M.C. Frank's Blog, page 86
September 18, 2021
loversmore:this is me trying, taylor swift.
this is me trying, taylor swift.
adaptationsdaily:
Requested by @dancingwith-sunflowers: W...
Requested by @dancingwith-sunflowers: Willa Fitzgerald as Meg March in the BBC adaptation of Little Women (2017)
the-math-hatter:
cheeseanonioncrisps:
sanders-sides-unco...
sanders-sides-uncorrect-quotes:
As this handy little chart says:
Idk if this counts as a peeve more of an art-astronomy pet peeve
but when people draw the cresent moon and where the dark, shaddowed part of the moon is they put in stars
like studdenly that part of the moon is invisible instead of just being in the shadow
like wtf
wait no peOPLE ACTUALLY DO THIS???
really stupid question though but like, aren’t there stars in front of the moon??? like??? space isn’t two dimensional so someone putting a couple stars in front of the shadow wouldn’t necessarily be wrong?? because aren’t there stars all around in space and?????? im just going to be confused forever frick uvu;
hun if there was a star infront of the moon we’d be fucking dead
i’m fucking crying
I FINALLY FOUND THIS
The reason that one is “Not possible at night” is you have to remember: The bright part of the moon is pointed towards the sun, and thus at night, it has to be downwards.
September 16, 2021
Which is your favorite Jane Austen book or adaptation?
Tell me...
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Which is your favorite Jane Austen book or adaptation?
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🩰Mine is Persuasion🩰 but ugh that Emma movie was yum👌 (at Jane Austen Addict)
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September 14, 2021
🍁📚It is your eighteenth birthday and one of your parents must...
🍁📚It is your eighteenth birthday and one of your parents must die. You are the one who decides. Who do you pick?🍁📚
Find out in The Offset, a thrilling, beautiful dystopian book that is out now!
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In a dying world, the Offset ceremony has been introduced to counteract and discourage procreation. It is a rule that is simultaneously accepted, celebrated and abhorred. But in this world, survival demands sacrifice so for every birth, there must be a death.
Professor Jac Boltanski is leading Project Salix, a ground-breaking new mission to save the world by replanting radioactive Greenland with genetically-modified willow trees. But things aren’t working out and there are discrepancies in the data. Has someone intervened to sabotage her life’s work?
In the meantime, her daughter Miri, an anti-natalist, has run away from home. Days before their Offset ceremony where one of her mothers must be sentenced to death, she is brought back against her will following a run-in with the law. Which parent will Miri pick to die: the one she loves, or the one she hates who is working to save the world?
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The Offset is a book that makes you think. And not just think. It made me consider a different point of view in a subject matter that has once again been brought to the surface, as it should. And while this book doesn’t really take sides, it makes you think and doubt and reconsider what you think you know about this issue, which is what everyone should be doing. I am grateful for that, and for all the moral issues the book raised–we need more books that do that.
I don’t like to let other people dictate what my opinion should be, especially about things as important as survival. Instead, I like to think things over for myself. And every *good* dystopian book just serves this purpose: to make us think about things by looking at them in a different way. The Offset does that beautifully, and I personally believe that it is a very important book that will start a conversation.
And we need to have that conversation.
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A copy of the book was kindly provided by @angryrobotbooks 💕 (at DYSTOPIA)
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September 13, 2021
mcfrankauthor:
Can you help me decide which cover and tit...
Can you help me decide which cover and title to choose for my Robin Hood retelling?
Is it 1 or 2?
Here is the synopsis, if it helps:
Robin Hood is about to steal your heart.A robber and a princess.
A girl disguised as a boy.
A medieval reimagining of the legend of Robin Hood packed with adventure, sacrifice and romance.
Robin Hood, hidden deep in the Sherwood Forest, is fighting to restore the crown to its rightful king, surrounded by faithful friends, green leaves and clear skies. Burdened with secrets, betrayal and an incredible responsibility, he struggles to stay alive and keep the starving people fed. One day, a boy saves him from the Sheriff’s poisoned arrows. Robin, impressed by the slender youth’s courage and skill, takes the boy with him to the forest.
Only, the boy is not a boy.
In the castle of Nottingham, a maiden who used to be a princess is forced to obey the wishes of a tyrannical Sheriff. She dons on male clothes and trains to become a fierce assassin, vowing to catch the greatest criminal in the kingdom. But when she saves Robin Hood’s life nearly losing her own, she is rescued by the outlaws.
When Robin and the “boy” meet, two worlds collide, resulting in unimaginable danger and intense romance. Who will survive when they learn each other’s secrets? What happens when the assassin falls in love with her victim?
Filled with danger, intrigue and slow-burn passion, this is a Robin Hood story unlike any you have ever read before!So which one is best? What do you think?
thank you so much for your help!
teashoesandhair:
This doesn’t include the best bit of the...
This doesn’t include the best bit of the whole thing - she found the Twitter thread!
warm-bread-at-all-times:
nevertrustamanwho:
sergle:
i’m ...
i’m reading why does he do that and this last part has been ON FIRE, i am hollering in my house.
Link to pdf
[Image description: three screenshots. The first one starts with the title “IS HE DOING IT ON PURPOSE?”. The text goes: “When a client of mine tells me that he became abusive because he lost control of himself, I ask him why he didn’t do something even worse. For example, I might say, ”You called her a fucking whore, you grabbed the phone out of her hand and whipped it across the room, and then you gave her a shove and she fell down. There she was at your feet, where it would have been easy to kick her in the head. Now, you have just finished telling me that you were ‘totally out of control’ at that time, but you didn’t kick her. What stopped you?“ And the client can always give me a reason. Here are some common explanations:
“I wouldn’t want to cause her a serious injury.”
“I realized one of the children was watching.”
“I was afraid someone would call the police.”
“I could kill her if I did that.”
“The fighting was getting loud, and I was afraid neighbours would hear.”
And the most frequent response of all:
“Jesus, I wouldn’t do that. I would never do something like that to her.”
The response that I almost never heard — I remember hearing it twice in the fifteen years—was: “I don’t know.”
These ready answers strip the cover off of my clients’ loss-of-control excuse. While a man is on an abusive rampage, verbally or physically, his mind maintains, awereness of a number of questions: “Am I doing something that other people mind find out about, so it could make me look bad? Am I doing anything that could get me in legal trouble? Could I get hurt myself? Am I doing anything that I myself consider too cruel, gross or violent?”
A critical insight seeped into me from working with my first few dozen clients: An abuser almost never does anything that he himself considers morally unacceptable. He may hide what he does because he thinks other people would disagree with it, but he feels justified inside. I can’t remember a client ever having said to me: “There’s no way I can defend what I did. It was just totally wrong.” He invariably have a reason that he considers good enough. In short, an abuser’s core problem is that he has a distorted sense of right and wrong.]
