Shantell Powell

Two-spirit author, artist, poet, book reviewer, and swamp hag. When I'm not writing or at the gym, I'm getting filthy in the woods or hanging out with chinchillas.

Neurodivergent, Mad, spoony, Indigiqueer.

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2024-09-20 14:45:26

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@npub1j0v…d9dx a friend of mine had a nurse tell her not to get vaccinated.

2024-09-06 19:25:24

I just watched Dirty Rotten Scoundrels for the first time since it came out. It holds up. It's damned funny. #comedy #movies

2024-08-25 13:38:15

Fifteen years ago, I found this freshly moulted cicada. #cicada #insects #bug #NaturePhotography
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2024-08-24 01:27:33

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@npub14ka…um78 southwestern Ontario

2024-08-18 08:57:23

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@npub1kkp…5sfx I'll see you there.

2024-08-15 15:19:14

My most recent rejection is a nice one:
"Thanks again for sending this over. Unfortunately this is not quite something I would be interested in taking on. Best of luck placing it elsewhere. (It is very, very well written and I love your voice.)"
I have high hopes someone will want to publish my novella. It went over very well with my beta readers. I'm still waiting to hear back from another publisher. #WritingCommunity #RejectionLetter #publishing

2024-08-02 15:21:24

I can't wait to get home to my chinchillas. I miss them so much! My little cuties. #chinchilla
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2024-08-02 13:06:37

I watched Queen of the Damned for the first time since it came out. It's not a very good movie, but it's not all bad. It feels like a time capsule of goth fashion from the time and I enjoy the musical score. I had a hard time believing the whole Jessica/Talamasca storyline. Such a shame about Aaliyah. She was only getting started when her life was cut short. #QueenOfTheDamned #movies #HorrorMovies

2024-07-29 22:48:26

I'm outstanding in the field. #Farming #Field #PEI #PotatoField
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2024-07-21 23:04:47

While doing a thorough cleaning of my room, I found this anatomical embroidery I did a while back with red silk thread on white cotton. #embroidery #textile #TextileArt #AnatomicalEmbroidery #EmbroideryArt #IndigenousCreatives #skeleton #bones #hand
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2024-07-19 23:12:14

I do t know who this person is, but they were right to bring this to our attention. #translation #translations #literally #RanchDressing
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2024-07-19 15:01:57

Short story recommendation: “Malak” by Peter Watts, told from the POV of a war drone becoming sentient. https://clkagmi.com/2016/01/15/malak-by-peter-watts/ #ShortStory #SciFi #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Fiction #ScienceFiction #drone

2024-06-28 14:38:23

I’ve entered the swamp mermaid portion of my life.
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2024-06-28 14:26:25

Remembering a story told to me by Dad about when he was little. His sister Phyllis baked a cake, and asked their father how he liked it. “It’s good, but you went a little light on the currants.”
Whereupon she said, “Oh, those aren’t currants. They’re flies.”
#baking #memories #familyHistory

2024-06-23 21:58:15

Oh goody. Probably part of the reason I felt so shit last year. https://globalnews.ca/news/10578006/train-derailment-chemicals-ohio-east-palestine-canada-study/amp/ #pollution #OhioTrainCrash

2024-06-21 13:57:35

I keep seeing/hearing people refer to some unspecified time in the past as “in the middle of the pandemic.” With the end of the pandemic not even in sight, how can they be so sure? Saying it’s over doesn’t mean it’s over. I know people sick with COVID right now. My father is still terribly ill with long COVID, and I still am not recovered from having it in October. I may never fully recover. #pandemic #Covid #LongCovid #MaskUp

2024-06-20 12:31:24

Wild strawberries from my back yard. I pick a few every day. They are packed with flavour. It’s the land’s gift to me for rehabilitating the soil. Nothing grew there when I moved here in 2016. #WildStrawberries #Rewilding #SoilRehabilitation #strawberries
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2024-06-20 11:32:23

I dreamt I found a lost chicken. I picked her up and talked to her until she fell asleep in my arms. #dream #DreamLog

2024-06-18 14:56:51

#WordWeavers #Writing 18 If your book came with a small toy, what would it be?
For The Everwhen, definitely a squirt gun that looks like a dick.

