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Adding “I’m dating your boyfriend”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57808918/chapters/147137782#workskin

ITS SO GOOD!! 😂

The Ultimate Lunar Chronicles Fanfic Rec List

Because this fandom is dead and those of us still standing deserve to read the gems.

(art by: @vvivaa)

All Time Fav:

1-800-CAPTAIN (by lovelunarchron) https://archiveofourown.org/works/5347382/chapters/12347996

Desperate to not be alone again for the holidays, Cress hires a man to pose as her boyfriend for her family’s annual Christmas celebration.

Cinder/Kai:

like real people do (by songandsilence) https://archiveofourown.org/works/1472797

The dreams start as soon as she escapes from prison. He doesn’t think much of it at first - she is the most wanted fugitive on earth at the moment, and at least 75% of hisi day is spent in conversation about her, whether it be her motive, her origins (Luna, he has to remind himself), her plans. Her picture follows him everywhere. It is on every screen, every newscast. Just as Torin is his shadow, she is as well.

(Missing moments - mostly during ‘Scarlet’)

against the clock (by nicole_writes) https://archiveofourown.org/works/10547732

Soulmate timers have been helping connect people who belong together for all time and still, Cinder gets the guy who can’t even figure out it’s her. 

Lilac and Gold and You (by au_moins_jessaie) https://archiveofourown.org/works/64832608

Cress thinks she’s pregnant and is freaking out. When she tells Cinder, Cincer offers to take a pregnancy test alongside her. But just for moral support, right?

deja vu (by crescentchat) https://archiveofourown.org/works/39846189

Kai and Princess Winter are set to be married, with the fate of Earth resting in their communion. With newfound access to TVs and devices, which are not available in Luna, she quickly recognizes her long lost cousin. What is an 18 year old Emperor to do?

Cress/Thorne:

Protected (by MadeOfStardustAndOreos) https://archiveofourown.org/works/25658644

Newly reunited with her friends, Cress and the gang finally get the chance to sleep in actual beds - even if they belong to the Lunar Aristocrats whose house they’ve just broken into. Safe once more, Cress can‘t help feeling helpless over always needing rescue from her friends.

Luckily, Captain Carswell Thorne is there to eliminate any fears - including his own. After all, he really can’t be sure of Cress’s safety unless he’s by her side 100% of the time...

A missing moment from Winter.

Someday Soon (by Mistakesweremade/PastyPirate) https://archiveofourown.org/works/18237812

“Are you just going to stare at me all day?” She asked, nerves curling in her stomach as they often did when she flirted with the line they’d set. The sight of him in navy blue boxers didn’t help.

“I figure I should try to desensitize myself so I can protect you better,” he tilted his head as he spoke, warmth curled next to the nerves, “I don’t think it’s working.”

“Come on Captain,” she gestured towards the water, “the longer you stand there ogling at me the more likely someone will come by and ogle the both of us.”

“And it’ll be the best day of their lives.” He announced haughtily, swaggering towards her and taking the hand she stretched out to him.

In which: Cress realizes something during a later afternoon swim.

Safe (by MadeOfStardustAndOreos) https://archiveofourown.org/works/23826835

For their first night after leaving Luna, Cress and Thorne are left to themselves on the Rampion. Struggling to fall asleep, Cress is finding fewer and fewer reasons for why she isn’t sharing a bed with her Captain.

ft. Wolf with tomatoes and Throne returning to his beloved, a.k.a. the Rampion

do it, i dare you (by cresswell) https://archiveofourown.org/works/7225465

“This is a very bad idea,” Cress said.

“No this is a very good idea,” Thorne replied, his voice muffled by Cress’s thigh. “I am just a very bad influence.”

