Or your boss.
“If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.”
Me and my brothers got to help our mom clean houses during the summer way back in grade school, so learned how to clean very well. Lazy coworkers hate it.
That”s true, SeanR. When I was fourteen I could run up to a cattle gate and vault it with one hand while carrying a gallon of milk in a mayonnaise jar, and I thought I was a weakling.
Just saying that they use different muscles, so while she may not have the strength to push off the ground, she may have the strength to lift herself up (specially if she has the hollow bird-bones)
Mostly the pose/body-language, i think – a tad more adult-confident; surviving the street fair (or whatever horrible ordeal Nadette forced her to enjoy) has leveled her up, even if she hasn’t noticed yet.
She’s sure matured a lot emotionally, go back to February and she still seems more like a 5-6 year old. Now she seems more like a 10 year old and I notice she’s stopped stuttering.
The mayonnaise would be the killer. Fat isn’t good for plants. That’s why you shouldn’t give your Venus flytrap hamburger. Clogs the system. But Castela has said she’s part plant and part animal. Also, she’s magic, so that excuses a lot.
Plants aren’t usually supposed to eat chickens either…
Hm. What if little Pickle had literally eaten a ton of chicken? An average hen is around five pounds, for a round number, so that means she’d have to chase down and consume about 400 birds. Good think Paul didn’t have to draw that. *grin*
My granddaughter is ten and she’just finishedfifth grade. The drawing availabel on eBay {last i looked} says “Castela age ten”, and definitely puts me in mind of Maggie.
Something is odd with Castella’s age. Several times I’ve noticed her age apparently shifting with her moods. I get the impression she’s significantly older than she seems, but some trauma has caused her to regress out of self-defense. Her magical nature allows her apparent physical age to regress along with her mental state. I’m guessing that this growth spurt is an indication of her “healing” enough to relax the regression and take a step back toward her true age.
If she was what the shadow government was developing in the sequence with toddler Atsali recently and she was just about … ripe … at that point, she’s only chronologically a couple of years younger than Atsali.
Paul said she has ancient wisdom (she’s tens of thousands of years old) but her mental age is the same as her apparent age after being manifest as a child. So she sometimes comes up with wisdom beyond her (apparent) years but couldn’t explain it later.
NEVER tell your parents you’ve go nothing to do…
Or your boss.
“If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.”
Me and my brothers got to help our mom clean houses during the summer way back in grade school, so learned how to clean very well. Lazy coworkers hate it.
Or the Chief (as in CPO)
@Fairportfan
I believe it’s ^only^ the Navy that refers to its enlisted personel ranked above E·3 as ^Petty^ Officers 🙄
Pickle is so adorable
There is (for however much longer) a “Castela age ten” up for sale in the eBay page.
Everything but her eyes and cheeks is 100% human, and we’ve seen her do those, so it’s a choice to do it that way.
I thought Atsali was strong as an ox. Why couldn’t she do pushups?
She might be able to do pull-ups all day. Sheer strength doesn’t necessarily mean you can do some exercises easily.
Maybe she’s not as strong in her pure-human form as she is in other forms.
Maybe she seriously underestimates her own capabilities.
Some teenagers do that. Some adults, too.
That”s true, SeanR. When I was fourteen I could run up to a cattle gate and vault it with one hand while carrying a gallon of milk in a mayonnaise jar, and I thought I was a weakling.
I kicked over 200l drums, rolled them some 30m in the sand and stand them up with my hands only and people were looking funny.
Pushups uses different muscles than doing pullups
We don’t know that she can do pull-ups; i just mentioned them more-or-less as another exercise she might be able to do…
Just saying that they use different muscles, so while she may not have the strength to push off the ground, she may have the strength to lift herself up (specially if she has the hollow bird-bones)
Living here outside Orlando, I’m afraid to go out for a bite. I wish Atsali could come with me.
interesting. let’s see if this trips moderation
Do we have a new rendering of Atsali? She’s looking like Heather.
