Steph Charette
@stephcharette.bsky.social
Hello! "Scribofelidae" else-Web. Writer, stationary stan, cat wrangler, pizza freak. Work in Podcastle 🏰, Shimmer ✨, GigaNotoSaurus 🦕 and Nature 🌎! SWFA Associate, CODEX, VP alum, Taos Toolbox, & TWS.
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.
Which feels like the process for every story I've written -- though at least with a story, I can close the laptop.
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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.
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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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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. 😭
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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. 😭
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. 😭😭😭
Who is currently surrounded by boxes. 😭😭😭
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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. 😭😭😭
Who is currently surrounded by boxes. 😭😭😭
My cat's new name is, "You will get some when I get some." 🙄
(Let me have a bite of my breakfast, plz??)
(Let me have a bite of my breakfast, plz??)
October 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My cat's new name is, "You will get some when I get some." 🙄
(Let me have a bite of my breakfast, plz??)
(Let me have a bite of my breakfast, plz??)
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.
This timeline, I suppose it's theoretically possible.
July 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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.
This timeline, I suppose it's theoretically possible.
The problem with really good coffee strait from your French Press is that it can convince your body it doesn't need breakfast.
"problem" 😌
"problem" 😌
snow white from snow white and the seven dwarfs is drinking coffee from a coffee pot .
Alt: snow white from snow white and the seven dwarfs is drinking coffee from a coffee pot .
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July 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The problem with really good coffee strait from your French Press is that it can convince your body it doesn't need breakfast.
"problem" 😌
"problem" 😌
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Come join us!
✨INDIGO EXCLUSIVE EVENT✨
If you’re in the Lower Mainland, come join myself and Tessa Barbosa one week from today at Metrotown Indigo to celebrate What Wakes the Bells with a Q+A and signing!
Where: Indigo Metrotown Burnaby
When: Friday May 9 | 7 pm
How: Tickets through Indigo events or link in bio
If you’re in the Lower Mainland, come join myself and Tessa Barbosa one week from today at Metrotown Indigo to celebrate What Wakes the Bells with a Q+A and signing!
Where: Indigo Metrotown Burnaby
When: Friday May 9 | 7 pm
How: Tickets through Indigo events or link in bio
May 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Come join us!
Zuck: The average American has three friends:
May 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Zuck: The average American has three friends:
Okay Canada.
PLEASE don't fuck this up.
PLEASE don't fuck this up.
April 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Okay Canada.
PLEASE don't fuck this up.
PLEASE don't fuck this up.
If the eraser looks like food, you have a legal obligation that it also SMELL like food.
April 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If the eraser looks like food, you have a legal obligation that it also SMELL like food.
Hey, a throwback Thursday from @pulpliterature.bsky.social -- my story Hothouse Flower, a steampunk-dryad tale:
pulpliterature.com/throwback-th...
pulpliterature.com/throwback-th...
Throwback Thursday: 'Hothouse Flower' by Stephanie Charrette - PULP Literature
Take a step back and sideways in time to a steampunk garden with 'Hothouse Flower' by Stephanie Charette, from Issue 9, Winter 2016
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March 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hey, a throwback Thursday from @pulpliterature.bsky.social -- my story Hothouse Flower, a steampunk-dryad tale:
pulpliterature.com/throwback-th...
pulpliterature.com/throwback-th...
SEVERANCE IS THE BEST. {flail flail flail flail}
March 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
SEVERANCE IS THE BEST. {flail flail flail flail}
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.
Asking for a friend.
March 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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.
Asking for a friend.
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:
Serious question:
March 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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:
Serious question:
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.
February 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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.
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. 😂
February 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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. 😂
I'm gonna guess Canada won tonight's game because someone out there is blasting a trumpet and whooping.
a hockey player holds a canadian flag in front of a green screen
Alt: a hockey player holds a canadian flag in front of a green screen
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February 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I'm gonna guess Canada won tonight's game because someone out there is blasting a trumpet and whooping.
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. 😍
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. 😍
February 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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. 😍
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. 😍
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.
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.
January 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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.
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.
Oh look, this short story is ... a novelette. 🫠
a man in a turkey costume is saying i have some deeply tragic news for you
Alt: Boyle from Brooklyn 99 in a turkey costume is saying "i have some deeply tragic news for you."
media.tenor.com
January 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Oh look, this short story is ... a novelette. 🫠
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. 🍿
Also looking forward to watching some spectacular supernatural avenging to follow. 🍿
January 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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. 🍿
Also looking forward to watching some spectacular supernatural avenging to follow. 🍿
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.
December 30, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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.
SIR.
My TBR doesn't need inspiration, IT NEEDS AN INTERVENTION.
(Or maybe I do.)
Either way, BONK, bad company! 🤣
My TBR doesn't need inspiration, IT NEEDS AN INTERVENTION.
(Or maybe I do.)
Either way, BONK, bad company! 🤣
December 29, 2024 at 3:42 PM
SIR.
My TBR doesn't need inspiration, IT NEEDS AN INTERVENTION.
(Or maybe I do.)
Either way, BONK, bad company! 🤣
My TBR doesn't need inspiration, IT NEEDS AN INTERVENTION.
(Or maybe I do.)
Either way, BONK, bad company! 🤣
Due to whacky happenstance, this dough cold proofed for ... (scratches head) ... five days?
And boy did it spring!!! 😍
And boy did it spring!!! 😍
December 15, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Due to whacky happenstance, this dough cold proofed for ... (scratches head) ... five days?
And boy did it spring!!! 😍
And boy did it spring!!! 😍