Rochelle 🇨🇦
@mazar.bsky.social
Librarian. Aspiring writer of middle grade fiction. Dangerously optimistic. She/her. Vancouver, BC.
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Join me for an uncanny and nostalgic journey through Brampton's tragically forgotten malls. Curated by yours truly! Feb. 28 leaving from Toronto’s Chinatown Centre. #LiminalAssembly
LIMINAL ASSEMBLY: Dead Malls Field Trip | Brampton
Join us for an uncanny and nostalgic journey through Brampton's tragically beautiful forgotten malls.
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February 2, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Join me for an uncanny and nostalgic journey through Brampton's tragically forgotten malls. Curated by yours truly! Feb. 28 leaving from Toronto’s Chinatown Centre. #LiminalAssembly
My uncle got typhus is the late 1940s Berlin. There were so many cases they turned a morgue into a children's isolation ward.
February 2, 2026 at 5:21 AM
My uncle got typhus is the late 1940s Berlin. There were so many cases they turned a morgue into a children's isolation ward.
I'm listening to the Sold a Story podcast, and it's blowing my mind. I had no idea this was happening. And I'm baffled by concept three cueing.
February 1, 2026 at 5:45 AM
I'm listening to the Sold a Story podcast, and it's blowing my mind. I had no idea this was happening. And I'm baffled by concept three cueing.
It seems like everyone is struggling and/or emotionally overwhelmed. There's so much going on. The smallest thing might be someone's last straw. It's a lot of absorb, and it's a lot to hold in. Can we take the year off, or something?
January 29, 2026 at 9:20 PM
It seems like everyone is struggling and/or emotionally overwhelmed. There's so much going on. The smallest thing might be someone's last straw. It's a lot of absorb, and it's a lot to hold in. Can we take the year off, or something?
Emotionally exhausted, but so proud of the UBC students who turned up in the hundreds today to expressed peaceful solidarity in the face of unwelcome and uninvited "debate" about residential schools.
January 23, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Emotionally exhausted, but so proud of the UBC students who turned up in the hundreds today to expressed peaceful solidarity in the face of unwelcome and uninvited "debate" about residential schools.
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Fair bit of a scene at the OneBC event at UBC and the counterevent organized by students.
Close to a thousand people here, mostly drowning out OneBC supporters.
Some pushing and shoving, nothing escalating past that yet it seems.
Close to a thousand people here, mostly drowning out OneBC supporters.
Some pushing and shoving, nothing escalating past that yet it seems.
January 22, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Fair bit of a scene at the OneBC event at UBC and the counterevent organized by students.
Close to a thousand people here, mostly drowning out OneBC supporters.
Some pushing and shoving, nothing escalating past that yet it seems.
Close to a thousand people here, mostly drowning out OneBC supporters.
Some pushing and shoving, nothing escalating past that yet it seems.
Today is going to be a difficult day in my part of the world. But this difficult day is a reminder that as long as we don't work towards decolonization, reconciliation, and dismantling white supremacy culture, we pave the way for more difficult days like this one.
January 22, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Today is going to be a difficult day in my part of the world. But this difficult day is a reminder that as long as we don't work towards decolonization, reconciliation, and dismantling white supremacy culture, we pave the way for more difficult days like this one.
I'm stuck on the idea that someone might *unknowingly* use genAI to write fiction they're claiming as their own. This seems like a plausibility shield being raised pre-emptively. There is no way to *accidentally* outsource your writing to an LLM, no matter how many systems it's built into.
January 5, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I'm stuck on the idea that someone might *unknowingly* use genAI to write fiction they're claiming as their own. This seems like a plausibility shield being raised pre-emptively. There is no way to *accidentally* outsource your writing to an LLM, no matter how many systems it's built into.
Sometimes you fly from Toronto to Vancouver, but end up spending the night in Calgary. One of life’s little surprises. Why visit just one province when you could visit two? Maybe tonight I’ll be in Winnipeg, who knows? Life’s rich pageant.
January 1, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Sometimes you fly from Toronto to Vancouver, but end up spending the night in Calgary. One of life’s little surprises. Why visit just one province when you could visit two? Maybe tonight I’ll be in Winnipeg, who knows? Life’s rich pageant.
Yes! I work out the ending very early on, long before I start writing, usually. I like an ending that ties up the story beats, but also feels like the beginning of a new adventure. #kidlitchat
TOPIC: Let's talk endings here at 2025's end. Do you know how you're going to end your story when you start? Do you know the ending first? Do you have tricks/tips for making your story's ending as satisfying as possible? #kidlitchat
December 31, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Yes! I work out the ending very early on, long before I start writing, usually. I like an ending that ties up the story beats, but also feels like the beginning of a new adventure. #kidlitchat
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And how exactly do you propose to “kill trans ideology“ without killing trans people
December 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
And how exactly do you propose to “kill trans ideology“ without killing trans people
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As the head of content and publishing for Constellate Publishing, with the vast majority of our 2026 books so far written by women, I’m great with this.
