Reposted by MCEvie @evieghj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Visibility requirements, *so our culture does not get drowned out and hidden into obscurity.* French culture and language funding, * because if we stop making new things of our language and culture, it dies* Labeling requirement, *so we can exist in our language, not another * 112
Reposted by MCEvie @evieghj.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Someone's video: here are words that have different (grammatical) gender in Quebec and in France! Me, to @mchoule.bsky.social : ...we can't even agree from one side of the province to the other MC: yeah, like, it's une beigne, not un beigne me: ...from one side of this room to the other... 111
Reposted by MCEvie @evieghj.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Physical books are great, but physical space is a much more limited resource than virtual (despite AI's efforts to change that), so...options would be nice. 001
Reposted by MCEvie @evieghj.bsky.social · 23/06/2026So, made the switch to libro for audiobooks, but I'm kinda wondering, does something similar exist for ebooks (for purchasing them, that is)? Apple is my long standing default, and Kobo works, but I'd like something that feels like more than a slightly lesser evil to Amazon... 202
Reposted by MCEvie @evieghj.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Don’t bother with this year’s Ottawa poutine fest. The selection is a disgrace even by last year’s standards and they want you to pay to access the site. It’s clearly all about the organizer’s ego and wallet at this point. He deserves neither. 012
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Those people are so annoying. Let us have the trigger warning some of us need. 010
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Plus the way algorithms work makes finding anything much more difficult. 120
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 25/08/2025I'd be curious to see the proof that they uncancelled the parade. Because I didn't see that while I was there. 080
Reposted by MCGwen E. Kirby @gwenekirby.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Sex scenes are SCENES, with all of the burdens a scene carries: advancing plot, revealing character, complicating relationships, etc. A sex scene must do at least some of those things or it fails as a scene. Excellent romance writers know this, and Grant is one of the best. Love this analysis :). 08113
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 26/04/2025And it was a game!. 2 to 1 for the Charge after the first period. The 2 to 2 most of the third with an excellent last goal 12 secs from the end of the third period! It was spectacular. Well played! 000
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 26/04/2025And then waiting in line, I impulsively got Sara Raasch "Go Luck Yourself" and the great people at @thespanielstale.bsky.social asked if I had read the first in the series so of course I also bought "The nighmare before kissmas". 2/2 010
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 26/04/2025And for the last stop at @thespanielstale.bsky.social I got "How to be queer, and ancient guide to sexuality", "Queer heroes of myth and legend, a celebration of gay God's, saphic saints and queerness through the ages", "Sodomy and the pirate tradition", "Witchcraft, a history in 13 trials" 1/2 101
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Second stop was World of maps where I bought "Mindfulness on knitting", "The ghost map, the story of London's most terrigying epidemic — and how it changed science, cities and the modern world.", "An atlas of endangered alphabets" and how the tricolor got its stripes and other stories about flags". 100
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Saturday after the pride hockey game, we went to Westboro Books where I got "The globemakers;the curious story of an ancient craft" and a Shalespeare's Sonnets book. 100
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Last Stop on Friday was at Perfect Books where I got Chuck Tingle's "Camp Damascus" and Emma R. Alban's "Don’t want you like a best friend. 100
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Third stop on Friday was Singing Pebble where I got Lia Riley's "Puck and Prejudice" and Xiran Jay Zhao's "Heavenly Tyrant". I also got to pick a blind date with a book; "The sun sets in Singapore" by Kehinde Fadipe. 100
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Second stop was @octopusbooks.ca where I got John Green's "Everything is tuberculosis" and Margaret Killjoy's "The spaling cage". 110
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Started on Friday evening with Book on Beechwood. Got 2 books: Amal El-Mohtar's "The river has roots" and T. Kingfisher's "What feasts at night". 100
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Happy Indie Bookstore Day! Ottawa has been hosting a crawl this weekend, and here's my bounty. 120
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 26/04/2025One year and 2 days later, back for another Pride PWHL game! Ottawa's Charge against Montreal's Victoire! Un an et deux jours plus tard, je suis de retour pour la partie de la fierté de la LPHF! Victoire de Montreal contre Charge d'Ottawa! 150
