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safe on the interstate by astralArchetype
Fandoms: The Long Walk - Richard Bachman, The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
13 Oct 2025
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the winner and a survivor of the long walk set out on a long drive.
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It's not hard to know things, especially when you've been told more than you will ever need to know by forces far out of your control. What is much harder is understanding what to do with that knowledge when you know it's not meant for you. Or at least, not this version of you.
Rose Lalonde is one of the most important characters in Homestuck canon, and she is well aware of that fact. But what about when all of a sudden, that Relevance is no longer True, and her existence does not appear to be Essential? Who do you become when you aren't quite you?
Or, whatever happened to Alpha Rose Lalonde?
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You Would Say Be Strong (But Love I Don't Think I Can) by Brainfullofstatic
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
23 Feb 2026
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“You can’t change the game, McVries. This is what has to happen.”
“I don’t want to change the game,”
The time for lofty aspirations was over; it was every man for himself,
“I just want you to try and help Ray. Take him to a hospital, try and make him better. You can use my winnings for the bill, I don’t need them; I only need him.”
Or Ray survives The Long Walk, and Pete goes through it as they both recover
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16 Feb 2026
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Last Ones Out by chai_lattes
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
09 Mar 2026
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Pete’s talking pretty now, telling Ray something about dancing and the moon. From the way he’s looking at him, they might as well be the only two people on the road. Forget the other boys, forget the cameras, forget the unblinking soldiers cradling their carbines, Garraty and McVries might as well be the last two slow dancers at the prom.
Or: Five walkers who think Pete will die for Ray, one who thinks Ray will die for Pete.
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03 Jan 2026
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A Stór Mo Chroí,
when you're far away,
From the house that you'll soon be leavingA 2 winners au, from Ginnie's point of view
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26 Dec 2025
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OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP & ORANGE JULIUS by whokilledcockrobin
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
25 Nov 2025
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"What d'you wish for, McVries?" It was said by the boy Arthur Baker, two days before he would buy his ticket hemorrhaging somewhere in the brain. Pete regarded him for a moment.
"I had a wish for a long time — years, actually, but... I've changed my wish in the last couple days." There'd been that easy, lopsided grin on McVries' face, the confidence of a man who was in on something everybody else was not: "From now on, I'm gunna wish that the Long Walk has two winners."
He was scoffed at by the boy Hank Olson, one day before he would buy his ticket with his insides spilled across the road. He pressed on.
"'Cause then, in the years to come, people can have hope that maybe their friends might just make it." Pete's easy, lopsided grin was matched by the boy Raymond Garraty, who had known what it is the boy Peter Mcvries knew that everybody else did not.
Ray would buy his ticket two nights later, crying: "I love you, Pete."
The brain, Garraty. Not man or God, it's something in the fuckin' brain. That's what Pete had said. To survive a bullet to the head would be nothing short of a hand-to-God miracle, but stranger things have happened.
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13 Dec 2025
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I'D TELL THEM PUT ME BACK IN IT by minormendings
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
06 Dec 2025
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When Pete McVries gets one cosmic do-over, a choice to redo the Walk and save Ray, he doesn’t hesitate. The muscle pain, torn-up feet, sleep deprivation, hallucinations, nausea, and finally a bullet — he’ll go through it all again to get five more days with Ray, and to make sure it’s Ray who makes it out alive.
When it turns out that this is not just a one-time do-over but a time loop, he doesn’t quite know what comes next.
Or: Can a highway in Maine, like Hill House or the Overlook Hotel, be born bad?
Series
- Part 1 of just stay alive
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09 Dec 2025