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the !! aka lemonade mouth: the sequel

hello I’m gay and a band nerd and i make posts unrelated to whether anyone asked for them

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i am just venting, venting

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idk how or why but miguel got this gone cookie!!! and it’s mega cute so i’m posting it!!

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most ppl who used to stan drake now stan girls of the fayz...........absolute king of comphet

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Gone Chatfic Headcanons

Since the Chatfic (https://archiveofourown.org/works/10233053/chapters/22703012) is going on hiatus for awhile to tide and get some ideas out I’d figured I’d write this. This might come in later:

Howard edited several memes to include Sam and Caine like the car meme severing fastly, or the ‘baby baby boy/evil’ meme but the meme’s view is Connie’s.

Astrid is the only person to ever see these memes.

Drake definitely has the Logan PaulTM haircut (curtesy of @ladrison)

Penny will eventually join the Lana/Diana/Sam therapy group because of the issue with her dad.

She gets better but she still has to work on it.

Sam and Taylor do get bellybutton piercings.

Quinn has a surfboard tattoo.

Orc goes to church every other week, usually goes in the basement and can hear the preacher screaming.

Sanjit and Choo end up working under Albert to prove to their adopted dad that they are business people.

Patrick gets another dog pregnant and the gang gets puppies.

Lana’s grandpa makes an appearance, somewhere.

Caine knows how to braid hair.

Dekka gets her cat from MONSTER (I forget his name).

Caine has his ringtone as ‘it wasn’t me’ by shaggy, it just fits him.

Petey knows how to make seashell necklaces because he saw Sam doing it one day and now he refers to Sam as ‘Sea Shell.’

Duck works as a lifeguard on the beach.

Spoilers: the MONSTER crew is gonna be in the next chapter.

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Why Astrid Deserved Better

Yeah, almost everyone in the Gone Fandom has some words to say about this gal, and it’s my turn. Buckle up kiddos.

The first thing that I think many, many people forget is in the ending of Gone (Book 1 not the series), is that Astrid tells Sam that she has a power, too. She can see a stream of light, if I remember correctly Astrid compares it to a meteor or comet. She says she has no idea what it means, she alludes that it could mean importance, and that Sam is the biggest and brightest she’s seen. 

Personally I believe that this is Astrid’s ‘bar system’, if this was to be a foil to Diana’s powers, then it could have been great. In case you don’t know a character foil means, it’s two characters that are opposites of each other. Sam and Caine are foils, Drake and Edilio, I personally believe that Lana and Quinn are foils to each other (I might write another post about this entire topic later).

So, Astrid is a foil to Diana, makes sense, both start out as the main male character’s love interest, Michael Grant tries (and fails) to explore them to be more than a girlfriend. A character that could also be Astrid’s foil is Orc. Orc is described as a monster, drunk, and ‘evil’. Astrid is described as smart, beautiful, and religious. The foil continues when Astrid and Orc switch views on religion.

But the problem is everyone, including Michael Grant and Astrid herself is that they forget about her strange powers. If this was suppose to be her ‘bars’, then Sam could have used to find more moofs, and maybe the freaks on Zil’s side of town in Lies. 

Let’s say hypothetically Michael Grant regretted his decision to give Astrid powers. I see no reason why Astrid couldn’t have been use as a spy to go to Zil (or even betray Sam and actually join Zil’s side). Let’s explain. Astrid supposedly has no powers, she’s 15, she’s taking care of an autistic 4 year old in an apocalypse setting. A stressed girl who everyone seeks the answers from dealing with guilt of her brother, and is facing a religious crisis. She starts to have incredibility ‘important’ fights with her boyfriend, her only support system who is also losing control. 

Most people in this situation would drop their little brother off at the leader’s, and join someone else.  Fear leads to people accepting the easiest problem. Astrid being scared of her brother (whether hurting him, letting her parents down by not keeping his schedule, or his powers), being angry at Sam, blaming the person/people in charge for not taking care of Hunter in Hunger (she was one of the only people to help, another thing that may have questioned her faith). 

Why shouldn’t she seek the easiest answer, especially if her religion is being tested, and she decides it’s not worth it.  In the original, she does decide that religion is not worth it. 

