jephjacques : Residuals

That’s fair. I mean, Yay is exactly the kind of being who would secretly commission bodies capable of surviving on mars or some shit just cause they can and no one else would know it was for them.

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-08-26 00:16:47 +0000 UTC

Indeed. One must always be petting a cat when plotting intricacies.

David Paul

2024-08-25 08:56:54 +0000 UTC

At the end of the story where Yay meets Aurelia, they casually mention they can function perfectly well at a ridiculously low temperature (80 Kelvin). Jeph's tagline went, "any lower than that and they need a scarf". So it sounds like each of their bodies is extremely durable in itself

Nicolas Demers

2024-08-25 04:14:22 +0000 UTC

Granted. Hercules deserves pets.

Sorastro

2024-08-25 02:47:59 +0000 UTC

"Can I at least spin around in this office chair and pet Hercules, who is magically on my lap?"

ValdVin

2024-08-25 02:35:11 +0000 UTC

* thou?

Holly Nelson

2024-08-25 02:20:41 +0000 UTC

I suspect that Morays intelligence is distributed thru her whole corpus, not localized in one little nubbin of a brain. Thus, her whole body is a sensory and processing organ, like an octopus. She may look like a cutie-patootie, because she’s shaped like an aquatic cherub, but she is actually a being much weirder than Yay. Thus, getting a sample might be less like drawing blood, and more like cutting off a pinkie finger. 😳

Holly Nelson

2024-08-25 02:19:59 +0000 UTC

indeed, that would've been https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1607 (later referenced in https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2104)

Lucas Werkmeister

2024-08-25 00:33:19 +0000 UTC

@Charles Hirst Love me some Dick!

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-08-24 19:48:00 +0000 UTC

Let's also not forget that Yay has a very cavalier approach to ethics and has probably done a lot of things that would count as crimes (almost certainly illegal surveillance/hacking, very possibly some financial shenanigans), and they've done it with an ease that would surely freak out human authorities. Assuming they could be apprehended/contained, the AI Powers that Be would probably feel obligated to put them in Robot Jail forever.

William Cole

2024-08-24 14:34:50 +0000 UTC

Oh yes, but, least up to this point, we haven't seen them get into the chemical/potion stuff yet!

Onyx

2024-08-24 04:22:30 +0000 UTC

@Jenifer Pylko I read the first part of your post and thought 'Yay puts their hand upon her hip, when they dip, she dips, they dip'

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-08-24 03:39:56 +0000 UTC

Reminds me of Hanners secretly collecting DNA samples from her friends back in the early days.

awgiedawgie

2024-08-24 01:07:47 +0000 UTC

Replacement bodies, remember? Their CON is literally N/A because of anything happens to one of the bodies another one can show up

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-08-23 16:56:57 +0000 UTC

Omniboob. Such a delightful word.

legobil

2024-08-23 09:48:30 +0000 UTC

CON is off the charts? Why is that? I feel like their WIS is also quite low, but they gets like +10 and always advantage at perception checks, unless Roko is present.

legobil

2024-08-23 09:47:12 +0000 UTC

@Dean Reilly uh. yah nah.

Joe

2024-08-23 02:35:03 +0000 UTC

@William Cole https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4008 think that ship has sailed, so to speak.

Joe

2024-08-23 02:34:10 +0000 UTC

Hey, if I can't be called "The Exalted", do I even want to join?

ValdVin

2024-08-23 02:18:32 +0000 UTC

@bookbeard gawd I miss Iain.

Joe

2024-08-23 02:16:30 +0000 UTC

Can't help but admire a creator who knows their audience.

ValdVin

2024-08-23 02:08:59 +0000 UTC

Because what we do not understand, we destroy. Yay, being who they are has every reason to be very wary of people finding out about their existence.

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-08-23 01:51:25 +0000 UTC

I gotta fever, and the only prescription is more storyline?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsQLlk-T0s

Joe

2024-08-23 01:29:01 +0000 UTC

it is difficult to keep a straight face when anyone, even someone well older than me, asks to be called "Elder".

