Trying to figure out the spide hands for ctc. They grasp things with their pedipalps.

Spiders also have their seminal glands in their palps which is gonna be… culturally interesting for the spider race! Though really there isn’t much mating taking place in spider form, due to a bunch of taboos that boil down to: pregnancy is complicated for shapeshifters, their society isn’t built to handle batches of 300 babies at a time anymore (where all but 3 kids die), and sex in human form is… less utilitarian, more interesting.

Likely the most this means for the spider race currently is that hands are a symbol of virility to a ridiculous degree, and are an object of sexual fascination to the same degree feet are in our culture.