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Laureline Chiapello

@laurelinemhc.bsky.social
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Game Designer | Narrative Design Professor at NAD-UQAC Research-creation, inclusive games, and cultural citizenship. 🎮🧁 🔗 laulgame.itch.io 🔗 cltrs.start.page ☕ support me: ko-fi.com/laurelinemhc

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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🎮 Le Ludodrome revient ! Je présenterai le jeu Arroser d'attention 🌱🎮 Venez l'essayer, échanger avec les créateur·ices présent·es et découvrir une foule d'autres projets ! buff.ly/pO8Nfmt 📅 12 septembre 2026 🎟️ Inscriptions : buff.ly/pO8Nfmt #Ludodrome #IndieDev #GameStudies #Montreal #GameDev
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LUDODROME 2026
Un terrain de jeu pour les jeux expérimentaux et les créateur.rice.s de jeux // A playground for experimental games and game makers
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We spent one day making a game about socks with @yetanothergame.itch.io for the GamePoemsJam by @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social and @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social Somehow it became a game poem about belonging and laundry. 🧦❤️ Play here: buff.ly/Ks9qJqc #gamedev #gamepoem #itchio #indiegame #artgame
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Women in Games @womeningames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Great conversations shouldn't end when the event closes. ✨ Introducing Women in Games Voices - our new open-access library capturing talks, interviews, panel discussions, and key research from across our global community. Read more and subscribe: www.womeningames.org/introducing-... #WomenInGames
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Lisez les posts de @mverbesselt.bsky.social, vous suivrez le #cifel2026 comme si vous y étiez!
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
⏰ Only 2 days left! The Québec Games Celebration on Steam is coming to an end 🎮 buff.ly/iuppwbR 💖 Thank you for supporting Québec game creators! See you on Steam before the event ends 👀 🌸
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🌸🎮 Thrilled that CLTRS is part of the Experimental Game Showcase at GDC2026! Fri, March 13 – 1:10pm - 4:00pm Come discover bold, poetic and boundary‑pushing games. More info: buff.ly/s5Yh2QH ✨ #GDC2026 #experimentalgames #artgame #art #womeningames
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🚀 Managing Project in the Creative industry just dropped! buff.ly/mYA9BaV It’s a fun, no‑nonsense dive into project management — solid theory, real studio stories, and plenty of “oh yeah, I’ve lived that” moments. #CreativeIndustries #ProjectManagement #GameDev #Routledge
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🎮✨ Excited to speak at GDC! Wed, March 10 – 04:40 PM - Educator Soapbox My talk, “Educating for the Industry We Want”, dives into how making CLTRS bridges industry readiness and critical game design. Let’s rethink how we teach and make games! 💬🌸 buff.ly/yD2SV9o #GDC2026 #gamedesign #criticalgames
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🚀 It’s live! The Quebec Games Celebration on Steam starts right now 🎉 buff.ly/9fUX4Xo We’re proud to announce that CLTRS is officially part of the event 🌸 This is the perfect time to explore bold, creative, and socially engaged games from Québec! #QGC2026, #QuebecGamesCelebration #Steam
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Proud (and a little giddy!) to share my work at GDC 2026 ✨ 🎤 Educators Soapbox (Tuesday) 🎮 Experimental Games Showcase (Friday) I’ll be talking research‑creation, feminist perspectives, and new ways of teaching & making games 💗 🔗 Full schedule: #GDC2026 #gamedev #womeningames
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The GDC Festival of Gaming program blends expert insight with interactive formats designed to spark ideas, sharpen skills, and connect communities.