Joe

2024-08-23 01:26:50 +0000 UTC

Both of those have a localized consciousness. Moray can be reabsorbed into the Director at her discretion but until then she's an independent agent. Yay is, ostensibly, the only distributed consciousness, because based on current understandings of AI (in universe) should be impossible.

NotEnufDog

2024-08-23 00:54:45 +0000 UTC

I leave that bit blank on all forms, only to find that someone (AI - Artificial Idiocy?) has filled it in. It's difficult to keep a straight face when someone a quarter of my age says, "You may call me 'Elder'."

Charles Hirst

2024-08-23 00:42:12 +0000 UTC

Still on the subject of Yay (obviously). Is it not weird that they're scared (not that they'd admit it) of being found out as an uber powerful AI when the Director, another uber powerful AI, is just floating out in the open in a tank off the coast of Canada. Not to mention Station. What's in Yay's backstory that makes them so paranoid what there's so much contradictory evidence?

David Durant

2024-08-23 00:38:10 +0000 UTC

I can't help but think Yay and Roko in the middle panel are very reminiscent of the two women yelling at a cat meme :P

Tabby

2024-08-22 22:28:55 +0000 UTC

Gargamel, Gamergate, how much of a difference is there really?

Clifton Royston

2024-08-22 22:27:25 +0000 UTC

And she guided Faye's hand right into her chest, Excitable Blob, they all said.

Clifton Royston

2024-08-22 22:22:54 +0000 UTC

And the US. I hear it a fair bit along with "Yeah no."

Clifton Royston

2024-08-22 22:21:02 +0000 UTC

Gargamel is a little old man that lives in the forest with his cat. The smurfs torment this poor man daily and constantly make life hard for him.

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-08-22 21:22:44 +0000 UTC

I think "yeah nah" also exists in the UK

enchantedsleeper

2024-08-22 21:09:06 +0000 UTC

sploot

enchantedsleeper

2024-08-22 21:08:04 +0000 UTC

Apropos of nothing (because I was thinking about early QC!Melon versus Melon now), I remembered that Melon's butt is detachable. Maybe she and Moray can bond over having detachable body parts :D (I actually wouldn't put this past Jeph at all xD Something something advanced butts disease)

enchantedsleeper

2024-08-22 21:06:30 +0000 UTC

Roko used to ask that type of question, and the answers baffled her so much that she just took to rolling with it and moving on

enchantedsleeper

2024-08-22 21:05:18 +0000 UTC

No wonder Liz likes her so much 😏

enchantedsleeper

2024-08-22 21:03:10 +0000 UTC

Omg she woooould

enchantedsleeper

2024-08-22 21:00:39 +0000 UTC

Love the lighting in this strip!! So glowy

Kristina

2024-08-22 20:58:56 +0000 UTC

MELON

Wednesday

2024-08-22 20:11:19 +0000 UTC

sven has already done some freakiness with a melon, technically

Jennifer Pylko

2024-08-22 20:04:35 +0000 UTC

@Jennifer. Headcanon! 100%. 😍

SilverbackRon

2024-08-22 19:53:57 +0000 UTC

Residuals and visuals and laser shows, reaching into the speakers to try to hold on to the quarter-notes...

Doc Gumby

2024-08-22 18:30:03 +0000 UTC

yay puts their hand on their hip and roko hides her hand behind her... they clearly WERE holding hands moments ago

Jennifer Pylko

2024-08-22 16:51:24 +0000 UTC

well, you've lost me to the bone zone https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3767

Jennifer Pylko

2024-08-22 16:47:09 +0000 UTC

Lordloveaduck, Jeph -- look what you've started. You could have named her, oh, say, Gwendolen, and thus have saved Terpsichore from this agony. But noooo.

Ursus Ridens

2024-08-22 16:34:31 +0000 UTC

Thank you both. I have lived quite smurflessly so far, and haven't been called any sort of child for...a long time.

