#doctor erland

[therealkaidertrash21]

i feel so dumb.

I just realized "Darnel" is "Erland" but with the letters mixed up.

it took me five years to realize that.

#cress darnel #crescent moon darnel #cress #crescent moon #doctor erland #the lunar chronicles #tlc #lunar chronicles #thelunarchronicles #marissa meyer #tlc tag #tlc fandom #tlc shitpost

[the-sleepysiren]

✨ Rimi if you don't mind (I would recommend to keep her signature outfit)

"Hello I am doctor Sleepy - I heard you would like to shift into another universe huh?" /lh ANYWAYY lets get this started shall we C:< Now let me bring out my scale that I use when I gotta explain stuff to people /lh

Well! The society doesnt hate you congrats! They actually like you! /lh

Now would Rimi be :

in Black Jack?

a shadow pokemon?

a cursed pokemon?

a cleanser?

a shrine maid?

maybe non above? Ding!

Look I don't think Rimi would really fit either in black jack or as a shadow/cursed pokemon! I think she would have a pretty good life since as society doesn't hate her and stuff - she's probably a pretty popular indie artist!

I think that covers the basics HERE SHE ISS TA-DAA✨:

Un anthros-your Rimi /lh Well I had to since pokemon are pretty feral - also no worries I could keep her suit since Erland does keep his pretty much too asdlasjd

But other than that did change much! I hope you like her gijinka form ;;/

Extras:

Thank you for the ask! ❤️

#Sleepy yawns #Here we go ;; #sleepy munday

[impossiblesuitcase]

What’s a headcanon you have for Kaider that probably seems unconventional or surprising to other people?

Hmm...well tell me if any of the ones I've posted in the past are surprising. I can't always tell.

Not a head-canon, but in some modern AU fics, I see authors saying that Kai is in love with Cinder but is too afraid to tell her. This always struck me as out-of-character. Kai wastes no time making his intentions clear towards Cinder in canon.

Related, I don't understand why some say Kai is bad at flirting. He is arguably a smoother flirt than Thorne, because while the latter has cliched punchlines, Kai's flirts are smooth and genuine.

In my opinion, Cinder would hold nothing back from Kai. I know some say she doesn't let him hear her sing, but Cinder says she feels that "she can tell him anything," so I don't think she'd let her insecurities get in the way.

Here's a unusual head-canon:

In canon, Kai is noticeably worried about Cinder's health: hovering over her, taking her straight to Dr. Erland, asking if they require more funding for equipment, refusing to leave until she insisted she was fine. And of course in Winter, Cinder wakes up from her stab wound to Kai by her bedside, so he was evidently spending most of his time there.

Having lost both of his parents, I feel that his friends, but particularly Cinder, getting sick would make Kai panic. He's lost too many people; he can't lose her.

It's not obvious at first. Once they are engaged and together in the palace, he becomes on edge when she gets sick. He'll force her into the doctor's office and supply her with medicine and heat packs and food and hugs. He'll comm her regularly for updates. It's a little excessive, but hey, Cinder figures it's regular loving fiancé and later husband behvaiour.

Except he becomes insanely anxious. Starts having panic attacks more frequently than she coughs. She doesn't connect the dots until she asks him one day to join her for support at a doctor's appointment. The doctor ends up doing a check-up on Kai rather than her because he is visibly distressed, pale and clammy palms and shaky breaths.

From hereon out, Cinder and his therapist set boundaries for Kai. If she catches your run-of-the-mill cold or tummy bug she tells him, "I'm okay," and he doesn't concern himself with it. Because he is a caring husband, he can't live with himself if he does nothing, so she lets him bring her supplies and hug her and such. But she limits him from too much more, or asking too many details.

Of course when it's more serious health issues, Cinder imposes no restrictions, because when she's throwing up daily from pregnancy nausea, he is going to be stressed anyway. After a few years, Kai gets a better grip on his mental health and he can now approach Cinder's sicknesses without it consuming him.

#tlc #cinder #kaider #the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles #linh cinder #emperor kaito #prince kai #selene blackburn #married kaider #engaged kaider

[thetlctrash]

#marissa meyer #thelunarchronicles #tlc cress #tlc fandom #linh cinder #tlc cinder #tlc wolf #carswell thorne #the lunar chronicles #the rampion crew #tlc winter #tlc scarlet #tlc #wolflet #cinder #polls

[kezibun]

Oh my...

I have just finished chapter 10 of Cinder in The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer and Oh boy do I have some ideas on what might be going on.

