Wait, I'm supposed to have a title?

Medical diagnoses - this is nobody's business but yours. You don't owe anyone an explanation for why you are the way that you are

Trauma - same reason as above

Triggers - people can use these against you! Don't give people tools to hurt you. No one has to know what tags you block. Just block tags to stay safe!

Age - age is okay for adults to include but is iffy when you're a teen. Predators want this information, don't give people more than they need. Just state that you're a minor, that's all that anyone needs to know.

In general: stay safe. If you're not comfortable with every stranger out there having access to this information, you shouldn't post it on the internet.

The golden rule of information sharing on the internet is: What would happen if someone saw this who wanted to hurt me?

Sitting down at the table, I remembered the scars on my arm. The universal signifier of "This Kid Needs Help." Maybe his kindness was only out of pity. He saw those and assumed there was some great misery and wanted to offer me some relief. It's generally good to be kind to people who are hurting. But I wasn't hurting that bad.

The thing is, there is some great misery. People generally aren't doing that great. There is a great misery within me and within him and within everyone, and some people notice the pain, some people express it, others don't. But we all suffer from something.

It doesn't matter if someone seems to deserve some relief. Everyone needs it. Everyone is suffering constantly. Some more than others, but still. This Kid Needs Help applies to everyone.

Thirty minutes later, I went to get a second pastry, intending to pay and leave a tip this time. It was the same cashier. As he reached to grab it for me, I saw scars on his arm.

Riddler: ...what's this?

Batman: *heavy sigh* I'm hiring you for a job

Riddler: I beg your finest pardon?

Baterang itemized list:

Bat shaped ᑲ᥆᥆mᥱrᥲᥒg

𝑩𝒂𝒕 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐝 ʙᴏᴏᴍᴇʀᴀɴɢ

Bat shaped boomerang

𝔹𝕒𝕥 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚍 𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰

𝐵𝑎𝑡 𝓈𝒽𝒶𝓅𝑒𝒹 ც૦૦ɱ૯ՐคՈ૭

Bat shaped boomerang

Bat ՏᎻ𝕒𝕡𝕖𝕕 ႦიიოჹჁმႶყ

ꍗꍏ꓄ Sᕼᗩᕵᘿᕲ ᗷOOᗰᗴᖇᗩᑎᘜ

Bat shaped boomerang

𝖡𝖺𝗍 ｓｈａｐｅｄ 𝖇𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌

֮֮ϐׁɑׁׅtׁׅ ꩇׁׅ֪݊ ᨵׁׅׅ֮ϐׁꪱׁׁׁׅׅׅᥣׁׅ֪ꫀׁׅܻ݊ ܻ⨍ᨵׁׅׅꭈׁׅׅ꯱ᨵׁׅׅꩇׁׅ֪݊ ꫀׁׅܻ݊tׁׁׅׅhׁׁׅׅ֮֮ꪱׁׁׁׅׅׅ݊ꪀᧁׁ

ᗷᗩᖶ ᔑᕼඞᕈᙓᙃ ֮ϐׁᨵׁׅׅᨵׁׅׅꩇׁׅ֪݊ ꫀׁׅܻ݊ꭈׁׅɑׁׅ݊ꪀᧁׁ

ᏰᎯᎿ ｓｈａｐｅｄ ɮօօʍɛʀǟռɢ

BAT SHAPED BOOMERANG

֮bAt ShApEd bOoMerAnG

𝔹𝕒𝕥 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓮𝓭 ßððmêråñg

𝓑𝓪𝓽 აႹმႼჹძ 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐

Bat ઽҺคƿ૯ძ 𝖻𝗈𝗈𝗆𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗇𝗀

𝔅𝔞𝔱 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘥 ɮօօʍɛʀǟռɢ

𝔅𝔞𝔱 sʜᴀᴘᴇᴅ 𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰

ɮǟȶ sʜᴀᴘᴇᴅ ᏴϴϴᎷᎬᎡᎪΝᏀ

ᵦₐₜ ʂԋαρҽԃ ᗷOOᗰᗴᖇᗩᑎᘜ

𝔹𝕒𝕥 ׅ꯱hׁׅ֮ɑׁׅ℘ꫀׁׅܻ݊ժׁׅ݊ ꍗꂦꂦꂵꍟꋪꍏꂚꁅ

𝘽𝙖𝙩 ｓｈａｐｅｄ 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔

֮ϐׁɑׁׅtׁׅ ˢʰᵃᵖᵉᵈ ᗷᓍᓍᘻᘿᖇᗩᘉᘜ

𝙱𝚊𝚝 აႹმႼჹძ ᗷᓍᓍᘻᘿᖇᗩᘉᘜ

𝕭𝖆𝖙 აႹმႼჹძ ᙖOOᙏᙓᖇඞᙁᘜ

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Thank you!!!! And yes, I feel like you’ve got the gist of it. Cereal is something Dick has occasionally, but he’s not obsessed with it lmao? I think people can forget that Dick is a really, really busy guy. He would spend all day working a full time job, and then spend the night patrolling as Nightwing, all while also juggling going back to Gotham as needed, working with the Titans, being available for the Outsiders, Birds of Prey, etc. depending on the time period...

