#jdash

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[nonbinary-androids]

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THAT JDASH WROTE A SEQUEL SERIES TO TMR???????????/?

[noahkirschtein]

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

[captaingalileo]

I'm so proud of our TMR family for standing against racism and supporting Black Lives

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[anais-mitchell]

Not y’all celebrating James D*shner, who has been accused of sexual assault, retroactively confirming Newt as gay through twitter years after killing him off.... not that 😬

[pianistwriter80]

i just fucking sobbed because of s5 ep 20 of the clone wars, the fuck. i sobbed so hard. 😭😭

[notfunnyislike]

no one:

me: you know. a massive solar flare would be bad for us and all, but in reality, it basically has a zero (0) percent chance of doing the kind of extensive physical damage to the earth's surface and climate that we see in The Maze Runner.

no one:

me: but you know what COULD really do all that?

no one:

me: a gamma ray burst from outer space.

[singt0me]

ur like the only maze runner mutual i have so thots on dashners tweet/ig post?

listen I don't want to know what happened 70 years later, they gave newt a Viking funeral and then lived out the rest of their lives as island farmers

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[ringwandervng]

willhelm & elizabeth @nxblepirate​

willhelm was sure he could almost confidently claim that he had been to most places in the realms. though to say that he knows everything about each kingdom would be a lie. the truth is, there were places he didn’t travel to as often, and other times there were just places that were so weird that he couldn’t fully wrap his head around. neverland was one of those places that he had less knowledge of. sea travels was pretty much something of a requirement to get around, and if willhelm were to be perfectly honest, he really had no confidence in navigating the ocean successfully. 

if there was a sure-fire way for him to get help sailing, a tavern nearby the dock would be a good place to start. it looked pretty promising when he walked into the sight of a relatively big crowd of patrons, chattering and seemingly enjoying themselves. he scanned the room before trying his luck on the nearest table to the door. it hadn’t been his lucky shot, but they pointed him to the right direction – a person sitting at the bar. he approached the bar, settling beside the stranger. “i heard you got a ship. any chance you’re accepting another passenger on board.”

[porchingona]

i’ll never understand how when a girl likes a guy, but he likes someone else, she hates the girls he likes. it doesn’t make sense. the second girl did nothing. she might not even like the guy, but instead of the first girl taking her frustration out on the guy, she takes it out on the random-ass girl. there’s no point to it. it’s immature.

[legendaryjarcollection]

alright jdash i hear you with the slug grievers, but consider this: you know that gif of an umbrella moving around like a fucked up spider?

[starslung]

the maze runner franchise ( esp the novels ) are a hot mess and jdash is a nasty piece of shit but i really always loved that fandom and the rp space for it i can honestly say i never had any issues w/ people in it and the world always made me feel so creative i made so many fucking aus and blogs for tmr i’m glad the rp scene for it wasn’t a shit show

[captaingalileo]

newmas has become my notp. jdash confirms newt is gay and everyone is demanding he admit newmas was canon but it literally wasn't. if thomas was bi for anyone, it was minho but otherwise his romantic focuses were teresa and brenda. newt had feelings for alby and literally blamed thomas for his death. he felt so conflicted because he cared about thomas and considered the "no memory of working with WICKED" thomas a friend but part of him still hated him and he had to deal with that inner turmoil the more irrational he became. it made their friendship and newt's end by his hands tragic. this is mostly referring to the books since thomas isn't a piece of shit in the movies and shipping them is more tempting but it pisses me off that everyone ignores the relationship newt had with alby.

[nonbinary-androids]

Okay, obviously JDash is a known abuser, but just seeing More TMR Content,,,, the hyperfixation is reawakening and I wish to once more scream at the top of my lungs about my boys

[dj-larrybird]

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