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pixxystycks · 1 year
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quick drawing of roland and his ka-tet
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moth-miles · 28 days
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You are KA-TET; One made from many.
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m-rc2525 · 1 year
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He’s a ten, but he’s forgotten the face of his father
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alethianightsong · 5 months
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Stephen King's The Dark Tower did the multiverse trope before it was cool
I was 16-17 when the live-action adaptation was announced and decided to read the Dark Tower series since I wasn't about to watch the movie. A week and a half later, I've ran through the main series like a drug addict through a mile-long line of coke and I'm reading the prequels and standalone material like "Wind Through the Keyhole" to get more content. Lemme explain:
The World of Roland Deschain is part-western, part-metafiction, part-scifi, part-post apocalypse, and part-fantasy. To mix all these genres together, Stephen King simply layered them on top of each other. To summarize: thousands of years before the start of our main story, a highly advanced human civilization waged war on every level (nuclear, chemical, biological, etc) and wiped themselves out, leaving robots, AI, mutated creatures, and broken-down tech behind them. Later, a collection of kingdoms known as "Baronies" arise and here is when Roland Deschain, our hero, is born. The kingdoms combine elements of medieval fantasy and the Western genres. There's wizards and magic, but also horses and guns. Instead of sword and sorcery, it's gun and sorcery, with Roland's gun being forged from King Arthur's own sword so gunslingers are basically medieval knights with codes of honor and customs.
Before book 1 begins, Roland's world as he knew it is ended and he must find the Dark Tower to prevent all of the multiverse from collapsing. Turns out that before the super-advanced society collapsed into global war, they figured out how to make portals to other universes and that the Dark Tower is the hub of all known reality. The Tower stands on six "beams" of metaphysical material but the people of the old world replaced them with their own material in a bid to warp reality for their own gain. Before they could, their world fell and the Beams have spent millennia slowly rotting since they're now made from real material. Due to this rot, the reality Roland inhabits has basically been on its deathbed for a long time. Time and the cardinal directions are eldritch and wonky, the poisons and radiation released during the war of the ancients still taint the soil and mutate the animals into monstrosities, and deserts dominate the landscape. What robots that survived their creators' destruction are all sociopathic and insane from the isolation. There are tears in reality that let in creatures or can take you to other realities and what humans remain are scavengers and eke out poor livings. The series has something for everyone so even if you aren't invested in the plot, you'd still be impressed at how cowboys, robots, mutants, magic, and demons can exist in technically the same universe.
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sixleggedboar · 2 years
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Haven’t touched these books in years but I believe it is time for me to consume them again.
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nik-nikolayvich · 5 months
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I know that its too early for Christmas/ New year vibe, but i could not draw that!
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IM STARTING TO DRAW AGAIN! YAY!!! 🎉
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I need to work on Oy..
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The fan favorite genre of “hardened grizzly adventure father adopts child who turns into an absolute weapon” should really allow Roland of Gilead and Jake Chambers into their ranks
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jjjjabberwocky · 1 year
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collab with @spook7er
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Ah yes, the ka-tet: A gun freak, the boy who died but lived, a New York heroine addict, a woman who is actually women and a talking racoon-dog.
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rizzisues · 1 year
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The Waste Lands timeline
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playlist(s) for any of the ka-tet members (this includes the og ka-tet if you want to pick one of them instead)?
yesss thanks for this ask!! i freaking love the dark tower so much so i kinda went a little overboard with this list lmao
og ka-tet
Roland Deschain:
Age- Jim Croce
Pretty Maids All in a Row- Eagles
Run for the Roses- Dan Fogelberg
Rock Me On the Water- Jackson Browne
Cuthbert Allgood:
For Everyman- Jackson Browne
Laugh- The Monkees
Summer, Highland Falls- Billy Joel
My Rifle, My Pony and Me- Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson
Jamie DeCurry:
Beautiful Loser- Bob Seger
Take It to the Limit- Eagles
I Want to Live- John Denver
Ripple- The Grateful Dead
Alain Johns:
You Don't Know How It Feels- Tom Petty
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes- Jimmy Buffett
Mexico- James Taylor
Another Saturday Night- Sam Cooke
ka-tet of 19
Susannah Dean:
Box of Rain- The Grateful Dead
Comes a Time- Neil Young
End of the Line- The Traveling Wilburys
Poems, Prayers and Promises- John Denver
Eddie Dean:
Wild West Hero- ELO
American Storm- Bob Seger
The Needle and the Damage Done- Neil Young
Son of Man- Phil Collins
Jake Chambers:
A Child in These Hills- Jackson Browne
Mad World- Tears for Fears
Sounds of Silence- Simon & Garfunkel
You'll Be In My Heart- Phil Collins
Father Callahan
Lord Is It Mine- Supertramp
Tuesday's Dead- Cat Stevens
Show Me the Way- Styx
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters- Elton John
BONUS
Walter O'Dim
Everybody Loves Me- Don McLean
Dire Wolf- The Grateful Dead
The Gambler- Kenny Rogers
The Loner- Neil Young
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moth-miles · 2 months
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go then. there are other worlds than these.
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tothetoonandback · 2 years
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HAPPY BDAY GUNSLINGER GUNSLAYER
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earlyplastic · 2 months
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jazzplusplus · 1 year
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1963 - Roland Kirk Quartet + Wynton Kelly Trio with Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb - Village Vanguard - New York
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