Til Death Dop Us Part (by lovelunarchron https://archiveofourown.org/works/13257282/chapters/30328461

After getting dragged to LAs Vegas by her friends, Cress Darnel wakes up the next morning to find she accidentally married an ex-conman named Carswell Thorne. When their attempt to annul their drunken nuptials takes a turn for the worst, the newlyweds must learn to live with each other... for better or for worse.

pacific ocean eyes (by crescentchat) https://archiveofourown.org/works/61105936/chapters/156126943

A trilogy of unconnected Cresswel oneshots for the 2024 Lunar Chronicles Ship Weeks!

Scarlet/Wolf:

staring (by crescentchat) https://archiveofourown.org/works/62210548

Wolf is staring at another woman. Before Scarlet considers that this is highly unlike him, she does something very much like her, and flies off the handle.

Reaffirming of trust ensues (featuring your friendly neighborhood Cress and Thorne).

his favorite time (by BadOldWest) https://archiveofourown.org/works/1119437

This lazy, sun-tired, sore-muscled time of day was his favorite. When everything was quiet and soft. After work, after dinner, after a nice long bath, where he was warm and fed and clean. 

Questioning Ran (by idon’tnap) https://archiveofourown.org/works/40540767

When Scarlet and Wolf encounter Ran in the woods in the book Scarlet, Wolf says that Scarlet wouldn’t be able to get any answers out of Ran because he was taught to withstand torture.

So Scarlet tries another method of questioning.

Lupus Domesticus (by tonkzart) https://archiveofourown.org/works/20972819/chapters/49869107

Scarlet and Wolf arrive home after months on the Rampion distributing antidotes, ready to settle into their new life together. They haven’t slept together yet. 

Winter/Jacin:

Girl of Seasons (by peanutbutterapple) https://archiveofourown.org/works/11164551

“I know,” Winter said, turning her eyes back to the air, the side of her face still pressed into this shirt. She thought she meant it, I love you.

“Good,” Jacin said. He leaned his head against the top of hers, and Winter thought he meant, I love you too.

touch of snow (by crescentchat) https://archiveofourown.org/works/60908206/chapters/155585212#workskin

A trilogy of unconnected Jacinter oneshots for the 2024 Lunar Chronicles Ship Weeks!

landscape (by shireith) https://archiveofourown.org/works/56645314

‘It’s a curious thing how getting to know someone-or remembering someone, in Winter’s case-doesn’t always turn them into any less of a stranger. Winter would look at Jacin in search of something, and he would look back, but only for an instant, before his whole figure recoiled in itself and the secret moment they’d shared shimmered away like a mirage.’

Glimpse of Winter and Jacin as they readjust to each other.

Set somewhere after the epilogue in Winter.

Iko/Kinney:

To the End of Their Days (by orphan_account) https://archiveofourown.org/works/5256503/chapters/12128636

A collection of one shots set post-Winter, focusing on the four main couples, as well as Iko and Kinney, and the return to normal life after a revolution for some, the adjustment to a brand new life for others, and a bright future for all.

Arguing in Defense of My Humanity (by breadmakesyoufat) https://archiveofourown.org/works/27170632/chapters/66359734

“I love it when you’re confrontational” he whispers softly, and her eyes flutter slightly as she laughs softly in response.

Lava (by MagicAndConstellations) https://archiveofourown.org/works/14086842

Cinder and Kai are in Luna for a diplomatic meeting. While their parents are at meetings, the Imperial prince and princess are babysat by Iko. Kinney receives a comm from Ciner asking to check on the trio as Iko hasn’t been answering her. 

Idiotic Tendencies (by FloraIrmaTylee) https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11993100/1/Idiotic-Tendencies

Iko thinks that Kinney’s only redeeming quality is his attractiveness. Somehow, because she decides to hate him, the universe pushes them together. 

An Android Goes to the Ball (by andypolymetis) https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11983788/1/An-Android-Goes-to-the-Ball

Iko wants to fo to the party, but it comes with a catch.

Multi-ship:

More than the moon (by Kass) https://archiveofourown.org/works/5358704

I wish, more than anything. Four happily ever afters.

