Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@Lady @aescling like the reader obviously knows the rumors arent correct bc we know who batman is, therefore the rumors are just supposed to be signaling the perception of batman as an unknown figure / force of nature

Except their phrasing did a bad job at that

@Lady @aescling yeah a ‘some say x, some say y’ type phrasing would have made a clearer signal of ‘mysterious but frightening’

@Lady @aescling generally in my experience when theres a lot of rumors about something some of those rumors will contradict eachother

@platypus what was in it?

@Lady @aescling yeah that does seem to be what's happening here

@glitternoodle @bgcarlisle @ghost_bird I feel like we've made a lot of progress towards understanding Dune ecology here today, round of applause everyone

@Lady @aescling ah yes the US's declaration of independence and the UN's declaration of human rights, two famously marxist documents

@aescling wait are they quoting the constitution and calling it marxism

@bgcarlisle @ghost_bird that sure would be a sight

@ghost_bird @bgcarlisle i’m trying to figure out the logistics of eating sand plankton

Like whales, they just take all the solid stuff out of the water. But sand is also a solid stuff so you’d need a much more refined sorting method. Maybe they’re different densities??????