Shantell Powell
@shanmonster.bsky.social
Author, artist, poet, & Indigiqueer swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Work appears in The Deadlands, Augur Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, On Spec, etc. Aurora finalist and total weirdo.
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Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
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I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life
Tonight I watched "Stripes" and then I followed it up with the first episode of "Welcome to Derry." I like to imagine they're in the same universe, and the Stripes platoon end up in Maine.
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Tonight I watched "Stripes" and then I followed it up with the first episode of "Welcome to Derry." I like to imagine they're in the same universe, and the Stripes platoon end up in Maine.
Now I want to know about this myth.
H1332.2
Quest
for vulture's egg figured
with golden letters.
Quest
for vulture's egg figured
with golden letters.
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Now I want to know about this myth.
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Oh gosh that's so hard
Just donated
Please consider helping?
Just donated
Please consider helping?
@niadavenport.bsky.social has been an incredible part of the SSF community. She's someone who has helped many others, including myself.
Please donate, if you can, to help her and her family through this awful loss.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
Please donate, if you can, to help her and her family through this awful loss.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...
Donate to Support Nia and Her Children After Tragic Loss, organized by Lindsey Hart
Our hearts are with Nia, a beloved friend, author and advocate who has pou… Lindsey Hart needs your support for Support Nia and Her Children After Tragic Loss
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November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Oh gosh that's so hard
Just donated
Please consider helping?
Just donated
Please consider helping?
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
Way to go, antivaxxers. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada loses its measles elimination status — as it happened | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Way to go, antivaxxers. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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What is that feeling? You've felt it before. A visceral tug, threatening to fragment every bit of your being. A desire to performatively read what you please. Attention-starved Others judge you while you mind your goddamn business. It doesn't bother you. You've given into the abyss, and it is trve.
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
What is that feeling? You've felt it before. A visceral tug, threatening to fragment every bit of your being. A desire to performatively read what you please. Attention-starved Others judge you while you mind your goddamn business. It doesn't bother you. You've given into the abyss, and it is trve.
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COBBLER: Oh woe is me! I'm too poorly to finish these fine leather shoes!
~next day~
COBBLER: Goodness! My work was finished overnight with perfect craftsmanship by kindly elves!
~that night~
COBBLER: (loudly) Oh how dearly I need to shave my armpits, pubic mound, legs and anus with no razor burn!
~next day~
COBBLER: Goodness! My work was finished overnight with perfect craftsmanship by kindly elves!
~that night~
COBBLER: (loudly) Oh how dearly I need to shave my armpits, pubic mound, legs and anus with no razor burn!
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
COBBLER: Oh woe is me! I'm too poorly to finish these fine leather shoes!
~next day~
COBBLER: Goodness! My work was finished overnight with perfect craftsmanship by kindly elves!
~that night~
COBBLER: (loudly) Oh how dearly I need to shave my armpits, pubic mound, legs and anus with no razor burn!
~next day~
COBBLER: Goodness! My work was finished overnight with perfect craftsmanship by kindly elves!
~that night~
COBBLER: (loudly) Oh how dearly I need to shave my armpits, pubic mound, legs and anus with no razor burn!
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Interested in our novel workshop, but concerned about the financial commitment? Don't count yourself out! Thanks to generous donors, we have three full-tuition scholarships available.
We're excited to see our next cohort! Applications due November 13th, 2025.
www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
We're excited to see our next cohort! Applications due November 13th, 2025.
www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Interested in our novel workshop, but concerned about the financial commitment? Don't count yourself out! Thanks to generous donors, we have three full-tuition scholarships available.
We're excited to see our next cohort! Applications due November 13th, 2025.
www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
We're excited to see our next cohort! Applications due November 13th, 2025.
www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
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If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
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One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social (Fiction; pays) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: One Story
One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social (Fiction; pays) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com/magazine/one-story-445 #amwriting
duotrope.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social (Fiction; pays) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
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Please help Hammam's family survive Israel's continuing genocide as winter approaches, donations are very slow since the 'ceasefire':
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Please help Hammam's family survive Israel's continuing genocide as winter approaches, donations are very slow since the 'ceasefire':
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Indies/self-pub, this includes you!
Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych
kotowych.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Indies/self-pub, this includes you!
I was 11 years old when marital rape was declared illegal in Canada. I remember my Dad being very upset about this, saying it's impossible to rape your own wife, and that it was the wife's duty to have sex with her husband.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I was 11 years old when marital rape was declared illegal in Canada. I remember my Dad being very upset about this, saying it's impossible to rape your own wife, and that it was the wife's duty to have sex with her husband.
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First snowfall of the season.
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
First snowfall of the season.
I wanted to like Frankenstein a lot more than I actually did. It is certainly pretty, though.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I wanted to like Frankenstein a lot more than I actually did. It is certainly pretty, though.
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Disabled & chronically ill folks: I NEED YOUR HELP. YES YOU!
The disability in Dystopia Anthology is coming along, and...
It needs a title! ✨️
Have any ideas? Let me know!
We're #CrippingDystopia 😈
The disability in Dystopia Anthology is coming along, and...
It needs a title! ✨️
Have any ideas? Let me know!
We're #CrippingDystopia 😈
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Disabled & chronically ill folks: I NEED YOUR HELP. YES YOU!
The disability in Dystopia Anthology is coming along, and...
It needs a title! ✨️
Have any ideas? Let me know!
We're #CrippingDystopia 😈
The disability in Dystopia Anthology is coming along, and...
It needs a title! ✨️
Have any ideas? Let me know!
We're #CrippingDystopia 😈
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This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍
September 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍
Sometimes I muse on levels of separation. For instance, I'm 2 degrees of separation from Queen Elizabeth because my Dad was her honour guard. I'm 3 from William Shatner because a friend's grandmother taught him geography in school. I'm 3 from Elon Musk because a friend was roommates with his sister.
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Sometimes I muse on levels of separation. For instance, I'm 2 degrees of separation from Queen Elizabeth because my Dad was her honour guard. I'm 3 from William Shatner because a friend's grandmother taught him geography in school. I'm 3 from Elon Musk because a friend was roommates with his sister.
I struggled at making a text graphic in Canva the other day. While trying to adjust my text, I accidentally clicked on something that instantly rewrote my text, turning it into slop.
I recoiled as though I'd just stepped in shit. And I kinda did.
I recoiled as though I'd just stepped in shit. And I kinda did.
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I struggled at making a text graphic in Canva the other day. While trying to adjust my text, I accidentally clicked on something that instantly rewrote my text, turning it into slop.
I recoiled as though I'd just stepped in shit. And I kinda did.
I recoiled as though I'd just stepped in shit. And I kinda did.
My father was a peacekeeper in the 60s and 70s. I was born 9 months after the FLQ crisis.
Take a moment today to recognize and honour the military contributions and sacrifices of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.
#IndigenousVeteransDay
#CanadaRemembers
#LestWeForget
#IndigenousVeteransDay
#CanadaRemembers
#LestWeForget
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
My father was a peacekeeper in the 60s and 70s. I was born 9 months after the FLQ crisis.
How to curse like a Quebecois. I heard a lot of these in Nouveau Brunswick, aussi blog.gymglish.com/2025/03/14/g...
Tabarnak: A guide to Québec’s best insults and swear words - The Gymglish blog
French is spoken by more than 300 million around the world. The province of Québec is home to 7 million native French speakers.
blog.gymglish.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How to curse like a Quebecois. I heard a lot of these in Nouveau Brunswick, aussi blog.gymglish.com/2025/03/14/g...
Look at that list of amazing presenters!
Ghost story lovers unite! We've got a massive day of writing workshops, author interviews and panels for WINTER HAUNTS on the 15th November, and it's all happening online, so you can join us from anywhere! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau... #writing #writers #authors #fiction #ghosts #ghoststory
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Look at that list of amazing presenters!
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