An actual Ander from the Anderfels.

Honestly that's the one I 100% believe. It explains the holes in the official narrative along with the seeds of the conspiracy thought. It's unglamorous.

But the key point here: from what I can tell, cyanide has been the main method of getting gold out of the ground for the last 120 years. (Yes, this process is still used today.) Before this technology came along, instead a thin coating of mercury was spread onto a copper plate, and the ore was allowed to wash over it. The gold stuck to the mercury, creating an amalgam, and then the amalgam was scraped off the plate and the mercury was boiled off (urk) to leave the gold behind.

And when processing mills shut down historically, why bother to dispose of your leftover deadly chemicals properly, when you can just bury them in your local tailings pile, which is already contaminated with mercury and arsenic? The known case of this happening in my local area was revealed through a bloom of “Prussian Blue” (ferro cyanide) on the surface of the tailings. Luckily, this is a fairly stable form of cyanide. Unluckily, geologists are crazier than archaeologists and they went ahead and dug a sample test unit right next to it, even knowing what it was, because science.

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This thing goes all the way to the top

but if you can work just fine and your disability is destroying your ability to have a life outside of work (because work takes all your energy and more)

”I’m locked in the building, help!”

- It is not Patty’s Day, it is Paddy’s Day. Patty is short for Patricia, Paddy is short for Pádraig which has been anglicised to Patrick. - It is not Gaelic, it is Irish. In Irish, the language is called Gaelige but that’s pronounced Gwayl-geh. - Literally no one in Ireland has ever eaten corned beef and cabbage - We have also never said top of the morning - If you pinch an Irish person for not wearing green on Paddy’s Day they’re likely to slap you. - Why do you dye your drinks green? - It is not “North Ireland” it is “Northern Ireland”. It is not “South Ireland” it is “The Republic of Ireland” or just “Ireland”. - No, I do not know the Dohertys of Mayo. - Please, if you must, do things for the craic and not the crack. Cocaine is not a great habit lads. - Drinks like the “Irish car bomb” and the “black & tan” are incredibly offensive (you wouldn’t drink a “9/11”)

However

Today (17 March, 2022; 14 Adar, 5782):is also Jewish Holiday of Purim (until sunset). It’s a holiday dedicated to G-d’s intervention to prevent a Jewish genocide, and is celebrated with the mocking of dictators, wearing silly costumes, and getting drunk.

The unintentional comedy of just everyone giving off the vibe that they Do Not want Batman around. Doesn't even matter if it's Bruce or Batman. Absolutely no one wants him there.

My vibe for most Batman content is Batman is like "I am the night. No one understands me." While all his Justice League friends are like "Ahah yeah that's our emo friend we love him :)". Not this movie. This movie Batman is like "I am the night. No one understands me." and everyone else is like "Ah, fucking Christ lads that creepy batsuit man is here again. Gordon did you leave the window open."

I mean it just. The palpable TENSION of NO ONE wanting Batman to be there. The physical pressure of R Pat Batman being so fucking off-putting that YOU don't want him there.

I should emphasize this is the most enjoyable part of the movie.

Absolute fucking wet meow meow of a man. It's not even in that "argh i am a crestfallen god, lamenting my fate!" superhero way I MEAN he's pathetic.

I mean you're both waiting at the bus stop outside a 7-11 and this dude is getting pelted with rain for fifteen minutes even though he could be standing under the bus shelter and the bus finally shows up and he takes out his bus pass to get on and the bus pass blows away in the breeze and he stands there in the rain for a few more seconds before turning around and going back inside the 7-11 without a word I mean THAT kind of pathetic.

I should also emphasize I don't think any of this was intentional. I think the writer just WROTE Batman like this going "he's cool and misunderstood, like me" while Writer Man is unaware that he himself is the pathetic bus pass man.

It's raining in every scene. Every single scene just torrential downpour unceasing deluge of rain all the time all the time. This is the real reason Gotham is under water at the end.

R Pat is damp the whole time. R Pat smells moldy.

Fuck I said I'd talk about the movie.

Also the unintentional hilarity of the heterosexual(?) romance(?) plot between Batman and Catwoman. Catwoman was like "hi I'm every Femme Fatale trope wrapped up in a catsuit" and Batman stood there like a PS2 NPC the whole time. He went home after to write in his diary "A woman touched me today. She terrified me. I am a broken man, incapable of love. Also saw a snail today. Effer"

Fuck I said I'd talk about the movie and not R Pat.

Anyway the last 30 minutes were stupid. My theory is they wrote the whole script, realized they accidentally made the Riddler into a sick-ass awesome hero who was right and said "oh shit he was supposed to be the bad guy. uh what if he just decided to flood Gotham for no reason? Jan 6!!!!"

