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Imagine it just sticking out a whole foot in front of you, ALL THE TIME, just feeeeling it there
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Imagine it just sticking out a whole foot in front of you, ALL THE TIME, just feeeeling it there
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oniontrain(High-res version available for free over on my Patreon!)
https://unitedhelpukraine.org/ https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
Species Yinglet
Gender Any
Size 900 x 2140px
File Size 2.91 MB
There's a trend of people teaching thier animals to use buttons that say words to communicate. The first i saw was 'Billie Speaks' and the Billie the Cat's favorite word button was "MAD." The fist conversation i saw of hers was 'MAD, OUTSIDE' because Billie wanted to go outside, but it was raining. So she would look out, lash her tail, and go back to her array of buttons and repeat 'MAD, OUTSIDE.' Another channel featured Bunny the Dog. Bunny would use buttons like 'STRANGER' and 'WORRIED' when someone was outside instead of barking. Both animals would use their buttons rather than natural vocalizations if they were in the room with their buttons. Both animals, a cat and a dog, actually understood the meaning of the individual words and sometimes formed coherent thoughts, just as often the words strung together showed a distinctly non human thought process. The point of bring this up was Bunny the dog's thoughts become more and more coherent over time until a video where she uses the buttons to ask 'WHY BUNNY DOG' and actually becomes depressed as she realizes she is not actually a Human and wants to be something more than a dog. I feel like something similar to this may be what just happened to Lopin.
Don't put too much stock in that. There's a long, long history of deception there. Both deliberate deception, and self-deception by trainers. There's a tendency to focus always on the moments that feel like they make sense, but ignore all the nonsense. There are reliably documented cases of animals learning to associate particular words or gestures with objects or, in exceptional cases, properties of objects. But never an animal demonstrating any understanding of even the most rudimentary grammar. Youtube channel creators also have a strong incentive towards outright fakery because for-the-views means for-the-moneys.
It's a simple formula: Teach dog to step on buttons, record tens of hours of footage, and their random fumbling will make a few sentences.
If you want a talking animal, the best you're going to get are African Greys. There's one well-documented and scientifically evaluated case there, Alex. No unambiguous use of grammar or asking questions, even there - a few maybes that couldn't be reproduced - but Alex was able to learn many object and property names with extensive training. Simple associations, but so far that's the record.
There's a few videos on the subject I recall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQy3uh2mJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7wFotDKEF4
It's a simple formula: Teach dog to step on buttons, record tens of hours of footage, and their random fumbling will make a few sentences.
If you want a talking animal, the best you're going to get are African Greys. There's one well-documented and scientifically evaluated case there, Alex. No unambiguous use of grammar or asking questions, even there - a few maybes that couldn't be reproduced - but Alex was able to learn many object and property names with extensive training. Simple associations, but so far that's the record.
There's a few videos on the subject I recall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQy3uh2mJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7wFotDKEF4
Parrots can learn a few words but it is difficult to know if they are learning the words or if they just learn that if they do this they get a treat. Also bird brains are so different then ours that we really don't know. I mean we don't even understand our own brains all the way yet.
I think something on one of the pages around the time he lost it said that they rely on others to open the clams for them. So like, one gets the tooth in, twists, pops it open, then hands the clam off.
Must be hard to find someone you can trust to stop themselves right at that last step and actually let you get the clam. ^_^
(Of course, Lopin has access to the Ivenmoth kitchens, who have oysters pre-shucked.)
Must be hard to find someone you can trust to stop themselves right at that last step and actually let you get the clam. ^_^
(Of course, Lopin has access to the Ivenmoth kitchens, who have oysters pre-shucked.)
It would really be a good idea. Lopin is not unintelligent, but it often seems that way because he lacks any sort of education. Cloak-and-dagger aside, he is still in the position of Personal Assistant to the Diplomat and likely to be stuck there for some time. He needs to get some proper training to allow him to carry out the duties of the position. At the very least that means enough literacy to take dictation, or deliver notes (within the safe confines of the building, for now). The two are probably going to be stuck working together for years even after the whole situation with Zhat Zhing is taken care of.
Plus he'd make a great example, showing that even the poorest, lowest and scavviest of scavs can be educated and take on a skilled occupation if only given the chance.
Plus he'd make a great example, showing that even the poorest, lowest and scavviest of scavs can be educated and take on a skilled occupation if only given the chance.
I wonder how much body control Kass still hasn't gotten the hang of simply because he didn't grow up in this body for years like natural born yinglets have. Stuff like his issues with the tongue, is that more because he's a human in a yinglet's body more than just being a yinglet in general?
From kasses writing i get the feeling he getting to his wits end with being a yinglet
Hopefully this doesnt result in another kass melt down
Also seems like cats exist in oops but seeing how dogs are they're probably not regular house cats like we have
Iam actually kind of surprised lopin is surprised seeing as how obviously regular yinglets arent annoyed with these things cause to them they are normal
Hopefully this doesnt result in another kass melt down
Also seems like cats exist in oops but seeing how dogs are they're probably not regular house cats like we have
Iam actually kind of surprised lopin is surprised seeing as how obviously regular yinglets arent annoyed with these things cause to them they are normal
Yes, also humans back and hip is badly designed. Now yinglets looks stupid but an t-rex has the same body plan and weighted over 10 ton, yinglets will not have back or hip issue unless design flaws they are obviously not related to dinosaurs.
https://www.deviantart.com/karintin.....saur-948721130
https://www.deviantart.com/karintin.....saur-948721130
Humans are optimized for efficient walking. We're not fast, but we make very good use of energy. Our lungs aren't connected to our gait , so we don't have to breath at the same speed we are walking or running. Out upright posture also allows for the massive blood vessels that feed out brains as compared to other primates. Our weird posture is probably what led to our proportionately large brains.
