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Barkovitch for Dummies (Five times they took care of him and 1 time they told him what was wrong) by TheInsomniac for Tortellini
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
25 Oct 2025
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Collie Parker knew something was wrong with his boyfriend, and he also knew he couldn't tell him. So quietly, him and his friends rearranged their lives to fill in the cracks.
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24 Jul 2026
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i'll fly away (o, glory!) by paulmescalien
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
23 Dec 2025
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It rains in King’s Ditch the day Barbara Jean Barkovitch dies.
The rain does not come gently. Storm clouds bloom like thick smoke from the east before rushing forward and swallowing the sky over the town whole just to crack it back open in a thunderous storm—a downpour of biblical proportion, Baker might say. Gary doesn’t know what that means. He don’t go to church no more—ain’t gone in a long time, really, not since he was a boy. And even when he did go, Gary never sat and listened to the sermons. He never read the bible or learned the hymns. He was always restless in the pews, itching for the second he’d be able to burst through the churchhouse doors and be set free again. Gary doesn’t know heads or tails of no biblical shit, no, but he knows a real bad storm when he sees one. He’d have to be fucking blind not to. Water cascades down from awnings and rooftops to flood the streets and gutters, running off the road and soaking soil thawed from the spring. A deluge runs down from the mountain to the valley like a cleansing river, washing clean the streets of King’s Ditch.
Gary Barkovitch wishes it would cleanse him, too.
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or, the one where Gary loses his meemaw and the boys come together for him
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- Part 2 of country roads, take me home
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23 Jul 2026
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shake the frost by paulmescalien
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
03 Dec 2025
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McVries tells him about meeting Ray when he’d only just meant to be passing through Freeport. He casually asks Stebbins if he believes in soulmates while he’s elbow-deep in the ceiling, and when Stebbins freezes stock still on the ladder, he only laughs that easy laugh of his and keeps on describing their meet-cute like he wasn’t really expecting an answer anyway. It’s a sweet story. Romantic, at least in the way McVries tells it.
It’s the kind of story that twists Stebbins up in places he didn’t even realize could get knots until his smile looks like it hurts. It was love at first sight. McVries doesn’t ask if he believes in that, too, and Stebbins is grateful that he doesn’t have to stutter out an answer that he’s not entirely sure he knows.
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or the one where ray and pete buy an abandoned bar in a dying mountain town and hire a local carpenter named billy stebbins to help them restore ita small town love story nobody asked for told in four parts over four seasons
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- Part 1 of country roads, take me home
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Collie is all for helping a wounded animal. But why, out of all the social rejects, did Ray decide that Gary Barkovitch was the perfect foster pet?
Just give him a chance.
This sounds like about as good of an idea as putting out food for the stray cat that won't stop coming back around. But someone else is feeding Barkovitch the scraps, so it might be in Collie's best interest to get this blonde feral beast to stop bearing its teeth at him every time he's around.
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22 Jul 2026
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with your hand resting next to mine by Subedarling
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
24 Oct 2025
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“Barkovitch and I are fucking,” Collie blurts out to Ray nearly as soon as they slide into one of the campus cafe’s booths.
Ray blinks. “I said, ‘the barista did a great job with the coffee today’, and you just responded with that.”
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22 Jul 2026
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Roy frowned. “Are you feeling okay? You dropped hard yesterday. I wouldn’t be surprised if your system needs another day to sort itself out.”
For a brief, blissful moment, Jamie was confused. Dropped? Had Jamie taken a knock during training yesterday, gotten a concussion or something? But no – that wasn’t at all what Roy meant.
Their eyes met for a moment, and it all came crashing back.
“Oh,” Jamie choked. No, no, no.
OR: In a world where subs aren't allowed to play professional football, Jamie Tartt is hanging onto his career by a thread. When he comes to training one morning dangling dangerously on the edge of a drop, the carefully constructed lie he's been living comes crashing down. Good thing Roy (and Sam) are there to put him back together.
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21 Jul 2026
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All Caught Up Inside by chai_lattes
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
07 Nov 2025
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Who are you? She wants to ask. Why did you save my son?
She’s both grateful and terrified. When she dropped Ray off at the starting line, she never really thought he’d come back to her. And if he did, it would be as someone she didn’t recognize. A scraped out shell of her son. She didn’t think he’d come home like this, still able to laugh and talk animatedly with his hands and follow her around the kitchen as she made dinner. It’s a debt she can never repay, and she doesn’t know how to react to this boy in her home.Bookmarked by Brainfullofstatic
20 Jul 2026
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if it’s meant to be (then it will be) by nonalovesyou
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
20 Nov 2025
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“Ray, baby, wait—“
“Stop!” Ray screams, so loud his voice cracks. “God, f-fucking stop it with the ‘baby’ crap! You know, you m-m-made me — you made me think — I thought we were O-O-Orpheus and Eurydice, walking out of hell, you know?”
“Ray,” Pete says helplessly. “I don’t know what that means.”
His big, dumb cow eyes are mean with tears. “The poet,” he shoves Pete in the chest, “and the f-f-fucking corpse.”
Months after the Walk, months of recovery, and Ray brings Pete breakfast in bed. Things spiral from there.