Ursus Ridens

2024-08-22 16:27:17 +0000 UTC

Random semi-related anecdote, when I joined my local art museum the signup form forced me to select an honorific (no option for none), and I don't like being called "Mr.", so I chose one at random and for more than a decade now my membership card has started with "The Honorable". Nobody has ever questioned it.

BookBeard

2024-08-22 16:09:19 +0000 UTC

Moray: "Yay! New friend!" Yay: "Curses, our cover is blown!" flee

BookBeard

2024-08-22 16:00:53 +0000 UTC

Perfection!

Marc Tabor

2024-08-22 15:10:58 +0000 UTC

Tasty?

allanfranta

2024-08-22 15:03:41 +0000 UTC

I here for Moray bumping into them and just smiling and saying "Hi Yay!" while Yay's head explodes.

David Durant

2024-08-22 14:56:39 +0000 UTC

Sägezahn... Sägezahn... Sägezahn... Sägezahn...

Leak

2024-08-22 14:38:13 +0000 UTC

Please please please tell me they didn't take them back to work once it got colder outside... D:

Leak

2024-08-22 14:34:08 +0000 UTC

The solution is more "storyline" isn't it?

allanfranta

2024-08-22 14:20:23 +0000 UTC

I met a lovely Canadian recently who seems to start every other sentence with "Yeah, no, you see..."

David Durant

2024-08-22 13:34:39 +0000 UTC

Melon: "Here, you can use mine!" hands over dead squirrel https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3711

BookBeard

2024-08-22 12:29:57 +0000 UTC

Yeah I'd like to touch Moray too, strictly for sensory seeking reasons, nothing else at all

Pejo

2024-08-22 11:39:38 +0000 UTC

PLOTTING

SpookyPenguin

2024-08-22 11:32:15 +0000 UTC

"Ugh, fine..." removes fake moustache, converts it to fake goatee, starts stroking goatee

David Paul

2024-08-22 10:22:40 +0000 UTC

Somehow simultaneously the omniboob and the omnibutt. A creature made entirely of our favourite curves :)

Stephen Wells

2024-08-22 09:48:32 +0000 UTC

No wonder Bubbles likes her too :) remembering the butt implants storyline with Millefeuille.

Stephen Wells

2024-08-22 09:47:32 +0000 UTC

Pretty sure "Yeah, nah" is exclusively Aussie though.

Dean Reilly

2024-08-22 09:28:53 +0000 UTC

Beautiful colors!

Jeffrey Anderson

2024-08-22 09:03:43 +0000 UTC

The thing about pronouns is that the only ones you can use about yourself are "I" or "we", unless - like Poirot - you refer to yourself in the third person. The ones that other people use to refer to you depend on their perception of you, modified by your preferences if they feel like it. In the 'old days', programmers used a 2-bit field for "Dr/Mr/Miss/Mrs" to save space (and sometimes tagged "esq." on after the name if they had used "Mr"). I was working in a university, so to allow for "Ms/Prof/Rev/The Hon...etc" I used a 6-bit character (ICL used 24-bit words) with &00 meaning no title and &77 meaning everything up to a ":" in the "firstname" field. As you can never be sure who (what or when) you are addressing when you email an organisation, I have started using "Goodmorrow Gentlebeing!" as it is gender, status, qualifications, nationality, ethnicity, species and time-zone neutral.

Charles Hirst

2024-08-22 08:55:02 +0000 UTC

The legends were true!

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-08-22 07:53:41 +0000 UTC

This fucking storyline is giving me everything. The drip feed is just the right pace. I may have a problem.

Aussie Jim

2024-08-22 07:49:43 +0000 UTC

Yes, they, thank you.

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-08-22 07:43:30 +0000 UTC

Classic high INT but dumped WIS and CHA build.

