#roland of gilead

[fantastictalesofadventure]

𝙂𝙤𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙨, 𝙆𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙨, 𝘽𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙨, 𝙂𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙍𝙖𝙩𝙨…

What other level 1 mobs do you throw at your players?

[moth-miles]

Im about 80% through The Waste Lands.. Roland put Oy in his shirt and I HAD TO DRAW IT!!

[starslut-whoreofthewinds]

He’s a ten, but he’s forgotten the face of his father

[tsion-art]

“Inside the ball, I was given a choice: Susan, and my life as her husband and father of the child she now carries… or the Tower. I choose the Tower. I must. Let her live a good life and long with someone else - she will, in time. As for me, I choose the Tower.” - Roland of Gilead in Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

[mycurrentobsessionis]

Being upset that an actor doesn’t look like the fictional person that you imagined in your head is hella petty. Actors are real people, and your fave character is not.

[inkspillquotes]

“Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.”

- The Dark Tower IV, Wizard and Glass; Stephen King

[ezekiels-nuthouse]

Ok, I'm starting to think someday someone would ask me the list of people who did nothing wrong imo, and although sharing it about certain real people may or may not be considered extremism, I will show you my top-10 of characters who did nothing wrong.

1. Magnus The Red. Like, obviously, duh.

2. Princess Azula

3. Amanda Young

4. Roland Of Gilead

5. Konrad Curze

6. Michael Myers(RZ)

7. Harley Quinn

8. DT Keeper

9. Owlking and Wolf Queen

10. Cirilla

Now, if you ask me to explain, I won't do it. I know those are all like, murderers, warmongers and war criminals, but ehm... they did nothing wrong. In my sick mind, all is perfectly fine and I would join most of them in their quest. Get to The Dark Tower by any means? Sure. Slay the Eagle in the name of the night? Great. Slaughter some teens and a bald century-old wanker for the greater good and the strongest nation? Aye-aye! Just have fun? Ripper! Put some heretics to a death trap? I'm in. Vengeance? Vengeance! What, I'm a psychopath? No, I'm just a rich British Aussie. Not like there's too much of a difference.

[ladydenkiart]

[khazadspoon]

LOVE OH LOVE OH CARELESS LOVE??????? YOU SEE WHAT LOVE HAS DONE TO ME?????

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086 - Khef - The Way Station (The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Part 2)

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[jjjjabberwocky]

Roland and Aileen post fall of Gilead

[sharoscylla]

ALRIGHT GUNSLINGERS (derogatory) IT'S TIME TO WALK TO THE DARK TOWER AT THE CENTER OF ALL WORLDS!!

By my reckoning Roland's first steps toward the Tower are taken when he walks out of Gilead as a gunslinger towards Hambry in Mejis, whereupon he is given his task. Now, for reasons I will elaborate on in a later post, it is my firm belief that Castle Gilead, seat of the barony and center of New Canaan, is located in present-day Las Vegas. I have the boys making brief stops in Primm, Searchlight, Nipton, Phoenix, El Paso, and Austin (well, thereabouts) on the way,

Now, I actually had a few options in mind for Hambry: Texas City, Corpus Christi and Galveston. I ended up going with Texas City for the Galveston Vibes without it being on an island - this does not factor into the difference in mileage between Good Boy Mode and Bitch Boy Mode, but if you want to walk along yourself and choose Corpus Christi, the mileage for the leg there and the leg back will be slightly shorter.

So: Gilead to Hambry, by this rough reckoning, is 1585 miles on foot by Google Maps' accounting. 22 straight days on foot, assuming all you do is hike. Probably about the same amount of time by horse.

Since we do not have horses, we will be doing this on foot.

Pictured here: my month-old Palladium boots lol. These bad boys are supposed to last a long time, and I wear them almost every day, so theoretically they will be getting me AT LEAST to Jericho Hill!! We'll see. They did bruise my shins something fierce when I first started wearing them but they're very comfortable now.

I'll do updates every day as part of @yeehawgust this year, so hopefully by the end of August I'll be in Mejis... we'll see though!!

[alstanfordart]

As a Mirror Reflects Me

Wonder what he's saying to her?

Also Roland of Gilead seen in the hour glass and more little Dark tower references

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In the first book of this series, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues The Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.

[manicpixiebeastieboy]

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

[emz26]

Il pensiero anteriore, la bustina del tè e la vecchia bastarda.

