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the gladers have one (1) collective brain cell between them, and 99.99% of the time newt has it. no one can change my mind at this point

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diversity win! everyone’s favorite maze runner character was confirmed to be gay 9 years after his in-series death!

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Minho: BEHOLD, the field in which I grow my fucks! Lay thine eyes upon it, and thou shalt see that it is barren!

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Thomas: You know that voice in your head that tells you what you're doing is wrong?

Chuck: You mean the one that sounds like Alby

Thomas: It sounds like Newt to me but yes

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but consider: newt no bones

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they are in love your honor

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The maze runner but instead of greivers it’s this guy

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- how did wicked choose their clothes????

- like did they have a special person employed who would look at clothes and think hmm what would fit my post-apocalyptic paradise with a dark secret look

- or did they have a massive walk in wardrobe and before the guys got sent up they were like what clothes do you like the look of? oh don’t worry this isn’t a test. no, no calm down thIS ISN’T A TEST YOU NEED CLOTHES GODAMMIT

- and wicked would have to send up more clothes as they started getting older and growing up

- so did they assess a boy’s style and think hmm yes this works

- or did they just strip the corpses of a bunch of dead teenagers from around the way and think it was a great idea

- this is getting a bit long so there’s more under the cut!

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- so the gladers have all kinds of hair - short hair, long hair, styled hair, no hair. but how?

- do they all just pick up a knife and hope for the best, or is there a designated hairdresser among the group?

- let’s say there is a slicer (because honestly they’re the people who you would trust not to cut your head open) who is just,,,,, freakishly good at cutting hair

- and the gladers have to like book appointments or whatever

- and he’ll cut their hair for them

- ‘you wanna try a new style? no problem bro, i gotchu’

- ‘you wanna impress the new track-hoe? no biggie, i got just the thing’

- this dude probably has his own small business running, and alby can’t exactly shut it down because he needs his hair cut too

- he’ll do anyone’s hair, but the longer it takes or the more complicated it is, the more you do in return

- ‘simple trim? aight, that’ll be sneaking me some bacon from frypan’

- ‘you want it styled? that’s gonna cost you convincing gally to share some details on his secret recipe.’

- like, some people won’t do it (cough book!newt with long hair cough) and they’ll just haphazardly wave a knife around their head until it isn’t in their face

- but let’s be real, it’s probably safer to go to hairdresser dude than having to risk clint and jeff’s wrath if they accidentally stab themselves

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Am I the only one who is genuinely uneasy about the fact that Gally is so viciously villainized?? This man is also a three-dimensional character and saying he's "punchable" or having him be the antagonist in every single fanfic doesn't sit right with me as a writer, idk.

I mean, my man had his redemption arc and there's still this good amount of people who overtly present him as a villain. I don't justify his attitude, I honestly don't because it predetermined his relationships with the Gladers to be the way they were back during the first trials, but I also don't overlook the fact that he played his redeeming hand in The Death Cure, and that threw a lot of clarifying light on his character. Gally's representation in the first book did leave us hurt, devastated, in tears for days, if I may add, yet it's literally turned into a stereotype.

The possibility of him having character development needs to be embraced more widely the way it was embraced with Thomas, with Minho. Yes, of course a huge part of Gally's personality will still revolve around those years in the Glade but everything else that he did outside it means something too. I've just recently resumed reading TMR fanfics and preferences but the favouritism is all too explicit.

So please consider giving Gally a chance when, for example, writing about him. He holds a huge portion of significance and depth and tbh it breaks my heart to see him degraded to a common bully.

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(excessive) Teresa slander

and everything wrong with it

— an essay by me

1. People lose sight of the real villain in the story. We were really given this power-hungry, violently elitistic organization put in charge of a decaying world and decided to pin the entire blame on a teenage girl. Teresa was a pawn in a game she deliberately wasn't provided full understanding of. A rather biased pawn at that. The actual evil behind all this were the people who had the power of life and death in their hands - those who could exploit a potential cure to their personal gain and advantage. While those people would've been driven by selfishness and lusting after population control, she was motivated by her own moral compass, which was unfortunately very much manipulated from the very beginning.