I'm ignoring the last 30 minutes. The plot ended with the Falcone thing. Riddler did nothing wrong and I'm shaking his hand right now.

The unintentional comedy of all the attempts at emotional scenes being just slightly weird and sticky on account of R Pat Batman OKAY OKAY BACK TO THE MOVIE

R Pat Batman has 1 (one) friend and literally everyone else in the movie hates that guy for hanging out with R Pat Batman

OKAY

THE MOVIE

All the mafia and government guys getting done in by the Riddler was great. Entertaining. Taking out the garbage.

The unintentional comedy of the police puzzling through the riddles while R Pat Batman mutters the answers in the background in a way that's probably SUPPOSED to be cool and aloof and genius but gives off the opposite vibe due to everyone else hating that Batman is there

The scene in Arkham with the Riddler repeating "Bruce Wayne" was good

The Riddler having 500 followers (impressive)

Made funnier after earlier news segments about his videos getting millions of views. Riddler's got a bot farm watching his videos.

What is???? Batman's motivation through all of this??? He does everything with SUCH reckless urgency but as far as I can tell he has like zero skin in the game he's just DOING this.

The car chase scene was silly.

Batman why did you allow like a hundred car crashes to happen chasing that guy up the road what was the POINT. To catch a clue to catch the Riddler? Why do you CARE?

Why was this movie 3 hours long

I'll probably watch anything Robert Pattinson is in, actually

I feel in my soul that if I just read the script alone, Batman would come off as an edgy anime character. Loner, no one likes him, dark past, depressed and tortured, genius, kicks people's asses.

I ABSOLUTELY think Robert Pattinson saw this and went "Oh, I'm just gonna play him as a fucking pathetic weirdo"

The end result feels like a movie which, in framing and in spirit, wanted to prop Batman up as an edgy, cool, tortured, hated loner vs a lead actor who gets into character by saying "you too" to the barista telling him to enjoy his coffee.

What happened in the middle of all this???? I don't know. Did all the writers and the director hate R Pat with a passion and just have no power to stop him from playing Batman as a Hover-Hand Wonder? Did R Pat show up to auditions 15 minutes late and soaking wet because he fell down a sewer grate on the way over and the director said "yes, actually! THIS is The Batman we need!" Did maybe no one notice what R Pat was doing until they cut the whole movie together and went "oh my god he's indistinguishable from a dog who got left outside in the rain"

And the next day she’s cheery and says that don’t worry, she knows he did the right thing, like he didn’t just strip all her power away and undermine not only her queenhood but her very personhood.

Fuck him, and fuck the narrative that says that this is good. Good that she got over it. I don’t care that “they had a conversation”. We didn’t see it. That’s a massive cop-out. After everything that happened, I can only imagine Rhys playing the victim and bringing up Amarantha and basically guilting Mor into agreeing to what he put her through.

I’m sure i saw something call Mor out on using Amarantha against Rhys, and defend his reaction (straight up lying to her and effectively telling her she was selfish for DARING to be traumatised) and I just…Can we not? 

please. please can we not.

Couple things. First is that oh right, she’s third in command, I keep forgetting she is and Amren is second. Because we never. see that in action. We just get told it’s a thing to make Rhys seem Super Feminist. Also, Rhys doesn’t tell Mor because he’s afraid she’d be upset or try to stop it??? LIKE HOW DARE HE??? MAKE THIS DECISION FOR HER??? AND AZ AS WELL???

It’s like the high lady thing? It’s just a title. it’s empty. it’s like poorly designed female armour. it’s got a lovely aesthetic, and makes everyone oooh and ahhh bc oh look how progressive warrior ladies!!! but in practice it’s useless and there only for decoration and to give the men something to congratulate themselves over/ogle. because we never actually see either of them exhibiting any real power (political or magical) 

(This is another thing I’m salty about. (like while we’re at it, anyway, why tf not?) Mor is a war veteran. Mor is apparently more powerful than Az and Cassian. Mor is apparently powerful enough to survive a building-wrecking fight with Amren. Do I have any idea of what Mor can do? No. Oh, and where was Mor’s place during the battle? That’s right, she was on the side-lines with, consequently, every other woman) 

And yeah, Rhys making that decision for her was…gross as shit. In any context. but PARTICULARLY in a narrative context where the female protagonist was a victim of abuse from a man who made all of her choices for her, stripped away her power, agency, and control, the damage that does to her, and the way that Rhys is glorified (wrongly) for being a decent human being and not doing that to her…but here he is doing it to Mor? This should have been her decision. In every regard. it is her city. Her seat of power. Her realm of authority. Her abusers. And she gets kept out of it because of Rhys belittling her, and treating her like a child.