#selene blackburn

[cosmicnovaflare]

Redraw of Cinder’s coronation gown.

#*ignores book description* my dress now #Many changes made because the 2020 one looked like a bowling alley clown’s dressona #lunar chronicles #the lunar chronicles #tlc #marissa meyer #lunar chronicles fanart #the lunar chronicles fanart #Linh cinder #Selene blackburn #Kaider #cinder #scarlet #cress #winter #fairest #stars above #wires and nerve #the lunar chronicles art #lunar chronicles art

[winterczn]

the literal crown prince of the eastern commonwealth after his crush said no to going to the ball with him twice, ignored 6 of his comms, and didn’t want to go eat lunch with him:

video by rydrxve on tiktok!

#the lunar chronicles #marissa meyer #emperor kai #emperor kaito #linh cinder #selene blackburn #kaider #he is kenough #incorrect tlc quotes #your honor i love him #this is basically a kai fanpage #i havent even watched watch the movie yet

[impossiblesuitcase]

Cinder is jealous. She's jealous of her step-sisters. They have pretty clothes and soft hands and a doting mother. She has none of which. Her sister Peony is her only human friend and even seeing her in a ballgown sparks "envy" in Cinder, because Peony gets a dress and can go to the ball. Cinder can't.

She doesn't believe she could be pretty. She's too clunky, she's not curvy. She pins it down to being cyborg or just naturally inadequate. Cinder doesn't have nice clothes or fancy things. Kai gives her gloves and they are "the most beautiful thing she had ever owned." And then they are ruined, like all the pretty things in her life. She has to survive, endure, and with that she doesn't have time for prettiness.

But Kai's first impression of her is that she's "cute" and "pretty." He calls her pretty in public, and he calls her pretty in his private thoughts. "Your pretty new mechanic in the lobby", "the pretty young mechanic at the market." He finds her gorgeous with her glamour, and his "knees threatened to buckle" in her beauty. Everyone else thought she was gorgeous, but no one was swooning the way he was. The glamour had amplified the attraction he'd already had towards her.

Thorne, upon seeing a cyborg stumble into his jail cell, has the first instinct to flirt with her. Not recoil, because of her metal and skin, but flirt because she's a girl and that's his favourite pastime. And what distinguished her from the many other pretty girls he normally flirted with? To him, "her irritation made her prettier". Her disgruntled personality, who she is, is her prettiness.

Adri tells Cinder that if she can't cry, she can't feel love. She does love, she loves so much, but she doesn't have time to grieve her sister or her anonymity or her freedom when she has a revolution to start. She has to tough it out.

When she's bound up in Kai's arms she feels safe, delicate, "almost like a princess."

Cinder pretends she doesn't have a crush on Kai because having a crush on a celebrity is "preadolescent," the trademark of immature, lovesick teenage girls. How can she be girly when she's a grimy mechanic? She "doesn't know the first thing about makeup", because do you think Adri would have ever let her buy some to try? Would Cinder have even bothered, believing nothing could improve a cyborg?

She dreams of "going to the ball and dancing with the prince." And when Iko teases her, Cinder says, "we all have our weaknesses". It is a weakness to be in love, because someone like Kai couldn't love her. She imagines being at the ball, "jealous of the girls who swooned to catch Prince Kai's attention." Jealous that they can be open with their attraction, jealous that he would pick them over her.

But he loves her. And when he does, she can't process the feeling "of being desired". She wants to carve 'C + K' into a wall, then berates herself for such "whimsy." Because deep down, she's always wanted to be wanted, and that truth is her weakness. But war doesn't last forever, and soon, she has no reason to hide that. There's no reason it would be a weakness.

Cinder is comfortable in baggy cargo pants and messy hair but she also dreams of wearing a beautiful ballgown. She loves her coronation dress. She calls the empress crown 'stunning.'

She never becomes obsessed with frills or glitter, but she slowly leans into soft, pretty things. She has a necklace from Kai and her engagement ring. It's sparkly and yet, Cinder, the so-called 'tough, aloof tomboy' thinks it makes her metal hand look "elegant". Maybe she starts wearing bracelets and earrings because they don't bother her when she isn't working on something mechanical. She doesn't even notice until Thorne jokes that she wears more metal in jewellery than the whole metal of her hand.

Maybe she buys herself a new set of tools with pink and blue iridescent handles simply because finds them pretty. Maybe when her friends tease her about how in love she is, she starts to acknowledge it.