First off I think DR. Erland is a Lunar, In chapter 4 when ranting about the Lunar race Cinder thinks "Lunars could alter a person's brain-make you see things you shouldn't see, feel things you shouldn't feel, do things you didn't want to do." AND in chapter 10 when she is about to swing a wrench at his head... "thoughts came to her, sharp and clear amid the syrupy confusion of her brain. He was a simple old man" and "she didn't want to hurt him." But then! "The little orange light clicked on" the light that stated previously tells her she's being lied to but then it says. "He hadn't said anything. How could he be lying" I think he used those Lunar powers to trick her o.o

ALSO I think that Cinder might be a Lunar. Like wha? But again In chapter 4 it states "they said she'd (the queen of the Lunar people) killed her niece, the only threat to the throne." And it goes on to tell us the nursery caught fire and killed her and her nanny and that some conspiracies say she survived but that they found traces of the childs flesh in the ashes so how could that be, well.... Cinder is 36.28% robot! A missing leg and hand and has 2 metal vertebrae has wires running through her whole body and a chip plugged into her nervous system, we're then told it was probably from a hover car incident to throw us off the scent. But also! In chapter 8 Cinder has a dream while she's been knocked out, a nightmare which we're told she's had a hundred times before, about crawling through fire where her leg and hand are gone. I thinks she's the Lunar queens niece owo.

ALSO, The doctor seems to be very interested in young women cyborgs as test subjects for the cure for the plague... at first since the doctor couldn't be bothered to remember his woman assistants name but was fine remembering his male assistants name I thought he was just sexist and didn't see women as important enough but I think that's again thrown in there to throw us of the scent. My thoughts are that he's been sent to go find the not dead niece and that the plague is actually a tool to find her, my guess is it doesn't hurt the Lunar race, and they are asking for cyborg test subjects because prehaps they know that to have survived the niece must be a cyborg.

And perhaps The Lunar Queen is using the plague to try and trick the Prince into marrying him since both his parents have been affected.

But I've only read 96 pages out of 390 so we'll see how it goes 0w0

No spoilers please to any who have read any of the lunar chronicles. ^-^

#keziha rambles #books #cinder by marissa meyer #the lunar chronicles #marissa meyer #spoilers #prehaps #they're predictions and my thoughts so far #up to chapter 10 #book predictions

[deprivedmusicaljunkie]

i think torin deserves a mental breakdown. in which he becomes Very Sexy and unhinged, and maybe his shirt is unbuttoned, and maybe he has explosive sex with. doctor erland

#marissa was so right to make almost every adult male a dilf #i need the person who wrote the thorne/jacin smut fic to write something for torin and erland #tlc #the lunar chronicles #konn torin #dr erland #torin x erland

[abeehiltz1159]

TLC NAMES--CONTAINS SPOILERS

I find the names of the characters in the Lunar Chronicles absolutely hilarious

Cinder - She was literally found in a fire and survived. In Stars Above, there's a scene called The Keeper where Logan Tanner takes Cinder to Michelle Benoit, and near the end of the chapter Michelle names her "Cinder," saying she was "reborn from the cinders."

Lihn - just the word sounds like "N", which is the letter of instability yet also empowers adaptability, which is pretty ironic considering Cinder's story is just her adapting and changing

Selene - In Greek Mythology, Selene was the Titan of the moon, possibly reinforcing the idea that Cinder is the rightful heir to the throne of the moon

Iko - some people define the name Iko as "determined, courageous, and energetic." if that doesn't describe our beloved android then I don't know what does

Kaito - IT LITERALLY MEANS "NOT AVAILABLE" AND HE GETS KIDNAPPED AT THE END OF CRESS AHAHAA

Scarlet - I don't remember when I saw this or who posted it, but I saw something that said "the story between Scarlet and Ran is Little Red Riding Hood. the story between Scarlet and Wolf is Beauty and the Beast" and the more I thought about it the more it made sense. In Beauty and the Beast, Beauty's name literally describes her. When Scarlet introduces herself, something along the lines of "like your hair?" is always said. Her names describes a key part of her appearance, and she's a bit hot-headed, AND Wolf isn't as hostile as his appearance suggests. As for Little Red Riding Hood? She has a signature red hoodie that she wears constantly, and she's on her way to find her grandma. Ran is disguised as her grandmother the third time we meet him and he kills her--with a bite, no less.

Benoit - this is French for "blessed," which I find kind of ironic considering everything that happens to her

Ze'ev - it means "wolf", another connection to the whole "the-story-between-Scarlet-and-Wolf-is-Beauty-and-the-Beast" thing. His name describes what he is: a wolf.

