#brittney donegal

[inkskxtch]

this is how that scene in book 3 went right

[dianaladrislovebot]

gone characters responding to you asking them to buy pads : a 🧵 (part two)

[willgrahamsnightmares]

stuck between being two people, what a horrible fate for drake merwin who feels nothing.

[fallout--alley--youth--zone]

Gone Characters as the Smirkes' 14

("Smirkes 14" are Entities from The Magnus Archives that serve as manifestations of human fears.)

CAINE SOREN -- The Web

The Web represents the fear of being controlled or manipulated. This fits Caine's character for obvious reasons. Throughout the series he struggles with gaining & losing control of himself, his friends, and the FAYZ at large.

SAM TEMPLE -- The Vast

The Vast represents the fear of infinity & endlessness, as well as drowning & falling. This can be representative of the constant pressure Sam faces being expected to lead the FAYZ against forces he can barely understand.

ASTRID ELLISON -- The Eye

The Eye represents the fear of being known--the fear of being watched, of having your secrets found out & brought to light. For Astrid, who spends most of the series attempting to hide her brother's nature (as well as her own) and trying to know all that she can, there is no more fitting an Entity.

DIANA LADRIS -- The Stranger

The Stranger represents the fear of the out of place, the almost known, the not quite right. Diana struggles with identity throughout the series. Even those closes to her barely know her. How could they? She barely knows herself.

DRAKE MERWIN -- The Slaughter

The Slaughter represents the fear of violence, war, & physical pain. Fitting, then, that pain is the one thing Drake fears (other than women) and the one thing he enjoys inflicting above all else.

EDILIO ESCOBAR -- The Buried

The Buried represents the fear of tight spaces & not being able to breathe. Similar to the Vast, it can manifest as an immense pressure against which there is no respite.

GAIAPHAGE -- The Dark

The Dark represents the fear of the unknown. Not just that, but also: the fear of being watched, hunted, of there being something in the dark with you. For most of the series, the Gaiaphage is this all-powerful predator the FAYZians know very little about. They only know it's there. Watching. Hungry in the dark.

QUINN GAITHER -- The Lonely

The Lonely represents the fear of being alone, isolated, and/or forgotten. To me, this is Quinn's biggest fear throughout the series: first he's afraid to be cast aside by Sam, & so later he becomes a pillar of the community to make sure he's never forgotten.

BRITTNEY DONEGAL -- The Corruption

The Corruption represents the fear of bugs, rot, and the "unclean". It often manifests as a parasitic hivemind, drawing in its victims/ followers with promises of all-consuming, unconditional love. To me, this fits Brittney very well--she is first "resurrected", then the Gaiaphage draws her in by masquerading as her little brother, and as time goes on she begins to see how it's destroying her.

LANA ARWEN LAZAR -- The Spiral

The Spiral represents the fear of madness. Lana's entire character arc revolves around her sanity--whether she can trust her own mind, where she ends & the Gaiaphage begins.

CHARLES "ORC" MERRIMAN -- The Flesh

The Flesh represents the fear of being reduced to your body, seen as nothing but flesh to be manipulated and consumed. Orc's arc revolves around dehumanization & body horror from almost the moment he steps onto the page.

ZIL SPERRY -- The Desolation

The Desolation represents the fear of destruction--not just against people (like the Slaughter), but against all you've ever known. It's also connected to fire. Given that Zil's single-minded bigotry resulted in a fire that nearly destroyed Perdido Beach, it's not that much of a stretch to connect him to this Entity.

THE COYOTES -- The Hunt

The Hunt represents the fear of being chased. Throughout the series, the coyotes are a low-level but omnipresent threat. No matter where you are, you can be sure that they're tracking you. Hunting.

PETER "LITTLE PETE" ELLISON -- The End

The End represents the fear of death. Little Pete is the creator of the FAYZ. Everything begins--and ends--with him.

Bonus:

GAIA -- The Extinction

The Extinction represents the fear of the end of humanity as well as catastrophic change. In my opinion, Gaia is a separate character from the Gaiaphage. While the latter is a mysterious, unknown threat, Gaia is more concrete. We know exactly what her goal is: to escape the FAYZ & end all human life.

[jinxiguess]

are there any hypothetical scenes in gone that you wish had happened?

One thing I really thought was going to happen was that drake and brittney were going to be separated in plague?? I can't really remember much about it but I'm pretty sure drake went to the gaiaphage so it could help him and instead it just gave him bugs and off he went.

