M.C. Frank's Blog, page 69
March 3, 2022
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☆.•°•.☆ Cover Reveal ☆.•°•.☆ Seduced by M....
☆.•°•.☆ Cover Reveal ☆.•°•.☆ Seduced by M.C. Frank☆.•°•.☆FREE BOOK ☆.•°•.☆
Seduced: Poppy and Lord Hades
(a Hades and Persephone dark Regency retelling)
read it for free at mcfrankauthor.com
Lord Hades owns a gaming hell that sprawls underneath the city of London like the underworld. It is no secret: the Hell Club is notorious all over Europe. Peers and millionaires travel from Vienna and Paris to enjoy the Turkish baths or play cards with the great political leaders of other countries.
Money and power exchange hands nightly underneath the sparkling ballrooms and gentlemen’s clubs, and no one knows.
Until Hades discovers a boy sent to spy on him. But the boy is not a boy.
And she will pay.
Read it for free now at https://www.mcfrankauthor.com/
(Free Download)
Seduced is part of Retold, a collection of dark Regency fairytale retellings. Preorder at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XQVK88B
Retold is coming out on the 31st of March, I am so excited, it’s getting really close!
Putting up Hades and Persephone’s story on my website was a hard decision, but now that it’s out there, I am so excited (and scared). It is FREE for you to download here https://www.mcfrankauthor.com/
I can’t wait to hear what you thought of Seduced! Feel free to pm me when you finish it (it’s a 15k word sample). Prepare for tears.
Happy reading!
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buckystiel:
New Year, New Gifs Challe...
New Year, New Gifs Challenge Day 11: Parallels
Shrek + Film References
the films on the right are all referencing shrek
☆.•°•.☆ Cover Reveal ☆.•°•.☆ Seduced by M.C. Frank☆.•°•.☆...
☆.•°•.☆ Cover Reveal ☆.•°•.☆ Seduced by M.C. Frank☆.•°•.☆FREE BOOK ☆.•°•.☆
Seduced: Poppy and Lord Hades
(a Hades and Persephone dark Regency retelling)
read it for free at mcfrankauthor.com
Lord Hades owns a gaming hell that sprawls underneath the city of London like the underworld. It is no secret: the Hell Club is notorious all over Europe. Peers and millionaires travel from Vienna and Paris to enjoy the Turkish baths or play cards with the great political leaders of other countries.
Money and power exchange hands nightly underneath the sparkling ballrooms and gentlemen’s clubs, and no one knows.
Until Hades discovers a boy sent to spy on him. But the boy is not a boy.
And she will pay.
Read it for free now at https://www.mcfrankauthor.com/
(Free Download)
Seduced is part of Retold, a collection of dark Regency fairytale retellings. Preorder at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XQVK88B
Retold is coming out on the 31st of March, I am so excited, it’s getting really close!
Putting up Hades and Persephone’s story on my website was a hard decision, but now that it’s out there, I am so excited (and scared). It is FREE for you to download here https://www.mcfrankauthor.com/
I can’t wait to hear what you thought of Seduced! Feel free to pm me when you finish it (it’s a 15k word sample). Prepare for tears.
Happy reading!
aimlesswalker:
renthony:
renthony:
I’m genuinely concer...
I’m genuinely concerned that I’ll have no real way to tell when it’s safe for me to start doing things again, because the CDC basically told everyone to get fucked and die, I’m surrounded by people taking the, “eh, if I get covid, I get covid” approach, and I can’t fucking tell what’s a reasonable safety precaution anymore.
I’m exhausted all the time, and I’m still scared of getting sick, but the world is moving on without me, and I’m just so disoriented, y'all.
Everyone I live with IS immunocompromised, and this comment comes off very “it’s fine, the only people who are still dying are disabled people,” which really just serves to cement my original point about the world moving on without me.
Just want to add that that person is so incredibly wrong! The current science (or in layman’s terms check here) says that about 50% of everyone who gets covid, vaxxed or not, immunocompromised or not, will end up with long lasting symptoms, ones that last beyond the four weeks of infection. Now this statistic includes symptoms that resolve on their own eventually as well as ones that are permanent. But one in every two people will have long lasting covid symptoms. Sure being vaxxed decreases your chances of catching covid in the first place and it decreases the chances of it being severe, but it won’t stop the long term symptoms. Even if you get a “mild” or asymptomatic infection, you still have a 50/50 shot of having long term symptoms. And this is just the most current science, for all we know the number could be higher! We don’t yet know the full extent to which covid fucks up the human body.
Oh and PLUS, omicron has an R0 value of somewhere between 8 and 15, making it the second most infectious disease in the whole world (second only to measles). The R0 number is a measure of how infectious a disease is. For comparison the R0 of the flu is generally 1.5.