Kesley - Kesley essentially means "extreme," which definitely defines Wolf and every single Lunar

Carswell - it means "well where the watercress grows." 1) this is ironic, since the first thing he did with Cress was fall to Earth in a satellite into the desert, but 2) he sees her grow and change and mature over the story

Thorne - Near the middle of the original story of Rapunzel, the witch throws the prince out the window of the tower and he falls into the thorns at the base, pricking his eyes and causing him to go blind. His sight was returned when, after traveling through the desert, he finds Rapunzel, and her tears fall into his eyes and somehow heal them. In Cress, Mira ties him up and during the fall he hits his head, making him blind. After traveling through the desert, getting separated, reuniting, and then getting the cure which just so happen to be administrated via an eyedropper, he can see again.

Cress - A cress is a green vegetable, like a rapunzel

Darnel - it means "little nook." Again, ironic. Cress spent a good chunk of her life in a small satellite without much room to maneuver, and Dr. Erland spent a lot of his career in a lab and dies in the quarantine room. Cress's hiding places throughout the books are always little nooks (under beds, in closets/cabinets, etc.)

Winter - mostly just a reference to Snow White, but I do find it interesting that the first scene we get from her pov is her freezing and breaking

Blackburn - Blackburn is a town in northwestern England, and I'm sure it gets cold often. the name itself means "black brook." funny how the story surrounds a family who's worst injuries have been from fire, yet their names have aqua meanings, huh?

Jacin - Jacin means "healer." It's stated clearly that Jacin wanted to be a doctor but became part of the royal guard, and yet he's the best healer Winter has. He helps her through her hallucinations and actually cleans and dresses the scars on her face when she originally got them.

Clay - Clay is easily moldable, and this could just be a statement to just how weak his gift is and how submissive he can be

Levana - Levana means "to rise," defining her role as queen and rise to power. However, a different meaning that I find hilarious is Levana means "protector of newborns." she literally tried to kill her three-year-old niece so she could have the throne. though there's more to the story in Fairest, that's what it all boils down to

If you find any more definitions, let me know :)

#the lunar chronicles #tlc #cinder #lihn cinder #kaito #emperor kaito #scarlet benoit #scarlet #lunar chronicles #winter blackburn #levana blackburn #selene blackburn #jacin clay #carswell thorne #captain thorne #captain is king #ze'ev kesley #wolf kesley #wolf #cress darnel #winter #levana #queen levana #princess selene #princess winter #crescent moon #iko

[byneddiedingo]

The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)

Cast: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Sven Wollter, Valérie Mairesse, Filippa Franzén, Tommy Kjellqvist, Per Kellman, Tommy Nordahl. Screenplay: Andrei Tarkovsky. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist. Production design: Anna Asp. Film editing: Michal Leszczylowski, Andrei Tarkovsky.

Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice was his last film, finished only months before his death, and is in many ways extraordinary. But I'm afraid it tempts me to sarcastic assessments like "art-house profundity," a rude and inadequate phrase that I might have used about the film if I didn't respect its maker so much. For The Sacrifice is unquestionably a visionary film, drawn from Tarkovsky's heart and soul. I just wish there were a little more brain holding heart and soul in check. Is it my habitual agnosticism that makes me bridle against the protagonist's quest for metaphysical certainty? The search for God has produced cinematic masterworks like Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet (1955), Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest (1951), Tarkovsky's own Andrei Rublev (1966), and, most appropriate in this context, Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957). The Bergman connection suggests itself because Tarkovsky made his film in Sweden, with Bergman's frequent leading man Erland Josephson and cinematographer Sven Nykvist, in a location, Gotland, that resembles the island of Fårö, the location of many of Bergman's own films. But The Sacrifice seems to me to take some of the worst aspects of some of Bergman's films -- the rather histrionic treatment of people's search for faith in Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and The Silence (1963) -- and intensify it. Precipitating the crisis of The Sacrifice with the threat of nuclear holocaust warps the film away from psychological truth into didacticism. One of the reasons Andrei Rublev succeeds is that, like The Seventh Seal, it is set in an age of faith. Both films depict the essential downside to spiritual certainty -- bigotry and fanaticism and a loss of essential humanity -- while balancing it with a portrayal of the rewards of faith: kindness and creativity. But to liken the plague that threatens the world of The Seventh Seal to the threat of nuclear annihilation misses the point: For the medieval world, the Plague was a test of faith; for the modern world, the Bomb is a test of humanity. The Sacrifice, I think, misses that point. Moreover, I think Tarkovsky's style -- enigmatic, elliptical, deliberately obscure -- becomes a stumbling block in attempts to respond both emotionally and intellectually to the film. By failing to make relationships among the characters more explicit -- Is Marta (Filippa Franzén) Alexander's daughter? What is her connection to the doctor, Victor (Sven Wollter)? -- Tarkovsky forces us to spend a lot of our attention on matters of simple identification, distracting us from what should be the central focus of the film. And what, exactly, is that? 