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
📚✨ Demain à lieu le lancement du livre "Nous sommes tous des astronautes 2 : essais sur la réalité et le virtuel " 🗓 Jeudi 12 février de 18h00 à 20h30 📍 Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montréal buff.ly/NB5q8j7 Venez parler avec moi de "L’hallucination du Vercors" ! 🏔️ 💚 🍃
A gauche, le plateau du Vercors vu depuis Grenoble
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🎉 Just one week to go until the Québec Games Celebration on Steam! 🎮 We’re thrilled to announce that CLTRS will be part of the event ✨ #QGC2026, #QuebecGamesCelebration #CélébrationJeuxQuébec, #Steam
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Flo @yetanothergame.itch.io · 29/01/2026
Just put public a first version of my latest game: Lexigma yetanothergame.itch.io/lexigma A daily simple word puzzle game, just drag letter around until you find all the words. Still in development! already available in English, French, Spanish and German. #Gamedev #HTML5 #Phaser
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Lexigma by YetAnotherGame
A daily word puzzle game
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Pixelles @pixellesmtl.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Pixelles GDC Ensemble is now open for applications! In partnership with GDC, we’re bringing 25 mid-career game developers to #GDC2026. 💖 We’re especially considering submissions from studio founders and grassroots community organizers. Apply by Dec. 31st for your chance to win a Festival Pass:
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Pixelles (Montréal)
Pixelles is a non-profit organization committed to empowering more women & everyone in game development. We host online and in-person programs, based in Montréal (Canada).
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🌸 Reminder! Today is the day! 🎮 Join us at Le Central – Food Court, Montréal from 12:00 – 16:00 to explore how play, design, and feminist perspectives come together in CLTRS 💗🍟✨ More info: buff.ly/f4VrX4S #FeministGame #ArtGame #MontrealEvents #GameDesign #MGW
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Pixels & Poutine Indie Game Showcase
Pixels & Poutine Indie Game Showcase
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🌐 Je participe à la 21ᵉ rencontre de la Table en littératie numérique ! Avec la Chaire CREAT, je montre comment les jeux vidéo peuvent booster le mieux-être des jeunes 🎮✨ 📅 18 nov – École NAD-UQAC, Montréal #LittératieNumérique #JeuxVidéo #Créativité @synthese.bsky.social
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21e rencontre de la Table de concertation en littératie numérique
La Table de concertation en littératie numérique du Québec, en collaboration avec SYNTHÈSE et l’école NAD-UQAC, convie ses membres ainsi que toute personne intéressée à participer à une journée…
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Sorry for the long pause 😅… my colleague made me write a book! Managing Projects in the Creative Industries shows how creators and project managers can actually be friends. Pre-order here: buff.ly/chA7bNL ✨ #CreativeIndustries #ProjectManagement #GameDev #DesignThinking #Routledge
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Managing Projects in the Creative Industries
This book offers a critical and transdisciplinary rethinking of project management in the creative industries. Bridging theory and practice, it explores how traditional approaches can be adapted,…
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🎮 Excited to showcase CLTRS this Friday, Nov 14, at Pixel&Poutine! 📍 Le Central Food Court, Montreal, 12:00 – 16:00 Where crispy fries & rich gravy meet the delicate pink aesthetic of CLTRS 💗🍟✨ @pixelsandpoutine.bsky.social #GameDev #IndieDev #Montreal
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
🌸 We got a video review on YouTube! 🌸 🎥 buff.ly/kAyrwA3 Arigatou @catlover_mimi~ 💕🐱 Do you think we should translate the game into Japanese? 🎮✨
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【CLTRS】美しい世界で快楽、絶頂について体験できる耽美で瞑想的なアートゲーム
CLTRS 美しい世界で快楽、絶頂について体験できる耽美で瞑想的なアートゲーム https://laulgame.itch.io/cltrs https://store.steampowered.com/app/3509860/CLTRS/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- …
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🌺 Well folks, the wait is over… CLTRS is now live on itch.io! buff.ly/qrQjQLI 🌸 Big thanks to @itch.io for their support. Take a ten-minute stroll through a dreamy world with just the left joystick 🎮, and let the game’s lush visuals carry you along✨. #IndieGame #GameRelease #GameDev #Gameart
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Venez jouer à CLTRS tous les soirs au métro Place des arts à Montréal !
