#Cuthbert Allgood

[kaphkas]

The Dark Tower but if they had access to social media the entire time

[glueboy-19]

finished gunslinger and into the drawing of the three im sick

i'm so excited to see eddie and jake again

[sewnwithfate]

When you start to hyperfixate on something with a really small fan base and little to no new content, leaving you with that sort of restless kinetic energy feeling until you find something new that gives you the same dopamine rush<<<<

[jjjjabberwocky]

i am stretched on your grave, and will lie there forever

[ka-tet]

Roland Deschain is bisexual

Saddle up.

Let’s start with Susan Delgado. She is canonically Roland's first love and girlfriend. And you can argue that Roland is straight because he liked a woman…but then I present you: Cuthbert Allgood, Roland's best friend.

But hey! You say, Cuthbert is only a friend. There are no hints in canon of anything romantic between them, or an attraction from Roland's part.

And then I'd tell you: you're wrong.

So, let's talk about Roland's loves.

Is no coincidence Eddie and Susannah end up in Roland’s ka-tet, since we all know ka is a wheel. We even get a canon confirmation that Eddie is Cuthbert’s twinner. It’s also no coincidence that Susannah chose to have that name, so close to Roland’s first love, Susan.

What I’m trying to say is these characters are supposed to mean something to Roland, so they are the people he loved the most: Cuthbert and Susan. These two meant the world to him and both their deaths dramatically changed Roland, once as a child and then as a adult.

In The Drawing of the Three, this happens:

When Roland thinks about loving, he names three people:

1. Allie. The woman Roland slept with in the first book, that got killed by the Man in Black.

2. "The girl in the window" that we later find out is Susan, Roland's very first love.

3. …and then Cuthbert. Roland's best friend since childhood.

So he names two love interests and then Cuthbert.

You could argue this was an idea of love in general…but if it was, shouldn't Roland name someone else like Alain or his mother? I think his mother should be more important than Allie, a woman he spent some time with before she died.

So that leads me to believe the people he listed here are all his romantic loves he had in his life.

And if you have any doubt that Susan and Cuthbert are equally important in Roland's mind, might I point out an interesting fact: Susan and Cuthbert get at least mentioned once (sometimes more) in every book, even in Wind though the Keyhole and The Little Sisters of Elyria.

I believe his friendship with Cuthbert ran a little deeper. Roland and Cuthbert were friends, but it is obvious his death affected him as much as Susan's. Sometimes their interactions feel romantic in nature. This is difficult to prove, since The Dark Tower is about platonic and family love, and the characters can be very expressive, devoted and even affectionate. Nevertheless, I wouldn't ignore:

- Roland reaching out for Cuthbert's hand.

- Cuthbert kissing Roland after they confronted each other.

- The whole Cuthbert being jealous and disapproving of Roland and Susan's relationship.

- The comics.

Aside from that, there are also some interesting moments about Roland and sexuality:

- When Callahan reveals he was in love with a man, Roland is the least surprised and scandalized of the entire Ka-tet. And he belongs in a Western/Arthurian mash-up universe.

- Also you can't forget to mention that the man Callahan falls in love with is named Lupe Delgado. Delgado. Like Susan Delgado, Roland's first love. If this isn't a hint to bisexual Roland, I don't know what is.

- When Roland meets King, for a reason that I don't remember, Roland asks Stepehn King if he likes men (yes, in a gay way).

In conclusion, not only Roland is not faced by same-sex attraction, there are possible hints and subtext about him being attracted to both men and women.