This turn of events would turn Astrid into SAM’s foil. Astrid and Sam both on opposite sides fighting for what they think is going to either protect them or people they care about. The second thing, on the Moof’s side there are normals, too. Edilio, Quinn, Albert, a low bar moof joining the human krew? It’s what happened in history, the whites blame the blacks, the blacks blame the Asians. Astrid (supposedly a 2 bar), joining the Human Krew especially if they’re taking the KKK route and saying ‘good Christians believe this bs.’

Astrid, trying to prove to herself that her religion will come through for her if she has faith joining to prove to God that she still believes. 

Other options that could this AU could cause: Sam’s guilt of fighting with Astrid, feelings of betrayal by Edilio, Dekka, Quinn, Lana (and maybe Mary, Dahra) especially if this is in Lies, Hunter. 

In the original series, Astrid was meant to be a main character, the protagonist’s love interest, but she wasn’t. She turned into a secondary character. Her character arc went into a circle, from a smart, beautiful, religious girl to starving, privilege-checked, and hunter. In the middle of Light she went back to Sam. She is in charge of the black crawling up the Dome. 

She is thrown into the role of smart, beautiful girl all over again. Not worth it. Astrid DESERVED BETTER. She’s a ‘main’ character that doesn’t go through a character arc once. Edilio’s happened behind the scenes (everyone talks about how Edilio deserved more book time, but no one talked about Astrid). Quinn’s happens in Hunger, starting as a guilty conscience from the Thanksgiving Battle, to the main source of food in Perdido Beach. 

Diana has three character arcs! One of the reasons why she is the best character in the Gone Series. Astrid has some of the most ‘screen time’ but nothing to show for it. No reason to root for her to improve. Astrid replacing Zil and becoming one of the main focuses of the series to discuss the nuances of fear and the effects of fear/racism? (Zil and Human Krew seem to be a point of racism, why not have a perfectly sane looking girl come in and show that anyone can be racist, hmmmmmm?) An Amazing Idea.

But this is the man who only has one half-assed villain, a villain that was all built-up and no reward, and the explanation for everything in this series is ‘aliens.’ Maybe I’m asking to much. 

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diana, an intellectual: RUN A W A Y FROM THE RIVER TO THE STREET AND FIND YOURSELF WITH YOUR FACE IN THE GUTTER caine, a pop normie, in tears: what the fuck are you talking about

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Goneblums: Citrine EP by Hayley Kiyoko

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@fayznet: get to know the members: therese / favorite character: lana arwen lazar

Lana laughed, caught herself, laughed again. Then she kept laughing, stopping, trying not to laugh again, and failing. “I don’t know why I’m laughing,” she said, almost apologizing and definitely puzzled. Sanjit smiled. “I don’t know why I’m laughing,” Lana said again. “You’re probably a little stressed,” Sanjit said dryly. “You think?” Lana laughed again and Sanjit realized he was really enjoying her laugh. It wasn’t silly or hysterical. It was, like everything about this strange girl, wise, sardonic. Profound. Mesmerizing.

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Edilio whenever anyone tries to undermine him:

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diana: huh, i guess we’ll have to deal with all mutants being generally equal in power

caine, jug of water and cement powder in hands: oh haven’t you heard? :)

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y'know. ive been struggling a lot with art recently. drawing drake with those soft evan peters ahs s1 curls just doesnt sit Right with me. but now. i know what im looking for. the fucking logan paul mess of a haircut.

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the !! aka lemonade mouth: the sequel

hello I’m gay and a band nerd and i make posts unrelated to whether anyone asked for them

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Michael Grant when he makes his characters say “Finally that’s the last we’ll see of Drake”

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for some reason not disclosed to me my brain refuses to face the fact that briannas last name is berenson and not tennison

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boy: do you have any fantasies

Me: I get my PhD so I can make reservations at fancy restaurants under “Dr. & Mrs.” then when they expect a man to show up, my gay ass will stroll in instead: hot intellectual wife on my arm. She’s wearing a cocktail dress & is also a doctor. Im smoking a Cuban cigar. their heteronormative wigs is snatched…

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astrid: the education system is horrible but i want a phd so when we marry i can write us in as ‘dr. and mrs.’ and let people make the assumption that I’m a man and see their faces when we show up and we’re two lesbians diana, in tears: god i love you