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- Part 1 of The Wish AU
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19 Jul 2026
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Pickpocket Madeleine Eparvier poses as a handmaiden for the wealthy heiress Lady Claudia de Lioncourt, expecting to defraud her and make off with the Lioncourt fortune. She ends up with more than she bargained for.
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19 Jul 2026
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take along my love with you by chai_lattes
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025), The Long Walk - Richard Bachman
11 Dec 2025
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#47, Pete McVries, has a girl back home. It takes a while to get him to open up about it, he’s cagey about his home life, the tinfoil wrapped package of cookies in his pack, and the photograph he keeps folded into quarters and tucked into his shirt pocket. Almost everyone’s tried to get a peek at it over his shoulder at one point or another, and Olson even gets a warning for interference when he tries to snatch it from his hands.
“C’mon,” Olson whines. “Why don’t you want us to see her? She ugly or something?”
“Prettiest thing you’ve ever seen.” McVries is finally coaxed into saying. “Big brown eyes, red hair, soft all over.”
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18 Jul 2026
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To know how it ends (And still begin to sing it again) by thosepeoplefromfrance
Fandoms: The Long Walk - Richard Bachman, The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
08 Oct 2025
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Pete wins the Walk. He shoots the Major. He does everything right. He still comes back to the starting line at the end of it though.
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Pete is stuck doing the Walk over and over again. No matter how things end, he always comes back to the moment where he met Ray Garraty. The moment that matters most. The Walk is hard and unforgiving, but it's better than being alone. They make do.
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- Part 1 of It's a sad song (It's a tragedy)
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18 Jul 2026
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What's The Point Of A Second Chance, If Not? by th_esaurus
Fandoms: The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
13 Oct 2025
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Ray Garraty is never interrogated about his escape from the Walk; it simply does not happen because the opportunity never presents itself. But if it had, if it did, all he’d remember is this.
No more, no less.
Complete.
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16 Jul 2026
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[Podfic of] Forgetful by AudioofOurOwn (juliettenotjuliet)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
06 Apr 2026
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PODFIC FAN RECORDING
Original work: Forgetful
Original Author: the_earth_trembled
https://archiveofourown.org/works/72719276Original Fic Summary:
“…How do you know my address?”
Caitlyn paused, her expression slowly slipping into resignation. “Because… it’s my address too.”
“So we live together.”
“Yes.”
“As… friends?”
“Yes,” Caitlyn insisted, her arms tightening. “As friends.”
“Very good friends?”
Caitlyn huffed. “Well yes, I think most people who know us would say we’re very good friends.”
Vi leaned in, her voice low and conspiratorial. “Would historians say we’re very good friends?”
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A CaitVi Temporary Amnesia AU where Vi wakes up in the hospital and does not understand how she and Caitlyn aren't already a couple.
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16 Jul 2026
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rage against the dying of the light by eerie_enchantress
Fandoms: The Long Walk - Richard Bachman, The Long Walk (Movie 2025)
13 Sep 2025
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An old blue Ford pulls into the guarded parking lot that morning, looking like a small, tired dog after a hard run. Except that doesn’t make sense, does it? There should be no car, no worried mother, no...
There should be nothing. There was nothing, wasn’t there?
Why is there something now?
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Ray Garraty dies. It's only the beginning.
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15 Jul 2026
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The cornflowers scratch at his throat as if they had thorns. The morning glories somehow keep their delicate shape, despite being choked out.
Or, Travis gets hanahaki disease.
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09 Jul 2026
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Travis is doing possibly the most difficult thing he's ever done. Disappearing. He's doing everything within his power to escape the abuse of his father's house and never step foot in Nockfell again. This emotional time in his life is interrupted when he unexpectedly finds some familiar faces. Could they help him get through this and come out the other end as a better person? Maybe even fall in love?
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08 Jul 2026
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Travis is growing out his hair and driving Sal wild in the process.
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07 Jul 2026
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But Mary is confused. Scared. So when the two adults, a man and a woman who know far too much about her to be faking it, claim to be her son and daughter, she believes it. It doesn't matter that she swears her daughter had a lighter hair color than that. It doesn't matter that the smiles they both put on look so forced when she calls them by name.
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23 Jun 2026
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Another dog gets brought into the ER one day, and everyone actually thinks it's pretty cute how it follows Santos and Whitaker around.
...until it's revealed it's a suicide alert dog.
It seems that there are a few overdue conversations to be had.
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17 Jun 2026
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Sixty-seven days clean, and Rue Bennett’s first real test is a graduation party she only agreed to because Lexi asked and nobody says no to Lexi.
She wasn’t expecting Maddy Perez.
She wasn’t expecting a lot of things — the way a drink spilled between them could turn into thirty minutes against a wall, or the way Maddy looks when she thinks nobody’s watching, or the specific feeling of standing next to someone who’s also in the middle of rebuilding something and not quite ready to name what they’re building.
This is a story about two girls who never really knew each other learning how to know themselves first. About recovery that isn’t linear and healing that doesn’t announce itself. About the slow, inconvenient, slightly terrifying thing that happens when someone sees you — actually sees you — right when you’re figuring out who you are.
It takes a while. It’s worth it.
edit: went back and fixed some internal inconsistencies throughout (timeline/day-count stuff, mostly) — should read cleaner now. also added 2 bonus chapters at the end for anyone who wants a little more time with these two. enjoy 💛
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10 Jun 2026