M.C. Frank's Blog, page 460
August 21, 2017
Get to know the writer tag
I was tagged by @hklunethewriter Thank you!
So sorry it took me so long to catch up with all these lovely tags, but as most of you know my laptop broke so…
yeah. Anyway, let’s do this!
Name: M. C. Frank
Zodiac sign:
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
Ethnicity: European
Favorite Fruit: Apples
Favorite Season: Summer
Favorite Book Series: series, you say? It’s so hard for an ENTIRE series to be up there for me. Individual books, yes. A series? Tough. So far, the Insanity series by Cameron Jace hasn’t had a single WORD that’s disappointed me. So that one.
Favorite Fictional Character: Jane (Eyre)
Favorite Flower: Hydrangeas
Favorite Scent: candles and books
Favorite Color: blue
Favorite Animal: bear
Favorite Band: I’ve been listening to a lot of indies lately. None stand out. (Suggestions, anyone?)
Average Hours of Sleep: 6
Number of Blankets: none during the summer :)
Dream Trip: NY. Big time.
Last Thing I Googled: Images for my NOS pinterest board
Blog Created: no idea
How many blogs do I follow: a LOT
Number of Followers: even MORE (lol)
What I usually post about: books, writing, stories, aesthetics
Do I get asks regularly: Yes, but most of them are spam/ pls promote me stuff. *Sad face*
Tagging all lovely friends @strangecolorenthusiast (who, I’m sorry, but they are BRILLIANT and I’m OBSESSED with their blog) @alyson-a-sweetheart21 @rosecorcoranwrites @elliewants2write @maxgraybooks
Hard, Not Impossible
It’s like when everything is ok
For everyone but you,
Born to stride the grave
As if that’s all you’ll ever do.
Foolish, foolish, foolish, fool
You don’t know what you’re capable of,
Until you find yourself capable of more than you ever thought possible.
Remember that.
-Alex
August 20, 2017
Hi! How long do you think it would take for plants to overgrow an abandoned and destroyed city with no human life in it? For reference this city was bombed and burned (not radioactively).
It would depend on how thickly forested you would want the area.
5 years: You will see some small trees and concrete being busted up by new growth. Priorly planted areas will be over grown and unmanageable. Small animals, insects, and large herbivores will be attracted to the area and establish populations.10 Years: Concrete will be almost overgrown and trees will be further busting up the side walks and buildings may start to collapse due to the plants or disrepair from severe weather. Herbivore populations will have attracted small predators and the occasional lone large one.25 Years: Large buildings will have mostly collapsed due to damage done to their structure by tree roots. Asphalt and sidewalks will be mostly gone or reduced to patches of rubble. Roads will be unusable due to their disrepair or gone completely. Ecosystems will be mostly developed and water sources may begin to appear in areas where they may not have before.50 Years: Most traces of buildings and other human civilization except for heaps of rubble will likely be gone or covered in plant growth. Roads and side walks will have disappeared and full blown ecosystems will have re-established themselves in the area.100 Years: Ecosystems will thrive without human civilization and most if not all traces of humans will be gone or buried under new dirt and substrate, allowing plants to grow over it and life to go on without it. Areas will be thickly grown in with trees and shrubbery that would resemble a national park or state sanctuary.
It really depends and most of those times are a guestimate. For cities like NYC or Chicago, would guess it would take about 50% longer because of how heavily industrialized and concreted the area is while small towns or rural areas could disappear about 25% faster due to the spread out nature of most small towns. Severe weather such as hurricanes, wildfires, heavy flooding, tornadoes, tsunamis/tidal waves, sinkholes, and earthquakes would speed things up drastically by the thorough devastation of a civilized area.
I hope this helps and is what you were looking for! So sorry this sat in the ask box for so long!
-Mod Fluke
(Most of these time estimates are just that, estimates, and are based off of what I know about plant growth and the behavior of ecosystems interacting with human civilization.)
Currently looking for a new laptop, as my prevous one is water...
Currently looking for a new laptop, as my prevous one is water damaged. Hope I didn’t lose all my nvl edits
August 19, 2017
All announcements about the #Losemeinsummer event will be posted...
All announcements about the #Losemeinsummer event will be posted on my blog mcfrankauthor.tumblr.com so stay tuned
Me: *watching a random youtuber writer spew so-called writing advice/updates*
The dude: *bored, leans over my shoulder to watch as well*
Me: Dude, if you want to watch youtube, turn on your phone (translated to: leave me alone to suffer through this video. Also, I'm embarrassed to be watching this)
The dude: Why are you watching this? Why is she shouting at us? She makes me anxious.
Me: I know, me too.
The dude: So, is she a good writer or not?
Me: No idea, she hasn't punlished anything.
The dude: *eyes bulging*
Me: *watches/suffers through a bit more*
The dude: *suffers with me*
Me: *gives up, switches to an @aliceoseman video*
The dude: *watches her play the opening theme of pnp on the piano*
The dude: Hey, you like that too! She looks cool.
Me: I showed you one of her books in the bookstore the other day, remember? Radio Silence. I've read her other book. She's really good.
The dude: *Listens to her talk. Her house is decorated for Christmas*
The dude: *snuggles next to me and we watch together*
The dude: Why does the other one do videos, if she can't stop yelling at us?
Me: There are so many who post such videos...At least there are one or two good ones. Literally.
The dude: Watch only them then. Yeah?
Me: Yeah. Big time.
Repost @stories_with_hope
Repost @stories_with_hope
Repost @stories_with_hope
Repost @stories_with_hope
42 and 18 for the writer ask.
18: How do you feel about love triangles?
I feelthey are highly unrealistick ans eye-rolling. But, if done right, see Dickens, Shakespeare and more importantly Thomas Hardy, they can be incredibly tragic and provide a lot of insight ito the human psyche as well as relationships.
42: Do you enjoy making your characters suffer?
Do I? (Pssst if you had read any of my books you wouldn’t even need to ask