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
💖 Played CLTRS on Steam? ✨ Leave us a review — sweet, spicy, or snarky, we’ll take it! Your words help us grow, get seen, and keep making weird feminist games 💅 👉https://buff.ly/BJONiAq #CLTRS #IndieGame #SteamReview #FeministGames #Art #SupportIndie #Gamedev
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
👀 Is CLTRS an art game… or just a really cute, loud, clit-powered clicker? 💅 It plays with pleasure, politics & pixels — does that count? Tell us, art snobs & game nerds: what is an art game anyway? #CLTRS #ArtGame #FeministGames #CriticalPlay #IndieDev #GameDev
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Kenzie Gordon 🍉 @kenzitronic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Congrats @laurelinemhc.bsky.social and her team at UQAC on today's release of CLTRS! It turned out absolutely beautiful and fun to play (what's not to love in a game that ends with a giant clitoral orgasm in the sky??). Check it out, free to play! store.steampowered.com/app/3509860/...
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🎮 CLTRS is out now on Steam! 🌸🌿 We just released CLTRS, a feminist research-creation game exploring female pleasure and joyful resistance. 🌷✨ ➡️ Play it now on Steam buff.ly/7buvQTi Or live at the SAT Montreal buff.ly/RrHczJK #CLTRS #feminist #indiegame #gamestudies #gamedev #steam #art #UE5 🌺🌼
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CLTRS on Steam
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Réseau Hexagram / Network @reseauhexagram.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
[ÉVÉNEMENT/EVENT] 🎮 Le jeudi 15 mai, jouez avec 40 jeux vidéo artistiques, innovants et critiques de nos membres et de studios indépendants montréalais. milieux.concordia.ca/event/10390/ @glandeurlessard.bsky.social @laurelinemhc.bsky.social @deathorgone.bsky.social @satmontreal.bsky.social
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LUDODROME - Milieux
Let’s get together! Everyone is busy but it’s time to renew connections – to share what we’ve been making, and to hang out together. LUDODROME proposes to bring together an […]
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
It wasn’t easy to design the level just before the climax. Pacing, pressure, anticipation… We made this fountain… what do you think? 🎮⛲💗 #CLTRS #gamedev #leveldesign #pleasure #fountain
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🚨 Help us! We’re at 100 wishlists… and shooting for 500! Not for the ego (well… maybe a little 👀), but because Steam’s algorithm needs to feel some pleasure too. 👉 Add CLTRS to your wishlist: buff.ly/KoLP1Z3 Support feminist, tender, slightly rebellious games — one click at a time 💖 #gamedev #Steam
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
CLTRS is in fact a dinosaur game 🦖 Who knew the clit could be so massive? Have a fun Friday! 😎 #CLTRS #gamedev #dinosaur #indiegamedev #FridayFun #UE5
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
CLTRS brings color and light together in ways you’ve never seen. Abstract, bold, and beautiful—thanks to Unreal Engine 5. 😂 🎨💡🎮 #CLTRS #gamedev #UE5 #gameart #color #abstractart #debug #lighting
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🌌 Can you see something? Not quite hidden. Not quite named. Just beneath the surface. 🕯️💫🩷 #CLTRS #gamedev #UE5 #night #WIP
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
🍸🎮 Le Ludodrome débarque à la SAT ! Jeux expérimentaux, ambiance décontractée, bar sur place et beaucoup de fun à partager. Testez une vingtaine de jeux, dont CLTRS 🗓️ 15 mai – dès 14h 📍 SAT – 201, boulevard Saint-Laurent 💸 Entrée gratuite
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🗓️ 5 mai – IMAGINAD Venez célébrer le talent des finissant·es de l'Ecole NAD et voir le jeu CLTRS. Au menu : installations interactives, design de jeu, VFX… et un bar 🥂 📍 Marché Bonsecours – 350, rue Saint-Paul Est, Montréal 🕗 Dès 19h30 💸 Entrée gratuite #MontrealDev
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
CLTRS is officially launching on May 15th at the SAT (@satmontreal.bsky.social) in Montréal! 💫 Come celebrate with us — explore the game, meet the creators, and dive into a world where pleasure, softness, and rebellion meet 🌸🎮💥 💌 Details coming soon. #GameLaunch #FeministGames #ArtGame
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The game should be out in May! 🌸✨🎮 When I think about everything we’ve done — and everything that still needs to be done — I get a little dizzy 😵‍💫🌀 The good kind of dizzy. The “we’re almost there, right?!” kind 😅 #CLTRS #GameLaunch #SATMontreal #FeministGames #GameDev #DigitalArt
