#cinder lihn

[greenalmond]

yes. during Kai week. i dont care.

[theanxiousfireblossom]

Just had a realization. Marissa Meyer is such a fantastic author (that wasn’t the realization, I swear). I think part of what makes her such a good author is her ability to write… people.

Having read nine of her titles, and working on the tenth, it becomes pretty clear a lot of her character overlap in their character traits. I mean, even in JUST the Lunar Chronicles, you have two men who are sassy, and two men who are devoted. However, they display these traits so drastically from one another that it doesn’t feel like she is making carbon copies. Kai is sarcastic and blunt and is feels more to me like someone who will do exactly what you tell them to while also being high-key condescending about it. Meanwhile Thorne is more just a general kind of difficult. He says sarcastic things/gives off a general air of sarcasm. Then we have Jacin who will do anything for Winter, including nearly ruining a revolution for her, but it is clear he can, and will, stand alone in order to keep her safe. Wolf’s devotion leads more to a “can’t keep her safe if she is out of my sight”. None of these men feel like carbon copies.

It’s the same for her women too. Cinder and Nova? Sassy lassies, both resourceful, both come from incredibly messed up family situations, but it doesn’t feel like Cinder was just ripped from her story into a new one. They both even have similar motivations, but just so completely go about them in different ways. Scarlet and Prudence are both angry, but Scarlet is definitely has that rugged “I was raised on a farm” brutality to her. I cannot at all imagine Prudence back talking hybrid wolf warriors even if she will yell at her high school biology teacher.

I could keep going, but I just really love how these are people. They are going to overlap, sometimes in a lot of ways, but it doesn’t feel like she ever falls into the trap of same story, same characters, different packaging. Maybe that is why it is so easy to get into each of her books. I never feel bored of “already read this four times”.

[jo-snicket]

hey i just finished the first book in this series. enjoy this very rough fan art of cybog cinderella cinder.

[yukadelavega]

Hello how is the Lunar Chronicles fandom doing? I’m new and only just finished the first book but I am hooked and can’t wait to continue. Have some Linh Cinder fanart I doodled and also a nice day. Also yes I know I got the hand on the wrong side but ask my friends and they’ll confirm I can’t tell the difference between left and right anyways

[every-fandom-scythemeister]

[arghunts]

the lunar chronicles; 

[greenalmond]

don't you dare speak badly about Ze'ev Kesley in front of me i will disintegrate you

[theanxiousfireblossom]

I am once again thinking about the ending of Winter. Not only did it really just wrap up the series so nicely, there is one thing that just sent me.

The meeting with the world leaders.

There are so many things about that meeting that really just made me love Cinder so much more than I already did, which I didn’t even think was possible.

The first is the fact that Cinder had basically just woken up and was barely past death’s door when she insisted with meeting with them. Like, this alone shows how much responsibility Cinder bears, and she takes it seriously. She did not mope and went right there despite hardly being able to walk. She did not start a revolution for selfish reasons, and deemed it done once Levana was killed, she then took on being a leader for a whole country at the ripe old age of SIXTEEN.

That leads to the next thing I loved. I don’t have the book and can’t remember the exact quote, but when she told the other leaders “I may be young, but don’t believe I am ignorant”, it was such a power move. Like, they had the audacity to believe this girl led a revolution, and would somehow not understand there would be intricacies when it comes to leading, or prejudices seeded in actual horrific events.

It honestly just convinces me her and Kai would have had a death grip on the meetings. They are young, yes, but they have perspectives that are not based on fear of past events, but on their own experiences. They would be menaces to everyone else out of sheer, “I see what you are saying, but you are wrong and making excuses”. I mean, that is literally what Cinder did in that first meeting, what would stop her from doing it again and again?