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them <3

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

the gang at the Glade

he's so important to me i had to pick up my digital pen again after centuries and draw him *sobs* (thomas is also there for emotional support)

(quality’s better if u click on the image ^_^)

the maze runner textposts (+ newtmas) (2/?)

i haven't watchet the maze runner yet but my friend Is a big Fan so i drew this

rip minho you would’ve loved closing all the fitness/activity rings on an apple watch.

An interesting demonstration of how the human brain works.

But also something of a lesson regarding perception, and the unreliability of subjective perspective versus objective reality.

You can be extremely certain about how you perceive the world, your "lived experience," that which you "feel it in my heart." But that doesn't mean it's actually true. And it doesn't mean we have to endorse it, or ignore or outright deny objective reality.

That's a "you" thing, not a "we" thing.

ok but think about it,, minho ran three years in the maze.

meaning he had a first day of running. a first week. a first month. a first year.

so,, imagine:

he runs the inner sections first. then gradually, he runs the outer sections. mostly alone at first, until alby decides they need partners.

each day his legs becoming more tired. more sore.

he hides it. he hides the pains in his sides as he runs. he hides the pain that shoots up and down his legs from overuse. he hides the fact that his lungs feel like they could explode if he runs anymore.

he hides all of that bc he’s the fastest runner,, which eventually leads to him being named keeper.

none of the gladers know that he spends the rest of his day/night massaging his legs and stretching. none of them notice how his face twitches in pain when he sits down or stands up after sitting for too long. none of them see how hard it is for him to hide his pain not only physically but mentally as well.

a masterpiece my friend dropped

The urge to rewatch and reread everything while also wanting to see and read new stuff

OH MY GOD WHY 😭

RIP chunk

newt - the maze runner 2014

"it doesn't matter. any of it. because the people we were before the maze don't even exist anymore. these creators took care of that. but what does matter is who we are now and what we do. right now."

the maze runner characters and their favorite movies!

- thomas: social network

- minho: dazed and confused (the breakfast club is a close tie though!)

- newt: dead poets society

- gally: american psycho

- ben: the benchwarmers

- frypan: superbad

- alby: joker

- teresa: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

- brenda: pulp fiction

- aris: captain america: the winter soldier

- rachel: the devil wears prada

- harriet: she’s the man

- sonya: little women (but the 2019 adaptation)

- chuck: diary of a wimpy kid (literally any one in the series)

- winston: into the spider verse

site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

N e w t .

My TMR HC (Head Canons)

Minho:

Doesn't like cooking

Likes dark chocolate

Hates water (because his hair gel gets ruined probably)

Snores too loud

Takes morning walks

Doesn't like people touching his hair

Either "don't touch me" or super clingy. No in between

Newt:

Has a ponytail (YeS I believe he has long hair)

Cupcake addiction

Likes literature/poems/reading

"Hugs? Why but okay"

Gets ANGRY angry when people put on a fake British accent

Hums in the shower

Likes anything that has fur

Thomas:

Clumsy

"Why is there a sock in the fridge? Did I put that there?"

Zones out thinking about fake scenarios

Jumps in puddles

Cooks simple stuff well, but if it has too many steps he burns food

Scared of thunder

Major dog person

Screams loudly if he thinks ANYTHING is wrong

Hair grows quickly, so sometimes he has long hair that he puts in buns

okay but if thomas and newt swapped places, thomas would show newt around the glade like:

"i don't really know what that is"

"i've never seen him before"

"do you know what that is? because i don't"

"i tripped over that once"

"twice actually"

"they say it's been three years but i wasn't really paying attention"

"tell me if you see an exit, okay?"

Thomas (mumbling absentmindedly): I'm so eepy. I'm literally the eepiest. I'm an eeper.

Newt, with tears running down his face: What are you saying.

there are so many times in the books where thomas attempts to make a joke and no one laughs. nobody finds him funny. his comedic timing could be perfect and everyone would just stare at him. like. "what are you saying now maze boy."

it’s not that bad is it?

No. No. DONT TOUCH ME IM CRYING😭😭😭😭😭

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

What if. What if newt's leg sometimes played up worse than usual and he couldnt walk and so the builders made him a wheelchair. And. And what if newt uses a cane to walk most days.

Minho: I need motivation not to kill anyone today. Thomas: I can't kiss you if you're in prison. Minho: Minho: Legit.

*The maze runner fanart*

Not finished but god I love this man (he’s so German shepherd bf coded)

Gally from The Maze Runner (especially the movie bc in the books he’s such a real asshole help) has been a huuuuuuge part of my teenage years, I think he even was one of my first biggest fictional crush

The guy was just so misunderstood, he was scared and trying to protect the only thing he knew : the glade.

Everyone hated him for acting like a strong minded but self-centered dude always against Thomas and the others, but let me ask you something :

As much as you love Thomas (and believe me, I do too), what would have you done if the only place and people you cared for were slowly starting to get destroyed just because of a stranger who came only a few days ago?

I Hope you get my point here, not to forget the guy had become such a great man in the third movie (and hot asf too, sorry to state facts hehe)

Yup, I’m a Will Poulter Stan since day one.