Cinder is not some stereotype of a leading female character who is strong and as such cannot be feminine or soft or emotional. Was she given the chance to be?

Let her be soft. Let her be delicate. Let her pretty.

#tlc #the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles #linh cinder #selene blackburn #emperor kai #kaider #carswell thorne #ive had this sitting in my drafts for years #dont know why i never finished #i clearly had too much to say

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1D, MATCH 2 OUT OF 16!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Linh Cinder:

Her glass slipper is her prosthetic foot. She's a cool badass mechanic queen. She's named Cinder because her aunt set her on fire as a toddler but she survived. She's a a cool cyborg with psychic powers, and she's also a really good mechanic.

She's a cyborg and she's from the Moon

She is a badass mechanic who is also a cyborg and did not intend to get dragged into this mess. She becomes a fugitive of the law, running from the prince who is also her romantic interest and is just objectively the best.

I love a sarcastic character and I love a good confrontation scene and she's great with both

she's a cyborg she's a mechanic she's a princess she's a fugitive she's the best.

She's a mechanic she's the lunar princess she has two prosthetic limbs she's supposed to be dead. Her best friend is an android who's a fangirl of her boyfriend (Kai, the emperor). Her ball was actually her showing up to keep Kai from getting seduced by her aunt (who's queen of the moon) and then killed. Instead of losing her slipper she just lost her entire foot. (That's all just in the first book.)

look man, if you've read tlc you know why but if not: cinder here goes through a lot, from living in a shitty household to leading a rebellion and witnessing what's practically a massacre (TWICE), getting stabbed in the mc'freaking heart and surviving, being a wanted fugitive, Oh, and also, she loses her goddamn FOOT instead of a glass slipper lol (albeit the foot is a prosthetic, which i might've forgotten to add, her left arm and (i think) leg are metal due to getting BURNED as a toddler by her somewhat power hungry aunt)

She's SO cool she's a mechanic and really clever and also an amputee and her prosthetics are very cool and she has fun space adventures with her little gang of found family and is also the heir to the crown on the moon and is trying to get control of it from her aunt (who's a dictator) so she can help the moon people be less oppressed! tl;dr she's a girlboss

She literally got set on fire. Shes a cyborg. Shes such a girl boss that her love interest kept her severed prosthetic foot as a memento. She is a revolutionary [against her will] and a politician [also against her will]. Shes a skilled mechanic, and called the queen of a super-powerful alien race with the ability to manipulate people’s perceptions of reality ugly TO HER FACE. Queen does not give a shit and just wants to hang out with her robot bestie and her dork ass boyfriend who is also the leader of an entire country. Shes iconic, she is the moment.

she's a teenage cyborg who works as a mechanic and is secretly royalty - a badass and i love her!!

Kickbutt cyborg Cinderella princess

Cyborg and mechanic is a fun new twist on classic Cinderella! (At least when I read it and it was new). Plus she’s got her Prince/Emperor all wrapped around her fingers before the ball!

she's cool as fuck that's why!! cyborg cinderella in a cool-ass future sci-fi world, she doesn't have glass slippers so she loses her ill-fitted cybernetic foot, she has a gun in her cyborg hand (mostly uses nonlethal projectiles), she has cool sci-fi magic mind powers, she's from the moon, she's a mechanic & she's smart as hell, she literally forms a ragtag team of other fairytale inspired characters & dethrones the evil queen of the lunar monarchy. also her prince charming is cool & funny & they're so sickeningly in love their feelings could power the sun. anyway vote Cinder ✨️

cinder is a mixed cyborg mechanic who has acquired beef with both her stepmother (adopted) and her bio aunt (tyrant queen levanna) and manages to escape their attempts to keep her down (including arson when she was like. 3 years old) and ultimately overthrows her aunt in a revolution lead by her and the other fairytale retellings (red riding hood and wolf, rapunzel and her ‘prince’, and her cousin snow white and her prince) and establishes a democracy! i enjoyed the series growing up and i personally think that cinder is very cool :]

The first book in The Lunar Chronicles is a retelling of cinderella, and my gosh it’s amazing. Cinder is a cyborg and faces a lot of prejudice, and it’s interesting to see that even in the future, where the book is set, there’s still so much discrimination, and Cinder faces it so well. She’s smart and snarky, and has such character growth and cares so much and akhjfqwthbj

shes cinderella if cinderella was a cyborg and also secretly an alien moon princess. fucking amazing series everyone should read it. It's very common for Cinderella retelling that "girlboss" her end up sending the weird message that victims of abuse should simply stand up for themselves <3 I really like Cinder because she's spunky and snaps at her stepmother, but it doesn't. do her any good? It just makes her stepmother worse. Also one of her stepsisters is nice, I love Peony.