Stephen Wells

2024-08-22 07:42:18 +0000 UTC

Yay has been firmly in Gargamel territory as long as we've known them :)

Stephen Wells

2024-08-22 07:40:42 +0000 UTC

I am with Fart Captor on this one. That seems like a very efficient way to collect samples. Kind of like saying Hello but you just slip a little bit.

SilverbackRon

2024-08-22 07:18:33 +0000 UTC

Melon's analysis and the Gargamel reference are both hysterical.

Onyx

2024-08-22 06:54:51 +0000 UTC

They contain multitudes like that

Bagge

2024-08-22 06:30:25 +0000 UTC

Ask nicely like Faye and you can stick your fist in her…. chest?

Andrew

2024-08-22 06:24:55 +0000 UTC

As someone who had the traitors removed and replaced, they wouldn’t be that hard to come by if Melon knew which nurses to ask. Surgeons have several nearby during surgery so they can adjust on the fly and one of my nurses had several unused ones in her home freezer as cold packs.

LaPrimaNerda (Sarah Davis)

2024-08-22 06:24:52 +0000 UTC

*they

Jonathan

2024-08-22 05:54:03 +0000 UTC

Some light nibbling maybe?

legobil

2024-08-22 05:25:09 +0000 UTC

Losing residuals sounds like a bad idea for Moray, considering she looses intelligence if that front hair bob is removed.

legobil

2024-08-22 05:24:31 +0000 UTC

Shhh... it's a secrete!

Leak

2024-08-22 05:16:13 +0000 UTC

No, but it'd probably make Yay both the whole smurf village AND Gargamel...

Leak

2024-08-22 05:15:34 +0000 UTC

Look, if you wanna be REALLY covert, you gotta collect that sample by sticking your tongue in her mouth. I feel like she'd be game for that

Fart Captor

2024-08-22 05:09:10 +0000 UTC

Yay… I hate to break it to you, but you have a CHA of like, 6. INT of 20, CON off the charts, but she has the bedside mannerisms of a space alien

AlexKorobeiniki

2024-08-22 05:00:57 +0000 UTC

Roko, yay! Oh and Yay also

Andrew

2024-08-22 04:55:22 +0000 UTC

Some people have no sense of adventure

Todd Ellner

2024-08-22 04:53:58 +0000 UTC

When you feel like a breast from your feet to your crest That’s a Moray!

Magic Chopstick Games

2024-08-22 04:52:54 +0000 UTC

The web gets everywhere!

Charles Hirst

2024-08-22 04:46:03 +0000 UTC

In a way, Moray is entirely made of artificial breasts. She is the omniboob.

BookBeard

2024-08-22 04:41:05 +0000 UTC

@BookBeard • Ah, Lemon. Living up to her name.

Miyaa

2024-08-22 04:40:01 +0000 UTC

@Simon when I read your comment I heard Annie Lennox in my head.

Andrew Mitchell

2024-08-22 04:38:29 +0000 UTC

Gargamel is the archenemy of the Smurfs.

BookBeard

2024-08-22 04:36:11 +0000 UTC

You win the internet for today. Here's your trophy. 🏆

Andrew Mitchell

2024-08-22 04:35:10 +0000 UTC

Marten doesn't know much that Yay would be worried about him spilling. He isn't aware of them being multiply embodied, he just knows they are a powerful AI that helped Bubbles and is friends with Aurelia. (Also, Yay is they/them)

BookBeard

2024-08-22 04:34:06 +0000 UTC

🤣😂😂🤣 Oh you sweet summer child.

Carrie

2024-08-22 04:32:59 +0000 UTC

@Julie Chan: but it has to be said during sex.

legobil

2024-08-22 04:31:14 +0000 UTC

Beyond Lies the Wub (www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28554)

Charles Hirst

2024-08-22 04:31:05 +0000 UTC

😂🤣🥵

Carrie

2024-08-22 04:27:37 +0000 UTC

loving the implication that "yeah right" is somehow exclusive to australia

Tamara Macadam

2024-08-22 04:23:57 +0000 UTC

Thank you so much for this because the sensory seeking part of me has been desperate to know what it'd feel like to touch Moray

Aerin Moriarty

2024-08-22 04:23:10 +0000 UTC

Why do I get the feeling that if Yay meets Moray while Marten is around he will accidentally say something that will hint at what she is that Moray won't pick up on, but she will repeat to someone who will and is interested in without the best intentions.

