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Honestly, dude, I felt so bad for Mac in texts. Like he just wanted to have a good time with everyone and everyone was just upset with him and he couldn’t figure out how to fix it. He really just like to see his friends(all of them) happy. What a softie
NIKOLAI LANTSOV requested by @1997roses
ibi redibis, non morieris in bello. // here you will return, you will not die in war.
Not to... well, correct your incorrect quotes, but I feel like this would be more in character if the characters were switched around, like this:
Tedd: *setting up the table* There are five chairs and eight kids. What should I do?
Sylvia: Have everyone stand.
Jenny: Bring three more chairs.
Meyer: The most important ones can sit down.
Artemis: Kill three.
Jenny: *setting up the table* There are five chairs and eight kids. What should I do?
Meyer: Have everyone stand.
Sylvia: Bring three more chairs.
Artemis: The most important ones can sit down.
Tedd: Kill three.
It's also the inspiration for the title of one of my all-time favorite youtube miniseries, The Guards Themselves!
It's a fun little "the superheroes are being used by the rich to further their agendas and the anarchist supervillains have a point actually, though they're not exactly the most skilled supers ever tbh" type adventure with lots of fun memorable characters. It was basically the creator's film school senior project and I think it's pretty well done as low-budget youtube movies go.
But yeah, in this case, the guards are variously the superheroes, the private security force employed by Meyer (the primary rich guy in question), and the anarchists, and there's plenty of exploration of the guarding of the guards themselves!
Also Kyle (the main creator)'s best friend Ian actually teaches Latin--he plays Big Fist in this--and I'm pretty sure he had a hand in the title.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0u5ZHidq4X4QhFAX9FzSiYJLRen74sLF&si=cd6os_w0rL3OFYs-
(General warning for some pretty gratuitous gun violence, but not too much in the way of blood)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?
"Who will guard the guards themselves?" / "Who will watch the watchmen ?"
It was found in Juvenal's Satires but it may have been added by someone else
Nowadays, it's sually used in relation to tyrannic governments or corrupted law enforcers but it was originally about the moral behavior of wives and eunuchs.
"Who watches the Watchmen ?" is a phrase used several times in Watchmen
In Terry Pratchett's Watch series (Discworld universe), it's super important and is an acab phrase of sorts used by Commander Vimes, the cop main character to keep himself in check in a pre-acab world when these books were published
*Note : the Discworld propaganda isn't mine. I had actually cut parts of my original list of phrases before letting you make picks and this one hadn't made the cut. However, one of you had asked about this specific phrase and I elected to add it to the form
If you want to submit a new form to vote for it, go for it. Same thing if you've changed your mind about other phrases, but please try to remember which ones you have already voted for
How could he be so cruel and still so h u m a n ?
@sixofcrowsnet heist: antagonist ⟶ The Darkling
It's the 🌟strong belief I can change the bad broken boy and make him happy🌟 for me
I don’t understand what sick part of me gets turned on by hot, ultra problematic villian characters. Me? I’m going places and heaven definitely aint one of them
books read in 2020 → the grisha trilogy by leigh bardugo
“So many men had tried to make her a queen. Now she understood that she was meant for something more. The Darkling had told her he was destined to rule. He had claimed his throne, and a part of her too. He was welcome to it. For the living and the dead, she would make herself a reckoning. She would rise.”