I would have really liked to see more interactions between dahra and lana especially since I love them both so much and also more of roger since I feel like he was a bit two dimensional.

I'm not sure where these kind of scenes would have fit but I would also have liked to have seen more about the characters lives before the FAYZ

[kingofthefayz]

assigning gone mutants to entities from the magnus archives (2/2)

(some of these are probably pretty obvious. again, i wrote a little about this potential au here.)

[gone-series-orchid]

It might be cool to see Astrid and Brittney interacting, given they were both Christian and had a 'fall from grace'. Looking forward to more of your work!

here is the fic, anon! i’m so sorry it took me so long! hope you enjoy!

brittney & astrid oneshot

Emerging was like coming out of a deep, warm sleep—the kind you drifted into on stifling summer nights. Brittney felt consciousness come upon her gradually, her mind fluttering open and shut like a pair of eyes. It was pleasant, the oblivion. She hated to leave it.

But there was work to do.

Brittney first pressed her tongue to her upper teeth, feeling the wires there, tasting the dirt and gravel embedded in them. It was becoming a habit of hers. As she came back to full consciousness, it soon occurred to her that she was in a kitchen, staring at the chandelier swaying above the dinner table. The sound of labored breathing filled the air; Brittney turned towards the source with a sense of resignation and saw it was a girl with pale blonde hair lying underneath the table. Her legs looked broken, her naked back laced with fresh wounds from Drake’s whip.

“Hi, Astrid,” Brittney said sadly.

Astrid didn’t answer. She was struggling to pull herself out from under the table. Brittney walked over and offered her hand. Astrid took it without a word. Brittney helped her out from under the table and guided her to the living room. A dusty armchair became stained with blood once Astrid slumped into it. “Why are you helping me?” she asked, looking up at Brittney through eyes glazed with pain.

Brittney bided her time by tearing off strips of her own moth-eaten shirt, remembering when Edilio taught his soldiers to make tourniquets in the old days of the FAYZ. Before Tanner’s death, before her own, before she knew what God truly was. It made her sad to think about, though she knew it didn’t matter in the long run. It was all the gaiaphage’s dark plan.

“You defeated Nemesis,” Brittney answered finally.

Astrid hissed as she lay a makeshift bandage on one of her wounds. “Don’t,” she said, gritting her teeth. “Don’t do it for that reason.”

“There’s no need to be ashamed,” Brittney continued. “You did what you had to do.”

“No,” Astrid snapped. “The only thing I did right was ensure that Drake didn’t kill him first. That’s all.”

Brittney didn’t press the issue, just continued to tend to the lashes on the other girl’s back. If Astrid was insistent on making herself out to be the villain, that was okay.

“Drake’s a monster,” she said sympathetically. “He’s made you lose a lot of blood.”

“He didn’t kill me. He wanted to. When he comes back…”

“He’ll finish what he started.” Brittney regretted saying the words, but they were true.

“How can you stand it?” Astrid’s words were anguished. “Being merged with him?”

“Because I have to. It’s all in God’s plan.”

“Don’t call her God.”

Brittney shook her head. “Astrid,” she said. “You’re ignoring what’s right in front of you. You’re not seeing the bigger picture.”

“I’m seeing clearer than some people.”

“Your words can’t hurt me,” Brittney mused. “I’m already dead. Things can’t get much worse.”

“Implying you recognize how bad things are in the first place,” Astrid replied, her tone almost wry despite her injured state.

“No,” Brittney said. “Don’t put words in my mouth.”

Astrid raised her head, her hair hanging limp and dark with her own blood. “You have to see,” she said, desperate. “You have to see what she’ll do. Gaia will kill all of humanity if we don’t stop her. She’ll kill you all over again once she gets tired of you. Is that what God would do?”

Brittney shrugged. “I guess so.”

“You can’t believe that!”

“You don’t get to tell me what I believe.”

“You’re a good person, Brittney. That’s why you’re helping me.”

Sadness hung over her like a poised dagger, but Brittney mostly felt tired. Always tired. She missed sleep. She missed Tanner. Again, she felt a secret hope rise in her chest: Maybe after Drake and I complete our mission, she’ll let us rest at last. Both of us. Drake needed to be put down. So did she.

“I like you, Astrid,” Brittney said after a moment. “You were a good Christian—when that mattered.” I always saw you in church, she added silently. I was sitting in the back pews and you were in the front. You wore shoes, I forget what kind, but they made my shoes look like a little kid’s. She’d been too shy to ask what kind of shoes they were and where she’d bought them. Now, who cared about shoes? Brittney looked down at her dirt-encrusted toenails, the sallow, dirty, yellowed skin. She’d never wear shoes to church ever again, never sit with her mother and father and half-listen to the pastor’s sermon while trying to get Tanner to quit fidgeting.

