Trying to be helpful 2017-03-21
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Trying to be helpful 2017-03-21
Well, Digit certainly is quite articulate, once she knows the proper technique to make "human sounds"... And quite perspicacious, too...
Poor Cricket... can't catch a break...
And now we have some form of age bracket (teenager) for Digit.
Mini Dieztel looks cute, on Digit's shoulder...
Digit and Cricket sure have Monica pegged...
Speaking of Monica, where exactly is she, while these two are talking? As far as I can tell, they are still in Monica's house/apartment/place... Did Monica leave them alone to deal with this? Is she even still within earshot of them?
Poor Cricket... can't catch a break...
And now we have some form of age bracket (teenager) for Digit.
Mini Dieztel looks cute, on Digit's shoulder...
Digit and Cricket sure have Monica pegged...
Speaking of Monica, where exactly is she, while these two are talking? As far as I can tell, they are still in Monica's house/apartment/place... Did Monica leave them alone to deal with this? Is she even still within earshot of them?
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Re: Trying to be helpful 2017-03-21
On FB, Paul said Digi is 16.
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Sounds like the princess might get a roommate.
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M is not gonna throw out little D's best freind.
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But Digit has it right that Monica barely keeps it together herself sometimes {And, BTW, where's Jet?}, and doesn't need to be taking care of a teen who's just learning to be human...oldmanmickey wrote:M is not gonna throw out little D's best freind.
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I thi k Digit got all the awareness-of-others that an ordinary teen should have, plus what Atsali was supposed to get.
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She's also got what every recently-transformed young person should have: a superhero for a companion.AnotherFairportfan wrote:I thi k Digit got all the awareness-of-others that an ordinary teen should have, plus what Atsali was supposed to get.
Shoulderdog!
I'd sing it to the tune of the "Underdog" theme, but I'm really tired this evening and I can't seem to work out any decent cringe-inducing parody lyrics.
(To make matters even worse, an earworm stopped by with a deluxe order of "Let's Get Digit-al" and I haven't managed to find my bottle of brain bleach to get rid of it.)
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Maybe Monica could introduce Digit as her.....NEICE?!
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Shoulder Dietzel is so adorable! All of Digit's friends will want one.
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Hey, things do happen 'outside' the comic....AnotherFairportfan wrote:But Digit has it right that Monica barely keeps it together herself sometimes {And, BTW, where's Jet?}, and doesn't need to be taking care of a teen who's just learning to be human...oldmanmickey wrote:M is not gonna throw out little D's best freind.
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I think this proves further that she was fully intelligent before this transformation as well, though perhaps she has additional faculties now. We'll have to see if the playful foolishness she and Dietzel used to get up to still comes through, or if she's "grown up" too much for that now.
I also notice that she's been hiding her other eyes rather well since she started speaking English. I wonder how well the coloration on those.. hair legs?.. blends in with her hair. I was worried before about her learning to pass among humans, but I think she my already have the skill to do so.
I also notice that she's been hiding her other eyes rather well since she started speaking English. I wonder how well the coloration on those.. hair legs?.. blends in with her hair. I was worried before about her learning to pass among humans, but I think she my already have the skill to do so.
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Poor Cricket. She's got serious guilt issues, even when things aren't her fault.
I wonder if this is going to result in Dietzel being turned human...?
I wonder if this is going to result in Dietzel being turned human...?
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Well, she's been a spider on the wall for quite a time now, watching what's going on.lake_wrangler wrote:And quite perspicacious, too...
Out finding clothes that will fit Digit properly? At the local pet shop, buying up all the feed insects she can carry? Nefariously cackling and plotting how she's going to introduce Shelly and Amanda to the spider-person?lake_wrangler wrote:Speaking of Monica, where exactly is she, while these two are talking? As far as I can tell, they are still in Monica's house/apartment/place... Did Monica leave them alone to deal with this? Is she even still within earshot of them?
Which does raise some questions.AmriloJim wrote:On FB, Paul said Digi is 16.
