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"You Think I Think I Sound Like God" by Amy Shank is very Astrid core, especially in Hunger through Plague where everyone including Astrid was mad at Astrid, sometimes for valid reasons and sometimes not. But always focused on how they think she thinks of herself as an instrument of God's will, and for a while there, she did.

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we’re severely lacking in gone fanart so here’s some of mine from fourth grade 😭😭😭

(i’m cleaning out my old school notebooks so if i see any other gone art in them i’ll prob post it—ik i have some drake and caine fanarts from back then but idk if i’ll be able to find it 😭)

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cramps so bad i cant move so im transferring them to drake merwin

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idunno if i rlly like this but i wanted to get it done

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100% agree on quinn having a crush on sam

- but also after quinn’s crush lessens and he moves on, eventually sam thinks back on their friendship and realizes he has a crush on quinn

- also bisexual diana, caine, and quinn (and sanjit)

- i like the aroace-spec brianna hc

- biromantic lana but she’s also demiromantic

- i think sam kinda just goes w the flow on who he likes so i think he’s unlabeled (tho i dabble in the transfem lesbian post-canon sam….. i think that’s fun)

- howard and orc have some homoerotic friendship going on, i think howard is gay and like somewhat in denial ab it but is working to accept himself, orc just doesn’t really register his feelings, and they have kike this romantic tension between them that they don’t address, but sometimes they’ll like sleep in the same bed or smth

- drake is weird in thag i don’t feel like he like girls, but i cant say if he’s gay or not. i think he experiences romantic attraction very rarely, so i’d consider him aro-spec i guess. i think he confuses his love for causing harm as attraction in a way, like i think in his head he “knows” he should be attracted to girls, and causing them pain makes him happy sk i think he thinkgs that’s what attraction means even tho it does not and hes like trying to conform to heteronormativity but then also i think lowkey caine coukd be his “gay awakening”

- poly coates trio is also an interesting thought…. not so much drake and diana, but like drake and caine plus caine and diana but idk

- i think astrid would have a lot of religious feelings ab sexuality, and once she starts questioning and rejecting religion i think she’d begin to explore sexuality. i think this would happen moreso back in the regular world, i like to think that sam and astrid eventually break up in the regular world, and maybe then astrid would begin to experiment. i don’t have any specific hcs for her, but i think like sam she would just love whoever she loves

- zil is obviously gay but in deep denial

in honor of pride month, what are some of your lgbt+ related headcanons about gone characters?

this is a safe space, i dont care how much of a reach your headcanon is, just speak your truth!

ill start by saying that i hc that quinn had a crush on sam

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yall were so sweet on my last post i really appreciate the encouragement!! here are two more

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the only gone series crossover I want is with se hinton's the outsiders. so dallas can beat the shit out of drake.

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Thinking a lot on my "Lies" reread about the Sam, Astrid, and LP parallels to Caine, Diana, and Gaia. Obviously there's the madonna/whore stuff with Astrid and Diana and the evil twin schtick rounded out by Magic Babies. Sam's "family" is white picket fence perfection and a model of normalcy that is actually deeply dysfunctional because in Sam's eyes he doesn't get to do the fun part of being a dad (eye roll, but very teenager). Caine's "family" is perverse and insane because he doesn't get to do the work of being a dad, as he mournfully says in "Fear." Then to round out the parallel families we get the homonormative answer in the form of Emilio, Roger, and Justin, the most normal "family" out of the entire series, proof that The Gays can raise a normal kid. Very pre Obergefell and Woke for the time.

Of course, each "family" loses their child violently at the end of the day, whether by their own hand (LP by Astrid's hand) or by the hand of the arch villain (Gaia by first possession then by Caine's hand, and then Justin by Gaia's hand.) Poor kids! All of them are just kids! Bat shit books.

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does anyone still care about gone in this day and age probably not but im drawing all of them bc im insane about them so here's the first 2

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My roman empire is the way Astrid is treated, not only by mg but also by gone fans.

In my opinion, she is one of the more age-accurate characters, and she's not even age accurate! Her thought process and arc is perfectly clear to me now as an adult rereading the series, yes she was annoying to me back then, but the amount of unnecessary hate she received and continues to receive will never sit right with me.

She grew up with a mostly perfect life, little Pete was mostly her moms responsibility, she might've felt some stress because of him, yes, but she was always referred to as a genius, and was a pretty girl, both of which will give you an ego at 14 years old.

Then everything falls apart, and she essentially becomes LP's mom.

Astrid is a perfectly normal character, no matter how annoying she is, she is not a bad character or a bad person (by FAYZ standards).

Not to mention the fact that she had perfectly healthy sexual boundaries for a fourteen year old girl, then in the end "she agrees" to have sex with Sam, after endless pressure.

She's such a tragic character in my opinion, and even in the monster trilogy I hate her ending up living with Sam, but then again that's a completely normal response after what she's been through.

This post may have spiraled, but I'm forever an Astrid defender, she's an annoying know-it-all fourteen year old girl, that's all she is for the most part, mg being unable to write complex female characters - or complex characters in general tbh - is not her fault, and she doesn't deserve half the hate she gets.

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another gone edit :3 this time it’s diana !!

(i’m so embarrassed i accidentally posted an image instead of the edjt the first time i tried posting this 😭😭)

art: @/firegrab (aka @/lainxyz, on tumblr), @/gone.grouptherapy (ig), @/alremu-is-gone (tumblr), @/gone_memes_cs (ig), @/whitespirit (deviantart)

fayz lesbian flag by: @/eldritchx

audio credit: minervaloml (ig)

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i made a gone edit :3

(ignore the fact that u can tell what parts i did like months ago and what parts i did last night 😭)

art credits: @/gone.grouptherapy, @/wrathofthebadger.art, @/gone_memes_cs, @/ichorink_, @/cheekypenguu (all on insta besides the last one which is on tumblr)

audio credit: @/iamcrystalice (on insta)

(also i’m not good at using text in my edits so that part isn’t like the best…. i also haven’t edited in like a few months so oops)

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Late to the trend as always lol but did the ENA oc trend with these freaks

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KING OF NOTHING

Ohh boy Caine. I hate his fucking ass my lord.

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Whoa, whoa. Gone posting? What? I don't know of any of them even exist here but whatever! Letting my freak flag fly. This is an AU I've been working on (called FAYZ-pocalypse for now) and it's pretty simple. Everyone over 17 is turned into a horrible mutated monster and blah blah blah. The plot and characters are much more different and I plan to post more soon.

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caine soren from the gone series by michael grant (design by the incredible artist inkskxtch !)

ITS THAT ONE SCENE WHERE HE'S IN THE CHURCH IN BOOK 1!!!! AAAAH!!! gee i sure hope that cross above him doesnt fall or something thatd be wild asf