Pov The Glade Happens Years After 2016 And The Gladers Still Have Their Memories Taken Away But Are Confused

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thomas + text posts pt. 6

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The urge to bother my mutuals

One part of Gally's character development in the films that I adore is in the first film when Minho is trying to drag Alby to the maze door even though Gally is in no danger whatsover he keeps telling Minho to just leave him and then jump forward in the Death Cure when they find Thomas and Teresa on top of the burning WCKD building he yells at Jorge to get closer so they can save Thomas even though they could easily all end up being killed trying to save him.

He's gone from the boy who would leave someone he's literally known his whole life behind to die to someone who would risk his own life in order to save Thomas's and I think that's amazing.

Being a bit soft but the maze runner fandom is genuinely the nicest and friendliest and most down to earth fandom I've ever been in and you are all such wonderful people 💜

In honor of jdash confirming newt is gay

it's been 3 years since the tweet(s) and i still have a lot to say. the discourse surrounding it has long since calmed down, but to this day some people's responses bother me immensely and i wanna get a few things off my chest.

"it undermines his friendships"

um.. no ? i can't believe people still have this weird mindset. straight people can have friends of the opposite gender, gay people can have friends of the same gender. bi people ?? pan people ?? they can have friends. (don't even get me started on the weird spot nb people land in with this weird friend mindset some homophobes have).

if you never saw newt's relationship with thomas/minho (or even alby) as anything other than platonic before, then newt being gay literally changes nothing.

"he did it as fanservice"

no. if it was fanserice he would've pandered more to the ships; newtmas being the most popular but thomas was not mentioned. if it was fanservice and for any personal gain he would've hinted at other characters also potentially being queer. if it was fanservice he probably would've at least confirmed newt was into thomas; but he didn't. cause it wasn't about any romance, it was about newt and a part of his character.

the crank palace would've been the perfect opportunity to pander more to shippers if that's what he was doing, but there were no explicitly hinted romantic feelings there either. (there were certainly ways to read certain parts of this book as queer, but i won't get into that in this post.)

"he was forced"

yes and no.. the final push to him confirming newt's sexuality was because someone criticized him for donating the proceeds from the crank palace to lgbtq+ (and BLM) charities. however, the way his tweets were phrased leads me to believe what he says. he voices his apprehension to confirm something so long after the work was released in fear of it coming across as insincere. (*cough* jkr *cough*). he also mentioned in this same 2-part tweet that his upcoming series (at the time) would feature lgbtq+ characters much more prominently and explicitly (no plausible deniability).

tldr for this point: it was someone criticizing him that finally made it happen, but i do believe he genuinely stands for what he said. he'd gone through a lot of personal development during the 11 years between the first book's release and the tweets, i don't doubt that for a second.

"there were no hints in the books"

this is a hard one to talk about without outing myself as a newtmas shipper, but i have a few things to say.

james did not intentionally write newt as a queer character. if you read through the books and didn't pick up any queer subtext/undertones, then that was how he, at the time of writing, intended it. however . does this mean there was nothing there ? how come a huge part of the fandom read him as queer then ? it's all up to reader interpretation whether certain subtext is or isn't present in the work they're consuming.

link to the part 1 that i never see people acknowledge when discussing the "announcement": https://x.com/jamesdashner/status/1336775453755895809?s=20

a masterpiece my friend dropped

you and your dreadful little polycule haven't seen the last of me

my minho (maze runner) headcanons

sometimes he hits walls and his knuckles used to be constantly red so other gladers were like "please do something else" and so he started playing bloody knuckles with gally and then thomas (i am actually writing something with this)

he used to bunk with newt way back in the beginning of the maze trials but he tossed and turned so much it woke newt up every thirty minutes so minho got kicked out

one time before the maze trials the kids in section A had a (terrible cafeteria-made) hotdog eating contest and he got second place

if he ever gets a cat he intends to name it shithead

on occasion he can be found a drinking about ten fluid ounces of pure saltwater because it keeps him "on his toes"

frypan once made lasagna and minho ate 90% of it which deeply upset the rest of the gladers

he regularly has to be reminded to brush his teeth

Gally: Hello all, it is I, your favorite person. Newt: Actually, Tommy's is my favourite. Gally: *sighing.* Of course he is. Okay then, it is I, that bitch.