#Dark Tower spoilers

[mydetheturk]

Go then. There are other worlds than these.

I first read these sentences at about sixteen or seventeen. I'm thirty now. I finished the Gunslinger the first time and set it down, returned it to the library (the school one, I think) and ruminated on the book for another year, deciding to give it a go sometime in my senior year of high school.

The second time I attempted the tower, I knew what I was getting into, but it still didn't quite hit. A third attempt another year later and I hit the ground running, grabbing as many of the books as I could from the used bookstore just off my college campus and when I stopped being able to find them, borrowing the library's copies to finish the series in the span of a week.

This specific fucking line tho.

I was so scared when the movie came out that I was going to have to watch this fucking scene happen. Again. And then it fucking DIDNT

Because Ka is a fucking wheel and Roland Deschain finally managed to break that part of the cycle and we didn't get any more.

Other worlds than these. Fucking hell.

[piedude]

I don't think enough people know that the Irish Catholic priest from Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot (1979) canonically went on to become a gay vampire hunter during the AIDS crisis in the 80s, and was unintentionally walking between different universes for a while.

[muwitch]

[lavenderfairiez]

I just finished ToA last night and here are some things I don't see nearly enough people talking about, specifically about the end of ToA so if you haven't read it this is your spoiler warning!!!

• Apollo not feeling right in his godly form and uncomfortable around the other olympians (not including Artemis)

• LEO CALLING JO "MOM" 🥺 (and Emmie and Jo in general) BUT HE HAS TWO MOMS NOW I LITERALLY STARTED CRYING ABOUT THIS LAST NIGHT

• Apollo visiting Percy and Annabeth in New Rome!!!

• AND they talk about Jason!!!!!! Annabeth cried herself to sleep

• honestly Apollo's whole battle with Python that shit was so cool

• obligatory fuck Calypso

• REYNA CALLING LEO "HERMANO" 🥹

• Meg standing up to Nero in his throne room!!! I LOVE HER SO MUCH

• Rick's infallible ability to put EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. CHARACTER. in a relationship 💀 PEACHES HAS A LOVE INTEREST NOW???????? LET CHARACTERS BE SINGLEEEEE

• HAZEL'S CURSE IS GONE AND SHE CAN JUST LIKE USE HER JEWELS NOW!!! and Frank wants an engraved diamond necklace that says "H+F Forever" I love him so much...

• while we're on the topic of Frank!! WHY DOES NO ONE EVER TALK ABOUT HIS SACRIFICE AT THE END OF THE TYRANTS TOMB??? Like I knew that he would be fine but I still started like tearing up

• THE ARROW OF DODONA!!!

• how completely unaffected Zeus is by Jason's death??? Fuck you Zeus.

• Apollo's new kids at camp!!!

[flightyalrighty]

MARIA CALLED HIM "ABE" WHICH MEANS THE COMMANDER HAS HIS ARCHIE NAME, ARCHIE SONIC WIN BAYBEEEEEE

[head---ache]

something i was thinking about

[sparkles-rule-4eva]

Well OW

I appreciate Commander Tower expressing support and understanding for Shadow. I know this has been established for a while that he's much better than he was as a kid, but still. Nice to see in 2024. 🥺

And the way both he and Rouge speak of him and Maria. 😭

[galacticghoste]

Spoilers

Can I PLEASE TALK ABOUT THIS GUY?!

Ok so my knowledge of him is limited I just know he's the commander and that he hates Shadow and blames him for what happened to Maria and his family.

I think his name is Abraham Tower that's what I could find on him anyways.

(Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong I just wanna share my thoughts)

OK so the scene started with him running away in anger though let's remember anger is usually a secondary emotion meaning he could be reacting out of fear or frustration.

Best bet he confronted shadow about what he really is since he did call shadow a freak before running off and once he maybe got confirmation on it , it may have given him more of a reason to hate him and idk maybe he said something to shadow before running off idk

Since we do see shadow staring at the larva either the boy said something to him or maybe he's communicating with it I know he can do that. (I think XD)

Also personally think he's also jealous of Shadow and all the attention Maria give him since Maria is constantly reassureing him that he's good and not heartless

LOOK AT THAT FACE !!!/\/\/\

Yeah remember how he ran off???