Brittney’s eyes grew wet, but—undeterred—she kept carefully bandaging Astrid’s back, wrapping the ragged strips of fabric tight around her torso. She felt the other girl wince, heard her hiss. With her hands on her spine, she felt Astrid’s ribs expand beneath her pale skin as she breathed heavy, painful breaths. It made Brittney think of dogs panting in the hot sun, eyes dazed and tongues lolling—but slower. Sadder.

Finally, Brittney stood and said, “That’s the best I can do.”

Astrid gently inspected her bandaged ribs and back with her fingers. “What are you going to do now?” she asked, looking up. “Before Drake comes back, I mean.”

“I’ll do what she commands.” Brittney turned and started to walk away, anticipating the look of scorn on the other girl’s face. She didn’t want to see Astrid’s face nor her lacerated back with the blood seeping through her bandages. She wanted to go far away—where, she didn’t know. Somewhere he won’t hurt anyone, she thought.

“Wait,” Astrid called. “Brittney…before you go, I want to ask you something. About God.”

“You should save your breath.”

“What if it was your brother who was Nemesis instead of Little Pete? Would you be able to sacrifice him for Gaia? So she could kill as many people as she wanted without anyone stopping her?”

“My brother’s dead,” Brittney said flatly. “But I’d rather he died for a good cause than for no reason.”

Astrid started to cry, tears running down her cheeks. “Maybe the universe isn’t ruled by my god or yours,” she said. “Maybe there’s no internal order to the universe. Did you ever think of that? Don’t you think that might be a kinder way than saying that this death and destruction is what we’re meant for?”

Brittney paused, then frowned. “I can’t believe that,” she said softly. “God is all-powerful. Look what the gaiaphage did.” She spread her hands. “She made me alive again. If that happened for no reason…if I’m not meant to be the gaiaphage’s servant….” She thought of Drake, of all his insults and cruelty and torture. If no god had orchestrated them being linked together in this awful, sick way—if it was nothing but chaos and coincidence, all of it…. The thought made Brittney’s blood run cold. If there’s no god, she thought, there’s no one to blame.

“I know,” Astrid said suddenly, and Brittney realized she’d been thinking aloud. “I know it’s scary to believe that. I think I’m still going through it. And you’ve been dealt a…a horrible hand—”

“Why?” Brittney snapped. “Why did this happen to me?”

“I don’t know.”

“There has to be a reason!” Brittney balled her fists, pressing her fingernails hard into her palms’ bloodless flesh. She wanted it to hurt, but it didn’t. She felt her nails dig deep grooves into her skin and felt only a dull, numbing pressure. Pressure, but no pain. “Why am I alive? Why am I here?”

Astrid turned her gaze away. No answer. Brittney heard the ticking of the clock in the kitchen; it hasn’t stopped working all this time. She thought of the tall blonde girl in a Sunday dress, hands folded in her lap, sitting in a wooden pew at a church long destroyed.

“Goodbye, Astrid,” she said finally, and left with the sound of the other girl’s ragged breathing echoing in her ears.

[edilio-escobar]

Part 4/? of making Gone characters using the picrew by @sangled.

Albert, Bug, Brittney, Nerezza.

[help-idontknowwhattodraw]

Drake/Brittney

Draw this again, 4th time. Roughly 3 years after the first try.

[thesickeststupidestcreep]

[junker-town]

How to watch, and what to watch for in the 2022 Kentucky Derby

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images

Everything you need to know ahead of the race.

The 2022 Kentucky Derby is around the corner, and with it the beginning of the Triple Crown. It will be an attempt to return to normality, not just from the Covid pandemic, but controversy after Medina Spirit, the winner of the 2021 Derby, was disqualified due a positive test for betamethasone. The fallout from the test led to the suspension of trainer Bob Baffert from Churchill Downs until the conclusion of the 2023 Kentucky Derby.

This really shapes the 2022 race. The exclusion of Baffert opens up the field and truly makes it anyone’s race. It’s no so much that Baffert-trained horses won all the time, but that his presence was a constant when it came to the Triple Crown, and horses from his stable were always in the mix to at least place in the event.