And yet EVERYONE I talk to is completely ignoring this and calling omicron more mild than previous strains, that it’s comparable to the flu (never mind that the science says it’s about twice as likely that you’ll have long lasting symptoms from covid than the flu). It makes me feel like I’m losing my mind. But we’re not losing our minds. Especially if you’re disabled/chronically ill, getting covid could be devastating even with a “mild” infection. My brain doesn’t know how to process all of this. The wide spread scale at which people are saying “fuck you” to disabled lives makes me want to vomit.
But uh OP I hope this justifies your actions/thoughts. You’re not alone in this either!
screnarchive:reminders for writers. nobody gives a crap i...
reminders for writers. nobody gives a crap if something is overdone in fiction. what they really care about is the executionhaving a bad day of writing does not make you a bad writertropes ≠ clichés. if someone tells you it’s wrong to use tropes, disregard the advicewriting in your second or third language isn’t always easy. you’re doing greatwriting advice = tools. not rules. you’re not meant to follow every advice you read about on the internet. learn the rules so you know which ones to breakevery writer is capable of writing a captivating story, but your story might not be everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s ok. there will still be people out there who’ll adore it it’s ok to not excel at every genre! you can write things because you think it’s fun, doesn’t always have to be a matter of writing something because you’re good at it. it’s ok to explore (and it helps you improve as a writer!)
March 2, 2022
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Another important on...
Another important one to remember is “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” which has the exact opposite meaning of what your abusive family member tries to use it for.
A less important one is “jack of all trades, master of none, but still better than a master of one”. Always seek to learn something new, and always ask for help when you need it because you should always be learning
March 1, 2022
Happy March 🌸🌺🌻🌹🌷🌼💐 Let’s make this a month of peace and...
Happy March 🌸🌺🌻🌹🌷🌼💐 Let’s make this a month of peace and writing.
Coming in March:
🩰A free Retold novella
🩰ARCs (review copies) this weekend! Interested? Comment ⬇
🩰Retold release on March 31st
🩰 Brand new round of rep search save this post for updates!
🩰My long overdue complete breakdown 🙃😁
What’s coming for you? Sanity, I hope… And my love, always.
M. C. (at Writing Room)
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February 28, 2022
becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:Ukraine, 26th Feb, 2022A ...
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Ukraine, 26th Feb, 2022A friend of mine told me yesterday that he didn’t realise how much Ukraine meant to him until now. I posted yesterday about the time we spent there, and we’re all getting super pre-occupied about the invasion. As I said in that post, I can’t get our waitress out of my head. I can sort of remember what she looked like now. She had an undercut. I think maybe her hair might have been blue? But - I will never know if she lives through this, and it’s driving me very slightly mad.
So naturally, my husband spent all day yesterday obsessively researching everything he could about it with the help of his journalist friends, as a way to help me process it.
This post is me putting it all in order, as a way to try and process my own emotional response as much as anything else (I freely admit there is an element of self-indulgence here). Please don’t take me as the spokesperson for Ukraine right now, nor as a solid reliable news source. But, I haven’t seen this stuff except in bits and pieces on Tumblr, so here we go.
(This is also not about why the invasion has happened. This post is solely about what has happened, and how the invasion is going.)
So, Putin and the rest of the world believed that this invasion would take 1-4 days. The plan was to push through fast, take Kyiv, and force Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian President, to surrender. Given Russia’s military might, it really looked likely.
Here is the conclusion of all that’s happened so far:
Ukraine is absolutely nailing this??? Actually???
They managed to defend every single city overnight, including Kyiv. They started rolling out and using these WW2-style anti-tank thingies that look a bit like angry gabbions, look, here’s a picture of one being delivered:
A bunch of spare iron girders turned into a hefty octopus of Russian misery, basically.
But it’s not just tanks they’re taking down, oh no. Ukraine successfully shot down a transport plane 20km from Kyiv. That is, I shit you not, the single biggest hit to the Russian military since the Second Chechen War. Volunteers from Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Azerbaijan and Israel are all entering Ukraine to help fight and bolster the anti-Russian forces, which is probably illustrative of how Eurovision voting is going to run for the next decade. Most countries have banned Russian planes from their air space. To help stop the Russian advance, Ukraine has made and installed new road signs, like this one:
I can only say a handful of sentences in Ukrainian, Tumblrs, but as I understand it, from top to bottom, it says:
“Fuck off”
“Fuck off again”
“Fuck off Russia”
Meanwhile, it turns out the Russian military might we feared is… possibly not quite as advertised?
They’re underfunded and badly trained. Ukraine captured 200 soldiers in one go, and most of them were confused 19 year olds with no training. The equipment is shite. The tanks keep running out of fuel. Russian soldiers keep abandoning their tanks and handing them over to the Ukrainian army. Putin’s plan was to take Kyiv fast and move on, and he didn’t have a plan B - hence these kids, playing soldier. Here is an image of a Russian tank receiving roadside assistance from Russia’s finest, an old Lada.
