/r/AfterTheRevolution
A fan forum dedicated to the novel After the Revolution, written by Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards, Worst Year Ever, The Women's War, and It Could Happen Here.
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I’m a polyamorous, gender queer, anarchistic, whore, and I’m living on the road with my dog.
I am exactly one bagger288 away from becoming a denizen of rolling fuck.
Now pass me that white haze. Safety’s off!
I can't find it but it's like
Older lesbian lighting a cigarette outside the bar: when i was in college you were in middle school isn't that crazy
Me, so drunk I can barely stand: can yuo put that out on me
Obviously they're guys and I'm not sure how to choose which part fits which character better because both seem to fit but it's still a very close match.
I posted a drawing of a Rolling Fuck Infantry rider a while back here.
This summer i got the opportunity to paint a mural for a mural festival. I've never painted a mural before. The business owner whose buildijg i was painting on gave me a two word prompt "industrial Evolution" which i was kind of annoyed with at first tbh. But one of the pitches I worked up was very ATR inspired.
I looked at a bunch of maoist realism stuff and just kind of reworked it with groovy robots. In my head this is something thatvwould be all weathered at the Red John ranch/commune or somewhere up inside Rolling Fuck. The way Cracked (i forget who weote that one) talked about how the late 90s batman movies were good if they were movies in the background of the first two... A tongue in check expression of an android-infused bunch of radicals and survivalist. I can see it as a thing that was taken too seriously as it was made or as a joke that flew over everyone's heads. I thought about the CPWDCS episodes about surrealism and fascists a lot. Jim makes it easy to imagine lots of charismatic, creative kinda-shady characters. Some of them surely are artists.
I wanted it to read as either "look at these cool robots!" And also "where are all the human beings?"
Having robots drive tractors and write things in notebooks just kind of made me giggle and makes no sense.
I know the static tattoos aren't described as full body in the book. But black out tattoos are pretty prevalent even now, so I don't feel like it's too much of a stretch. In my first drawing I had the static tattoos full body, I carried that idea over here. Either like how in AI Haley Joel Osmend hangs with them static dudes at the end or some other space between fully robot and human.
Anyways. I painted this mural this summer and was thinking about ATR a lot at the time and I'm really looking forward to the second book.
Mia was talking today on ICHH abput creating culture. I Don't necessarily think THIS is what they meant. But I am trying to figure this out in real time too.
I just moved to montana from Seattle. I grew up in Montana but had lived in Seattle my whole adult life. I am out here trying to start traditional cou try western bands that play old miner/protest songs as honkey tonk two stepping dance numbers and zines and shit.
I Don't know what to do. But I wanted to share this with you.
Anyone have any recommendations for other books and series that are similar to After The Revolution?
Also has Robert talked at all about a second book?
I did some AtR fan art during breaks from work this week. The proportions are still a little off (drawing machinery is usually not my thing), but wanted to share anyway
I hope it's ok to share other books here. This one was very good.
American War” follows Sarat Chestnut and her family as they try to find safety in a late 21st century America. Sarat, born in the remnants of Louisiana, is six when the Second American War breaks out. The war is fought over the prohibition of oil, with many southern states seceding to form The Free Southern State.
It's very complex and well thought out I think anyway. It ties in climate change, oil, drones, refugee camps. I have a lot of thoughts on it but I'm not sure how to express them all.
So I just finished listening to the first book (like 5 minutes ago). The real villain in this whole thing is Jim, right? So what does that mean for Sasha in book 2? I was gripped by this book and could not stop listening. Robert's narration was fantastic!
Hiya, it's been a minute. My life kind of got turned upside down last summer and I'm still working on putting everything back together tbh. I just wanted to let y'all know that I found a couple of orders from last year I somehow missed sending and they're sent now. I'm not sure how I missed 'em but if one of those was you, I'm so sorry about that. You'll have it soon!
Also, I still have a list of people who want patches and I do plan to get back to it, I'm just not sure when that will be. Things are still pretty unsettled in my world and I don't want to commit to something I can't follow through on immediately. I'll make a post here to let everyone know when I'm ready to get back to it and I'll get back to messaging the people on my list in order like I was before at that time.
On a side note, I saw a while back on twitter that Robert has finished the ATR2 draft and that's quite possibly the best news this year!
Any artists able to draw me a design? Willing to pay.
What do y’all think? Are we getting the sequel this year? It would be a much needed respite from this fucked up year/election season. Also, I’m about ready to do a 4th (maybe 5th?) re-listen, but don’t want to do it too far out from the next one. What say you?
This may have already been asked but was Roland named after the Warren Zevon song?
Can someone please make this into a manga meets Heavy Metal style anime???? I would watch it… then re watch it and keep watching it on repeat until the FDA came to stop me in my apartment size compound in Canada.
Found this bagger 288 lookin piece of equipment on a mining world in the Darth Vader comics
The original plan Jim recruited Roland for was sabotaging several dozen power armor carriers, but it almost never comes up after the initial explanation and the Kingdom never uses them. This might be because that plan was a fake intended to lead Roland into a situation like a big battle where his system can be pumped full of drugs.
This might seem a little obvious, but I think the SDF was organized in part by the AmFed. We know that the SDF was organized by the Canadian government to lump all of North Texas' palatable militant groups into a single package that could be conveniently armed. This sounds a lot like some CIA style buggery.
We also know that the martyrs got some hardcore hardware what seemed pretty quickly. Drones, powered armor, and spec ops guys from the Christian States.
I think the book was a proxy war between the AmFed and Christian States, a chance for the two bigger politis in North America to give each other a black eye but not ramp it up to a hot war. I hope in the sequel we get more of the picture in NA and what things are like between its powers.
Mr. Dane tells Sasha that his son was 19 when the Revolution began, which I think could be a reference to the verse "God help me, I was only nineteen" that I remember seeing somewhere else in the book. I also noticed that his son was named Mike, which is interesting since there are three different Mikes in the book, so there might be some connections there. Dane also states that the persuasive nature of Red John and others like him caused the destruction of the Revolution. Since Jim also talks about being pushed towards accelerationism by meeting an unknown, persuasive person, this similarity suggests that Red John made Jim who he is today.