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omg Linh Peony hiii ݁𖥔°.˖ ೃ༄

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"But you are crazy."

"I know." She lifted a small box from the basket.

"Do you know how I know?"

Scarlet didn't answer.

"Because the palace walls have been bleeding for years, and no one else sees it."

She shrugged, as if this were a perfectly normal thing to say.

- Winter Hayle Blackburn, Cress, by Marissa Meyer

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I think one of my favorite parts about the Lunar Chronicles is how Carswell Thorne was minding his own damn business and then suddenly he’s part of this rebellion against the fucking moon. He didn’t really have a reason to be part of it, not like the others did.

For comparison, Cinder is the missing Lunar princess Selene, so duh she’d be involved, it’s up to her to stop her crazy aunt. Kai is a whole emperor of a country and is the one being very pressured by Levana into marrying her. Scarlet was also kinda minding her business but then the police didn’t do their job so she got swept up in the wolf army and that’s pretty reason enough (also her grandma died at the hands of the wolf army). Ze’ev is a rogue wolf soldier who wanted to make his own decisions and a life for himself. Cress was Levana’s best hacker and a witness/victim to the systemic mistreatment of shells like herself. Winter, being the Queen’s stepdaughter and one of the first and closest victims to Levana’s cruelty, had every reason to turn on her stepmother but she would never turn her back on her people, especially the servants and other lower-class citizens who saw her and her refusal to bow to Levana’s demands/use her Lunar gift at all as an act of rebellion itself. And Jacin had been silently rebelling against Levana since he was 15; he is Winter’s closest (and only, it seems) friend on Luna, so he too was witness to many of Levana’s atrocities, along with the atrocities of the thaumaturges he assisted.

But Thorne? He’s a petty criminal. He organized a prison riot over fucking soap. He has no personal connection to a rebellion. He joined cause he wanted to cause chaos. And I respect that.

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8/? favorite katherine mcnamara pictures

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the blackburn family have the same energy as the obscenely unethically rich murderous family in Ready Or Not (2019) because I can imagine the blackburns hunting down a person who marries into the family on their wedding night and thinking their behavior is normal

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[literally Cinder and Dr E discussing her new allies in Book 3]

Dr Erland: We need help.

Cinder: We have Thorne, Wolf, and Jacin now!

Dr Erland: I mean real help.

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here comes the cringy sappy old couple from next door

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The start of my favorite friendship

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Hello Scarlet Friend ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა

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It’s my art account, I can draw Cress in the Taylor Swift cardigans if I want to!!😤

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i got my best friend to read tlc and she's finished with cinder and moved on to scarlet, and it's the first time that we had the same opinion about characters/ships! she agrees with me that cinder and Kai are boring/somewhat forced and that wolf and scarlet are both unhinged but genuinely perfect for each other

this isn't a spiteful celebration of the fact that she doesn't like kaider, I don't have a problem with the ship or shippers it just isn't my cup of tea. I just love the fact that my best friend and I are vastly different but we have this in common

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Paris Berelc as Molly Eastman in Invisible Sister (2015)

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cinder

scarlet

@thorneswife

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have a jacincress wip I’m never gonna finish

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the fact that cress & thorne & wolf & scarlet canonically chilled together as a crew delivering letumosis antidotes is beautiful to me. does anyone have any fics of this part of canon

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Winter: Started seeing someone!

Scarlet: As in dating or hallucinations?

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the fact that cress & thorne & wolf & scarlet canonically chilled together as a crew delivering letumosis antidotes is beautiful to me. does anyone have any fics of this part of canon