Mostly the pose/body-language, i think – a tad more adult-confident; surviving the street fair (or whatever horrible ordeal Nadette forced her to enjoy) has leveled her up, even if she hasn’t noticed yet.
She’s sure matured a lot emotionally, go back to February and she still seems more like a 5-6 year old. Now she seems more like a 10 year old and I notice she’s stopped stuttering.
Oh, crap. Nevermind. I got turned around and confused the names. (I’d kill for an edit feature right now)
Thought she was Monica at first
Well, she certainly LOOKS a lot like Monica in th first panel.
All you have to do to grow six inches taller in one night is be a plant creature; it’s that simple. XD
…and all you need to do to add about five cup sizes overnight is be half-siren…
Dang, I want Atsali’s shirt. Though maybe not in a v-neck.
If it were more obviously burnt orange, I’d say “Hook ’em!”
In black, I think I’d rather have the “shocker” version…
I wonder if it those “bursts of energy” that made the blackthorn so interesting to the shadow agency as weapon…
It’s her extreme power. Being of the fae evidently makes her godlike in this world. Indeed, the fae are godlike, and they can’t hurt her.
Our little girl is growing like a weed!
She’ll be into Atsalli’s old clothes soon.
Not 100% sure she isn’t already – pretty sure those can’t be her exiating shorts, given the growth.
I don’t think Castela is supposed to be nearly as big as Atsali. The perspective, to me, looks like Atsali is standing a ways behind her.
Is it… Safe for a plant to be eating chicken salad?
The mayonnaise would be the killer. Fat isn’t good for plants. That’s why you shouldn’t give your Venus flytrap hamburger. Clogs the system. But Castela has said she’s part plant and part animal. Also, she’s magic, so that excuses a lot.
Oh, wait. It didn’t say chicken salad. It said chicken.
Plants aren’t usually supposed to eat chickens either…
Hm. What if little Pickle had literally eaten a ton of chicken? An average hen is around five pounds, for a round number, so that means she’d have to chase down and consume about 400 birds. Good think Paul didn’t have to draw that. *grin*
There’s a spelling error in Atsali’s last speech. Wit should be with.
Judging by the shape of her hips in panel-1, I’d say that Castela looks like someone who should be (approximately) in 5th grade.
Well, yeah, i’d say so.
My granddaughter is ten and she’just finishedfifth grade. The drawing availabel on eBay {last i looked} says “Castela age ten”, and definitely puts me in mind of Maggie.
Taking into account that she’s a living tumbleweed crotcheted into the shape of a girl, I think she looks however she wishes to look.
“Our little girl is becoming a woman…”
Paul said on Facebook Castela is 8 in the strip. Castela at 10 is a future drawing.
Holy shit! Shot up like the literal weed. Good choice on the chicken and spinach, nummy and healthy.
“Did Mom put up a Christmas tree?”
Is Castela green?
And, aw – I’m going to miss our widdle Pickles!
Well, she is a plant-based critterling, so it’s possible in her ‘normal’ humanoid state she is green(ish)
Something is odd with Castella’s age. Several times I’ve noticed her age apparently shifting with her moods. I get the impression she’s significantly older than she seems, but some trauma has caused her to regress out of self-defense. Her magical nature allows her apparent physical age to regress along with her mental state. I’m guessing that this growth spurt is an indication of her “healing” enough to relax the regression and take a step back toward her true age.
If she was what the shadow government was developing in the sequence with toddler Atsali recently and she was just about … ripe … at that point, she’s only chronologically a couple of years younger than Atsali.
Paul said she has ancient wisdom (she’s tens of thousands of years old) but her mental age is the same as her apparent age after being manifest as a child. So she sometimes comes up with wisdom beyond her (apparent) years but couldn’t explain it later.
D’awww; Our lil’ cactus cutie is growin’ up… *sniff*
It looks like somebody has been watering her!
Must be all that fertilizer Sali has been dumping on her 😛
Dang, she’s getting smart.
Castela’s legs are no longer tree-trunk shaped, below the knees 😏