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Riddler:

Bruce Wayne:

I would like to talk about the sequence in which Bruce watches Riddler’s video about the Wayne family history.

Bruce is someone who has a rose-colored view of his parents. It’s easy to romanticize a dead loved one, especially if they passed before you could grow to be critical of them.

Not only is he hearing awful things about mom and dad, he’s hearing things that completely shatter his reason for living. He’s hearing that his father, a man who prioritized human life above all else, had someone killed. (We find out later that this isn’t 100% the case but for Bruce in this moment it’s true.)

There’s a really brilliant edit after the Riddler exposes that Martha was in and out of mental hospitals: It cuts to Bruce, wide-eyed, shaking, devastated. This man who is clearly struggling with mental illness himself just saw that his family has a serious history of it. He is horrified.

Right after this scene he goes to talk to Falcone. He looks like shit. He is incredibly vulnerable. Falcone treats him like a 10 year old and Bruce just takes it.

Me and the other ex-evangelicals watching this r/n

@apathetic-hand-me-down submitted: Small moth(?) I found in South Arkansas, USA. Thought she was dead at first but she started moving as soon I picked her up. I gave her a drink before letting her go outside.

From @heather.elainek #catsofinstagram

Giant devil’s flower mantis, Idolomantis diabolica, Empusidae.

This species is common in the pet trade, but found in the wild only in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Somalia, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Uganda. All individuals above are wild except the sub-adult in the last photo.

no way no fucking way....

I don’t really know what you consider scary! I would browse the wasp tag. There are lots of pics of very cute wasps and submissions from people having nice encounters with them.

I’d also watch this BBC video! It pretty short but discusses why wasps are integral to our ecosystems and shares lots of fun facts. It’s not negative like most wasp content you find online.