Sometimes, Dick was short on time/exhausted and he needed a quick meal. Cereal’s easy. That’s really all there is to it. He’s never said anywhere that I know of that he’s particularly fond of cereal...but it has been said that his favorite breakfast food is buckwheat pancakes. Case closed ;) 

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Plus, like you’ve said, Dick would need to have a balanced diet to remain in the near superhuman shape he’s in. Dick’s been training since he was a kid...he’d know the importance of taking care of himself. And he’s been shown to be pretty capable in the kitchen. 

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As Dick says here, he likes to eat. He’s an adventurous guy...he seems to enjoy having new, exciting foods. In the circus, he probably traveled all over the place tasting all kinds of cuisine. I feel like people are kind of sleeping on that. 

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I hope it’s okay to add onto it but I think that Dick really loves cereal, despite being an excellent cook and all.

Though he has great taste, cereal for him seems to be like dessert, and also something to snack on when there’s no time to prep for meals. Amplifying this is that he’s always eating it when he’s working, not on the regular with the family, which kinda shows it’s a treat to him and comfort food (in these next panels). Him talking about his eating habits with cereal in the recent panel is kinda like referring to it as his guilty pleasure, or something like that.

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Which again suggests to me that cereal is easy and convenient for Dick when he’s tired, but not quite his first choice. And here’s a bonus cereal instance lol, where Dick has been awake for 36 hours straight and so once again grabs some cereal to tide him over because he doesn’t want to waste time or energy on a full meal: 

Nightwing 80 Page Giant 

Because cereal’s uncomplicated and easy in that Dick is able to have a quick bowl while he works. 

Dick’s a guy who is pretty often on the move, so he just doesn’t allot much time to basic necessities like eating and sleeping. Enter the occasional bowl of cereal (a pretty standard staple in most households) to keep him going. And the fact, like you mention, that Dick only really eats cereal when he’s working and busy, and doesn’t ever go out of his way to have cereal any other time just solely for enjoyment...it makes the whole cereal thing seem to me like a symptom of how exhausted/busy Dick is. Not really a matter of Dick’s tastes/preferences. 

“The family name ‘Murasame’ was given to me by my master. The given name ‘Tatsumasa’ is a combination of ‘dragon’ (tatsu), the [zodiac] year when I was born, and one character from my master’s name,” says Murasame."

My nine-year-old neighbor: *crashes mom’s car into my yard*

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

So it’s very likely they diverged from other Sleeper Shark lineages during one of the Pleistocene ice ages, when thickening polar ice would have trapped certain populations in perpetual icy darkness for thousands of years. These are the descendants of the survivors of that.

Their flesh is toxic for numerous biomechanical reasons that directly relate to their ability to not only survive but thrive in waters that would literally freeze you or I solid.

Urea and Trimethylamine-N-Oxide

The Greenland shark accomplishes this using first concentrated Urea, which is a natural antifreeze and depresses the freezing point of the shark’s fluids; and TMAO, which stabilizes proteins against denaturation, both from the concentrated Urea and the crushing pressure of the deep.

Additionally, the Greenland Shark has 3 distinct Hemoglobin complexes in its blood, 2 of which are apparently specifically adapted to be unaffected by the high antifreeze concentrations. More research is needed here.

{anecdotally; once pulled from the water by fishermen, the shark allegedly persists thrashing and fighting for far longer than any other fish, and there are stories of the flesh itself continuing to twitch and move long after its apparent death, as the creature is butchered}

Their longevity is partially enabled by a highly derived genome: it is comprised largely of transposable elements, also known as “jumping genes,” which normally cause organisms to be more prone to Cancers, but, are also capable of self-replication; and amongst these, we have already identified over 80 discrete gene sequences dedicated specifically to DNA repair.

They’re viviparous, and the female reproductive systems are quite complex, including a system of villi to deliver oxygen to the developing pups. The variability in gestation time remains subject of ongoing study: how is this accomplished? What triggers it? Many questions; fewer answers.