Eddie takes Roland to a Texas Roadhouse. Roland says he thinks it’s cultural appropriation.
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"You haven't finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. You're afraid of finding you can't finish. You're afraid to go down to where the stones stand, but not because you're afraid of what may come once you enter the circle. You're afraid of what may not come. You're not afraid of the great world, Eddie, but of the small one inside yourself."
- 'The Waste Lands' by Stephen King
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some frames from the dark tower tv show that lives in my brain
[ the gunslinger, page 5 ]
[ the drawing of the three, page 202 ]
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You know how sometimes you see those characters that just insert themselves into your soul or brain or whatever and never let go? Those characters who are so integral to your enjoyment of something you just get excited and wound up whenever you see content about them? The ones you call your blorbo, your child, love of your life, all those things.
I love those characters.
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Stephen King Fans Help!!
ka-tet19 has been selling officially licensed Stephen King apparel since 2016. They have really cool designs & high quality stuff. They've been struggling making sales lately and are at risk of shutting down. They have a ton of dark tower merch & lots of other Stephen King merch, so if you're interested in Constant Reader apparel please please please support them!!!
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i ❤️ my indie bookshop
(ignore the cat hair it's her blankie)
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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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I know that its too early for Christmas/ New year vibe, but i could not draw that!
IM STARTING TO DRAW AGAIN! YAY!!! 🎉
I need to work on Oy..
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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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