The big favorite is 2022 is Zandon, currently listed at 3-1 odds. The three-year-old colt has been a force since beginning his career in late 2021, and while he only had four races to his name, Zandon has never finished lower than third. The horse enters the 2022 derby following a dominant almost-two second win at the Blue Grass Stakes in early April, which saw Zandon beat Smile Happy and Ethereal Road, both of whom are running in the 2022 Kentucky Derby.

How to watch the 2022 Kentucky Derby

Race day begins at noon ET on Saturday, May 7th on the USA Network, however there are numerous races ahead of the big one.

As for the Kentucky Derby itself, it is scheduled to begin at approximately 6:57 p.m., with broadcast live from Churchill Downs airing on NBC starting at 2:30 p.m. Streaming options are available numerous ways, including NBC.com, Peacock, NBC Sports and on the NBC app.

What are the odds for the race?

These will change as we approach race time, but here are the current odds for the 2022 Kentucky Derby ordered from favorites to longshots, as available from the Kentucky Derby directly.

Zandon (3-1)

Epicenter (7-2)

Messier (8-1)

Mo Donegal (10-1)

White Abarrio (10-1)

Taiba (12-1)

Charge It (20-1)

Crown Pride (20-1)

Cyberknife (20-1)

Simplification (20-1)

Smile Happy (20-1)

Zozos (20-1)

Barber Road (30-1)

Classic Causeway (30-1)

Ethereal Road (30-1)

Happy Jack (30-1)

Pioneer of Medina (30-1)

Summer is Tomorrow (30-1)

Tawny Port (30-1)

Tiz the Bomb (30-1)

Anything else I should know?

Country music star Brittney Spencer is singing the national anthem before the race.

Also, if you want to really get in the mood for the event with a mint julep it’s super simple, assuming you can find good mint. I highly recommend Alton Brown’s recipe and technique, which works flawlessly.

[inkskxtch]

gore warning! :]

Been wanting to draw a hunger/lies/plague inspired thing of these guys for a while now🧍‍♂️

[dianaladrislovebot]

hey there ! in australia it is currently 3:30am, meaning it is officially everyone’s favourite bitchboy’s birthday ! as i said a few days ago, i gave yall the choice between the list of birthdays i’ve made for the characters or my commentation on the books and across both tumblr and instagram the birthday list just managed to win 14 to 13 ! i played around w some of the years w some very shoddy math so without further ado, here are my fan made birthdays for all the characters ! (and don’t worry for those of you who voted for the commentary, it will still be coming ! the vote was just to see what would come first ! <3)

sam temple / caine soren : november 22, 1993 (sagittarius) (canon)

elwood booker : december 29, 1993 (capricorn)

frederico : january 20, 1994 (capricorn)

dahra baidoo : february 4, 1994 (aquarius)

quinn gaither : february 21, 1994 (pisces)

howard bassem : march 11, 1994 (pisces)

astrid ellison : march 25, 1994 (aries)

charles ‘orc’ merriman : april 2, 1994 (aries)

drake merwin : april 12, 1994 (aries) (canon)

dekka talent : may 10, 1994 (taurus)

mary terrafino : june 15, 1994 (gemini)

edilio escobar : july 30, 1994 (leo)

lana arwen lazar : august 15, 1994 (leo)

albert hillsborough : september 14, 1994 (virgo)

sanjit brattle-chance : september 29, 1994 (libra)

diana ladris : october 23, 1994 (scorpio)

roger : november 13, 1994 (scorpio)

sinder : july 14, 1995 (cancer)

penny : october 16, 1995 (libra)

brittney donegal : december 15, 1995 (sagittarius)

jack : january 16, 1996 (capricorn)

taylor : may 30, 1996 (gemini)

virtue brattle-chance : august 24, 1996 (virgo)

brianna berenson : december 12, 1996 (sagittarius)

bug : july 3, 1999 (cancer)

let me know if there’s any characters i missed or the ones here you agree w, i’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts headcanons and opinions <3

[kyle-carter]

Brittney Donegal, Duck Zhang, Dekka Talent, Brianna, Astrid Ellison, and Penny

Push off a cliff: Astrid, everyone knows how I feel about her

Kiss:  Brianna

Marry: DEKKA OFC I LOVE HER SM

Set on fire: Penny, duh

Wrap a blanket around: Duck bc he deserves to be protected

Be roommates with: Brittney I guess

ty for the ask!

[fallout--alley--youth--zone]

Oh I just had an awful thought. What if the kid Quinn couldn't save in time was Tanner.

[kingofthefayz]

↪️ the gone series (michael grant) - character aesthetics (26/28)

Brittney Donegal ✝️