Cyborg Cinderella, long-lost princess of the moon, revolutionary against the evil queen.

she’s a cyborg! instead of losing her shoe on the steps of the palace her entire foot comes off 👍 thats hard as fuck she’s so cool

Cinderella:

Because she is so cute in this, I love her outfits before and after the transformation, and this movie is just such a good adaptation of Cinderella

the 1997 cinderella movie is the best one ever to me like. you have whitney houston as the fairy godmother and brandy is so so so pretty and she's such an amazing cinderella. 10 minutes ago the best cinderella song of all time ever she sounded so good<3

does this movie even NEED propaganda?

Brandy Cinderella with Whitney Houston! Need I say more?

Brandy plays one of the best iterations of Cinderella actually

I just think she's neat. Also she looked the best in the ball gown

One of the most iconic Cinderellas of all time, Brandy brought tenderness, earnestness, and heartfelt poignancy that transformed the story and emphasized its humanity and themes of dreaming for the future. Her voice is celestial! The power of her performance is undeniable! As a lifelong Cinderella fan she was always one of my favorites.

A lot of children grew up watching this movie around the holidays.

This is my favorite version of Cinderella and Brandy absolutely KILLS IT as Cinderella!! Her voice is so sweet and beautiful. And her dress!! I love her peplum. ALSO HER BRAIDS MAKE A BUN AND ITS SO ADORABLE. just look up the soundtrack for this movie PLEASE

#cinderpoll #round 1 #round 1d #rodgers & hammerstein's cinderella #rodgers and hammerstein's cinderella #rodgers and hammerstein #rodgers & hammerstein #brandy #cinderella #linh cinder #princess selene blackburn #selene blackburn #the lunar chronicles #marissa meyer #poll tournament #poll bracket #character polls #polls #fairytale

[bumblekits]

cinder in apricot? your art is so cute btw!! ♥️

She's got a lot in her mind

#thank you for the compliment btw :]<3 #still experimenting w my art a lil bit #art tag #digital art #lihn cinder #the lunar chronicles #tlc #tlc fanart #the lunar chronicles fanart #fanart #artists on tumblr #cinder tlc #tlc cinder #princess selene #selene blackburn #selene channary jannali blackburn #outfit meme #shout out to this outfit for letting me show my take on cinder's prosthetics

[chemicallyyourss]

Levana: “I can’t let my planet have another horrible Queen like my sister, I need to get rid of Selene! She won’t be fit to rule and she’ll be just like my sister! This is what will be best for Luna!”

Also Levana: Indirectly attempts to kill her niece, orders her husband and step daughter to be killed, takes babies from their parents mere hours after birth because of something they can’t control and leads parents to think it’s an infanticide but really she’s enslaving the children to harvest their blood to make a lab made virus, takes kids at young ages from their homes to tamper with their genetic makeup and make them into human-wolf hybrids and strip them of their humanity and rights, lets the majority of her planet live in poverty and work in extremely unsafe conditions and only give them weekly rations that barely sustain them at all, executes people randomly and publicly for little to no reason at times, does corporal punishment and executions of ENTIRE FAMILIES and groups of people for the little actions of a single person that could range from saying the princess is pretty to trying to flee the country to escape infanticide and slavery and poverty

#the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles #tlc #marissa meyer #cinder #linh cinder #levana blackburn #queen levana #winter hayle blackburn #evret hayle #channary blackburn #selene blackburn #the blackburn family is dare I say fucked #yeah that checks out Levana #the math ain’t mathin

[therealkaidertrash21]

i had a very bad idea. so, obviously, I did it

valentine's day kaider cards!

I know February 14th is late but, I just had the idea and I honestly wish I didn't have it because this is terrible .

#im sorry i hate this lol #the lunar chronicles #tlc #lunar chronicles #thelunarchronicles #marissa meyer #cinder #tlc tag #linh cinder #prince kai #kaider #emperor kaito #emperor kai #prince kaito #selene channary jannaly blackburn #selene blackburn #valentines day #valentine's day

[wassupnye]

I will never get over how Cinder got stabbed, nearly died, finally woke up, and the first thing she noticed about Kai was how handsome he looked

her sister would be proud

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

[oliveeeia]

The only thing that Channary did right was ship her daughter (Selene/Cinder) with Kai.

