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He had a song for her & she had a song for him Achingly sweet #hypnotic beats That spoke of love And wishful things They hadn’t told each other & the words lay secret on their minds But hearts have ears When souls connect In a dance as old as time #vss365 #hypnosis #prompt

@PunkyMantilla Born New Zealand mid-60's. Food was ALL homemade. Breakfast - toast & spread or porridge, lunch -sandwiches with fruit & a homemade baked treat, & dinner - meat & 3 veg. Morning tea & afternoon tea - more baked treats. Dessert & ice cream at night. We biked or walked a LOT

I was so curious about the 1950s, no one was fat thing, I asked my grandparents! They were rural teens in the 50s, lifetime farmers, and are still very slim in their old age. They said in their opinion, there were two main factors:

@LadyNimby I have face blindness too. If you have this condition, you get used to looking out for specific characteristics. Boobs aren't generally one of them (it's not something I hone in on) but eyes are. Sydney Sweeney has really odd eyes. Droopy. Uneven. Memorable. Pic 2 shows this.

My husband has face blindness. Wouldn’t even know me if I changed my hair. Has trouble finding his own kids in a group. Showed him the left photo, said he had no idea who it is. Showed him the right. “Oh that’s Sydney Sweeney”

@McphersonWrites I love writing adventure books with strong, thoughtful male leads. Try 'No Place To Be Lost', a story based on real events about a shipwrecked 14 year old whose grit & determination meant he survived and flourished against all odds.

I’ve seen a few posts recently on the state of books and reading, specifically for young men, and they have really hit me hard. I’ve come to the realization that there are no books for young men. I don’t mean *literally* zero, but the vast vast majority seem to be geared towards an audience that doesn’t include them. What happened? I remember as a kid reading about Frodo, Aragorn, Drizzt, Cadderly, Harry Potter. I remember reading the Hatchet, a book about a young man overcoming impossible odds. I remember Percy Jackson. The knights of the round table etc etc. Some of these are older, and they will always be relevant. But what is the last mainstream book or series you can remember with a strong male lead for young men to aspire to? Or a YA MC for young men to relate to? And I don’t mean a story with a strong male in an over sexualized, hyper violent, and mature world. I mean a book written for boys and teens, delivering lessons and speaking to virtues and strength through story. It seems that everything popular these days is aimed towards women or a more mature audience. Which is great, there are plenty of young women who need heroes to relate to and resonate with and adults need entertainment too. But it should not come at the expense of the young male audience. There is room for everyone. What’s to be done about it? I don’t quite know. I’m a small fish in a big ocean. But I know a problem when I see it. So we will start with this: If you’re an author who is writing or has written stories for boys and young men, let’s connect and hep build each other up. There is an audience that needs books, and if traditional publishers aren’t going to write for them, then we will!

Excited to have TWO of my stories featured in these horror-filled anthologies - be ready to check them out in the Escape and Watch editions of this six-book collection @UnsettlingReads #horror #HorrorCommunity

@the_mark_rob How cool. Well done!

@hotfromthepen Awesome. I did. We’ll be anthology buddies!

Vague acceptance tweet! Sooooo psyched about this one. 2024 is shaping up to be a very good year…

@winstonpeters Why did I automatically think of Huey, Dewey, and Louie?

@arlsy6 @COUNTERSPIN111 They're not volunteers - you get paid for doing it. There's a special tax rate for election day workers. It is a manual process with lots of box ticking by the workers. Only a very quick 'box swap' before the vote count in the back room would allow for fraud at the polling booth.

@COUNTERSPIN111 Yes it does. I have respect for the people on the ground at polling booths. In my experience they are are older mature volunteers with integrity. It’s just that it is a manual process. Stop incessantly looking for sinister things that aren’t there.

NO ID, EASY CARD OR ENROLLMENT NEEDED FOR NZ ELECTION The Electoral Commission has not sent out Easy Vote cards to one million kiwis. This is a serious error according to the NZ Prime Minister as voters believe this means they can't vote. Anyone over 18 can vote without the easy vote card, without identification & without being enrolled on the election roll. Does this sound like an election that is safe from fraud? newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…

@MichaelaWills2 @NzFubar I had to do a special vote at the booth 150 metres from my house (the house where I've lived for 3 years). I've been mysteriously deleted from the roll

@the_mark_rob I reckon - they all sounded great, but I ran out of time too. I also went for Lurk - the setting was awesome. Good luck!!

@hotfromthepen It was! I really wanted to sub for all of them but didn’t have time. I went with Lurk but the story includes references to all the other themes. Have you gone for it too?

Update: Written, edited &submitted and I’m so happy with how it turned out! Story mood:

@ornithopteryx Mosasaurs are an under-utilised literary element and an interesting plot twist too though - I based my favourite series around them just so I could give them the fanfare they deserve 🐉

Dragon-riding scenes are completely unnecessary in fiction You can definitely tell the same story with everyone remaining on the ground Gratuitous dragon-riding scenes are a sign of lazy writing by authors unable to handle proper literary elements such as griffins or mosasaurs

@stoic008 Chips. That show and Miami Vice shaped our view of American law enforcement from all the way over here in New Zealand. The good ole boys in Dukes of Hazard gave us a view of the "villains".

Ponch & Jon.

@saltyreigns Haha - this is like the 'recline or not' in a plane. Most people park badly when reversing into a park & we now have the getting past the wing mirrors problem for people whose cars are parked normally on either side. Ever tried to carry a toddler & a bag of groceries to your car?

I absolutely detest having to wait while people fumble their way through a slow arse reverse park at shopping centres. I think it’s incredibly rude. White car at fault 💯

@YardleyShooting Sorry to hear that. Wishing you the best

Unfortunately, my vaccine side-effects don't seem to be getting better now, if anything, they're getting worse. Just about everything hurts today and afflicted with extreme fatigue. Getting far too many shingles attacks which are most unpleasant too. The NHS offers no remedy.

@AuthorTOBurnett I used to write fiction stories for magazines back in the day on one of those (although mine was an old Remington Rand I picked up at a garage sale), but the bottle of White Out got a regular work out 🤣

@Radarsteal1 You need to hitch up one side of that fabric skirting at the front of the table and have a pair of red eyes peering out from beneath - or a bunch of bones from a plastic skeleton heaped into a pile... Good luck with the book sales!

@Radarsteal1 Make sure it's well edited, have a great cover, have a grab 'em blurb, set up pre-orders, do pre-launch TikToks...

@fasc1nate That is a really cute dance and I hope he was successful, but all I can think of is the female spider sitting there humming "I smell sex and candy" 🤣

To attract a female, a male peacock spider performs an intricate dance using a brilliantly colored fan attached to his abdomen! If the female approves, he is allowed to mate. If not, he becomes her next meal! twitter.com/TheTejasJoshi/…

@TastingHistory1 The entire back of my grandparents' house (New Zealand) was crammed with red currant, white currant, black currant, and gooseberry bushes. Red currant jelly is a great alternative to cranberry jelly due to the lack of fruity sweetness in the berries.

Why doesn’t the US eat more red currants?