#roland of gilead

[moth-miles]

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

[fantastictalesofadventure]

𝙂𝙤𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙨, 𝙆𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙨, 𝘽𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙨, 𝙂𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙍𝙖𝙩𝙨…

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

[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

[inkspillquotes]

“Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.”

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

[khazadspoon]

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

[obsessiveviewer]

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

In this episode, Tiny and I continue our journey to The Dark Tower with a discussion of The Gunslinger chapter 2: The Way Station.

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[butterbeerandlemoncakes]

"The rest of the story was but another version of a tale Roland of Gilead had heard many times and had, in some measure, lived through himself. It was fragmentary and incomplete, undoubtedly shot through with myth and misinformation, its linear progress distorted by the odd changes--both temporal and directional--which were now taking place in the world, and it could be summed up in a single compound sentence: Once there was a world we knew, but that world has moved on."

--The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, Stephen King

[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!!

[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.

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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

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Meg Foster as Rhea of the Cöos

[jeezypetes]

Tbqh. If I were writing for the mike Flanagan the dark tower series i would push back against the idea that the world is truly “moving on�� and try to include evidence that its just becoming unrecognizable to old-timers like roland. Because of course for someone like roland the fall of Gilead is evidence of a world in decline, but i think most adults in our world(especially those with power) share his feeling that the world around them is falling apart and becoming more chaotic. But at the same time we can recognize that Gilead’s fucked up gunslinger monarchy is maybe not the best form of government and it might actually be for the best that Gilead is no more. And of course part of rolands whole deal is that he’s not preoccupied with a fascistic desire to return the world back to the way it was before, but instead he just wants to go see the dark tower at the center of the universe and maybe figure out what its whole deal is. And of course he just finds out (spoiler alert) that he’s just like a cog in the great wheel of ka and he has to live his life over and over again to try to “fix” the universe. But i think it would be more interesting if 1) anyone who entered the Tower had the same experience as roland and 2) there is no “saving” the universe because the universe doesn’t need to be saved. It might get really bad and chaotic and we might have to fight against the forces of evil (as roland and friends often do) but in the end ka is a wheel!

Anyways as I’m sure mr flanagan knows, the real Dark Tower is the friends we made along the way

[bc-johnson]

I am once again suggesting Tom Jane as Roland of Gilead. He's already got the costume.

[inkspillquotes]

“Often the voices that sound the most like our own when they speak in our heads are those of the most terrible outsiders, the most dangerous intruders.”

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

[khazadspoon]

Me seeing that other people have read this stupid series of incomprehensible books I’ve loved since I was 17: DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT MY BELOVED ARTHURIAN LEGEND ROLAND DESCHAIN OF GILEAD AND HIS MIXED BAG FOUND/STOLEN FAMILY

[obsessiveviewer]

094 - Short Story/Novella - Nona (Skeleton Crew) & The Gingerbread Girl (Just After Sunset) - Guest: Kim C (UnderratedSKPod)

In this episode, I welcome Kim C from The Year of Underrated Stephen King back to the show for reviews of two of Stephen King’s short fiction offerings: Nona (Skeleton Crew) and The Gingerbread Girl (Just After Sunset)!

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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.

[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