Hey, OOPs peeps! I'm here to remind you once again 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.
It closed out last month at around 1152 votes and 36th place. It's currently at 1260 votes and 38th place. The highest it's reached is 36th place, and the top vote getters seem to end up with something close to 20,000 votes.
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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.
It closed out last month at around 1152 votes and 36th place. It's currently at 1260 votes and 38th place. The highest it's reached is 36th place, and the top vote getters seem to end up with something close to 20,000 votes.
Vote early, vote often! Help OOPs get noticed!
Time's almost up for the month, gang, Let's do this!
Hey. I think about that long tongue and muzzle thing when I write the dialog for my antropomorphical fox and wolf people. I also ponder on how canines use their mouths and tongues to help regulate body temperature. So yes, I found this short look into Yinglet anatomy amusing, entertaining and thought provoking. (Especially the bit about the wind resistance of the ears.)
Sometimes I get the impression that you're actually a Yinglet trying to help us understand what it feels like, because I don't believe I've ever met anyone else who actually goes this in-depth into how different it would be.
It's almost as if you have first hand experience.
It's almost as if you have first hand experience.
Valsalia is obviosly not an Yinglet but some sort of bird, just look at profile picture and this https://www.furaffinity.net/view/16849968/
This one is also an catgirl 😺
This one is also an catgirl 😺
It's these little details that really make the story come to life. Now that is getting into the head of your character, 
valsalia. Two little details out of hundreds that would change utterly, when going from a six foot tower to a small, horizontally built rodent-heron.
The tongue-bristle thing, though; probably triggered by taste. Stab into the meat of what you are eating, pull back quickly. Very small bristles will pop out to grab onto the flesh, and grip it as the tongue's withdrawn so as to pull it out of the shell. Not dissimilar to how a woodpecker's tongue works, actually, in pulling insects out of cavities. Since the tongue can't penetrate skin, wood, or stone, the bristles stay flat and the tongue stays smooth. Having them grab onto a non-edible or hard surface would hurt, so reflexively the bristles stay flat.
Poor Lopin. He never knew that being a yinglet could be so complicated. It isn't, when you're born into that body!
valsalia. Two little details out of hundreds that would change utterly, when going from a six foot tower to a small, horizontally built rodent-heron.The tongue-bristle thing, though; probably triggered by taste. Stab into the meat of what you are eating, pull back quickly. Very small bristles will pop out to grab onto the flesh, and grip it as the tongue's withdrawn so as to pull it out of the shell. Not dissimilar to how a woodpecker's tongue works, actually, in pulling insects out of cavities. Since the tongue can't penetrate skin, wood, or stone, the bristles stay flat and the tongue stays smooth. Having them grab onto a non-edible or hard surface would hurt, so reflexively the bristles stay flat.
Poor Lopin. He never knew that being a yinglet could be so complicated. It isn't, when you're born into that body!
As a general biology nerd with a PhD in molecular biology, and a writer myself, I really enjoy attention to detail. You're a truly remarkable creator, a rare dual threat - an artist and writer in one. Your species are wildly creative and you humanize them without making them just "rubber-suit aliens." Your worldbuilding is first rate and your characters rival Sir Pterry's at times for depth and complexity. I don't say these things lightly - I'm not even a transform fan. But holy shit, man. You're a real inspiration to someone like me!
Keep being awesome.
Keep being awesome.
Kassen's life now: trapped inside an endless nightmare of mindfulness exercises, no escape! He's so hyper-aware of his new body's physicality that it's becomming a kind of perverse handicap. It's a wonder he manages any sort of, well, actual life at all.
Ran, reading these entries, must think he hit the jackpot with Kass. A gender-swapped, species-swapped individual who's this perceptive, intelligent, AND articulate? Seriously, what were the chances??
Ran, reading these entries, must think he hit the jackpot with Kass. A gender-swapped, species-swapped individual who's this perceptive, intelligent, AND articulate? Seriously, what were the chances??
You'd think those sensations would be barely noticeable unless you focus on them and so it wouldn't be an issue, probably it's not an issue for a natural born Yinglet or any other creature really with such bodyparts... But when someone is turned into one, and was wired differently from birth, was used to different things and now sure isn't used to this, I guess this IS a valid possibility.
...I'd still like a tail and a bit of a snoot.
...I'd still like a tail and a bit of a snoot.
"Appreciate your fekking normal tongues, you lucky normal-ass human people" is not a sentence I ever thought I'd hear, but definitely one of the best lines I've ever heard
At least all this has given Kass a new sense of appreciation towards they had and now don't! You never know what you have until it's gone...
Edit: Speaking of we now have that mindblowing shock at realizing just how fekked up you are because you never really think about it due to it being all you've ever known but now you have an outsider's firsthand perspective on the matter
At least all this has given Kass a new sense of appreciation towards they had and now don't! You never know what you have until it's gone...
Edit: Speaking of we now have that mindblowing shock at realizing just how fekked up you are because you never really think about it due to it being all you've ever known but now you have an outsider's firsthand perspective on the matter
Kass is very good at articulating his observations, and I appreciate the visual aides. The part about wind resistance when turning the head was probably the most interesting to even think about. The closest I got to that feeling was when I let my hair grow down to my shoulders. When I turn my head real fast, I can feel my hair whipping in the air. Not really the same since hair isn’t really your physical body but more like an extension of it.
Also, no one else mentioned it, but I think it’s very sweet of Kass to read what he wrote down for Lopin since he can’t read. Perhaps if Kass had the time or patience he could teach him.
Also, no one else mentioned it, but I think it’s very sweet of Kass to read what he wrote down for Lopin since he can’t read. Perhaps if Kass had the time or patience he could teach him.
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