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Legal name changed with elections canada done. It was a painless process. And my vote has been cast! #elections #Canada 010
Reposted by MCGet Your Words Out! @gywo.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Get Your Words Out is open to ALL types of #writers! We have people writing literary fiction, fanfic, horror, SFF, YA, poetry, nonfiction. If it's writing, it counts! If you need a goal to hit and a community to support you, come pledge for 2025! getyourwordsout.dreamwidth.org/835269.html 11922
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 09/09/2024Love it, very cool looking. That being said... I don't need a 3D printer. I don't need a 3D printer. I don't need a 3D printer. 110
Reposted by MCEm (Emerson Phyllis McGee) @theemdash.bsky.social · 02/12/2023You all really do not know how much joy I get from the @gywo.bsky.social community and watching people join/find us. 10 days from now starts both the most stressful time and most joyous as our 2024 pledging opens. 152
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 21/11/2023Got a teeth extracted today and practiced my ventriloquist skills as a result. 🤣 000
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 19/11/2023New #FountainPen for me and my partner @evieghj.bsky.social #SpecialOccasion 💚💜 030
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 18/11/2023Got a writing event today. So hopefully will be able to start on a project. Not writingnrelated but I'm proposing 💍 to my life partner today. Let's not tell @evieghj.bsky.social just yet! 010
Reposted by MCT(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 05/11/2023Stop taking your “hero” on a “journey” and start letting them detonate, liquify or transform into a flurry of fruit bats, never to be seen again #writingtips 294
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 07/11/2023My story already has the color blue and a broken heart. I suppose I should find a way to add a pair of shoes and a grand piano. 🤔 010
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 04/11/2023youtu.be/KBmYKmAvuko?...youtu.beThe Devil Went Down to Georgia (Official Video) - Mia x AllyThe second single from our album has officially dropped! PLUS our tour is named after it!See us play it live on our South/East US tour this falltickets at ww... 000
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 04/11/2023youtu.be/SVydnLYc0F8?...youtu.beLe yâbe est dans la cabaneProvided to YouTube by Les Disques VictoireLe yâbe est dans la cabane · Mes Aïeux · Frédéric Giroux · Stéphane Archambault · Mes Aïeux · Mes Aïeux · Mathieu ... 000
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 04/11/2023My story deals with the devil, so I'm listening to songs like The Devil Went Down to Georgia or the Quebec song "Le yâble est dans la cabane". Anything that involves some fiddles, really. 210
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 28/10/2023Also aiming for 50K. Also aiming to write every day. Still have 0 ideas on what I'll be working on this year so we'll see! #gywo #NaNoWriMo 110
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 22/10/2023Sadly I have officially lost my #gywo writing goal for 2023. Even if i write everyday until december 31, I'll still be 12 days short of 240. That's the issues with habit goals. Once its too late, its too late. 120
Reposted by MCGet Your Words Out! @gywo.bsky.social · 17/10/2023Good morning GYWO writers of Bluesky! We're going to start cross posting some things from the other site and being generally more active here, so feel free to let us know what kind of things you'd like to see from us. 001
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 16/10/2023Covid-Influenza vaccination done! I always forget to research which I want between Pfizer and Moderna so I never know what to say when they ask. Maybe I'll remember next time. 020
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 15/10/2023Last CanCon panel of the weekend. Nostalgia for times that never existed. 040
Reposted by MCEvie @evieghj.bsky.social · 15/10/2023As I see it, your setting is a character in your story. Perhaps the main character, or a main character, or a secondary one - all can exist. And like all characters, built not of atoms and veins and muscles, or of sewers and taxes, but of the stories, both told and untold, that show us who they are. 111
Reposted by MCKerstin Hall @kerstinhall.bsky.social · 15/10/2023I also think that the details people tut-tut about being super essential (bUt hoW doES TaX wORk?) only require explication insofar as they enhance the action. Unless we’re going to be crawling through sewage tunnels, I don’t support dwelling on the setting’s unremarkable waste management system. 3162
Reposted by MCrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14/10/2023not only do they overrate worldbuilding, they're mistaken about the signs of good worldbuilding. you don't need to know the answer to every question about the world. when you encounter something you don't understand, you need to feel that there is an answer rather than know what it is. 10905
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 14/10/2023Waiting on for my first Cancon panel of day 2; "Spinning your hyperfixation into Gold". 030
MC @mchoule.bsky.social · 14/10/2023CanCon day 1 loot! I already have a few books I wanna buy today. 040