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is not the final scene. Just the part where everything starts to… line up. 😌 You’re climbing. You’re close. It’s not done yet — but the view up here 🤩 What do you think is waiting just beyond the top? I dare you to guess. #DigitalArt #Art #FeministGames #IndieGameDev #VisualStorytelling #UE5
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The final moments of CLTRS will make you look at everything through a new lens. What was it really about? You’ll know soon. This is where everything we’ve built together converges. #CLTRS #gamefinale #feministnarratives #indiegamedev #mystery
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
On #TransDayOfVisibility, we celebrate trans and non-binary voices in gaming. CLTRS is created by a gender-diverse team, and we believe in the power of representation to shape meaningful experiences in play. #TDOV #TransJoy #DiversityInGaming #Gamedev
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
On this International Women’s Rights Day, we’re unveiling the teaser for CLTRS— a research-creation game that explores female pleasure and challenges taboos. Let’s keep pushing for conversations that celebrate and uphold women’s rights! ✨🎮 #CLTRS #Feminism #Women #IWD2025 #art #gamedesign
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This month, CLTRS will be showcased in two amazing events in Europe! 📍 Namur, Belgium – TRAKK on Friday, March 14 📍 Toulouse, France – CISC Conference on Thursday, March 20 If you're around, come see CLTRS in action! 💖 #CLTRS #GameDesign #Events #Namur #Toulouse
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
📚✨ Si vous lisez le français, j'ai écrit un article de vulgarisation pour le magazine de l'ACFAS ! J'y parle du jeu CLTRS, mais aussi de créativité et de collaboration. 🎮 #CLTRS #ACFAS #GameDesign #IndieGame #FeministGaming #Recherche-Création
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Le jeu vidéo, de l’idée à l’écran : récit de recherche sur et par la création
Récits de recherche | Chaque jeu vidéo naît de la collaboration entre programmeurs, designers de jeu et artistes graphistes. Une diversité d'idées, d'expériences et de compétences sont ainsi…
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The avatar VFX has been smoothed out for a softer, more fluid movement—no more spiky edges! We've lightened the texture to create a more harmonious look. We're crafting a crown that resemble delicate flower petals. 🌺✨ A sneak peek video will be coming soon ! #CLTRS #IndieGame #Art #Character
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
CLTRS is all about embracing softness and fluidity ✨ We've refined the avatar to better reflect these values—smoother, softer, and more inviting. Representation is in the details—can you spot the changes? 💖 #art #character #gamedev #indiegame
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Project Kat | Paper Lily @leef6010.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hi we're Leef 6010! We made Project Kat and we're currently working part-time on Paper Lily! #indiedev #gamedev #horrorrpg #PaperLily
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
And we’re definitely back on track! 🚂 Or should I say on rails? 😏 CLTRS lets you explore a stunning 3D universe, all thanks to our smooth rail system! 🎮✨ #Gamedev #Indiegame #Onrails #Explorationgame #UE5 #leveldesign
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This month is tough, but we rise! 💪✨ Like our avatar, we always get back on track—no matter what! Let’s go! 🔥" #Indiegame #GameDev #KeepGoing #WorkInProgress
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🎮 The last stretch of game dev is always the hardest! 🎮 Every dev knows this feeling—but hey, we’ve got some great animations now! 🎉 Send us some encouragement to keep us going! 💪✨ #GameDev #IndieGame #Struggles #3Danimation
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Today, all I want to do is stay in bed, surrounded by soft cushions, and not deal with anything. 😩 Honestly, some days feel like they just need to be spent under the covers, away from all the hustle. Can someone please press pause on life for a bit? #CozyVibes #NeedABreak #SlowDown
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Laureline Chiapello @laurelinemhc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It’s freezing cold in Montreal, and all I can think about is heading south, where the sun shines and the crystal-clear seas await. Just like the serene environments in CLTRS, I could really use a peaceful escape to someplace warm and tranquil. ❄️❄️❄️ #Montreal #Winter ##ColdDays #Wanderlust
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Jonathan Lessard @glandeurlessard.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
ok mais est-ce que l'école est prête pour toi? Essayez *C'est la vie* ici! lablablab.itch.io/cest-la-vie-...
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