Jared Kolbly

2024-08-22 04:20:56 +0000 UTC

I know not of this Gargamel. It sounds like a name for the Mouthwash of the Undead.

Ursus Ridens

2024-08-22 04:16:48 +0000 UTC

The australian "yea! right!" is the only case where a double positive is a negative.

Charles Hirst

2024-08-22 04:16:31 +0000 UTC

I mean... technically Moray DOES have artificial breasts, it only makes sense she'd feel like that.

Creeperkry

2024-08-22 04:13:15 +0000 UTC

Seriously that long and proud heritage was one of the funniest things I had ever read. It was stuck in my head for days.

SilverbackRon

2024-08-22 04:09:35 +0000 UTC

Would that make Melon a smurf?

Bagge

2024-08-22 04:07:05 +0000 UTC

wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub

Magic Chopstick Games

2024-08-22 04:06:46 +0000 UTC

I Swear To God, in panel one I thought Roko and Yay were holding hands. I was about to do a dance of celebration. But they are not. That's OK. I will still do the dance. We ARE at a club after all.

SilverbackRon

2024-08-22 04:03:53 +0000 UTC

"Happy birthday grandma!"

Julie Chan

2024-08-22 03:53:16 +0000 UTC

Does Moray get residuals for the residuals?

Hawkeye

2024-08-22 03:35:35 +0000 UTC

thanks I hate it

JD

2024-08-22 03:34:28 +0000 UTC

"If I said you have a great body, would you secrete on me?"

William Cole

2024-08-22 03:33:44 +0000 UTC

With any luck, Jeph will take that as a challenge.

BookBeard

2024-08-22 03:14:35 +0000 UTC

Exactly.

Drazi

2024-08-22 03:11:43 +0000 UTC

Yay Okay

Not that Patrick Foltz

2024-08-22 03:11:09 +0000 UTC

She went to dinner in her Sunday Best, Excitable Blob, they all said.

Captain Button

2024-08-22 03:10:38 +0000 UTC

I mean, after a while, people get curious. There’s this club I used to go to where I found out all sorts of things I was in to. Candles can be fun.

Chauncey

2024-08-22 03:10:14 +0000 UTC

I wonder if Beeps' workplace tests breast implants also.

Captain Button

2024-08-22 03:09:35 +0000 UTC

You mean by inheriting it via the long and proud heritage of the Newfriend clan? https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4042

BookBeard

2024-08-22 03:09:27 +0000 UTC

Sven with 5+ instances of Yay, and all the slightly over ripened produce they can find at the nearest grocery store.

Chauncey

2024-08-22 03:05:44 +0000 UTC

‘Maybe if you ask nicely she’ll secrete you some’ is one of the worst things I’ve ever read

JD

2024-08-22 03:05:20 +0000 UTC

I expect your QC database is quite comprehensively keyworded.

Maurice Kessler

2024-08-22 03:03:36 +0000 UTC

I will pay good money to see what that scene looks like.

Chauncey

2024-08-22 03:03:25 +0000 UTC

oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz oontz

lilibat

2024-08-22 02:56:08 +0000 UTC

When you're made out of goo But leave no residue That's a Moray!

BookBeard

2024-08-22 02:51:43 +0000 UTC

Melon and Moray both feel too innocent to me for that pairing.

jonesnori

2024-08-22 02:46:46 +0000 UTC

I was reading on my phone and misread 'Gargamel' as 'Gamergater' which when talking about residue collecting, honest mistake.