No one expected Zelenskyy to survive the night; but he did. America offered him asylum in the White House.
But he said no.
Zelenskyy remains in Kyiv, with his people.
And Putin, in his desperation to be adored, has turned Zelenskyy into a global icon and hero.
Here is something you may not know about Volodymyr Zelenskyy - he used to be a standup comedian. Was he any good? No idea - but what he IS good at is producing funny short videos he can put on Twitter and that, which are absolutely fantastic for Ukrainian morale. And morale is vital in an invasion like this, and Ukraine are smashing it out of the park there.
They are utilising the internet to its fullest extent. In addition to Zelenskyy’s videos, they’ve made sure that the final words of the Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island are known and now echoed around the world: “Russian warship, go fuck yourselves.” A video has gone viral of Ukrainians mocking a group of Russian soldiers whose tank had broken down and who didn’t know the way to Kyiv anyway, presumably because of all the new road signs. They have created a website that lists every single Russian death they can identify, partly so Russian mothers can have closure (thus also painting themselves as the defenders of decency and humanity), and partly for the enormous morale boost of the world knowing, categorically, that they’ve already killed 3700 Russian soldiers (over 100 of which were from that transport plane.) Not one word has leaked of Ukrainian casualties. I’m sure they’re devastating, but for morale purposes, they’re being kept quiet until the dust settles. Ukrainians have started setting up fake Tindr profiles to catfish Russian soldiers for intel, and they’re all 19 and lost, so it’s working. Plus, they’re using Grindr to actually track where the soldiers are, because it turns out Putin was not entirely correct about there being no gays in Russia.
So, Russia wants to cut their internet access. Can the Ukrainian Minister for Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, shame a billionaire into providing aid?
This is crucial, remember. Atrocities happen best in the dark, and the world is watching - because of the internet. Morale is vital to maintain. Can they convince Elon Musk to help?
Yep.
Ukraine now has the fastest internet service in the world. The fastest, most stable internet service in human history, in fact. Russia cannot now disable it. The world watches.
Which is just as well, because then Anonymous decided to get involved, and have leaked the website database of the Russian Ministry of Defence. Lol. Also this happens:
And then the Russian propaganda channels started broadcasting the truth of what is happening in Ukraine. Double lol.
So what is the political response?
Well, in addition to closing airspace to Russian planes, loads of countries are sending weapons to Ukraine. Those that can’t are offering asylum. They’re also offering asylum to any Russian soldiers who surrender or defect, which is startlingly good tactics, and there are rumours of around 5000 Russian soldiers who have done just that. Germany, of course, has long had a block on lethal weapons transfer; but Germany recognise this shit for what it is. They’ve lifted the block, thus allowing the Netherlands to send weapons. Efforts are now underway to fast-track Ukraine into the EU. I presume they will consider the lack of pint glasses with crowns on to be a worthwhile price to pay.
So what about Russia’s supporters?
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenka helped Russia with this invasion. Now, this has happened:
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was actually elected president, but some wild nonsense kept her out of power. She’s now running a government in exile. I have literally no idea what this means or will mean! But my god. She has a spine of steel, and this is not a good time to be happening for Putin.
And it’s really, really not, because then intel on a meeting of Putin and assembled Oligarchs LEAKS (hello Anonymous, probably). The highlights:
This war is costing Russia $15bn a dayHe expected it to take ONE TO FOUR DAYS TO WINIt’s been two days and he is losing very badly, currentlyThey will run out of rockets by day 4, maybe soonerAfter that they will be down to rifles and ammoIt will take 3-4 months to make more significant weapons, except they need raw materials, and the countries that can provide them… have cut supply linesIf the war lasts 10 days, Russia will have completely run out of money and weapons It’s only day 2, and Russian soldiers are knocking the doors of random Ukrainian homes begging for food and water because they’ve already run outSo, out of desperation, Putin turns to his greatest, closest and most trusted ally for help: Kazakhstan.
And Kazakhstan
SAYS NO
And then Ukraine shoots down a second Russian plane.
Anyway, I’m going to finish off with a final point. Morale is vital in this situation, so here is the message from the Ukrainian government at the minute, to everyone watching around the world:
Be VERY SUSPICIOUS of any negative news about Ukraine. Russia uses misinformation and propaganda. They will want to damage Ukrainian morale.
Use your social media to spread news of Ukrainian victories.
Don’t give oxygen to negative stories. Especially since they might not be true.
That’s genuinely something we can do to help. Every victory of Ukraine, blast it far and wide. So on that note, I’ll leave you with this:
Congrats to Natalia Antonova’s cousin’s son.
February 27, 2022
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Dr. Gachey with foxglove,...
Dr. Gachey with foxglove, 1890