2024-06-17 13:55:08

An interesting story about the first arrival of the British to farthest northern Greenland in 1818. The Inughuit had foretold this visit. https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/the-return-of-the-dog-children-parry-and-lyon-at-igloolik/ #Inuit #Inughuit #Greenland #NorthwestPassage #history #Arctic #Nuliajuk #Sedna

2024-06-15 17:37:53

Twelve years ago, I finished painting my first teapot. It has a blackberry design. I miss china painting very much. I had to stop when COVID lockdowns shut down the porcelain studio. #ChinaPainting #ArtistsOnMastodon #PorcelainPainting #Teapot #IndigenousCreatives
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2024-06-13 12:39:54

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@npub1k74…dmux I’m in the 3%

2024-06-12 15:04:05

What’s with magazines who demand no simultaneous submissions while also saying they won’t send out rejection letters? Rude. This time it’s the Fiddlehead. https://manager.submittable.com/opportunities/opportunity/297311 #WritingCommunity #LitMags

2024-06-06 06:08:54

Painting of cattails I did. China paint on porcelain tile. #ChinaPainting #PorcelainPainting #ArtistsOnMastodon #IndigenousCreatives
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2024-06-05 12:39:54

I just blogged about a new poem and about perspective in writing a vampire attack. https://shanmonster.dreamwidth.org/1022066.html #blog #blogging #poetry #vampire #horror #WritingCommunity

2024-06-02 13:53:47

Things I say to my chinchillas. “What is your plan?” “Not a snack.” “I am not food.” “Don’t pee, don’t pee, don’t pee.” “Hey! Excuse me!” “Hey! Get out of there!” “It’s ok. There’s nothing to be scared of. You’re ok.”

2024-05-31 14:48:01

Mom just sent me this picture of my grandmother who died last week. 98 years old in this photo. #grandmother
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2024-05-30 16:23:16

My father was poisoned with Agent Orange. He was a soldier at Base Gagetown during this time period and has had skin conditions ever since. He didn’t receive any compensation (I don’t think he knew about it), and now too much time has passed for him to qualify. https://web.archive.org/web/20240303053815/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-gagetown-base-agent-orange-herbicides/ #AgentOrange #Gagetown #Poison #military #PeaceKeeper

2024-05-26 08:53:22

Yesterday, my grandmother died. Her name was Fanny, so it feels somehow right that this song came on as I was watching a movie last night.
Yeah, take a load off, Fanny
Take a load for free
Take a load off, Fanny
And (and) (and) you put the load right on me
(You put the load right on me)
Catch a cannon ball now to take me down the line
My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone
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2024-05-12 20:41:15

I got myself a pair of lobster flipflops to wear in the garden. Couldn’t resist. First flipflops I’ve purchased since the 1980s, I think. OMG. Shoes. #lobster #flipflops #OMGShoes
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2024-03-18 18:16:21

What words do you always have a difficult time spelling? “Necessary” used to be one for me, but now I’ve got it sorted. I’ve rarely spelled “hemorrhoid” correctly on the first try. #spelling #SpellingBee

2024-02-27 02:51:52

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@npub1k74…dmux achievement unlocked!

2023-11-01 13:26:35

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@npub1k74…dmux it boggles me that artists, peacemakers, etc are considered unsuccessful people.

2023-10-10 23:16:03

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@npub1kkp…5sfx it looks fun. If I wasn’t already busy on those days, I’d be there.

2023-09-11 21:03:19

I just finished shucking the beans from my tiny three sisters garden. These are Kahnawake pole beans. They are gorgeous. I got my first few seeds from a Mohawk seed saver in Six Nations. This is an heirloom Haudenosaunee variety. Hopefully, these will go on to make even more seeds and feed people. #KahnawakeBeans #HeritageVegetables #ThreeSistersGarden #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Mohawk #SeedSaver #Indigedon #IndigenousMastodon #Beans #PoleBeans #Haudenosaunee
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2023-09-01 00:11:55

My parents’ garden failed this year. This is devastating because they are poor and rely on their crops to feed themselves and their chickens. What are some good heirloom tomato and zucchini varieties to grow in PEI? It’s a high-wind area, so pole varieties won’t work. Black Russian tomatoes did well for them in prior years, but not this time. I need to send them new seeds for next year. At least they have a good crop of beans. #SeedSaver #SeedSavers #homesteading #FoodSovereignty #CropFailure #Gardening #FoodShouldBeFree #IndigenousFoodSovereignty @npub1yle…5mfe

2023-08-28 20:19:33

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 I get annoyed when people call me an Indian. I’m not from India. I also get annoyed when people insist on calling me Eskimo. I’m Inuk.

2023-08-21 21:13:27

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@npub1788…9nku my dad has long COVID. He went from being fit and strong to decrepit and walking like a drunk. His blood pressure is all over the place. It’s badly affected his brain, too. He repeats the same sentence several times in a row, moves left when trying to move right and vice versa, can’t feel his fingertips, and has severe brain fog. No one wants this. We must all protect one another from it.

2023-07-02 14:25:15

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@npub1k74…dmux yeah. I’ve been wearing a mask everywhere, and I’m still feeling effects. I’m sitting in a room with a hepa filter, and my vision is still blurry on account of smoke particulate irritating my eyes. At least my breathing is ok again. The first couple days of the smoke, I didn’t know there were fires and I wasn’t taking precautions. I felt terrible, had a bad cough, and spent hours lying in bed because of severe exhaustion. I’m glad I figured it out.

2023-07-02 13:22:23

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@npub1k74…dmux oh, that’s scary! I’m glad everyone’s ok now.