Dentro di me si generano tre istanti di pensiero:

il 1° è quello istantaneo, quello che si crea sentendo un suono, un profumo o un immagine, è fulmineo e infantile, è quello che si stupisce e che a volte mi fa sparare delle puttanate indicibili, lo chiamo “il mio pensiero anteriore”, proprio perché arriva prima del pensiero razionale,

il 2° è quello che esamina tutto quello che c’è intorno alla figura scatenate, quello che analizza tutte le interconnessioni tra il soggetto e l’ambiente circostante, quanto gli altri si accorgano dell’accadimento e se io sia l’unico a vedere, provo anche ad immaginare quanto l’evento influenzi le altre persone e quanto di questo gli altri si portino dentro, lo chiamo “la bustina del tè”, perché esattamente come una bustina che viene gettata dentro l’acqua calda , il soggetto interessante lo vedo espandersi e avvolgere con un’essenza profumata tutto quello che lo circonda, ed io come una molecola d’acqua mi lascio conquistare.

Il 3° momento è quello che disarma tutta la bellezza, dissacra tutto quello che gli passa davanti, è feroce e si nutre di distruzione, lo chiamo...o meglio la chiamo “la vecchia bastarda”.

Sono seduto in un dehors di un ristorante, uno spazio aperto molto ampio situato in cima ad una montagna praticamente immerso in un bosco, il muretto alla mia destra mi separa da una ampia via di pietra scura, via che porta ad una marmorea cattedrale, zero macchine, la strada più vicina è ad un chilometro, qui si arriva solamente a piedi o con una seggiovia, l’altezza e l’ombra delle piante mi regalano un po' di refrigerio in questo torrido luglio, il colore dell’ambiente è tendente al giallo ed un buon profumo di fiori freschi si spande nell’aria, nel bosco si sentono frinire dolcemente le cicale e una leggera brezza mi smuove la barba, l’occhio mi cade su un gruppetto di minuscoli animaletti raggruppati sul muretto, sembrano formiche ma non credo che lo siano, mi incuriosiscono, ne rimango ipnotizzato, la cameriera mi porge il piattino con le fragole ricoperte dal gelato, lentamente ne porto un cucchiaio alla bocca, il sapore dolce mi riempie la bocca, sento la crema sciogliersi e fondersi con me, sento il fresco sciroppo percorrermi le vene, in un momento così non si può essere cattivi, Roland di Gilead diceva “non si può essere cattivi e rabbiosi mangiando delle dolci fragole”...concordo.

Continuando lentamente a gustare le mie fragole con il gelato gli occhi mi cadono su di un’opera d’arte vivente, un vecchio di mille anni intento a leggere un libro di mille pagine, indossa dei pantaloni marroni ed una camicia azzurrina, elegantemente sportivo, legge lentamente il suo libro ed ogni tanto si ferma a riflettere sul paragrafo appena concluso, lo vuole assorbire, ti tanto in tanto alza il viso al cielo come a voler far scivolare le nozioni appena apprese dentro di se, quasi le stesse bevendo, dopo la lettura di un passaggio più complesso si alza e muove due passi lungo la via alberata, ma appena afferratone il senso torna subito a sedersi e a riprende la lettura regalandosi un sorso di cocacola, sì, beve cocacola… meraviglioso.

Pensiero anteriore “dio che bellezza,ma, ma, ma avete visto mai un cosa simile, sono paralizzato da quello che vedo”

Bustina del tè ” ma vi rendete conto che un signore di 100 anni è ancora intento ad apprendere, avete visto con quale calma e abilità continua a nutrire se stesso? Ogni volta che una persona assimila un concetto nuovo deve poi farlo entrare in circolo e farlo allineare con tutti gli altri, immagino la cosa come miliardi di galassie sparse nell’universo ognuna rappresentante un assunto ormai consolidato, ogni volta che una nuova galassia entra dentro questo spazio tutte le altre devono cambiare inclinazione, devono mutare un po', spostarsi e forse perdere una parte di loro stesse per far si che la nuova arrivata non risulti come un corpo estraneo e che si integri dentro questo spazio, spazio che compone l’uomo, vi rendete conto di quante galassie abbia un uomo della sua età? Vi rendete conto che vuol ancora cambiare il suo universo? E gli altri, quelli fuori da me, i miei commensali si rendono conto della meraviglia che hanno di fronte?

La vecchia bastarda “sì però!”

in coro “cosa?”

La vecchia bastarda “comprerei libri più brevi, ha un piede nella fossa e potrebbe morire senza finirli”

bustina del tè “Come era? Mangiando fragole non si può essere cattivi e rabbiosi”

La vecchia bastarda “ ma acidi e realisti sì”