In general, jumping spiders live at most a year or two. Digit was introduced back in mid-2014, which means that we know she's been in the comic's timeline for at least four or five years (it's a bit hard to pin down lengths of time in comic time). And here we have her referring to herself as a teenager, and we have word that she's in her mid-teens.
So, is she sixteen human years old? Or the equivalent of sixteen given the lifespan of her species?
In either case, we know she's at least four human years old. Which is at least twice the lifespan for a normal jumping spider. If she were a normal jumping spider, she'd be something like the equivalent of 200 years old and perhaps have great-great-grandkids (imagine a whole herd of little Digit-babies hopping about).
Is her extended lifespan a matter of her particular spider species just naturally lives for a much longer time than other spiders? Or has living in the Library done something specifically to her? Because if she's still a spider teenager at the age of 4+ human years, then it's not just a matter of living longer: it's a matter of greatly slowing down the aging and maturing processes.
If the Library slows down aging, then is that part of why Phix and Nudge are as spry and youthful-appearing as they are? And are paranormals booking spa vacations to the Library to try to keep their looks?
Slowing down a visitor's aging would make extended research less of a problem for Library patrons, I suppose. If you really wanted to devote time to the study of some complicated subject but were put off by the idea of how much of your lifetime you'd spend doing so, the Library might help with that. And if you studied for your college courses there, you could graduate with a PhD and still be as young as when you graduated from high school!
Calista Foxglove and Digit? Will Digit take the last name Alis?Gyrrakavian wrote:Sounds like the princess might get a roommate.
Perhaps young Digit bit young Atsali during one of the latter's trips to the Library?AnotherFairportfan wrote:I thi k Digit got all the awareness-of-others that an ordinary teen should have, plus what Atsali was supposed to get.
I think that those might have been her pedipalps when she was in spidery form, the little wiggly arm things on either side of a spider's mouthparts. Some spiders hunt and survive through mimicry; perhaps Digit is subconsciously (or even consciously) trying to blend in by hiding her more nonhuman attributes?Armorlord wrote:I also notice that she's been hiding her other eyes rather well since she started speaking English. I wonder how well the coloration on those.. hair legs?.. blends in with her hair. I was worried before about her learning to pass among humans, but I think she my already have the skill to do so.
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Either that, or Digit Alice Foxglove... be still, my restless heart.
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AmriloJim wrote:Either that, or Digit Alice Foxglove... be still, my restless heart.
Gives new meaning to the term "Kids with a drug problem". Parents should never give their children a name which makes them the target of ridicule and teasing by their peers.
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Um... when she dates, will she EAT her date after kissing? That could put a damper on her social life... remember, most spiders are happily cannibalistic...
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Okay, I may have lived a too-sheltered life. I don't get that reference.AmriloJim wrote:Either that, or Digit Alice Foxglove... be still, my restless heart.
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Re: Trying to be helpful 2017-03-21
Digitalis is the genus name for the foxglove family of plants.jwhouk wrote:Okay, I may have lived a too-sheltered life. I don't get that reference.AmriloJim wrote:Either that, or Digit Alice Foxglove... be still, my restless heart.
It's also the popular name of a glycoside drug (digoxin) extracted from some species in this genus. Digitalis has been used for centuries to treat a variety of heart conditions - in particular, irregular/fast heart fibrillation.
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jwhouk wrote:Okay, I may have lived a too-sheltered life. I don't get that reference.AmriloJim wrote:Either that, or Digit Alice Foxglove... be still, my restless heart.
Okay, Jar... will an EKG monitor be acceptable?Texas Heart Institute wrote:Digitalis medicines control irregular heart rhythms (called arrhythmias) by slowing the signals that start in the sinoatrial (SA) node. This, in turn, reduces the number of signals that travel through the atrioventricular (AV node). Fewer signals mean fewer arrhythmias.
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And wasn't Castela's surname Foxglove?
I know it came up as a name somewhere.
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