Cerril

2024-08-22 02:40:32 +0000 UTC

"Like a breast implant." Come on Jeph. you're making it too easy. ;)

Yelling Bird

2024-08-22 02:38:42 +0000 UTC

technically no AI can have "big naturals"

LH

2024-08-22 02:36:37 +0000 UTC

Has Yay met Sven yet?

That Blair Guy

2024-08-22 02:36:13 +0000 UTC

Just posting, once again; how much I ADORE Melon!

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-08-22 02:32:42 +0000 UTC

LOL- I knew which one you were going to link to without needing to go to it. That's such a good one!

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-08-22 02:30:06 +0000 UTC

Yay, stop twirling your moustache

Sorastro

2024-08-22 02:23:21 +0000 UTC

Woob woob woob https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4135

BookBeard

2024-08-22 02:18:59 +0000 UTC

Pretty sure Eurythmics wrote a song about it ... "Some of them want to secrete on you, some of them want to be secreted on..."

Simon Green

2024-08-22 02:18:38 +0000 UTC

I mean, remember how Yay got their name...

Drazi

2024-08-22 02:17:52 +0000 UTC

Yay nay

Rich Holmes

2024-08-22 02:12:47 +0000 UTC

They're different types of freaky.

Graydon Armstrong

2024-08-22 02:10:36 +0000 UTC

She probably picked up the hobby from her sister. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4354

BookBeard

2024-08-22 02:10:23 +0000 UTC

And Marten's blood. Wait, that's Hanners.

ValdVin

2024-08-22 02:08:34 +0000 UTC

The whole relationship of AIs to implants could be the source of a lot of fanfic. Look at Millefeuille's butt.

ValdVin

2024-08-22 02:08:10 +0000 UTC

I take it COVID is giving you a runny nose. 😁

Dan Isaacs

2024-08-22 02:07:59 +0000 UTC

I appreciate that Roko gives Melon advice in getting the residue, she doesn't judge or ask why Melon has recently started collecting residues. Just friendly advice, that will probably work to.

Shawn K. Younkin

2024-08-22 02:04:06 +0000 UTC

Yay yea.

Diptych

2024-08-22 02:03:55 +0000 UTC

And just like that Yay's cunning plan hit a rock and sank

Todd Ellner

2024-08-22 02:03:26 +0000 UTC

Melen

Miyaa

2024-08-22 02:02:45 +0000 UTC

Roko’s life is just one long sigh after another with those two.

Ron Hamann

2024-08-22 02:00:47 +0000 UTC

Nah, Pintsize previously explained that the Coat Check at the club was just where you go to have someone check out your dope coat. But Roko and Yay still don't need it, because they aren't wearing coats.

Likeablejerk

2024-08-22 02:00:41 +0000 UTC

But according to Pintsize, Coat Check is a great spot for some low-level sin (and boob flashes).

William Cole

2024-08-22 01:59:03 +0000 UTC

I mean, I'd guess that's what she and other breast-having AIs have.

Rich Holmes

2024-08-22 01:57:50 +0000 UTC

I feel there's a joke to be made about charming women so they'll secrete on you but I'm too tired to formulate it

Logan Nix

2024-08-22 01:57:48 +0000 UTC

I don't know if Sven is ready for Melon-level freakiness.

William Cole

2024-08-22 01:57:19 +0000 UTC

Since when did Yay become kinky? Not the slime, but by wanting the same thing as Melon!

BobC

2024-08-22 01:57:10 +0000 UTC

This has big "I collect spores, molds and fungus" energy.

Tannerbot

2024-08-22 01:56:53 +0000 UTC

The problem is that statement starting with their name already sounds like enthusiastic agreement.

Likeablejerk

2024-08-22 01:56:40 +0000 UTC

Is nobody gonna question Melon’s first-hand tactile experience with breast implants?

Taigan

2024-08-22 01:56:20 +0000 UTC

Yay perhaps.

BookBeard

2024-08-22 01:56:13 +0000 UTC

Svelon

BookBeard

2024-08-22 01:55:49 +0000 UTC

Yay has got me absolutely dying!