Colors of The Heart (by regolithheart) https://archiveofourown.org/works/5589640/chapters/12880513

A collection of post-Winter one-shorts focusing on each of our favorite ships // Blue: Kiko / Yellow: Cresswell / Red: Wolflet / Green: Kaider

Platonic:

Carswell’s Guide to Being Vulnerable (by lionofsounis) https://archiveofourown.org/works/11545311

“What are you doing?”

“I’m giving you a hug, you idiot.”

“Cinder--”

“Shut up, Thorne.”

Thorne visits Cinder in the hospital for a slumber party chat about their crushes. Toenail painting not included. Some H/C, mostly banter. Both of them being sappy idiots and best friends.

Grounds for War (by suchastart) https://archiveofourown.org/works/7632229

“Can’t believe they lost my reservation,” Thorne says, dropping his duffel on the ground and looking around at the room, hands on his lips. ”Wow. Look at this!”

Cinder is looking. She is looking especially closely at the bed sitting in the middle of the room. The problem is not with the bed, but that there’s only one of them, and that it seems like Thorne will be sharing the room with her and Kai, too.

thawing (by moonlitserenades) https://archiveofourown.org/works/6190228

Jacin visits Cress in the hospital. 

How to Freak the Hell out of Carswell Thorne (by midnightsnapdragon) https://archiveofourown.org/works/31304240

Jacin’s acting scarier than usual, and for the life of him, Thorne can’t figure out why.

Throne’s Pyramid (by mxtaryii) https://archiveofourown.org/works/64205821

@captainthorne ranking everyone in the rampion crew from least to most favorite

Or a short social media au where Thorne uses his twitter irresponsibly. 

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Peony my beloved 😭😭

Some Linh family doodles~

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I feel like, as a fandom, we don’t talk enough about Cinder and Adri’s relationship, especially this scene.

(I skipped a few sentences to show this part)

There’s a long rant coming up, so here’s your warning 🥲

When Cinder returns to the Phoenix Apartments to get the wedding invitations, what should have been a simple task becomes one of the most emotionally devastating moments in the entire series. The way she finally confronts Adri, asking if she was ever truly wanted, if she could have belonged, is so raw and vulnerable. And for just a second, Adri gives her this flicker of something close to humanity. She admits maybe things could have been different.

But then she ends with: “If only she had been normal.”

That line is absolutely gut-wrenching.

Yes, Cinder was manipulating the truth out of her, but what she got in return was cruel honesty. A confirmation that no matter how hard she tried, Adri never saw her as worthy of love. Cinder didn’t need Adri to be perfect. She just wanted to know if maybe, somewhere deep down, she had been loved -- that it wasn’t all in her head. But instead, she learns the truth: her value to Adri was always conditional. Conditional on being normal, on not being a cyborg, on being something she was never allowed to be.

And here’s the worst part -- no matter how much Cinder grows, no matter how far she gets from that apartment, from that life, she will never be fully free of Adri or the abuse she endured. Adri needed Cinder’s income and labour, but resented her existence, a contradiction that made their relationship not just painful, but deeply toxic. That’s not to say she won’t heal, she will. She is. She has a new family now, people who love her for exactly who she is. But those emotional scars? They don’t just vanish. They will become part of her. That part of her story will always exist. She will still flinch when Adri drags her name through the media. She will still carry that ache, not because she wants to, but because she had to survive it.

And what’s tragic is that their relationship is still a kind of bond. Not love in the conventional sense, but something strange and twisted and lingering. Because even though Cinder isn’t Adri’s biological daughter, she was still raised as one, in name, in obligation, in pain. Abuse entangles people like that. Trauma keeps you tethered, even after you’ve escaped. And so no matter how far she runs, no matter how fully she heals, Cinder will die her daughter, not by choice, not by love, but because that’s the shape of the scar Adri left behind.

