About
My name is Gersande La Flèche. I am a writer and I live in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke with my partner Leif, a fluffy, operatic cat called Ben Le Flouffe — who is frankly the true protagonist of our little household — and a young Brittany spaniel called Pippin.
I use they/them/their pronouns.
Tiohtià:ke
The name of Montréal, Québec in Kanien’kéha. Tiohtià:ke is situated on the unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá:ka, traditionally the meeting place between nations.
To situate myself in the ongoing colonization of North America, I am a settler of Breton, Italian, Québécois-Irish and Colombian origin.
I'm the sysadmin of silvan.cloud, a Mastodon micro-instance, and I'm the community manager and owner of millefeuilles.cloud, an anti-corporate private social network focused on reading and financed by community donations.
In my free time, my nose is in a book or a notebook, a cup of green tea never far. When I'm not lost in my books, I'm either in the ballet studio or in the woods, ideally skiing.
This blog is a digital notebook I've been scribbling in since 2009, where I document my life and my projects, and think aloud on writing, dance, books, games, and of course, tea. I write this blog in both English and French and don't use any automated text generation tools: the ever-present typos prove it!
On top of following the blog, you can also find out what I'm doing now; how my latest big writing projects are going; and if you're a gadget or software nerd like me, you might also like to check out my tools page, which lists some of the indispensable equipment I use.
I can also be found on Mastodon, on Instagram, and, though less actively, on Twitter. If you find yourself in need to send me a direct message, however, the best method remains email.
💌 Email Policy
While I absolutely will do my best to reply to everyone, my philosophy with email since my ultra-cognitive-burnout of 2023 is the following: Do You Want to Be Known For Your Writing, or For Your Swift Email Responses?
My blog is featured on nownownow.