Vilinda

2024-08-22 01:55:47 +0000 UTC

The colors, indeed. The colors!

Rich Holmes

2024-08-22 01:55:22 +0000 UTC

I mean, it's not hard to get a sample of Moray. She is very excitable. https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4864

BookBeard

2024-08-22 01:55:05 +0000 UTC

Yay... you know what, you have a right to f up too.

Edward Clayton Andrew

2024-08-22 01:55:02 +0000 UTC

Hol' up there "Dexter" Melon

MikeT

2024-08-22 01:54:50 +0000 UTC

I don't know if either Roko or Yay are there for the coat check. They're both too honest to try stealing someone's coat.

ValdVin

2024-08-22 01:52:29 +0000 UTC

Hi melon!

Ashbury Haight

2024-08-22 01:51:51 +0000 UTC

Yay YES

Cas Wanden

2024-08-22 01:51:38 +0000 UTC

Oh hi Melon! (Ooh, maybe we can ship Melon & Sven?)

Miyaa

2024-08-22 01:51:29 +0000 UTC

Melon!!!

JD

2024-08-22 01:51:18 +0000 UTC

Yay yes

Z Winningham

2024-08-22 01:51:00 +0000 UTC

yay n-why do i even bother

Tamara Macadam

2024-08-22 01:50:12 +0000 UTC

Residuals

Comments

That’s fair. I mean, Yay is *exactly* the kind of being who would secretly commission bodies capable of surviving on mars or some shit just cause they can and no one else would know it was for them.

Indeed. One must always be petting a cat when plotting intricacies.

At the end of the story where Yay meets Aurelia, they casually mention they can function perfectly well at a ridiculously low temperature (80 Kelvin). Jeph's tagline went, "any lower than that and they need a scarf". So it sounds like each of their bodies is extremely durable in itself

Granted. Hercules deserves pets.

"Can I at least spin around in this office chair and pet Hercules, who is magically on my lap?"

* thou?

indeed, that would've been https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1607 (later referenced in https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2104)

@Charles Hirst Love me some Dick!

Oh yes, but, least up to this point, we haven't seen them get into the chemical/potion stuff yet!

@Jenifer Pylko I read the first part of your post and thought 'Yay puts their hand upon her hip, when they dip, she dips, they dip'

Reminds me of Hanners secretly collecting DNA samples from her friends back in the early days.

Replacement bodies, remember? Their CON is literally N/A because of anything happens to one of the bodies another one can show up

Omniboob. Such a delightful word.

CON is off the charts? Why is that? I feel like their WIS is also quite low, but they gets like +10 and always advantage at perception checks, unless Roko is present.

@Dean Reilly uh. yah nah.

@William Cole https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4008 think that ship has sailed, so to speak.

Hey, if I can't be called "The Exalted", do I even want to join?

@bookbeard gawd I miss Iain.

Can't help but admire a creator who knows their audience.

Because what we do not understand, we destroy. Yay, being who they are has every reason to be very wary of people finding out about their existence.

I gotta fever, and the only prescription is more storyline?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVsQLlk-T0s

it is difficult to keep a straight face when anyone, even someone well older than me, asks to be called "Elder".

Both of those have a localized consciousness. Moray can be reabsorbed into the Director at her discretion but until then she's an independent agent. Yay is, ostensibly, the only distributed consciousness, because based on current understandings of AI (in universe) should be impossible.

I leave that bit blank on all forms, only to find that someone (AI - Artificial Idiocy?) has filled it in. It's difficult to keep a straight face when someone a quarter of my age says, "You may call me 'Elder'."

I can't help but think Yay and Roko in the middle panel are very reminiscent of the two women yelling at a cat meme :P

Gargamel, Gamergate, how much of a difference is there really?

And she guided Faye's hand right into her chest, Excitable Blob, they all said.

And the US. I hear it a fair bit along with "Yeah no."

Gargamel is a little old man that lives in the forest with his cat. The smurfs torment this poor man daily and constantly make life hard for him.