In a way, Cinder always filled a role Adri never could. She became the caregiver to Peony. She took on a quiet, almost motherly responsibility (or at least what I would assume happened). Meanwhile, Adri, for all her bitterness, is like a child herself. Stuck in grief, in prejudice, in resentment. Her pain doesn’t justify her actions, but it helps explain them. She lost her husband. Then she lost her youngest daughter. And instead of processing that grief, she turned it into blame. And Cinder, the “cyborg,” became the scapegoat.

It’s easier to hate a symbol than confront your own loss. It’s easier to say, “If only she had been normal.”

But the truth is, Cinder was never the problem. She was just the only one strong enough to survive it.

Linh Cinder 🤝 Mommy issues

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The most tragic thing about Bianca di Angelo is that we don't know who is Bianca di Angelo.

We learn that she's a girl lost in time, an orphan, a sister, a daughter, a daughter of Hades, a Hunter of Artemis, and a former student of Westover Hall. The skull ring Nico wears was once Bianca's.

But we never learn bits of Bianca and who she was compared to Nico. Her favorite color, is what she does in her spare time, did she have any friends or crushes before the Lotus Hotel? Does she read any novels or enjoy museums?

(Not important why did Hades favor Bianca over Nico? Did she have great power or something? I need to know!)

She was written to die an empty husk of a character for trauma and backstory purposes.

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Read this book in one day! So cute!!

- dungeons and drama <3 (aka my fav book)

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Maria holding baby Nico: Aww your so cute I could eat you up

Hades, who's father ate him as a baby, taking the baby from her: What

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missing them

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Cannon

The urge to give Percy and Annabeth chronic wrist pain from holding up the sky.

The urge to give Percy Annabeth, Will and Nico some sort of breathing/lung problem from Tartarus.

The urge to give Jason and Percy memory problems.

The urge to give Piper, Jason and Leo issues telling the difference between dream and memory and shit.

I get they're half literal greek god and magic and all that shit but they're also half human let me give them various health issues pls

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This series needs to be adapted and I need to direct it

any song can be abt you’re favorite characters if you’re insane enough

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Where did they go?????

Masterminds Plothole?

So I LOVE masterminds trilogy so much but a little thing is bothering me: its said thtTamara Dunleavy adopted all the clones but what happens to the scientists kids? Did she just take the clones and leave all the regular kids? Like Randy, what happens to him? Little plothole ig

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MASTERMINDS: the t(wt chat) show?!?!?

✶  — EP 1 | EP 2 | EP 3 |

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Literally them

Amber: I'm sorry for calling you contemptible and deplorable.

Malik: That's okay. I didn't even know what those words meant.

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If Jason Grace has no lovers I’m dead

"i dont like jason grace because he's boring" is the most evil statement because a. THATS THE POINT and b. thats EXACTLY what makes him NOT boring.

camp jupiter is BUILT to make children into machines. work as a machine, work with the group to be a machine. or, be spare parts. it is rigid. it is unforgiving. it is built to suppress individuality. the MOST autonomy jason grace got was joining the lower end of the cohorts of the legion, was a failing petition against a traditional board.

jason grace grew up in camp jupiter. not like hazel, frank, percy, nico, etc., who were only there for a year or two at MOST. he grew up there. if i had to guess, i would say age 5 through age 15-- roughly a decade. everything he learned there is going to be DRILLED into him.

yes, he is going to seem boring.

the whole POINT of it is so he can have his character arc of "i dont really want to follow the rules..?" that he doesn't want to be praetor, he just wants to be a normal kid at camp half-blood and live with piper and leo. and thats what MAKES him a character that ISNT boring.

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On this day twenty years ago, Rose Tyler tried to find out more about the mysterious man known as the Doctor by googling "doctor". Iconic shit.

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Whatever you do don’t think about Charles Beckendorf in one of those fuzzy headbands with Silena Beauregard sits in his lap and does her skin care routine on him. Don’t think about them doing the lipstick kiss trend. Don’t think about how they’ll never get to go to college together.

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😭😭😭

Small ToA animatic(??)

I used some clips from the auidobooks in this also it didn't let me post this on tiktok ahhhh😭😭

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