2. She was (to her death) a kid. She's a fictional character, yes. But slandering a teenager for not being lawfully good is like pushing penguins off a cliff and frowning when they don't avoid the fall by flying. Like any young person, she had a cause she wholeheartedly believed in and supported. She allowed herself and her friends to get hurt in the name of this cause which she believed transcended the pain of the individual and worked for the greater good. It's not easy to agree to this when all you know of the world is pain, loss and death, and though her decisions didn't work out, they were made with the sternness of someone who's lived through too much for their age.

3. There's a suspicious hint of ✨misogyny✨ to it. Interesting, really, how all the hate goes to Teresa whereas she didn't exactly execute all the betrayals and scheming by herself. Aris also had a significant part in all that, but people seem to dismiss his role in that case. Maybe it's the movies that watered it down, but he was in the epicenter of events just like her. Also, if you dig further, you'd see that the rest of the guys are all constantly having their trauma discussed in depth (specifically the Ivy Trio and Gally) while Teresa's past is hardly ever acknowledged. Trauma can't and mustn't be compared between characters and to say that every single one of them was severely (unfairly) traumatized is an understatement, but ignoring traumatic experience for the sake of villainizing someone is profoundly wrong. If you're going to be judgmental, do it fairly and correctly, without picking and choosing whatever appeals to your own personal opinion.

4. "I laughed when she died" shouldn't be a thing. Again, she's a fictional character, yes. But on a mental level our brains can't functionally distinguish between fictional characters and real people (that's why falling for a fictional character can feel as intense as falling for someone in real world). There's still something inherently wrong with laughing at someone's death, just saying.

5. Even if there is intense hate for Teresa, it shouldn't be directed to Kaya Scodelario. There's this fine but important line to draw between a character and the actor who plays them. The case with Kaya and Teresa is one of the most problematic parts of this fandom because the actress can't possibly be held responsible for something her character has done!! This is a role and it in no way means Kaya condones what Teresa's said or done. People get paid to act in movies, not to magically merge with the person they're scripted to play. Also, Kaya is a very kind and educated person. She's not from the Maze Runner or Skins, she's an actual person with actual feelings. Everyone needs to respect this and treat it accordingly.

6. Teresa has been demonized and manipulated for so so long. Even if you don't understand her point of view and motives, it's still heartbreaking to see how badly and harshly life had treated her since she was a child. The very first time she was found as the only survivor in a village of dead bodies, she was thought of as a ghost, an evil omen. She has always been "the only one" - the only one immune, forced to watch her family die; the only girl amid a group of guys with a variety of underlying trauma and issues; the trigger for change. It doesn't help that she used to be separated from the others with Thomas and labeled an elite subject. She was meant to be an outcast and the fact that she never really got to bond with them contributed to her being clay in the hands of WCKD. Even if she was fed a lot of information about the world, the cure and the vileness of the WCKD trials, she would still choose to side with the organization because the promise of finding a remedy prevailed in her mind, as opposed to the mindset of Thomas whose righteousness did get him in some difficult situations but kept him from becoming a radical idealist (which made him more aware of how impractical and painful the process of finding a cure actually was).

7. The story wouldn't have worked without her. Maze Runner is a great analogy for elitism, class division and government problematicness but its most impactful message comes from how the readers get to see the victims of the global catastrophe that is the Flare. We get insight into the Cranks, the violent work of WCKD and the mass panic that quickly spreads worldwide but what truly works out the resonance here is the fact that we see that the group of main characters isn't entirely impenetrable in their righteousness and incorruptibility. We have a bunch of broken people who set off on a journey to find life outside of running and fighting for survival. However, without the chaos factor that's Teresa, the battle against WCKD seems linear which can't possibly be true since the line between good and evil is basically obliterated at this point of global deterioration. She's the turning point where you realize that there are no winners in the war, nor are there good or bad guys, only victims and opportunists.

In conclusion, I hope to see a day when the psyche of characters is better explained and understood instead of bashed the way it is now. There's some really great character building going on in TMR and it's a matter of time we progressed past the need to point fingers left and right when we could take in the bigger picture of the story. The way we react to characters like Teresa actually says a lot about how we would react to her behavior in real life, and sometimes that could be limiting us from figuring out that at the end of the day people like this exist and will continue to exist under the influence of grand promises, corrupt authority and crisis.

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this is 100% them before the events of canon

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insp. - Requested by @dylinski

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Thomas + Newt: a journey (insp)

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I like to think that Newt stress bakes. Like in modern au’s or in canon, it just feels like something he’d do