matriarch, as a Yinglet’s standard idea of stress relief would be embarassing to most Humani in public venues.
Y’know, thinking about how yinglet social statuses affect their… love lives… made me think about Chakki. Being a feminine yinglet, he prefers to be dominated, but being a Patriarch, he himself is in a dominant position over most male yinglets with the exception of other Patriarchs… meaning only Patriarchs can truly satisfy him. No wonder he likes Kattajak so much.
Bit of a late thought, but understanding how difficult it is for yinglets to get outfits makes Lopin crying over his ruined hat back when he was exiled all the more heartbreaking 🙁 good thing the kind ladies repaired it for him!
Difficult to get a custom outfit? Ya, when your impulse control goes from nozhing, to barely able to function, and one is covered wizh warm fur to begin wizh, ya, clozhes are a mark of social status. Where Lopin got his sailor outfit, is a story we have not heard yet, and would be an interesting story to hear one day.
Zhat said, it is not zhat hard to weave rough cloth from dried grasses, and cut a hole in a rectangle shaped clozth, and secure it with a belt of some sort if Yinglets really felt bad about being nude, but zhey really don’t, minus for zhe Patriarchs and Feemales. Clozhes are just for looking important, and require work to look good, and de average Yinglet is work averse as it gets in the way of more fun zhings.