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Merry Christmas @medjackjeff

Title: Burnout

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warnings: None

Wordcount: 14456 

Summary: They made it to the Safe Haven, but there’s still a long way to go before they’re ready to move on from the end of the world. Some of them have better ways to cope than others. Some of them are doing just fine with theirs.

The year following the destruction of the last city.

Notes: Merry Christmas Lizzie! I hope this fits to one of the wishes you had. I really enjoyed getting to write it!

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No way @fluoresensitive

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@MinewtWeek2022 - day three - indulge

a break from running to indulge in each other 💚

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hey how often do you think about the way minho drops to his knees beside newt‘s dead body yeah me too

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Every now and then I remember that they turned the maze runner movies into just another set of zombie films and I'm newly annoyed.

Like don't get me wrong the movies themselves are pretty damn good for films that diverged so thoroughly from the source material, and obviously the actors and characters are fantastic.

But the Flare in the books is so much worse than the Flare in the movies, and they really majorly lost out when they decided to just turn it into a zombie virus.

Because zombies, sure, ok, they're scary. But they're not the same kind of creeping dread that the book-Flare victims are. The book-Flare people are sooooo hair raising, in my opinion. The way that the disease starts with just decreased impulse control, resulting in people who are a little more reckless and a little more prone to pursuing their desires with little regard for consequences. and then how slowly that gets worse, and eventually things like kindness and compassion are leeched, bit by bit, away from victims of the Flare, leaving an intelligent human who has no empathy or morals -- and then how they become even more unhinged; the way they slowly stop feeling pain; the way they are still full functional except for the fact that theyre absolutely not.

And the fact that it happens over years. The fact that so many of the scientists who were putting these kids through these awful experiments were themselves infected, and thats why their ethics had slid so much and they were so willing to subject children to the horrors they did.

The fact that Newt wasn't past the Gone yet, but that he was still with it enough to know that he was slipping, to know that he was getting worse, to know that his moments of clarity were growing fewer and soon would stop altogether, to know that his moments of being him were running out, to know that there was only one way to stop himself from turning into one of those barely human monstrosities.

Yeah, idk. I just think that the Flare in the books was so much more horrifying. There's something so chilling about a person's intelligence remaining whilst their humanity is slowly stripped away from them. I'll never understand why the movies chose to become Just Another Zombie Movie when they had something so much more original and so much more alarming Right There.

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- Sarah Dessen

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Saw these tweets a few weeks ago and I couldn’t help myself I had to doodle some stuff dfghfgh

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Newt✨

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Kaya Scodelario and Will Poulter are thriving in their careers, I’m dropping back in here to say that Gallesa was and is a god tier ship

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The last movie was perfect. 

Newt is the purest character.

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KI HONG LEE as MINHO THE MAZE RUNNER (2014) dir. Wes Ball

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KI HONG LEE as MINHO THE MAZE RUNNER (2014) dir. Wes Ball

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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month ∟Day 12: Kihong Lee as Minho in The Maze Runner trilogy

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BAM some Maze Runner stuff ive drawn last year

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2015 called and beat me in my shins