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  1. Nikary Flare
    Nikary Flare
    July 6, 2020 at 3:16 am | # | Reply

    Welp.

  2. gnrrrg
    gnrrrg
    July 6, 2020 at 4:28 am | # | Reply

    A little kid walks into a saloon, slaps an eggplant on the bar and says, “Give me a beer.”

    Only in Yeld.

  3. Kree
    Kree
    July 6, 2020 at 6:17 am | # | Reply

    “I hate the taste of hops, that’s why!”

  4. Ophidiophile
    Ophidiophile
    July 6, 2020 at 10:07 am | # | Reply

    I would have thought the skull on the label would be enough to dissuade her. Ah, well, a pirate’s life for me.

  5. ColdFusion
    ColdFusion
    July 6, 2020 at 3:49 pm | # | Reply

    Every time i see a fantasy series made in the last few years and the young adults are all WHAT I CAN’T DRINK I’m just like … what genre do you think you’re in? this isn’t today-America. Nihon in particular just makes me shake my head lately. Grow a pair, guys.

    • Andrew
      Andrew
      July 10, 2020 at 1:00 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, “grow a pair” and ENCOURAGE self-destructive habits. That’ll show ’em.

  6. Jo Li
    Jo Li
    July 6, 2020 at 8:47 pm | # | Reply

    It has a skull on it. You know what that means, don’t you?

    It’s probably non-alcoholic! Oh, no!

  7. Yevhen Snizhko
    Yevhen Snizhko
    July 7, 2020 at 12:39 am | # | Reply

    What’s the deal with a skull on the bottle?

    • Jake
      Jake
      July 7, 2020 at 10:41 pm | # | Reply

      I guess people aren’t familiar with this trope, since I got a lot of questions last time it came up too. In older cartoons and comics bottles of alcohol are often shown with poison symbol style skulls on them. I presume it was to make it clear that this is stuff kids shouldn’t be drinking? I’m not sure.

      • ColdFusion
        ColdFusion
        July 8, 2020 at 1:40 am | # | Reply

        Never seen that before. Since it’s not proper poison, it would only confuse them I would think.. teach ’em the wrong lesson if they tried some and were okay, or saw parents drinking it. Plus they retired the skull symbol for poison decades ago, saying kids would think it was pirate stuff. It was all ‘Mr. Yuck’ when I was a kid.
        all the old cartoons I ever saw put XXX on the label.

      • Angelid
        Angelid
        July 8, 2020 at 3:37 pm | # | Reply

        It actually relates to the fact that distillers way back when used to put Xs to mark how many times a brew was distilled. Most famously referenced in older cartoons, indicating they were drinking triple distilled… probably moonshine? in the big round bottles. (xxx)
        Later on I believe it got changed to skulls bc of the laws that got passed after the hullabaloo with the moonshine industry and after alcohol restrictions got tighter, as well as tv actually got regulated in the 70s/80s.

        … Bit of a modern art history nut, especially when it comes to pop culture ^-^;

      • Kalumniatoris
        Kalumniatoris
        July 9, 2020 at 4:35 am | # | Reply

        I think that would actually work other way around. Like kids drinking things marked with skull because characters in cartoons are doing that and are completely fine after.

  8. solar penguin
    solar penguin
    July 7, 2020 at 4:37 am | # | Reply

    Beer… it’s not just for breakfast!

  9. Bob
    Bob
    July 7, 2020 at 6:37 am | # | Reply

    #demonetized

    • Jake
      Jake
      July 7, 2020 at 10:42 pm | # | Reply

      ?

      • ColdFusion
        ColdFusion
        July 8, 2020 at 1:41 am | # | Reply

        Bob’s joking about YouTube’s increasingly draconian censorship, and that the beer would be enough to get you demonetized now.

      • Marilith
        Marilith
        July 8, 2020 at 3:02 pm | # | Reply

        Probably a reference to YouTube. All manner of things their advertisers may find unwholesome (regardless of context in most cases) lead videos on the platform to be demonetized. In this case, depicting an underage person drinking alcohol would likely do it.

        On an unrelated note, I just noticed the door to Yeld background for the comment section for the first time. Pretty slick little easter egg for literally looking at the page from another angle!

        • Jake
          Jake
          July 10, 2020 at 1:10 am | # | Reply

          Luckily I don’t have to worry about what Youtube thinks! One of the small benefits of selfpublishing.

      • Jo Li
        Jo Li
        July 9, 2020 at 7:21 pm | # | Reply

        There was (is?) a period where videos on YouTube were (are?) being demonitized – having their ad revenue disabled – for even the slightest infraction. Say a swear higher than “hell?” Have alcohol or drunkeness? Doing something dangerous? Chances are, your video would “no longer be eligible for ad revenue.”

        It was monkey-butts, but it made for a good joke, for a while.

      • Bob
        Bob
        July 10, 2020 at 3:59 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, I think I wanted to elaborate but since comments got delayed I never bothered to edit what I wrote.

  10. MarcinMN
    MarcinMN
    July 7, 2020 at 8:25 pm | # | Reply

    It turns out that drinking this Yeldian (sp?) brew is what makes her grow the horns. This is what they referred to when they said she had “Done things that changed her.” (Or however it was phrased…I’m too tired to look for the exact comic.) 🙂

    • Jake
      Jake
      July 7, 2020 at 10:42 pm | # | Reply

      Ha. yeah. Hanging out with pirates and drinking gives you horns for sure.

  11. Ugwump
    Ugwump
    July 8, 2020 at 5:14 am | # | Reply

    It’s been years (real time) but I’m still not used to Marah without her glasses.

    • Jake
      Jake
      July 10, 2020 at 1:08 am | # | Reply

      I should be drawing them on her here, since really she didn’t lose them until after this story. They must be in her pocket.

  12. Dean
    Dean
    July 8, 2020 at 5:56 pm | # | Reply

    Good for what ales you!

  13. cubist
    cubist
    July 8, 2020 at 7:43 pm | # | Reply

    Poor lass has never drunk alcohol in her life, I suspect. She’s prolly not going to like the taste, nor the afterburn…

  14. Nate
    Nate
    July 8, 2020 at 9:15 pm | # | Reply

    Hey, it’s a legitimate question, right?

  15. Megan Rei
    Megan Rei
    March 6, 2021 at 1:13 pm | # | Reply

    Well, Yeld isn’t reallies medieval, but in our world, the idea that kids couldn’t has alcohol *at alls* instead of needings it watered downs or onlies small portions didn’t reallies appear untils the late 19th/earlies 20th century. >o.o<

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