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paloma, you write fanfiction too? i bet that's what you're thinking right now. that's right. im one of those fanfictioners.
sorry I've literally never promoted fanfiction on tumblr before and this is the first time im posting on ao3. i wrote this little nalby one-shot a while ago and decided to post it for the starved nalbiers of the world. you can go read it HERE. enjoy.
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Thomas rolls worst joint ever٫ Banished from the Glade
in honor of pride month im going to email james dashner to ask if alby and newt both dying on chapter 55 was subtext of them being in homosexual love with each other
i fucking hate tmrpinterest everyone is so sensitive, like i scroll upon some beautiful nalby art and the comments are THIS???
also the fans on there are either those people who calls newt their husband OR overly obsessed newtmas shippers who will comment on "EW NO NEWTMAS ON TOP" on every pin involving another ship. it is getting better but i swear 90% of the people are just so immature ???
ppl thinking that alby is a grown man because of the way the movie characterizes him makes me fall to my knees and wail at the sky as i shake my fists. ooohh the adultification of alby tmr is my roman empire
making nalby week and it's literally just me
i know that nalby fic writers love the subject of newt's suicide attempt but i need to get some variety in here. some shitass au. i don't even like coffee shop aus but i need one of those. honestly this is probably why my favorite nalby fic is a modern au with an insane plot.
even before i read fever code and found out thomas's family history, he was always giving 'child of divorce' energy
heyy, so i'm writing a fic where alby has a pretty important role: he's not a main character or anything but i just really wanna make sure i get him right. i love him but im not THAT invested in his character and well yeah, i don't want to mess it up. since you're one of the few people on here i've actually seen talk about alby, do you have any thoughts about how to characterize him properly? my fic is a modern au and therefor i don't know if he should have the same angry-guy-who's-actually-just-scared arc, but i also don't wanna just make him a nice easy going guy like the movies did??? sorry if this is a hard ask idk.
hiii, okay yay i love talking about albert so let's go.
This might sound a little bit too deep, but I think big part of understanding how to put Alby in different scenarios is understandin where the 'tough guy' attitude comes from. Yes, while it is something that comes as a coping mechanism in the extreme situation that is the Glade and the maze, there's a reason why it specifically shows up that way, which is the performance of masculinity.
Men in general are discouraged from expressing or even feeling anything but one emotion: anger. Anger is the manliest emotion out there, it is the way men are taught they should express themselves, especially when it comes to negative emotions. If you're sad, you must be angry, if you're insecure, you must be angry, if you're scared, you must be angry.
So, this is something that I like to keep in mind when thinking about Alby's character. Though obviously the Gladers don't recall what values they specifically were raised with, it's obvious each of them has different constructions of their sense of masculinity. They're a bunch of teenage boys, after all.
Alby has a bit of the toxic masculinities. He defaults to anger as his main emotion, which is why early into the first book he's either mildly annoyed with Thomas or yelling at him. He doesn't even really allow himself to show happiness, as we see in the scene where he smiles at Minho, because he probably thinks others will associate that with weakness. Alby uses anger to cover up other feelings, which later in the book are fear and depression that have been building up for years.
Okay, whatever Paloma, let's wrap up the deepness and let's get to the slop.
So how would I take this to a modern au where the Gladers aren't going through the horrors constantly? Mostly, I would just tone down the anger. Alby, I think, is a character that is somewhat insecure and uses this 'tough guy' attitude to deal with that. If they're still teenagers in your au, this is something that I also feel wouldn't be out of the ordinary, since young men try to seem really 'masculine' the most when they're insecure.
Of course, since you probably won't go suuuuper deep with Alby, this insecurity I'm talking about doesn't need to be shown..If he's a secondary character I'd actually avoid it because it might make him come off like, annoying. If he's a supporting character and he's mostly there in scenes where he's a friend to other characters, I'd try to show him as a more 'grumpy' rather than angry character. I also think he has somewhat of an attitude which mostly comes out with sarcasm, and if the au is more chill than anything maybe even let him be more relaxed and actually banter with other characters, which we see a little of in the first book.
If you ever write him for more 'serious' scenes though, I'd say just remember that he's kind of ass at emotions. One of my personal pet peeves in nalby fics (which is what i read mostly) is when Alby is like, really emotionally intelligent and mature when comforting someone or giving advice. If you pay attention to the way he expresses himself when under pressure in the first book, you'd see that's not really the case LOL. I wouldn't make him cruel though, just like kind of awkward and maybe kind of dissmissive, but still making it clear he cares, maybe more through his actions than his words.
In the end, this is all just my reading of the character and how I would approach it, I'm of course not the be-all end-all of Alby characterization lol. Good luck with your writing and have fun!
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i want to present everyone with the thomesa playlist i started months ago in a fit of rage because i had accumulated way too many songs that made me think of them and it pissed me off because they could be peak if james dashner was a misogynist. everytime a song reminds me of them i add it to this playlist while shaking my fist at the sky.
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tmr books where everything is exactly the same but all the glader slang is replaced by actual curse words. i want to see how much these guys curse
Reading the fever code will genuenly just make you understand why the gladers turned out the way they did. I was expecting something awful but man dashner really went all out from the very start didnt he. Wow
Baby Alby. So cute too cute how can you even exist. STOPTHIS
reading the fever code and the first thing minho does when meeting thomas is HUG HIM?? THAT'S SO CUTE WHAT...
book crank newt sees movie crank newt and thinks he's hallucinating. movie crank newt jumps at him but book crank newt has a gun and shoots him and then the cranks. eat movie crank newt.
bold of you to assume book crank newt wouldn’t just. let movie crank newt eat him
i will say book newt is very adamant he specifically wants thomas to kill him so i don't think he'd let even an alternate version of himself finish the job. on the other hand i think movie newt would let just about anyone kill him.
the fascinating concept of thomas tmr being a sunshine-esque type character
