Even the tallest giant cannot carry the full weight of the world upon their shoulders
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That’s honestly rather impressive for a yinglet, considering they’re infamously weak. That looks like 9 full-sized books and 2 small ones. You’re probably looking at 2-3 lb per full-sized book, maybe a pound per smaller one, for a total of ~20-30 lb (~10-15 kg – note this is a very rough estimate). Sure, an adult human could carry that two handed without too much difficulty (outside the awkwardness of keeping it balanced), but this is a yinglet. A large yinglet, sure, but still a yinglet!
That’s probably pretty close to the average yinglet’s body weight. So it’s impressive period.
With that many books, she’ll take a good while to read them all 😀
Remember, we need but 3 hours sleep per day. While Humans get zher so so lovely 8 hours of sleep, and de Males do duties around de enclave, de Feemales generally get bored a lot. Especially if on a breeding schedule. Knitting is useful. Making clozhes and “cooking” is too, but hardly intellectually stimulating at 4AM.
Remember too, we also need 5 powernaps zroout za day zat take about an hour, so we schleep about za same total time, and have za same amount of usable hours in za day. Also, zere is no electric light and few candles put out enuff light to read by and open flame inside za enclave is outsight inciting filiosfy. So…
Is why zey say “Outside of a dog, a book is a girls best fren. Inside a dog is too dark to read!”
*Clears Throat* Ahem. sorry about dat. But dat info is maybe a bit incorrect, seeing OOP 020’s creator comment below zhe comic. “And while Yingets require less overall sleep, they exhaust their energy supplies quicker than most species as well, so they will take short power naps anywhere from 3 to 7 times in one 24 hour period.”
Vislet’s advice is “an hour or so for every 5 you spend awake” in oop #29 so I’ll continue to follow zhat, and if you sleep more, good on you, sleepyhead!
I still want to hug and cuddle Deema.
Sooo much wanna cuddle Deema! And I just love za color of his nails! I wonder if he is using My makeup, you know… za one zat Lopin stole from me and takes credit for? So cute boy, he smells so good!
Magic Moon Prince? I could imagine that’s the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter for this setting.
For de enclave of supposedly smarter Yinglets, our group does seem to have issues still. Take carrying zhings for instance. Sure, ask de Ivenmozhs for a Tiplod and driver to escort dem home. But if dey want to carry zhings (and I have commented on dis before) carrying zhings wizh our arms…is horrible. Far, far better to carry zhings on our backs, just above our hips if possible, and de boss has drawn dis before. https://www.valsalia.com/art-extras/the-intrepid-traveller/
For a Tiplod trip, I know a certain Ivenmozh officer whose not doing much about now to do de driving too, in fact. She’s even supposed to be a diplomat to de Yinglet Enclave, and even knows how to handle a wagon and tiplod too! Escorting de so, so smart bookworm and de Matriarch back home would be a nice gesture, and a first true mission for recruit Yannit!
Deema has not been skipping leg or arm day, and it is a good thing. Pekkit hungers for ze books…
That’s a lot of books.
Wizh de two Males joining Deema, Pekkit can now get double her existing amount of books! Yay for literature building stong minds and bodies!
That look on Deema’s face is hilarious, especially in contrast to the serene, calm demeanor he carried into the library. Somebody get him a backpack! Heck, he might even need a wagon to pull Pekkit’s haul back to the enclave. What a funny page! 😀
oh dear that’s..quite a fair amount of books.
Who said anything about “fair?” Life isn’t about “fair!” What the he- What? *checks dictionary*
Oh.. nevermind..
😉 🙂
I knew Deema was exceptionally large, but in that last panel he looks positively ENORMOUS for an Ynglet. He might even be larger than Patriarch Poak (who likely is his father).
Maybe the librarian is stooping a little or she’s just small for a human? Still, it looks like this enclave might dominate the yinglet basketball circuit.
Is Deema the largest Yinglet in the Enclave, or just the largest who isn’t Poak?
De Matriarch’s breeding program is dere for a reason, zhough getting Poak’s size to breed “true” in his descendants might not be easy conisdering zhere is no feemale with de Poak version of giantism yet. Deema may be taller eventually, but Poak is heavier (he eats a lot). We just have to hope zhat when we do get a Poak sized Feemale, zhey are more like Poak, and less like Zally personality wise!
I get the impression that Vizlet cares a lot more about intelligence and temperament than about physical strength or stature. Poak is a patriarch because he’s smart, level-headed, and benevolent, not because he’s big. It’s no coincidence that a big eater is the patriarch of food stores, but size only explains why Poak is *that particular* patriarch. If he weren’t so big, his interests might have led him to a different specialty, and he’d be patriarch of something else. Likewise, I suspect Deema’s value to Vizlet is more his relatively calm, gentle personality, not his uncommon stature, and the reason this page is so funny is because it’s such a contrast to every other time we’ve seen him, where he’s been as cool as the flip side of the pillow, even in the presence of Pekkit’s overflowing excitement.
