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Tracy S. Morris

@tmorriscode.bsky.social
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I write (the 1632 Denis and Betsy stories, the Tranquility book series), most of it is spent on my dogs. www.tracysmorris.com

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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Examines how food is used as a means of control in a totalitarian dystopia, and how it signals rebellion. Also, bread. substack.com/@tracysmorri...
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Eating Or Not in The Hunger Games
Food divides the haves from the have nots and is used as a means of control in this dystopian society.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I detect no lies.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The Easter puppy is not thrilled by his ears.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
An article that dissects all the ways that GRRM uses food in ASOIAF to help tell his story. There’s also a recipe for lemon cakes. substack.com/@tracysmorri...
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A Meal of Ice and Fire
What you eat in Westeros depends on your status, and where you live.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Alice in wonderland is one of my favorite reads from when I was a kid. Reading through it gave me the confidence to tackle any sized book. Which probably explains why I was reading way above my level. open.substack.com/pub/foodbuil...
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Worldbuilding With Food- Tarts in Alice in Wonderland
The Queen of Hearts She made some tarts, All on a summer's day. The Knave of Hearts He stole those tarts. And he took them clean away.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Dagnabbit Phil! You had one job! #GroundhogDay #PunxsutawneyPhil
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Well, it’s Groundhog Day . . . Again. Well, it’s Groundhog Day . . . Again. open.substack.com/pub/foodbuil...
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Worldbuilding And Food - Groundhog Day
Well, it’s Groundhog Day, again.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Snowpocalypse day 2. Bitty Batman: Mr. Freeze was busy last night. Little Leia: must be a sith. They never rest. The emperor would torture them if they did.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Snow check! Bitty Batman and Little Leia are reporting for duty. Little Leia: it’s cold enough to freeze your tauntaun. Bitty Batman: I don’t think that means what you think it means. Little Leia: I said what I said. #snow #snowpocalypse #snowmageddon
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The food that James Bond eats tells us a lot about him, and the world he inhabits. #worldbuilding #writing #fiction #cooking #recipe open.substack.com/pub/foodbuil...
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Recipes For Readers - James Bond’s Scrambled Eggs
The British super spy fails to eat Scrambled Eggs in only three books.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Deep Blue Wizards
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
If you want to watch a Thanksgiving special, this is pretty much it. open.substack.com/pub/foodbuil...
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Foodbuilding for fun and profit (but mostly fun)
Good Grief! Popcorn in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I found a happy place while camping the other weekend.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Worldbuilding With Food - An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott
Plum Pudding at Thanksgiving?
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The sun hit the trees at the pond outside my house just right last evening. The reds and golds are really popping this week.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Anyway, I wrote a substack based around The Halloween Tree that got me thinking about that. open.substack.com/pub/foodbuil...
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Foodbuiling for fun and profit (but mostly fun)
What do Sugar Skulls In The Halloween Tree tell us about Día de los Muertos?
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I feel like Americans have forgotten the art of processing death. We used to go to decoration services every year. They put flowers on graves, visited neighbors and had picnics. It looked a lot like Dia De Los Muertos. Different time of year, different trappings. Same point. When did we lose that?
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
In time for spooky season. open.substack.com/pub/foodbuil...
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Worldbuilding And Food - Harry Potter
How does use of food contribute to the story in the Harry Potter Series?
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
More rain, but still a good day to drive in the Ozarks and have dinner on the train.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Making a special treat for the kids since their Halloween campout was canceled due to bad weather.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. 😂
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I’ve joined Substack to try a thing. If you like writing and you like food, you might like to read my thoughts on using food as a tool for world building. #writing #writercraft open.substack.com/pub/foodbuil...
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Foodbuilding for fun and profit (but mostly fun).