#the lunar chronicles #fairest #channary Blackburn #Cinder #selene blackburn #linh cinder #kaider #prince kai #kai

[boog-how]

Cinder & Iko!

#booghowart #Cinder #tlc #the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles #Iko #Linh Cinder #Cinderella #Cinderella Dress #Android #Robot #Selene Blackburn #Eugh kween #marissa meyer

[brainrotlesbian]

Ok back to the Lunar Chronicles cause I had a random thought. Princess Selene was born with her lunar gift while Cress was not and was considered a shell. Imagine a story where their roles were reversed, where Selene was the shell and Cress was born with her lunar gift. How would Channary react to her child being born a shell? Would Selene be sent to be with the other shells? Would Channary try to protect her daughter, because we know that she truly did love her daughter for the brief time she was alive with her? If Selene was allowed to remain the Princess of Luna, how would the people react? Imagine the rumors in Artemisia about the embarrassment of a Princess, or even that perhaps the queen was cursed.

#aspen stfu challenge level impossible #the lunar chronicles #tlc fandom #cress darnel #selene blackburn #this is just me speculating

[cosmicnovaflare]

Cinder (✨Ambassador Selene✨) from The Lunar Chronicles

#I have been cursed with the inability to draw a nice cinder since January 28th #5h26m trying to draw a pose and come up with whatever an ambassador might wear #had to give up and turn it into a portrait #the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles #tlc #marissa meyer #the lunar chronicles fanart #lunar chronicles fanart #the lunar chronicles art #lunar chronicles art #Linh cinder #cinder Linh #Selene blackburn #Kaider #TLC fanart #TLC art #digital art #digital illustration #wires and nerve #stars above #please let me break the curse it’s still here #come to think of it I think I’ve been cursed with everyone #so many failed TLC drafts live in my files

[winterczn]

daily reminder that channary jannali blackburn, a sadistic tyrant who ordered her seamstress’s feet to be chopped off, loved cinder more than linh adri. A TYRANT, KNOWN FOR BEING EVEN WORSE THAN LEVANA, LOVED CINDER MORE THAN ADRI.

#i think about this all the time #would cinder love and care about channary like a mother if she was raised by her on luna #WOULD THEY HAVE A GENUINE RELATIONSHIP #would cinder become corrupted and power hungry on luna #or would she become very close to winter and be like her #would cinder still be sarcastic and hilarious #I NEED ANSWERS #the lunar chronicles #marissa meyer #linh cinder #selene blackburn #channary blackburn #linh adri #winter hayle blackburn

[impossiblesuitcase]

Okay but can we talk about how beautiful of a title Empress Selene is? Like Emperor Kaito and Empress Selene??? That’s such a gorgeous pair of names. Also the fact that Cinder has a cool name (Cinder obvi) and a fancy royal name (Selene), is also dope. She gets the best of both worlds *que Hannah Montana

I think social media would really lean into that Hannah Montana idea, to the point that it's a running joke (John Cena level) that Selene and Cinder are completely different people. e.g:

bonus:

#thornes whatsapp is a picture of the rampion yes #the lunar chronicles #tlc #lunar chronicles #linh cinder #prince kai #kaider #emperor kai #selene blackburn #empress selene #cresswell #iko #cress darnel #carswell thorne #rampion crew #i have never used the rampion crew tag #wow #please appreciate that i did the years and the newsfeed for ports thing accurate to the books

[that-multi-fandom-hijabi]

so cinder's princessy name is selene channary jannali blackburn

selene = moon

channary = full moon

jannali = moon

so her name literally is....

Moon Full Moon Moon Blackburn

makes sense

#tlc #the lunar chronicles #tlc cinder #linh cinder #selene blackburn #princess selene #selene channary jannali blackburn

[lily-s-world]

To my fellow Lunar Chronicles fans, Cinder is a tan skinned Asian right?

That is what I understood from the books, specially with the new edition where it is said that she has Commonwealth aka East Asian facial features.

Because the thing is that I have received so many hate and complaints for my fancast on this post. Where people are kind of dying on the hill over the fact that she is actually a pale white lunar, and that her skin tone is product of the sun (even though she is barely under the sun).

Was her appearance product of fan ideas? Or are these people just super r*cist?

No matter what, I won't alter my idea of how Cinder looks like, because that is how I picture it. But I'm a little confused on whether I missed something in the books.

#the lunar chronicles #linh cinder #cinder linh #selene blackburn #Tlc #marissa meyer #The lunar Chronicles fancast