Also, it is fun trying to trace family trees from family resemblances, but with yinglet genetics, isn’t it extremely hard to guess right? Just because Deema is big, calm, and dependable, that doesn’t mean he wasn’t hatched from a union of Kattajak and Lippie, or from Zally and eight random unsuspecting bystanders. If they ever do get one who is as big as Poak and as wild as Zally, I’m afraid the enclave won’t have any buildings left standing!
Yes, yes, if Zally was Poak sized, it would be death by snu-snu all over de place, zhough if one has to go, I zhink dere woulld be volunteers. But de idea of getting smarter genetics is definately one zhat de Matriarch wants, but I zhink dere will be a war sooner or later between de ValSalian enclave, and de Yinglet Council. If zhat means de council hiring humani mercenaries to flatten de enclave, or a horde of Yinglets descending on Vislet’s people, having a few warrior sized Yinglets, as well as a few smarter ones would be handy to last long enouzh to make it to ValSalia, or dey send reinforcements.
Maybe that’s what Vizlet has come to talk to the Trademaster about: if Narklet doesn’t like what he sees, and the orthodoxy from the South comes to oust her, how much support will the city offer her, and at what price? We know he cares a TON about every single resident of his city, but does that care extend to the yinglet enclave? If so, does that mean he thinks of Vizlet as a vassal? If not, does that mean he won’t send the redcoats out to risk their lives fighting for her against a Southern yinglet invasion?
To be honest, I zhink Vislet is being tested. Vislet’s people were given a task: find the asswipe who stabbed Elim. And Vislet has failed utterly at it. Be it that Beizel’s people have been hiding Brakka covertly, or intercepting any reports of Brakka, or Beizel’s people really are that incompetant. De Trademaster is a man of honor, and his not cracking down on Valsalia’s population of feral Yinglets *HARD* for honor’s sake must be testing his patience for Vislet’s failures.
Heh, Edit, Narklet’s people hiding Brakka covertly. Beizel I think would like a Brakka shaped rug about now.
Looking back at pages around OOPs #119 and 121, I don’t think anybody is hiding Brakka. He’s just lost to everyone but the dungeon of weirdos where he got dragged off to, and too concussed, crippled, and maybe too afraid to do anything but lay low. I think there are at least three patriarchs who want that Brakka-shaped rug, if you include Kattajak, who wants to make it, and Narklet, who doesn’t seem to be evil, even if he is “up to something shitty.”
Zhat leaves the latter, zhat Beizel is too incompetant to do the job as de likely one. For dere to be an alliance, bozh parties need to trust de ozher, and if dere is a full alliance, one of the zhings dat would likely be asked is to end de Yinglet’s criminal ways in ValSalia, and eizher kick de exiles out of town, or recruit dem as full citizens, wizh expectations of contributing to de city.
Dat would mean Vislet and her crew cutting ties wizh de Yinglet Council, I’d zhink, and Narklet being left in de former Enclave wizh what Exiles and his crew of scavengers he controls. But dat’s speculation for de future, zhough it has to be uncomfortable to go in front of a potential ally for Vislet, and only have bad news to share.
It’s certainly not incompetence on the part of Beizel and his underlings. With Brakka being inside a building, the only way they could find him would be to search basically every building in the area, which is not an option. That, or get lucky and have one of the patrons or workers at the yinglet brothel blab about it. Brakka is also hidden in a location that nobody would expect to look – he HATES humans, so a yinglet brothel servicing humans is basically the last place one would think he’d be.
Also, while it’s been quite some time for us, the reader, I think only a few days have passed since the attack; it’s hardly surprising that Brakka hasn’t yet been found. I don’t think Veracroix would make the mistake of writing off Beizel as incompetent simply because he failed to find the exile immediately.
Beizel has been shown getting into the good graces of Vislet, and doing his best to get under de sheets wizh her, so to speak. He has been an Escort to Vislet while she travels, and talking to Lopin about life issues and Kattajak about de attack. What it has not shown is Beizel’s folks scouring de area like it did when Lopin was being hunted. I’m sure somezhing is being done, but with Yinglet’s dietary needs being so niche, how hard would it be to buy de information wizh a few clams? Dat bakersroof fellow would seem to be someone who could be helpful (and decent stress relief) for someone needing information.
You don’t get it, Deema…SHE GOTTA!!!
A magic moon prince? Is that a reference to “Le petit prince” of Antoine de Saint-exupéry?