How does food tell the story in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Gateau invisible aux pommes (invisible apple cake). Not sure what’s invisible about it. Unless we’re making it invisible one bite at a time. 🍽️
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
New experiment: air fryer oly koek.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
These type of beads went around the world. When they say that Manhattan Island in New York was purchased for a handful of beads, I imagine these were what they were speaking of. #mudlark
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Folklore has it’s own sort of charm. Where I am from, they say that you can fortell the severity of winter by looking inside a persimmon seed. If you can see what looks like a soon, then you’ll be shoveling a lot of snow that year. #mudlark #amreading
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Maybe the water washes away sorrow and grief, leaving the item cleansed for the #mudlark to find? #amreading
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Me (texting my dad): good morning! I love you! Dad: when’s the next part of your story coming out? #amwriting
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
She gave most of her fees to charities. And yeah, plates and paper dolls and lots more. There’s a style of bed called a Jenny Lind bed. They still sell them under that name today.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
By Lind’s time, PT Barnum knew a lot about marketing. That’ probably why she was so noteworthy.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Ben Franklin (several decades earlier) saw how people there were using fans with his face on them and decided to support his stay by selling his own stuff. But he hadn’t gone to France with the intention of doing that, so he had to write his daughter for his family soap recipe.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I think maybe the biggest difference was marketing. With Liszt, I feel like the composer was annoyed that these crazy people were following him hoping to get his dirty hankies. With Lafayette people were selling commerative plates, but they were doing that on their own.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I think there was more of a 1:1 equivalent with the fans of Franz Liszt. Historians called it Lisztomainia. The articles I read stated that his fans would fight over his handkerchiefs. Doctors were worried that his fans had a genuine medical malady.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
You would think that. Then her name pops up in cities like Fort Smith Arkansas. I know Barnum was her promoter, but her name must have really been everywhere. Like Beatlemania.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
It’s so strange to me that there are random streets all over the country named after Jenny Lind. That would be like going to Bulgaria a hundred years from now and seeing a Taylor Swift avenue.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Peach season is the best time of year. 🍽️
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Hubby surprised me with dessert. 🍽️
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Having a bit of a mezze platter tonight. 🍽️
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I introduced my 13-year-old daughter to Pride and Prejudice. Now she’s sending me memes. #P&P #JaneAusten #myworkhereisdone #cackling
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The cold has me craving chicken soup, so I made a big batch tonight. Any recipe that calls for boiling a whole chicken is going to be a good recipe. 😋🍽️
Creamy chicken soup with orange carrots, green celery pieces and red paprika flecks floating in the broth.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I’m moderating a panel on #PhineasandFerb at #fencon this weekend. (And before you ask, Yes, yes I am). If you could ask any question on a P&F discussion panel, what would it be? (Besides Hey, Where’s Perry?)
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We get that not watching makes you feel like this. But that halftime show was a murder.
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a man with long hair is standing with two other men
Alt: A slow zoom on three fancy vampires looking down from a balcony with an air of superiority.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Two murders in one night #superbowl2025
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Just watched fans from a team in Kansas City and a team in Philadelphia that are playing in New Orleans sing a song about West Virginia by a guy named after Denver who was born in Roswell. That’s got to be the most American thing at the Super Bowl.
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Hermetic Library @hermetic.com · 09/02/2025
Is this … a Superb Owl? #SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2025
Anime guy holding a hand out "is this?" meme format. But instead of a butterfly it's Stolas, from Goetia, a long legged owl entity.
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DarkRunner @darkrunner.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Happy #SuperbOwl Day! 🦉 - Great Horned Owl #SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2025 #superbowl #birding #birds #greathornedowl
A stunning Great Horned Owl perched amidst the lush green foliage, its head turned gracefully away from the camera, gazing into the distance with a longing expression in its striking yellow eyes.A magnificent Great Horned Owl perched beside the vibrant green leaves, its gaze fixed on the distance as if oblivious to my presence.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Going to watch the Super Bowl later, but the Big Game is on right now. #puppybowl
Two Havanese puppies watching the puppy bowl on television.
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Elon thinks he’s Darth Vader. In reality he’s Darth Helmet.
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a person in a black costume says " now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb "
Alt: Darth Helmet from Sapceballs says " now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb "
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Tracy S. Morris @tmorriscode.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Drug commercials are insane. “Consult your doctor before taking WONDRA. Side effects include death. If death occurs, discontinue taking WONDRA.”
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