#The Red Tower

[am-that-dog]

The red tower.

The red tower..

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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.

[seratlantisite]

Nice try Bioware, but I know the state of Southern Thedas better than you do.

First off, it matters if the Hero of Ferelden is alive or not. When the First Warden recalled all wardens, our hero knew that was a bad call and refused, finally splitting off from Weisshaupt after years of mismanagement and taking scores of wardens with them. Their presence and leadership makes all the difference, rallying southern Thedas once more against the blight. If you have only an Orlesian Warden Commander in Amaranthine they’re less inspiring, but as long as you’ve done Awakening they are a boon nonetheless. There is someone to lead the fight against the darkspawn while other focus on the Venatori.

If you 100% completed Awakenings and also Soldier’s Peak, the Ferelden wardens have never been so prepared. They’re organized, they’re outfitted and they’ve been ready for this for years. Also, if you allied with the Architect then you have scores of strange research to give you an edge.

If Merrill completed her Eluvian then she moves south once again and joins the effort. She’s managed to cleanse the blight before and she’s ready to try it again. And her knowledge of the crossroads gives the south an edge on their movement and supply lines. If Hawke’s sibling is a Warden they accompanied her.

If the Inquisitor let Briala have power in any way, the Dales become the leaders in the war against the Venatori, forming a formidable alliance with Ferelden, Orzammar and the Marches, the likes of which have never been seen. And if you completed Jaws of Hakkon then their alliances with the Avvar and Chasind are stronger than ever.

Of course, if the Inquisitor kept the Wardens around after Here Lies the Abyss then their numbers are bolstered. It may cost Wiesshaupt later, but that’s Rooks problem. And if you completed the Descent, then the Inquisitor and Warden had a much better idea of what was coming and spent ten years getting ready.

They will not be broken.

They will weather this storm.

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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."

[ghost-bxrd]

Figured out the colors :))

[lena-in-her-mind-palace]

can we talk about how Tim meets himself as gun batman who's entire philosophy is that sometimes you have to take extreme measures and the only way to stop crime is to kill. And then literally a few months later Jason shows up and the red hood operates on the exact same philosophy but in a more morally ambiguous way (re: not being a facist dictator tyrant)

[funfunkot]

Чтоо кингдом (и перцы)

[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 ??