I think "yeah nah" also exists in the UK

*sploot*

Apropos of nothing (because I was thinking about early QC!Melon versus Melon now), I remembered that Melon's butt is detachable. Maybe she and Moray can bond over having detachable body parts :D (I actually wouldn't put this past Jeph at all xD Something something advanced butts disease)

Roko used to ask that type of question, and the answers baffled her so much that she just took to rolling with it and moving on

No wonder Liz likes her so much 😏

Omg she woooould

Love the lighting in this strip!! So glowy

MELON

sven has already done some freakiness with a melon, technically

@Jennifer. Headcanon! 100%. 😍

Residuals and visuals and laser shows, reaching into the speakers to try to hold on to the quarter-notes...

yay puts their hand on their hip and roko hides her hand behind her... they clearly WERE holding hands moments ago

well, you've lost me to the bone zone https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3767

Lordloveaduck, Jeph -- look what you've started. You could have named her, oh, say, Gwendolen, and thus have saved Terpsichore from this agony. But noooo.

Thank you both. I have lived quite smurflessly so far, and haven't been called any sort of child for...a long time.

Moray: "Yay! New friend!" Yay: "Curses, our cover is blown!" *flee*

Perfection!

Tasty?

I here for Moray bumping into them and just smiling and saying "Hi Yay!" while Yay's head explodes.

Sägezahn... Sägezahn... Sägezahn... Sägezahn...

Please please please tell me they didn't take them back to work once it got colder outside... D:

The solution is more "storyline" isn't it?

I met a lovely Canadian recently who seems to start every other sentence with "Yeah, no, you see..."

Melon: "Here, you can use mine!" *hands over dead squirrel* https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3711

Yeah I'd like to touch Moray too, strictly for sensory seeking reasons, nothing else at all

PLOTTING

"Ugh, fine..." *removes fake moustache, converts it to fake goatee, starts stroking goatee*

Somehow simultaneously the omniboob and the omnibutt. A creature made entirely of our favourite curves :)

No wonder Bubbles likes her too :) remembering the butt implants storyline with Millefeuille.

Pretty sure "Yeah, nah" is exclusively Aussie though.

Beautiful colors!

The legends *were* true!

This fucking storyline is giving me everything. The drip feed is just the right pace. I may have a problem.

Yes, they, thank you.

Classic high INT but dumped WIS and CHA build.

Yay has been firmly in Gargamel territory as long as we've known them :)

I am with Fart Captor on this one. That seems like a very efficient way to collect samples. Kind of like saying Hello but you just slip a little bit.

Melon's analysis and the Gargamel reference are both hysterical.

They contain multitudes like that

Ask nicely like Faye and you can stick your fist in her…. chest?

As someone who had the traitors removed and replaced, they wouldn’t be that hard to come by if Melon knew which nurses to ask. Surgeons have several nearby during surgery so they can adjust on the fly and one of my nurses had several unused ones in her home freezer as cold packs.

*they

Some light nibbling maybe?

Losing residuals sounds like a bad idea for Moray, considering she looses intelligence if that front hair bob is removed.

Shhh... it's a secrete!

No, but it'd probably make Yay both the whole smurf village AND Gargamel...

Look, if you wanna be REALLY covert, you gotta collect that sample by sticking your tongue in her mouth. I feel like she'd be game for that

Yay… I hate to break it to you, but you have a CHA of like, 6. INT of 20, CON off the charts, but she has the bedside mannerisms of a space alien

Roko, yay! Oh and Yay also

That’s fair. I mean, Yay is exactly the kind of being who would secretly commission bodies capable of surviving on mars or some shit just cause they can and no one else would know it was for them.

sploot

Moray: "Yay! New friend!" Yay: "Curses, our cover is blown!" flee

Melon: "Here, you can use mine!" hands over dead squirrel https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3711

"Ugh, fine..." removes fake moustache, converts it to fake goatee, starts stroking goatee

The legends were true!