Pants gets to hang out with his friends again, and probably eat them.
(Parts of this comic were drawn twice, thanks to a vandal flopping on my keyboard in just the right way to undo an hour and a half of work AND then save it.)
Pants gets to hang out with his friends again, and probably eat them.
(Parts of this comic were drawn twice, thanks to a vandal flopping on my keyboard in just the right way to undo an hour and a half of work AND then save it.)
I wonder how generous the number needs to be for cloth production.
Although with access to human products, they’re no longer solely dependant on eel leather, I guess.
Maybe, but bear in mind that the vast majority of human products, especially fashion, are not designed with near-permanent immersion in water in mind.
True, but as far as I’ve understood, the vast majority of Sarnothi refugees are not near-permanently immersed in water anymore. Since they’ll only need such clothes occasionally I could imagine human swimwear/ wetsuit material being fine most of the time.
Since smaller eels are safer and not as smart, i’m imagining the ranches being a bit more open to the public now.
maybe even split the school of eels into two groups? one group being ranched as normal, Prime Eels of the highest quality.
and Free-er range Eels, that just swim around in the open and in the village.
the Sarnothi can either purchase Premium Eel, or grab one of the free swimming ones that are potentially not as good quality.
would let the Sarnothi get some use out of their hunting instincts as well.
a safe way for the kids to learn hunting?
like way back in page 250?
Somehow, I must have missed comments about “extraterrestriality” till now. Probably I saw and didn’t notice, or I saw and forgot. It has come up before…hasn’t it? (Not that it doesn’t fit.)
I meant terrestrial as in “land based”. Which isn’t quite accurate, but best word I could think of to separate normal eels from the gigantic murder-parrot Sarnothi breed
That forces my thoughts back into the old groove—that the Sarnothi are native to the (freshwater?) seas of Earth.
I might suggest “epigeous” for “land-based” (based on Google Translate and elsewhere), but “water-based” eludes me.
Maybe the word you’re looking for is “native.” The American eel is native to the Great Lakes. And it is highly edible. However it is currently on the “threatened” list. Maybe what the Sarnothi got was some “land based” aquaculture tech?
I assume that the big eels are native to the lake Sarnoth is in. Where else would they have gotten them from? It’s the new eels that are presumably from somewhere else. And also not from the lake the refugee colony is in (I think it’s a different one?), since they had to import them rather than just going out and catching them.
Fact is that, in-universe, the Sarnothi eels and whatever new types of eel they got are both equally “normal” and “native” to planet Earth, even if biologists hadn’t previously documented them. It’s only from the audience’s perspective that the giant eels appear “less real”.
As a note, most eels actually live in salt water. From what I can find, it seems that the only species of true eel that spends its entire life in fresh water is Stictorhinus potamius from Brazil. There are a few more that spend most of their life in fresh water but return to the sea to breed, which isn’t suitable for raising in a lake unless they have some way of simulating that environment.
However, there are also other fish with “eel” in their name that aren’t closely related to true eels. If the refugees were actually given electric eels, they may not be as safe as they look! Electric eels also breathe air, so I wouldn’t try to keep them too deep under the lake’s surface…
ORANGE BOI >:D
he joined the chaos side
Sounds overdue. Trying to domesticate a carnivore larger than you are is just a bad idea all around.
And even carnivores smaller than you are are more useful as pets than as food. Whatever it is you’re feeding to the eels, you can just eat that yourself.
The word after “Pants” should be “to” not “too.”
ORANGE CAT BEHAVIOR
Absolutely loving your orange vandal, Dave! <3
I'm sure you weren't at the time, though. I'm also really looking forward to seeing how this conversation with Scar plays out.
what’s ur kitto’s name?
Orange boy is named Robbie, and I have a grey named Bernard as well. I need to get more pics of Bernard; Robbie tends to steal the camera by being a hot mess
AWWWE! I too have an orange cat. His name is mclaren, and he’s freaking us out cos hes got issues with his femurs now? I also have a shark in a tiny cat costume called sushi (she’a calico and my baby), A nakey named Mei mei who is quite literally 11 and a gremlin, and wednesday who is basically mclaren and sushi’s mom. I am animal obbsessed. but i get it cos the sec im doin school they want cuddles.