Well lookie here seems he must have stop in his tracks once he realized Maria is still with shadow

I feel like he's feeling left out since I know he dose see maria as a big sister and they probably knew each other much longer then Shadow

He may even feel like he's being replaced by him which could explain why he dosent like him

But once Shadow was around Maria may have unintentionally left him out seeing that he dosent constantly need her the way Shadow might for emotional support.

Which could lead to why he could be jealous of Shadow

When Maria says the line that Shadow really does care about her and then Abe looks away when she says everyone

Maybe Shadow dosent like him either

I wonder if he would say things to shadow to get under his skin maybe he wants a reaction from shadow to show maria he's the monster he think he is

i bet he dose, who knows maybe he told shadow how come he hasn't cured Maria yet if that's what he's ment to do I can see a jealous lil bro saying something like that

Lil kids can be brutal

Honestly I really hope we get more backstory on him im curious to see more about him

[egg-emperor]

GAHHHHGHDFHDJKHGJDH HE LOOKS SO GOOD 💜

[wikihowhowtoexist]

ok so what if i keel over and die

[hishighnesstheprincess]

The audacity to call Shadow a freak while looking like THAT boy you stay away from HIM

[shadow-von-vamp]

i took the homophobia out of his eyes he is saved 🙏

[whisper-and-tangle]

WHAT IF I FUCKINGG EXPLODEDDD WHAT THENNN

[vgtrackbracket]

Video Game Track Bracket Round 2

Temporal Tower from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky

vs.

I WON'T LET YOU GO HOME from In Stars and Time

No propaganda was submitted for either track.

If you want your propaganda reblogged and added to future polls, please tag it as propaganda or otherwise indicate this!

[kermitthesog]

All the series combined, (pjo, hoo, toa) I think Trials of Apollo might be my favorite. I’ve said Heroes of Olympus for a while, but after finishing toa, I was actually really sad in a way that I wasn’t with the other series. This is my reasoning: *TOA SPOILERS AHEAD*

Lester/Apollo’s narration and character development was top notch. In The Hidden Oracle, at first I thought the book series was gonna be full of arrogance and whining. Oh, how it was the complete opposite. He went through stuff that no other god will ever go through. Pain, and grief. The empty feeling of not being yourself anymore. And he finally realized how the gods are, how clueless they have been about mortals and demigods. Everything that happened in toa was just building up to the perfect Apollo, the Apollo that’s not in fact perfect.

The characters. Like, these characters are so good? First of all, they are so fleshed out. Meg McCaffrey, who saw her own father dead and got mentally abused by the emperor who killed him. “The Beast,” was just himself, but Meg was too scared of him to stand up for herself. And like, how is an arrow kind of making me empathize with it? The arrow of Dodona was supposedly the worst piece of wood in the forest, and so Lester needed to prove the others wrong, and I think he did. Especially in that final battle against Python.

The amount of different stories and adventures. Obviously you would have sooo many adventures, because you need to get a different oracle in each one! In every single one, we’re introduced to a new character and new goal. It doesn’t really start in the first one, as it’s just introducing the main characters. In the second one, it’s Emmie, Jo, Calypso, and Leo. In the third one, it’s Piper, Jason, and Grover. In the fourth one, it’s Lavinia, Reyna, Hazel, and Frank (a lot of characters from SoN). In the last one, it’s just a lot of chb campers. Will, Nico, the Troglodytes, and more. See what I mean? There are so many different stories in just one series.

And lastly, how powerful it is. The fact that it could make me cry is impressive, because I don’t cry at much (book and movie wise). Jason’s death, Lester’s misery, Meg’s abuse, and so much more. It’s just so sad but powerful at the same time. If you prefer a different series, (PJO, HOO, TOA) then tell me why!

[iwantabatlleaxe]

Going insane thinking about Gortash missing Durge only to see them again and realize that they are a different person, trying to resist the urge.

Or better yet

Durge fighting the urge all the way to when they meet Gortash. Him being the only sense of home their body physically remembers, and upon realizing Gortash accepts, no, embraces, all of them, urge included, they let it go, and just are themselfs once again.

No matter what their moral compass says, what their companions say, nothing matters because of they finally found that one piece of home, the only one.