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Tessa Barbosa @hitessabarbosa.bsky.social · 22h

It's pub day! Isle of Teeth is officially out in the world. I'm still getting ready for book launch, and trying not to get too nervous. Hope you do well, book.

Book cover of Isle of Teeth. Green book with gold text. A hand has a moth resting on it, and a dagger gripped tight. On sale now.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Finally gotten the hand of the new oven steel (and new oven, and new province). Nature is healing. (Me. I'm the nature.)

A pizza straight out of the oven with blistered crust and cupped pepperoni.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just asked to fill out a survey for Tumblr about their Premium services. So, here's my answer for their final open answer question, "Is there anything else you want to tell us?" *cracks knuckles*

I dunno man, the Internet just sucks now. It’s ten years past its prime, 'cause all the sites that created the things that people talked about on Tumblr are gone.

Sites like Tumblr, but also Shitty-X/Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest — all of that was only good because the rest of the Internet existed. Tumblr's the least bad, don't mistake me, but y'all are the big box megamarts that crowded out the corner stores where people hung out and made the cool stuff they wanted to share. Without them, all sites like you can do is reference each other, echos of echos, when it’s not a sales pitch for some drop-shipped garbage or AI slop.

The internet's dead, my dudes, and it's not coming back for $6.99/month.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I know, intellectually, I am making progress on the move back to Ontario but EVERYTHING IS CHAOS right now. Which feels like the process for every story I've written -- though at least with a story, I can close the laptop.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

That feeling when you find a duplicate book and you've already packed the one with the ugly cover but you're still want to keep the nice cover so you decide to deal with it four provinces away from now. 😭

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Can someone develop a time machine, then go back to each time I'm in a bookstore to screech, "STEPHANIE YOU WILL HAVE TO MOVE EACH OF THESE BOOKS ONE DAY!? Think about Future You!" Who is currently surrounded by boxes. 😭😭😭

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

My cat's new name is, "You will get some when I get some." 🙄 (Let me have a bite of my breakfast, plz??)

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A PLETHORA of REEVES (and an alleged manager) on TikTok who really want to get me in touch with Keanu. 🤣🤣🤣 This timeline, I suppose it's theoretically possible.

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Tessa Barbosa @hitessabarbosa.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Come join us!

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Okay Canada. PLEASE don't fuck this up.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

If the eraser looks like food, you have a legal obligation that it also SMELL like food.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

SEVERANCE IS THE BEST. {flail flail flail flail}

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Is it funny or telling that while looking at a book on witchcraft, the bookselling website algorithmically offers up a book on burnout? Asking for a friend.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Yes still in the *checks notes* novelette though we're likely to tip over that when I type in all my long hand notes. Serious question:

Analog TV screen, blue with green letters, all caps, with the line: DOES THIS STORY EVERY END?!

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Because I can, I'm doing a complete watch/binge of the entire rebooted [BLANK] OF THE APES movies, and wow, they did Caesar *so dirty* - even the people that "loved" him. Especially those that loved him.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

If you get on the back entrance of the bus, you suck. Full stop, no excuses. I see kids do it, I see adults, I see little grannies do it to beat each other to a seat. Translink remove the back pass already--this is transportation anarchy. 😂

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Wrestling with Google Docs is not how I wanted to start this writing session, but here we are. Meanwhile later, it's a doored cabinet assembly and then, THEN, the moving of my entire tarot/oracle collection into its new home followed by the reorganization of at least two bookshelves. OH BABY. 😍

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Severance is by far my favorite SF. By miles, by lightyears. Surreal, absurd, existential, corporate dystopian hell that, most importantly--no matter what happens--has no chance at a happy ending because there are no good choices. Which makes it feel true in ways a lot of media doesn't.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Watching ODDITY, and it's delightful -- spooky, weird, but also at times hilarious with these dry one liners. Also looking forward to watching some spectacular supernatural avenging to follow. 🍿

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

That moment during your holiday break when you pick up your work phone and it's dead and you think, "Good. Yes," and put it back down.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

SIR. My TBR doesn't need inspiration, IT NEEDS AN INTERVENTION. (Or maybe I do.) Either way, BONK, bad company! 🤣

Clip from my inbox, with Book Outlet asking me if I need TBR inspiration and if so here's a discount.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Due to whacky happenstance, this dough cold proofed for ... (scratches head) ... five days? And boy did it spring!!! 😍

Pizza with a bubbly dark crust, pepperoni, green olive, green pepper and red onion.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

(And it's too damn early for my work phone to be buzzing.... 💩)

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I just saw the trailer for 28 YEARS LATER and eeeeeeeeeeeeeee 😍

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I'm just this little pie, you know?

Home made pepperoni and mushroom pizza, golden from the oven, sitting on a rack to cool before cutting.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Under a sherpa blanket in the dark listening to gulls cry outside, cat between my feet trying to get comfortable and her wet nose against my left ankle, pizza dough resting on the counter perfuming the apartment with the efforts of eager yeast. Two weeks until the winter break .........

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I stand at the edge of the season's greatest holiday event: the final three shows of the Eras tour here in Vancouver. The Swiftpocalypse. Three days. Three nights. All Swift. God bless ye stans of Swift, Let nothing you dismay.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

@cstuarthardwick.com Dude you've followed me back three times, what's happening? 😂 (Also, Hi!)

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The unavoidable, untune-outable voice of a neighbour's voice drifting up the shared hot air vent loud enough to ALMOST make out the words. Each half-heard word is like a stab in the ear as my brain tries fruitlessly to comprehend *even though I don't want it to try* ... 😵‍💫

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Stumbled across some flank steak at the grocery store the other day and now my hands smell like lime and cilantro and the whole steak is marinating inside a flavor-waterbed ziplock. 😋

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I'm writing this dumb little thing to get it out of my system and I have reached the, It's so stupid I love it, stage.

media.tenor.com

Giggles GIF

Alt: Ron Swanson as played by Rick Offerman in PARKS AND REC giggling to himself.

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 18/11/2024

Pisces: You will turn the tables on your captors today and by this time tomorrow you will run the Cartel with an iron fist. Soon you will control all of the cotton candy distribution in the world.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Once again having a, "EVERYONE OUT OF THE POOL!" moment, this time with OneDrive, as I move back files to my cute little stickered SSD drive because it's the only thing that won't give me syncing issues.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Introduce yourself with: One Book 📚 - Circe by Madeline Miller One Movie 🎥 - Shaun of the Dead One Album 💿 - Chromatica by Lady Gaga One TV Show 📺 - Agatha All Along (Currently, anyway.)

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

To be brutally frank, I'm not sure how often I will be in this space. Certainly more than other places. But I've kind of gotten out of the social media habit and I got to say that's not a bad thing to have happened to me.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This is a distraction. Misdirection so that you skip past the true ethical issues of stolen IP, environmental issues, the fate of those who will lose their jobs, and basic cui bono. Rush to protect artificial 'life' rights before other lives matter. Fuck off, leading philosopher.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Just started reading ABSOLUTION last night and already I've got that blotting out the world and falling inside the narrative feeling.

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Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Look, look these are fine, but for the love of god they can't be the only ones you sell!

Salt & Vinegar HICORY STICKS, but no Hickory?! BLASPHEMERS

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