Okay But If Thomas And Newt Swapped Places, Thomas Would Show Newt Around The Glade Like:

Finally finished the pair - this took like 12 hours total (I posted the newt one earlier sorry for the double post)

friendly reminder that the death cure came out exactly five years ago

Thomas: You are, of course, wondering why it is I have brought you here tonight.

Newt: Actually, Thomas, after all these years, I just sort of go with it.

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

Alby: do you take constructive criticism?

Minho: i only take cash or credit.

i was just playing around with an incorrect quotes generator and these are literally all canon lmaoo

Thomas: I turned out perfectly fine!

Newt: Thomas, this morning you thought a ghost made your toast.

Thomas: I DIDN’T PUT THE BREAD IN. YOU DIDN’T PUT THE BREAD IN.

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.

Maze Runner: The Death Cure + textposts

So me and my classmates watched all the maze runner movies recently (I had already seen all of them and I had just started reading the books) and my friend hadn't seen the movies so I told her a bunch of lies about what would happen lmao

First I told her Thomas was gonna die at the end of scorch trials and they were gonna try to find a cure for death that's why the third movie was called 'the death cure'

Secondly I told her to look out for minho and I insinuated he died

Third I told her newt was gonna betray them all and that he was secretly a double agent the whole time lol

Fourth I told her that newt was canonically in love with Thomas and they were gonna end up together