#The Sacrifice #Andrei Tarkovsky

[evasjacks]

A moment of silence for all those characters who died to further the plot

#These tags contain spoilers #COLE STEWART #JUDE #MATHIAS HELVAR #DOMINIK #DOCTOR ERLAND #MICHELLE BENOIT #MAHA KESLEY #PEONY #MAX #JOHN WING #KAEDE #JEST #the lunar chronicles #the darkest minds #grishaverse #legend #heartless #shadowhunters #mortal instruments #infernal devices #Alexandra bracken #Marissa Meyer #Marie lu #Leigh bardugo #Cassandra Clare

[hxlind2]

HEAR ME OUT YALL

Stan Tucci as Doctor Darnel from The Lunar Chronicles

#fancast #tlc fancast #dmitri erland #doctor darnel #sage darnel #the lunar chronicles #tlc #stanley tucci #stan tucci

[bookishprincessc]

Books Read in 2017: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

“She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him”

#books 2017 #scarlet #marissa meyer #the lunar chronicles #cinder #booklr #book aesthetic #book quote #scarlet quote #bookshelf #bookworm #bookish #cress #captain thorne #carswell thorne #emperor kai #doctor erland #i actually listened to the audiobook this time #which was interesting #I've never really been into audiobooks #but now they are growing on me #the rampion crew #Iko #this whole series is just so wonderful #wolf #ze'ev kesley #wolflet #fairytale retelling #little red riding hood #also it's kind of beauty and the beast

[therealkaidertrash21]

Cinder re-read ✨

chapter 6:

i hate her so much I can't even put it into words

1. oh, cry me a river

2. if that's your best I don't want to see what's your worst

I HATE HER I HATE HER SO MUCH, DID I MENTION I HATE HER??? AFTER EVERYTHING CINDER DID UGHHH I HATE HER

Chapter 7:

"LUCKY"??? "PEOPLE"????? GIRLIE WTF

things that make sense after you reread the book

it actually sounds so creepy if you don't know what's actually happening 💀

Chapter 8:

things that make sense after you reread the book part two

I know Erland doesn't actually believe this but the fact some people do makes me furious

stay positive ☺️🤞💕

@that-multi-fandom-hijabi (if you want to be tagged or removed from this updates, tell me)

#the lunar chronicles #tlc #cinder #thelunarchronicles #lunar chronicles #linh cinder #marissa meyer #tlc tag #doctor erland

[a-salting-the-world]

Thorne: So I have some news. Cress and I are engaged.

Dr. Erland: I wish you asked me first, Carswell.

Thorne:

Thorne: Doctor, I'm sorry, but you're just not my type.

#obviously alt universe where he's not dead... #carswell thorne #marissa meyer #cress darnel #dr. erland #incorrect quotes #incorrect tlc quotes #the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles #tlc

[impossiblesuitcase]

hii i love your fanfics! thank you so much for tlc content<3 what do you think is a trope that suits au kai and cinder? do you think you'll write au kaider? :)

Thanks!

Friends to Lovers is a pretty safe one for them. I think if there were a Selene and Kai AU, you could put Enemies to Lovers, Enemies AND Lovers, or my favourite, Lovers TO Enemies. Ah, the angst potential.

I have written AU Kaider before in Exit the Stage; Kindle the Blaze.

I have other ideas for Au's, ones I will write and ones I won't. One I will probably never write but have mapped out is a Back to the Future AU. Cinder is Marty, Kai is Jennifer and Dr. Erland is Doctor Emmet Brown. I want to include all three movies, hence why it's too long for me to have time to write.

#the lunar chronicles #tlc #lunar chronicles #kaider

[forcedtoland]

jacin clay in "cress" (2/2)

hi!!! welcome to part 2/2 of me just talking about jacin clay because i finished rereading cress and i love him a ridiculous amount

remember when i said the second part would be up "in a few days"? yeah me neither.

part 1 can be found here!

this post will cover his moments in cress from chapter 29 and on. enjoy<3

disclaimers:

this post might include spoilers for all of the lunar chronicles series, since i sometimes make links with moments from the other books!

it will also probably end up being long because i have the wonderful tendency to overanalyze everything

for a bit of context, cinder just found dr. erland in farafra and is staying with him with part of the crew. part of crew being iko (still body-less and working full-time as a ship at that point of the book), wolf (unconscious) and jacin (barely trustworthy snarky potential-maybe-hopefully ally). not exactly an ideal situation, socially, for cinder.

jacin is painting over the naked lady on the rampion ship to cover it — HE DOESN'T GET PAID ENOUGH FOR THIS

he actually isn't getting paid at all he seemingly dislikes working with them and at that point he shows no clear motive to why he's helping them. i can't imagine how confusing that must be for cinder.

