#art baker

[alysmond]

You are lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry, Clementine... THE LONG WALK (2025) dir. Francis Lawrence

[ohgoodnessidunno]

[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.

[turnipoddity]

cost of winning

[fionapplespiano]

Harkness: My Ankle is fucked :(

Barkovitch: I DIDN’T KILL RANK

Collie: I miss home, I hate this shithole state

Stebbins: *dying of pneumonia*

Art: I wanna go home

Hank: *Disassociating*

Ray and Pete:

Credit to @anthonysperkins for the gif

[a-drewid]

“Why were they wearing converse” “why didn’t they bring extra shoes” “why didn’t they come more prepared” have we considered the possibility that those beat up chucks were the only shoes they had? Why do you think they were there, for fun? What was Ray’s rant about if not the inherent prison of being poor in America?

You’ll get further on a shitty pair of converse than you would barefoot. Those boys were hoping that that extra distance would be enough to save them.

[guardianspirits13]

these are my emotional support walkers, your honor

[jam-campasta]

Obligatory Scott Pilgrim scene redraw for a band au