I AM FREAKING OUT. LUNAR CHRONICLES IS GETTING NEW COVERS!!!! I CAN’T STOP STARING AT THEM!!!
They cover art is by the extremely talented (obviously) Tomer Hanuka (@tropical_toxic)
I’m so happy because IMHO the old covers, beautiful as they were (Cress was my fav of those) didn’t really do the stories justice! Like, to look at the old cover of Cinder you’d think it was about some weird assassin-escort-robot or something!? These are just *beautiful* and are absolutely indicative of that…that….unique and ethereal science fiction. The Lunar Chronicles is honestly just a genre by itself! Let’s be real!
According to Marissa Meyer the Winter one is her favorite. Which one do you like best??
If you haven’t read my last few posts - that’s okay! That’s fine! I *totally* get it. But if you’d like to do that, I *just* made them and they might lend context this post.
For a long time - since its creation, really - this blog has been dedicated to one book series.
Mind you, it’s a great book series. I love it. But like…it’s over. You know? It’s great. But there’s nothing new that’s coming from it. It’s a complete story. There’s no new content.
I’ve been thinking about this for a while. I don’t want to just leave you guys high and dry. We’ve been through it together! …And by it I mean the fictional ups and downs of the Lunar Chronicles cast. =D =D =D …ah jeez…I am so self conscious… =D =D =D
Would you guys be interested if I made this a straight up bookish tumblr? I could bring up -other- books I mean? Like maybe books I really like?
Or maybe I could rant about books I don’t like??
Whichever? Both?
I already have a book in mind I’d love to share with you guys.
Maybe I could talk about my book? If you guys would be cool with that I mean. I’d love to share my creative process with y’all.
Anyway I *SUPER* hope I’ll get some answers to this because I want to take all of you into consideration about this!
AS ALWAYS, I SUPER LOVE *ALL* OF YOU.
THANK YOU *SO FUCKING MUCH*, HONESTLY, FOR STILL BEING WITH ME EVEN THOUGH I WAS INACTIVE.
I was supposed to draw the Wires and Nerve V.2 reunion scene, but made this instead. It’s not what I was hoping for, but after 30+ hours I do not want to look at it anymore. There was a lot more I wanted to add but I maxed out the layers and couldn’t sacrifice any more canvas size or merges.
“Captain,” she murmured. “I think I’m in love with you.” An eyebrow shot up. She counted six beats of his heart before, suddenly, he laughed. “Don’t tell me it took you two whole days to realize that. I must be losing my touch.”
Thought I’d share a work in progress of Cinder from The Lunar Chronicles for the @heroine-artbook Can’t wait to see everyone’s finished pieces!! They look fantastic so far ✨
(also I definitely took some hair liberties. long is just so fun ;;)
So make sure to grab a copy now if you want one. All proceeds go to the Campaign for Female Education and it’s got a lot of talented people contributing to it and making this a really beautiful book. This is a preview of my final piece for it since I haven’t shared that just yet and figured I might as well.
It was 2:41am, and though one couldn’t glimpse the stars from the glaring metropolis of New Beijing, their burning presence loomed over Thorne’s head like an anvil waiting to drop.
The stars had always been freedom, relief, adventure to Thorne, but now their unmoving hold—what they represented to him—felt more like a penance.
But none of that mattered. Not in this moment, without her.
Thorne had spent the past five hours flitting past space stations and towering skyscrapers in an attempt to collect his thoughts. He was grateful that he had honed in on his piloting skills during the past year. It meant he could fly without it engrossing him so much he couldn’t think.
Because that’s all he had been doing. Thinking. And if his autopilot had been on the entire time, he must have hardly noticed otherwise.
Part of Thorne wished he was back in the garden with his feet bare. That way he could curl his toes in the gravel and feel like he was secure in standing upright. But on the pristine marble floor of the palace, his toes had no room to move but in his clacking dress shoes.
Even in his socks they were cold, while the warm atmosphere and his own dread heated the rest of his body. The disparity was dizzying.
Cold feet. Ha.
Typically it was an analogy applied to weddings, but he seldom saw it in full action. Of course, it had been funny to see Jacin, the usual picture of self assurance, blanching on his wedding day only two months prior. Jacin would have never backed out, but he had required a few words of consolation from his groomsmen to return to his normal, brazen self. He then gave Thorne a look that indicated it was not to be brought up.Ever.
Thorne didn’t have that kind of cold feet though—neither the kind Kai had had, where his giddiness for marrying Cinder combined with his anxiety and painful reminders of his last wedding. All was remedied when he talked to Cinder through the doorway, Iko insisting they were not to meet in person.
If you have cold feet, put socks on! she’d shouted.
They snuck past her to meet up just before walking down the aisle anyway.
Maybe the difference was the outcome. For his two friends, they had known despite their nerves, they would end the day married to the love of their life. Thorne had no such certainty. He wasn’t even asking a similar question—just telling Cress all that had been weighing on him, with no way of foreseeing the end result.
Yes, Cinder does kick Thorne for his inappropriate jokes and rolls her eyes at his shameless flirting, but remember that she canonically laughs at a lot of his jokes and jokes along.
The comedian and exhausted friend trope are good but please don’t take away the pureness from their friendship. Cinder was so glad to have a friend and they both care about each so much.
Like when Cinder thinks he’s dead? And Thorne stabs her and starts sobbing? They both value their friendship and Thorne is one of Cinder’s biggest, constant supporters through the whole series.
There’s a reason Marissa Meyer had Thorne as Levana’s last bargaining chip, because Cinder and Thorne’s friendship is so integral to their character developments and the overall story.
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