and yet he still cooperates. sure he throws in a lot of snarky remarks here and there (read: every 4.7 minutes) but he's still cooperating. and yet he's very much expressionless and keeps his mind blank all the time, shows no effort to seem trustworthy to the others... very much giving "oh i like to keep people guessing"

"Hey, mongrels, try to stay in the lines!" — i had to look up what mongrel means and even after searching i'm a bit confused but all i can say is that please do not let jacin babysit kids alone ever he'd terrorize them

wait but no he wants to be a doctor i like to think that he secretly is good with kids or maybe he only realizes that post-winter (when did this post turn into a hc)

"I’ve taken enough orders in my life.” YOU GO JACIN

no but he's kinda right even if he was harsh with cinder? the kids' painting was adorable but it wouldn't exactly be discreet when the entire world is on the look out for the rampion...

when cinder says “You have a funny way of showing loyalty.” and he just chuckles in response — and let the ambiguous loyalty misunderstanding continue

he chuckled

also stop being cryptic jacin this is why no one likes you /j

i really need to share this entire interaction because i was laughing so hard

Jacin’s concern turned fast to annoyance. “Your ship has some messed-up priorities, you know that?”

“Iko. My name is Iko. If you don’t stop calling me the ‘ship,’ I am going to make sure you never have hot water during your showers again, do you understand me?”

“Yeah, hold that thought while I go disable the speaker system.”,

jacin: ship, can you stop talking

iko: but i'm iko, the literal reason you have warm water and functioning lights i could literally cut off your internet access right now and make sure you always get locked inside the bathroom i will—

jacin: ok iko, can you stop talking

like he's just so annoying but i can't even be mad because it's so funny. my guy is stuck with people who don't trust him, outnumber him and could easily take him down if needed and he insists on antagonizing them at any chance he gets just because he can.

i love that the others never hesitate to put him in his place though like yess rampion crew humble him make him develop those social skills

i promise he's my comfort character

Cinder punched him.

Jacin stumbled against the wall, already chuckling as his hand came up to his cheekbone. “Did I hit a nerve, or was it a wire that time? You have plenty of both, right?”

what can i say.. if he gets punched again after this that's on him

thing is, jacin's so hostile when cinder is talking about her plan because he thinks she's just insane like ?? what is this 16 year old outlaw doing trying to overthrow a tyrant

you have to remember he has NO idea she is princess selene and he definitely did not sign up for this

at least kai believes cinder is doing it because she found princess selene. jacin never even considered the possibility of selene being implicated he literally just can't figure out what's wrong with these people and why they even think they have a chance against levana

long-ish quotes because jacinter<33

"I’m here because I saw an opportunity to get away from that thaumaturge without getting killed, and—” He cut himself off.

“And what?”

His jaw flexed.

“And what?”

“And it’s what Her Highness would have wanted me to do, although now she’s probably going to die for it.”

!^*#*%*@*×&#&#,,HERE WE GO

first let's appreciate the fact that he flexes his jaw and stops himself from mentioning winter

it's just. the fact that every time he thinks or mentions her his entire demeanor changes and it's so painfully visible. he's trained his whole life to hide everything from his face but he can never control his reactions when it comes to winter.

the way he abruptly cut himself off isn't something he can just shrug off. everyone noticed it. everyone knows he was about to say something important or he wouldn't have reacted that way. he probably knows that avoiding the question again (which is about the reason he joined them) would just make him more suspicious so he continues what he was saying and mentions the princess, basically confirming that he's not working for levana in any way.

also in the last sentence, and in a later quote too, he implies that something might happen to winter... and we all know what jacin does at the end of cress right

and then the big reveal, the moment we've all been waiting for: “Princess Winter. Who do you think?”

like sorry but he has NO clue why everyone would ever question who "the princess" is or why they're surprised and it’s just so funny to me? just thinking how in his perspective the rampion crew probably seem like a bunch of weirdos (like, on top of it all, you don't seem like you know who THEEE princess winter is? do better.)

“I thought maybe the princess would be proud if she heard about me turning against Sybil. That she would approve of my decision. But who am I kidding? She’ll never even know.”