All of the top-10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top check-out in many library system around the country. n.pr/49tGkyq
Genre fiction and female authors top U.S. libraries' most-borrowed lists in 2025
All of the top-10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top check-out in many library system around the country.
n.pr
December 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
As the head of content and publishing for Constellate Publishing, with the vast majority of our 2026 books so far written by women, I’m great with this.
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[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care
We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care
I'm genuinely surprised that a chatbot became a tool for search so quickly for so many people. When has a chatbot ever been an effective or authoritative voice on anything? How is that a format that feels truthy?
December 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I'm genuinely surprised that a chatbot became a tool for search so quickly for so many people. When has a chatbot ever been an effective or authoritative voice on anything? How is that a format that feels truthy?
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“You aren’t from a dark planet, are you?” “No.” Calvin shook his head firmly, though the beast couldn’t see him. “We’re—we’re shadowed. But we’re fighting the shadow.”
~ A Wrinkle in Time
~ A Wrinkle in Time
December 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“You aren’t from a dark planet, are you?” “No.” Calvin shook his head firmly, though the beast couldn’t see him. “We’re—we’re shadowed. But we’re fighting the shadow.”
~ A Wrinkle in Time
~ A Wrinkle in Time
Well, I guess now's the time to take the whole text of A STUDY IN SCARLET, replace Sherlock Holmes with a gritty version of Winnie the Pooh, and slap it up on AO3. I'll call it A STUDY IN POOH. Behold the power of my authorship! Let the awards flow in!
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Well, I guess now's the time to take the whole text of A STUDY IN SCARLET, replace Sherlock Holmes with a gritty version of Winnie the Pooh, and slap it up on AO3. I'll call it A STUDY IN POOH. Behold the power of my authorship! Let the awards flow in!
When there's something strange in your neighbourhood...
December 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
When there's something strange in your neighbourhood...
The rationales of people using genAI to generate novels and claiming they're authors are like explaining that they've spent money to send an AI to France, and therefore they are now French.
December 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The rationales of people using genAI to generate novels and claiming they're authors are like explaining that they've spent money to send an AI to France, and therefore they are now French.
“When a wise, magical tree, the hero of the story, declares it can be any pronoun it wants, many children will think, ‘Maybe I can too.’ That’s a seed most families in this room never agreed to plant.”
They prefer children to suffer rather than express something they don't want to hear.
They prefer children to suffer rather than express something they don't want to hear.
Disheartening news from Wisconsin, where #wishtree was removed from a voluntary reading program after parent complaints.
If you don’t want your child to read my book, that’s absolutely your right. But you cannot tell other parents what their children get to read. www.cbs58.com/news/book-ta...
If you don’t want your child to read my book, that’s absolutely your right. But you cannot tell other parents what their children get to read. www.cbs58.com/news/book-ta...
Book removed from community reading list in Kettle Moraine School District with some parents concerned over content
DOUSMAN, Wis. (CBS 58) – A New York Times-bestselling middle-grade novel has proven to be controversial in the Kettle Moraine School District. School leaders have since decided to remove it from a com...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“When a wise, magical tree, the hero of the story, declares it can be any pronoun it wants, many children will think, ‘Maybe I can too.’ That’s a seed most families in this room never agreed to plant.”
They prefer children to suffer rather than express something they don't want to hear.
They prefer children to suffer rather than express something they don't want to hear.
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Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
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Take over threats.
Tariffs.
Now MAGA has woken Canada’s sleeping giant: Franklin.
Tariffs.
Now MAGA has woken Canada’s sleeping giant: Franklin.
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Take over threats.
Tariffs.
Now MAGA has woken Canada’s sleeping giant: Franklin.
Tariffs.
Now MAGA has woken Canada’s sleeping giant: Franklin.
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🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbR_... Jesse Wente's take on anything is always worth listening to. His thoughts on the impact of pretendians, and what this behaviour says about settler society, needs to ring through the streets.
Jesse Wente on Thomas King and finding hope in a hard moment
YouTube video by Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud
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November 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbR_... Jesse Wente's take on anything is always worth listening to. His thoughts on the impact of pretendians, and what this behaviour says about settler society, needs to ring through the streets.
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We've discussed pretendians ad nauseam on the podcast, with each new exposé much like the last. That said, as we heard from @kimtallbear.bsky.social
in 2024, once we get beyond the tabloidy and tawdry, there is a bigger picture at play
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
in 2024, once we get beyond the tabloidy and tawdry, there is a bigger picture at play
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
A Plethora of Pretendianism: Pt. 1
Podcast Episode · MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs · 2024-03-24 · 56m
podcasts.apple.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
We've discussed pretendians ad nauseam on the podcast, with each new exposé much like the last. That said, as we heard from @kimtallbear.bsky.social
in 2024, once we get beyond the tabloidy and tawdry, there is a bigger picture at play
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
in 2024, once we get beyond the tabloidy and tawdry, there is a bigger picture at play
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
I wish there were more ways for pretendians to be unmasked that didn't cause so much harm to Indigenous people. The fraud is harm, the unmasking is harm, it's harm all the way down and in every direction.
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I wish there were more ways for pretendians to be unmasked that didn't cause so much harm to Indigenous people. The fraud is harm, the unmasking is harm, it's harm all the way down and in every direction.