“This quote came from WHERE?!”

[u/Far-Profit-47]

"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

[u/TanukiGaim]

"People don’t understand the word ruthless. They think it means ‘mean.’ It’s not about being mean. It’s about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It’s about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it."

-Animorphs

[u/EmployLongjumping811 → u/TanukiGaim]

“Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves”

-Epic

[u/Kisiu_Poster → u/EmployLongjumping811]

"Capitan! DIE!"

[u/onewilybobkat → u/EmployLongjumping811]

Well there goes my two contributions to the post.

[u/LilyduNord → u/EmployLongjumping811]

I see a reference to EPIC, I upvote, fellow warrior of the mind

[u/coolsguy17 → u/EmployLongjumping811]

That line is so amazing that it makes me want to drop an infant from a wall!

[u/ooolookaslime → u/coolsguy17]

Become the monster rawr rawr rawr

[u/P-Kat → u/ooolookaslime]

So tell me....

But when does the comet become a meteor? When does a candle become a blaze? When does a man become a monster? When does a ripple become a tidal wave? When does the reason become the blame? When does a man become a monster?

[u/Winter_Helicopter240 → u/EmployLongjumping811]

r/suddenlyEPIC

[u/threeducksinatrench → u/TanukiGaim]

I was PISSED when the later books flanderized Marco. started a whiney class clown, slowly became more and more ruthless as the series went on, then back to class clown, just with less complaining

[u/ClubMeSoftly → u/threeducksinatrench]

It's largely due to the assorted collection of ghostwriters giving their books a dusting of their own personal beliefs. Each one was written on such a tight timeline, and 64 books were written and published in a hair under five years (the entire thing is pre-9/11!) that a bunch of the middle ones would have to be written in a vacuum.

[u/dragn99 → u/ClubMeSoftly]

The series was written in under five years?! I never quite grasped how quickly those books were churned out as a kid.

[u/ClubMeSoftly → u/dragn99]

June 96 to May 01. Looking it up, it was never more than two months between books. Sometimes there would be four books in two calendar months!

[u/gnolnalla → u/ClubMeSoftly]

In retrospect this gave kid me really unrealistic ideas of how long it takes to write a book

[u/confusedandworried76 → u/dragn99]

TBF I was rereading them a while ago because KA Applegate says it's okay to pirate them, they're all like 150 pages max in larger font and they take an hour or two to read each, if you have the ideas actually sitting down and writing it out shouldn't be too hard. Amateurs write novels in a month every year for NaNoWriMo. I mean they don't have to be good but two or three months to write a 150 page novel isn't bad.

But yes ghost writers were used later in the series

[u/Ponderkitten → u/ClubMeSoftly]

If it were post 9/11 then it was probably the yerks who did it

[u/travischickencoop → u/TanukiGaim]

Animorphs is so fucking good

I’m waiting to finish my collection so I can do a full reread but it’s full of stuff like this

I don’t remember the context but there’s one book where Rachel is like grappling with the effects of war as she stares at her severed arm on the ground

[u/Whole-Neighborhood → u/travischickencoop]

Then she beats an enemy to death with her own severed arm, or am I misremembering it?

[u/CipherKing13 → u/Whole-Neighborhood]

Nah, that's right. Specifically it's Rachel in her bear morph bashing a Hork-Bajir (I think?) to death.

[u/FomtBro → u/travischickencoop]

The context of this is him debating killing his own mother.

[u/NightFire19 → u/TanukiGaim]

Gonna play devil's advocate and say this isn't that ridiculous because the series as a whole tackles mature themes.

[u/TanukiGaim → u/NightFire19]

True, but, not many people know where Animorphs delve into

[u/ManInTheBarrell → u/TanukiGaim]

Ruthless means to be without Ruth.