HE WNATED HER TO BE PROUD OF HIM SHUT UP??????

i'm sorry but i just. they . i always talk about how jacin kept being a lunar guard no matter how hard it was for him so he can protect winter & his family but can we also talk about how one of the main things winter has always wanted was for him to be able to escape this life? even if it meant she would have to stay alone?

jacin and winter depend on each other's presence to endure the lives they've been forced into. they give each other a reason to tolerate it no matter how bad things get. and yet, all they want is for the other to be able to improve their situation.

jacin would do anything for winter, that we know. and since she's in no position to ever leave her situation (unlike jacin who technically can try, but would risk too much) the best thing he can do to help her is stay by her side, even if it means sacrificing a lot.

meanwhile, the fact that winter encourages him to leave means that she is willing to let go of him if it means him living a better life. considering her situation, her condition & the fact that jacin is literally her only friend, it takes so much selflessness to put him first like that.

they just want the best for the other. they love each other so much.

and obviously, jacin never planned on leaving her for good here, but for once he's taking initiative. he doesn't want to follow orders anymore. he took a chance. and winter would be proud of him for that.

“Do you … do you love her?”

He glared at her, disgusted. “Don’t try to push your swoony psychodrama on me. I’m sworn to protect her. Can’t very well do that from down here, can I?”

jacin, baby, you're also "sworn to protect" levana, i don't think that excuse really works here...

and there he goes contradicting me right after i said they love each other so much. but he didn't deny it, did he?

“Protect her from what? Levana?”

“Among other things.”

Jacin peered at her like he couldn’t figure out why he was wasting his time with such an idiot.

that last line@^*$ he really has no idea why his loyalty to his "princess" (the only current lunar princess) would ever cause so much confusion.

now, a necessary compilation of jacin clay being an absolute menace

when they're all surrounded by authorities and cinder asks jacin if he can control any of the humans, and he goes "Yeah, right." — he doesn't even TRY ???? also this shows that he doesn't believe in his lunar gift skills at all oh wow

this thorne/jacin interaction:

"In that case, has anyone seen my gun?”

“I’ve got it,” said Jacin.

“Can I have it back?”

“Nope.”

a MENACE i tell u

but also good on u for not giving a blind man a gun, jacin

"When he did talk, he tended to say something rude or prickly." that's my boy

take a shot every time someone describes him as looking extremely bored

“Let’s say you manage to pull this off, not that I really think you will.” — WHAT HAPPENED TO BOOSTING TEAM MORALE

cinder giving him instructions and him repearing "I know." after each sentence (until thorne cuts her off and goes "Cinder, he knows." — he might have saved some lives here)

also i need more thorne/jacin interactions i can't wait to reread winter & stars above

AND...... jacin betrays them

i'm going to be honest there i haven't read the 4th book in so long so i forgot some things related to that — like i know he did it for winter's sake but the exact specific reason is just a vague memory so i can't say much about this part

but we do get this scene with him and levana and i feel like it's so important to point out the fact that the queen herself decides to confront some "lowly guard" and you can even tell through their conversation how much she's just looking for an excuse to have him be considered a traitor... and obviously she'd love that to make winter suffer

jacin claims that he infiltrated the rampion crew as a spy and that he betrayed them after gathering info, etc.

he says that he's the one who gave sybil the location (did he though? i forgot lol)

levana tries to test his mind for rebellion but his mind is blank as always — obviously she's disappointed to not find anything but can we just talk about how ???? like even levana who has an EXTREMELY strong gift and an insane amount of practice can't even get near his thoughts and oh he's able to do that

NO DOUBT YOUR EAGERNESS TO RETURN ENCOMPASSED A DESIRE TO SEE YOUR BELOVED PRINCESS AS WELL

and THERE the "tiniest ripple of emotion" before he goes all blank again

sorry i know i've said this before but even after years and years of practice and mastering that expressionless face it takes the MOST MINIMAL mention of winter for it to break in an instant my heart hurts she's his weakness and he doesn't even try to pretend otherwise

like. he goes on saying he serves the entire royal family — first of all, very careful wording because levana would be the type to find ANYTHING to use against him (like i can totally see her going "oh, so you don't protect my beloved stepdaughter? that's treason" if he hadn't)

but also it prevents him from telling a full lie about it. idk if this makes sense but something i've noticed is that jacin is ok with lying / hiding many things but when it comes to winter, he goes with half-truths.

is it because he knows he can't control his expression anyway and that his emotions would give him away?

is it because he knows they would force it out of him if he tried to? (since he's used to being controlled)

maybe it's that something in him prevents him from denying it, like even if it's a lie he just can't say it...

idk... but i do know that he didn't attempt to lie about it even with the rampion crew

no one, not even lunars with their gift, can figure out his thoughts so it actually seems fair that we rarely have any idea what goes through his mind either lmao

WHEN JACIN FINDS OUT THAT CINDER IS SELENE AND HE DOESN'T EVEN TRY TO HIDE HIS EXPRESSION

it's like. Oh. Oh.

