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making gifs from my shitty phone recording after my fourth viewing of this film. they're so crazy for this. whatever i don't even care.

#pete my man. what are you doing #the long walk

bloodysweettea

Me monitoring the The Long Walk tag to make sure there isn't Gavries fanart with whitewashed Pete and skinnified Ray

#only to find half of the tag is just barkovitch and stebbins #make of that what you will #no shade to my boys gary and billy but #the long walk

vamqira

The Long Walk, Stephen King

#the long walk

littledozerdraws

two winners 🫶

#im fine im great im excellent leave me alone #the long walk

turnipoddity

requesting perhaps a desperate gavries hug / kiss / cuddle ... they are so clingy after the walk :(

gavries hugs… ✍️ and… kisses… ✍️

#the long walk

bluedoor7dawn

#the long walk

sugarpuss-oshea-deactivated2025

Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson as Raymond “Ray” Garraty and Peter “Pete” McVries in The Long Walk (2025)

The Long Walk movie summed up:

The Major: It takes heavy sack to sign up for this. Heavy long sack. Mmmm BALLS!! TESTICLES!!!

McVries: Garraty I want you

#the long walk

ithappensoffstage

the long walk dir. francis lawrence / the beautiful and the damned by f. scott fitzgerald / letters to milena by franz kafka / wishbone by richard siken / a poem, an exercise in omitting letters by thomas penny / the mama and papa dance by anne sexton / quote by richard siken / repeat until death by novo amor / poem by langston hughes

#the long walk

fulcrums501st

every time I walk I think of them

#the long walk

veewith2es

'the long walk would never happen today-'

the long walk is happening every day. i graduated high school in 2014. four boys i graduated with enlisted in the military. two of them died before their 21st birthday while in active duty. one of them was injured in an ied explosion and honorably discharged in 2018. he took his own life a year later leaving behind his wife and newborn daughter. the fourth served until 2021 when the last of the us troops where pulled from afghanistan. he had pretty intense ptsd and had devolved into alcoholism to cope. two years ago, he was driving under the influence and crashed his car into a transformer. he died en route to the hospital. none of them made it to thirty.

i come from a small town in alabama. there are approximately two mental health facilities not including the ward at the hospital. there are five separate military recruitment centers. every now and then we get a boy lucky enough to make it to college football but most of the boys in this town become cops, mechanics, drug dealers, part time workers or they enlist in the military.

king wrote the long walk as an allegory for vietnam and the way it affected the young men and culture of the time. well, i didn't grow up during vietnam. i grew up during the wars in iraq and afghanistan. that is the lens through which i view this story and as someone who attended the funerals of all four of those boys i can assure you the long walk is happening every day.

#!#the long walk