Talk:Digiclan

Well, that's wild and random. I commented on a discussion page a year ago (or something) and it gets moved to a real page. Ok.

Digi and LLRT merged earlier than 98. If there was a remerging, it's because they splintered again. They merged in 95, I think. I nomored in 96 and was there through the merge, so...

Currently I'm trying to get in contact with other Digi's who've disappeared, but as has been mentioned, the Digi pages are basically dead. I'll bookmark the site and check back, so if Anna, Kim, Phouchg, or Tom sees this, leave a message and I'll figure out how to contact you.

On a less "happy-fun" note, I'd like to ask the person who wrote the bit about Tarpy if they knew her, or if they're taking the notation about her death off of the digiclan page linked from the bottom of the page here. If you're being deliberately vague, that's cool, but it reads weird to me. - Aurora 17:54, 21 September 2006 (MST)

Hi Aurora- Sorry about the inaccuracy about the merger - I joined LLRT in 1998, so I don't remember an earlier merger, and also other pages that had info about it only mentioned the 1998 one. If you want to just correct the history on the main page, that would be good, since I obviously don't remember much about 1995.

Tarpy was one or two years before my time. I wrote some of the stuff about her on this page. I was deliberately vague since the page for her seems to be dead, and the digi-page also only mentioned the dates. I was concerned that maybe people didn't want to talk too much about the details anymore.

Did you know her? Current students seem to think that she was very attached to "James Brown Is Dead," but I don't remember hearing that back in the day.

--Sammka 09:07, 24 September 2006 (MST)

I think that LLRT and Digi basically merged in 95 or 96. The group overlapped so much that I don't know that there was anything official. I could probably dig through my old memory books and list out the people who were there at the same time as me.

I knew Tarpy pretty well, yeah. We were in THEO.LAN.96.1 together, and she lived in my suite. The picture that used to be up here is gone, but it had the 5 girls from Theo in it, and she was one of them. This December is going to be the 10th anniversary of her death. I don't think it'd be hard for me, personally, to talk about it, but the other people who were close to her might feel differently. I don't remember her being any more attached to JBiD than any other Cannon Song, but it may be the case that she fought to have it on the original CD or something, and I wasn't part of that.

I think it comes down to how serious RealCTY wants to be about things like this. The wiki seems very lighthearted and about the traditions that kept us happy or gave us temporary grief. I don't see a lot about the repurcussions of real life on intelligent teenagers. I can tell you how she died. I can tell you how her friends found out, and how it affected us. I can tell you about how many of us traveled to DC to be at her memorial service, and how her school brought in a grief counselor for us while we were there. I can tell you how Digi changed after that. I can tell you how we grew apart, which would have happened anyway. But the theme of these pages seems to be more of a celebration of the brief years you'll have being CTY kids, and I don't know if that would be appropriate.

Alternatively, it may be very appropriate. Kids grow up, become young adults, and deal with the real world. Most of the CTY folks will go to college, and it might be important to illustrate how different that is from CTY. CTY is a good demo of college life, but to carry the metaphor forward, you're going to find more depth of experience in the real deal. And after college, you get to live as an adult, and everything changes again. That's where I am now, and it could be helpful and theraputic if there was a forum for that. Like, an "after CTY" support groups. ;)

Either way, I've ranted a bit. I could reminisce if there's call for it, but I won't right now.

-Aurora 08:16, 26 September 2006 (MST)

I can verify that DIGI was 94 (Lancaster, session 2) -- my last session. I don't know where that other page got '93 from.

I feel very weird that the page says only about Tarpy that she "died"...but I would also feel weird editing it. I didn't know her well enough to feel comfortable writing the entry, either, though I did know her in person and I remember the painful cracks she left in us and the community. The current entry does justice neither to her life nor her death. -Andromeda, 22 December 2006