suddenly everything starts to make sense to him and i have to say it had me grinning

actually, thinking about it, it's kinda good that jacin acted like an antagonistic jerk for 90% of cress (guys i promise i love him) because can you imagine if the rampion crew trusted him? if they had shared their secrets with him?

not only would hiding the plans he'd have known about from levana have been nearly impossible, but he also might not have had a properly shocked reaction at dr. erland saying that cinder is selene and hide the fact that he had known like...

levana would have gotten to them so easily.

in conclusion, jacin clay is the reason the lunar chronicles has a 4th book in the first place. his sarcasm single handedly extended the plot. everyone say thank you jacin.

this is technically the last moment jacin appears in cress BUT if you think i wasn't going to scream about winter talking about him to scarlet, then there is no way you have been actually reading this post because of course i'm going to scream about it

first things first, she is playing make-believe doctor/patient with scarlet

I REPEAT: doctor & patient

this isn't even directly related to jacinter but i don't care i'm making it about jacinter

when she talks about jacin going missing :(((( i'm so upset can you imagine how hard it must have been for her... her going "and I don’t know if he’ll ever come back" and nearly dropping everything

i just find it so interesting that while jacin never shows his emotions, you can feel winter's strongly. like she's so physically expressive, and not just in terms of facial expressions.

"But I asked the stars to send a sign that he was all right, and they sent me a shooting star across the sky."

despite scarlet not really looking like she's about to answer her / cooperate, she just keeps going and asks whether he's safe... she's so worried about him i'm actually sad

more about how expressive winter is:

when scarlet confirms she saw jacin: "Glee spread over the girl’s face."

the instant scarlet implies that jacin might have been killed: The smile vanished and the girl shriveled away, tying her arms around her waist. “You don’t mean that.”

it's just so interesting how marissa meyer made them complete opposite in that aspect. winter shows her emotions in such an open, unfiltered way, to the point you feel that emotion yourself, meanwhile jacin...

“Jacin Clay,” she whispered. “Sybil’s guard, with the blond hair and beautiful eyes and the rising sun in his smile. Please, tell me he’s all right.”

i love this quote a lot because first of all you can just feel how in love winter is oh god she loves him so much (also it's just so endearing coming from her)

second of all, it's just the huge contrast between the jacin we've seen up until now and winter's version of jacin (who is technically his real personality)

and obviously, as i'm rereading this i can immediately go "awww" but i can imagine that when reading it for the 1st time, when you don't know either of them that well, you'd go ?? who? is winter just blinded by her crush that she sees what she wants to see? or has jacin clay actually been nice to another living being before in his lifetime?

and scarlet mirrors that thought perfectly because she's like,, well i remember a blond guard but definitely not a rising sun in his smile. or a smile point blank. also he tried to murder us.

and then winter doesn't even react to the last part. him trying to kill other people. she's absolutely unconcerned.

and it's not in a "oh yeah he does that sometimes" type of unconcerned (which i've seen with different fictional characters for who killing is a 'normal' thing). but no really, her lack of concern about it is because she knows he would never do that willingly.

she knows he has had to do things he doesn't want to do as a guard. that fact doesn't change the image of jacin she has, since she's known him for so long, way before he became a guard.

and i just love that because all the other tlc ships meet during the story's timeline, right? so they all have their moments where they don't fully trust the others, or doubt each others' loyalties, etc. especially in the early stages of each relationship, you have several moments where a certain action one does or miscommunication causes some sort of conflict between them.

take wolf/scarlet, for example, wolf also gets forced into doing things unwillingly, and despite knowing that, scarlet still hesitates in trusting him.

not that it's a bad thing! if anything, it's realistic. completely normal. even when you really care about someone, if you don't know them enough, sometimes 1 wrong move (even if it turns out you just misinterpreted the situation) can make you mistrust them for a while.

but jacin & winter are way past that stage like there is nothing one of them could do that would make them immediately think the other might be a bad person after all or anything like that. they just know each other too much for that.

plus, she knows how ridiculously rational he is all the time so she knows that if he did a certain thing, he had his reason and it was probably his best option at the time.

have i mentioned how much i love them btw

so. that was something.

pleeaaaase leave your thoughts in replies and reblogs let's talk about jacin i want to talk about jacin

i'm also planning on rereading winter at some point, too, and i'm wondering if i should make a jacin post for that. will it end up being 6 parts long? perhaps. but i'm still considering it.

if you somehow made it to the end and don't yet want to block me for how ridiculously long this post is, then congratulations! you are now officially a citizen of the Jacin Clay Nation. we are proud to have you here with us.

part 1

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Blu-ray Review: Alone in the Dark

Not to be confused with the 2005 video game adaptation of the same name, 1982’s Alone in the Dark has all the makings of a horror classic. It’s written and directed by Jack Sholder (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, The Hidden), stars screen greats Jack Palance (City Slickers), Donald Pleasence (Halloween), and Martin Landau (Ed Wood), features a special effect by Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th), and was the first production shepherded by New Line Cinema (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Lord of the Rings). It would be notable for all the talent involved even if it was bad - but it's a genuinely great genre outing. Scream Factory aims to change the tide on the under-seen picture with a Collector's Edition Blu-ray.

