#The Red Tower

[am-that-dog]

The red tower.

The red tower..

[bracketsoffear]

Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood) "Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey—with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake—through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining."

In essence, it is a slow train wreck of a book where a man after experiencing the apocalypse and the rise of a new "human" race slowly and in detail describes every single thing that went wrong with society before it collapsed, including classist divisions, the unmitigated proliferation of the internet, plagues that started with wildlife and diminished food sources before attacking humans, climate change, a distinct distancing between the humanities and the sciences that characterized the humanities as useless and bothersome and overemphasized science to the point that science basically was allowed to rule the world unchecked by ethics or morals, all encompassed by the main character's particular life story as a witness to the atrocities he could've stopped if he had ever truly understood and chosen to stop them. All in all, very Extinction in a "we destroyed ourselves and life continued without us and all I did was watch and now nothing will ever be the same"."

The Red Tower (Thomas Ligotti) "Short enough of a story to just link directly!

Quick propaganda: This is a cosmic horror story about a factory that is presumably alive, definitely malevolent, and actively at war with the equally hostile natural world around it! It produces and distributes strange artifacts of a world hostile to humans, including "an ornate music box that, when opened, emitted a brief gurgling or sucking sound in emulation of a dying individual’s death rattle… [and] a pocket watch in a gold casing which opened to reveal a curious timepiece whose numerals were represented by tiny quivering insects while the circling “hands” were reptilian tongues, slender and pink."

It is a story of conflict between man's creation (now set free to run unfettered) and the natural world, and of horrible, unimaginable life struggling to be born in the awful depths of industry, with the dire conclusion that it is developing far worse and more complex creations to inflict upon the world."

[transistoradio]

Robert Delaunay (1885-1941): 1) “Champs de Mars: The Red Tower” (1911/1923), oil on canvas, 128.6 x 160.7 cm, and 2) “La Ville de Paris” (1912), oil on canvas 406 x 267 cm.

[eilraee]

Still working on my visual novel... Well, I made a huge progress editing my own writing! :D

They're my OCs: Kaza (goat), Khorek (ferret) and Shura (dog)

[darkamberdragon]

Tiaran

A Tiaran, a race from my book project The Red Tower. Drawn with ink pens, 1997.

[myshipsbesailing]

Dick, pointing to Jason's photo : This is Jason. He was our brother. He liked literature and was very good at school. People would've told you he was violent but he was the sweetest and would've never been on the wrong side.

Damian, who has seen Jason training in the League of Assasins to commit homicide and probably mass murder in Gotham : Okay

[fanaticalthings]

important family group chat discussions

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[muwitch]

[rock-in-robins]

"Tim feels abandoned" "he's being ignored" "tim is jealous of the attention they give damian" "tim is-" tim drake would break out into actual literal hives at the thought of anything resembling an adult monitoring him, he'd starting hissing like a feral cat if Bruce tried to get involved with his business, he'd saw his own arm off if his family tried to demand he checks in more than once a month with heavily coded messages

[incorrectbatfamandfriends]

Jason: I feel awful about killing you.

Tim:

Jason: Even though you technically never died, so I don’t know what you’re bitching about.

[ghost-bxrd]

Figured out the colors :))

[bracketsoffear]

Last Chance to See (Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine) "Though written in Adams' characteristically comic style, the book does not hide the true horror of the mass extinction of plants and animals being wrought by human interference and carelessness."

The Red Tower (Thomas Ligotti) "Short enough of a story to just link directly!

Quick propaganda: This is a cosmic horror story about a factory that is presumably alive, definitely malevolent, and actively at war with the equally hostile natural world around it! It produces and distributes strange artifacts of a world hostile to humans, including "an ornate music box that, when opened, emitted a brief gurgling or sucking sound in emulation of a dying individual’s death rattle… [and] a pocket watch in a gold casing which opened to reveal a curious timepiece whose numerals were represented by tiny quivering insects while the circling “hands” were reptilian tongues, slender and pink."

It is a story of conflict between man's creation (now set free to run unfettered) and the natural world, and of horrible, unimaginable life struggling to be born in the awful depths of industry, with the dire conclusion that it is developing far worse and more complex creations to inflict upon the world."

[cademygod]

i just saw a post where someone said jason would call tim a poser and now all i can think about is an exchange like this at titans tower

jason: you fucking poser you took what was everything to me

tim, delirious but still offended: i know how to skateboard ??

[sharksandjays]

Ever think about how when Tim was being attacked by Jason at Titans Tower, he saw his Robin?

[raynetheinsane]

The Titans tower attack and everything plays out the same except Jason hits his throat just slightly differently causing Tim to lose use of his vocal chords and go fully mute

Luckily, sign language was already slowly being learned in the manor due to Cass struggling to speak some days, so he already knew basic phrases

the major issue with his newfound mutism is using the comms

the comms are entirely functioning by voice, and without one, youre kinda screwed

Tim attempts to go out with no comms a couple times which makes Bruce very mad so he has to come up with another solution, he ends up installing a camera and chip into his domino so that the camera can pick up his hands and the chip can interpret them and read rhem out to the comms

one day while tim is out as Robin, he ends up confronting the red hood

tim is obviously silent, but instead of Jason noticing this, he chooses to almost tease Tim about it, not knowing the extent of the damage he caused, “what? too scared to even say anything to me now?”

its not until Jason starts to rejoin the family that he learns what happened to Tim that night

[everwalldigan]

Jason Todd I fear