[moth-miles]

JUST READ WHERE CUTHBERT KISSED ROLANDS CHEEK I NEED TO DRAW THIS IMMEDIATELY WHAT THE HELL . ALSO WALTER BACK AGAIN FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME HES SO SKRUNKLY LITTLE SHIT. GOD

[louisetaylor]

Obligatory Eddie Dean thirst post

Eddie Dean has adhd, he swears all the time, he has a brooklyn accent like the boys in newsies, he has shaggy black hair in a ponytail, he has wild fierce grinning gunslinger eyes, he shoots bad guys, HE LIKES THE HURT WHEN SUSANNAH PULLS HIS HAIR that one time in "The Wastelands", he canonically isn't okay unless he has someone to take care of, he has a narrow lean foxy face (which is literally my type but hardly ever gets written as "attractive"), he never shuts up, he's quite possibly the literal reincarnation of Cuthbert (who is also attractive as hell), he wants a dad and would have been such a good dad himself

[grownups-are-the-real-monsters]

[Cuthbert suddenly laughs uproariously]  Roland: What's so funny now? Cuthbert: Sometimes I just think funny things.

[sharoscylla]

I am sending the original ka-tet to New York City instead of making them deal with the fall of gilead! They have suffered enough! I think they should get to be friends with the NINJA TURTLES

Some notes:

I haven’t decided if Susan lived/came with. On the one hand Susan dying is a key aspect of Roland’s (and Bert’s and Alain’s) fucked up backstory. On the other hand I feel like Susan would be fucking hilarious around April and Casey. Actually Fuckin…. Aileen Ritter and Alain’s sister Claire should also get to come, 1 because Tommy needs his lesbian girlfriends 2 the Susan/Aileen/Claire/April/Sunita/Casey Girls Night would leave no survivors

I feel like Bert and Alain would adapt the easiest to this situation, then Jamie and Tommy, and then trailing a distant last place is Roland… however Tommy would like immediately adapt to technology and hidden city mystic stuff it’s just that he can’t order anything at McDonald’s bc it’s too much pressure

I’ve covered this before in a tdt/tma fic but the only reason anybody can understand spoken or written English is because of Roland’s presence extending Protagonist Plot Comprehension to his party so I’m considering whether a post-Mejis Roland who did NOT receive his quest for the tower (if Susan is alive) also has Main Character Powers and if not gosh I do love “a bunch of people having to live together in close quarters and don’t understand one another until someone makes a breakthrough”

I think objectively the funniest time for them to get drawn out of castle gilead and into New York is literally the first episode but anytime Leo fucks up a portal would be good too tbh

Congratulations splinter you have fucking tripled the number of horrible goblin children you’re responsible for

Every gunslinger autistic as hell… and so is every turtle….

[ka-19]

dark tower posting

[m-o-o-n-thatspellsblog]

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

[passing-through-tull]

my The Dark Tower fancast* that nobody asked for

*Disclaimer: I'm not going for actual castable people here. It's more about an approximation of what those characters are like in my head. We're talking baselines here. I chose pictures of the stage in those actors lives/careers that come close enough to my vision. I'm not only considering looks, but also their craft and if I think there is the right spark there somewhere in their work. (Also minor details like eye color and changeable things like haircuts don't matter much to me and my imagination.)

anyway:

of course we're starting with the man, the myth, old long tall and ugly:

Justin Theroux as Roland Deschain of Gilead, bitch. (give him some salt in that pepper hair, blue eyes, steal his moisturizer for a month and sandblast him: bam. Roland.)

Ka-Tet of 19

Naomi Harris as Susannah Dean (and you know, Detta/Odetta)

River Phoenix as John "Jake" Chambers. Love you, Bama.

...

And what about... Eddie Dean? So far I have not come across an actor (or anybody, really) who matched what Eddie looks like in my head. Big fucking shoes to fill, he's my favorite after all...

But I'm interested in other peoples ideas about that.

bonus

Mads Mikkelsen as Father Donald Callahan

Mejis Ka-Tet

Jake Gyllenhaal as Cuthbert Allgood

Sean Astin as Alain Johns

Anya Taylor Joy as Susan Delgado

bonus

Meg Foster as Rhea of the Cöos

[glueboy-19]

rereading the dark tower is crazy there was so much said in the first book about the original ka tet that i never really realised until now what do u mean

[sewnwithfate]

Okay so listen, I know all things serve the beam and ka is a wheel and all that…

but did cuthbert really have to die???

[jjjjabberwocky]

your son looks like a girl

[sharoscylla]

(via theweirdwideweb, andrewgouwen-blog)