The film follows psychiatrist Dan Potter (Dwight Schultz, The A-Team) to his new position at a new-age psychiatric hospital known as The Haven. Its righteous founder, Dr. Leo Bain (Pleasence), uses unorthodox methods to get through to patients - or voyagers, as he refers to them - that other doctors have written off. Potter is stationed on the third floor, where the potentially dangerous individuals are housed: paranoid schizophrenic veteran Frank Hawkes (Palance), pyromaniac ex-minister Byron Sutcliff (Landau), child molester Ronald Elster (Erland van Lidth, The Running Man), and serial killer John "The Bleeder" Skaggs (Phillip Clark).

Under the delirious belief that Potter killed their old doctor and that they are next, the patients plot to kill him first. A power blackout allows them to make an easy escape, followed by riots through the city where they blend in. The last act feels a bit like Night of the Living Dead, as Potter and his family - wife Nell (Deborah Hedwall, Mare of Easttown), liberal sister Toni (Lee Taylor-Allan, Stargate), and young daughter Lyla (Elizabeth Ward) - are trapped in their house with the armed killers lurking outside, then it slowly becomes a home invasion as the madmen make their way inside one by one.

Slasher is the easiest way to classify Alone in the Dark, but that's not entirely accurate. Produced during the subgenre's golden age, the movie certainly contains key slasher elements but also eschews several of its tropes. Notably, it centers on adults rather than teenagers, college kids, or young adults. Coincidentally, it’s set in a town called Springwood (pre-dating A Nightmare on Elm Street by two years) and features a killer donning a goalie mask (arriving the same year Jason Voorhees picked one up in Friday the 13th Part III).

Sholder shows remarkable control in his direction for a feature debut, delivering a tight 93 minutes with a couple of chilling stalk-and-slash scenes. Working with cinematographer Joseph Mangine (Alligator, Q: The Winged Serpent), the film features some beautiful, blue-tinted nighttime sequences. The score, composed by Renato Serio (The Pumaman), is begging to be pressed on vinyl. Its main theme is reminiscent of The Exorcist's "Tubular Bells" with hints of Italian prog rock and John Carpenter influence.

Schultz is considerably more restrained than his over-the-top Murdock from The A-Team, but he’s understandably overshadowed by - and billed below - the bigger names. Palance, per usual, commands attention every time he's on screen. Pleasence’s Dr. Bain is the inverse of his Dr. Loomis from Halloween; one is convinced his patient is pure evil, the other believes they are harmless. Landau adds further gravitas. Brent Jennings (Lodge 49) plays the ill-fated third floor security guard, while a young Lin Shaye (Insidious) pops up as the first inmate Potter meets. Punk band The Sic Fucks appear as themselves, performing the infectiously macabre "Chop Up Your Mother" and more at a nightclub.

Alone in the Dark has been newly scanned in 2K from the interpositive with DTS-HD Master Audio stereo sound for Scream Factory's Collector's Edition Blu-ray. It features reversible artwork with a new design by Hugh Fleming that leans into the slasher elements and the ominous original poster art. A new interview with Sholder is one of the best director featurettes in recent memory. The sharp, 40-minute piece offers detailed anecdotes about the Friday the 13th's inspiration, the original script being set in New York City, how editing The Burning taught him how to make a horror movie, and more.

Sholder's archival audio commentary from the 2005 DVD is also included. A lot of information from the interview is repeated, but the longer form allows him to go into greater detail. Film historians Justin Kerswell (author of The Slasher Movie Book) and Amanda Reyes (author of Are You In The House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium) provide a new audio commentary in which they analyze the subtext of the film. A new featurette finds former Fangoria editor-in-chief Michael Gingold visiting the New Jersey filming locations (including one later used in Orange is the New Black) as they appear today.

Both new and archival interviews with The Sic Fucks vocalist Russell Wolinsky and back-up singers Snooky Bellomo and Tish Bellomo show the band members taking pride in their small part in horror history. An archival chat with actress Carol Levy is also included; she recounts playing the libidinous babysitter in addition to her work in other productions, then shows off her ability to put her legs behind her head. The theatrical trailer, TV spot, two radio spots, and a gallery of stills round out the extras.

Alone in the Dark is available now on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray via Scream Factory.

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