Notices by Shantell Powell (shanmonster@c.im), page 3

I’ve entered the swamp mermaid portion of my life.

Good morning from Putuuqti and Biscuit. #chinchilla #chinchillas

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

Even though I don’t use Facebook and haven’t for a few years, even though I did leave a forwarding post on there letting folks know that I’m not on FB but on Mastodon or my blog (with links to both), I still get scores of people sending me happy birthday messages on my fb account. Some of them have my number, even, but rather than text me, they send their happy birthday messages there. They even could have emailed me, but none of them did. It’s so very weird. Ever since I left FB, my pool of friends has dried right up. It kinda feels like my fb account is a memorial account, and they are honouring my memory rather than trying to contact me. I am so weirded out by this behaviour.

I don’t have AMC but really want to watch season two of Interview With the Vampire. The first season was amazing: everything I wanted it to be. And super duper sexy. And super duper gay. Anyone know if the second season is on dvd or anything? #horror #InterviewWithTheVampire #queer #gay

I just finished the first draft of a lunarpunk story called “Ghost Honey.” If I get it polished up in time, I’ll enter it into the Imagine 2200 contest. Last year, my story “The Tupilaq” made it through the first round. https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine-2200-contest-submissions/ #AmWriting #lunarpunk #CliFi #WritingContest

#snails #parkour

Awww. ❤️

I just did a bunch of weeding in the garden. I would have done more, but my SI joint was screaming at me to stop. Cleared out around my lavender plants, at least, and then watered all my tomatoes and peppers. Something is starting to eat some of my tomato leaves. Not sure what. Possibly slugs. Time to break out beer traps and diatomaceous earth. My butternut squash looks like it’s fighting off the beginnings of powdery mildew, too. Gonna have to figure something out for that, too. It afflicted my cucumbers badly last year. #gardening

I appear to have fixed my locked SI joint by rolling out on my AcuBall. So glad I bought one a few years ago. It’s better than a lacross ball or foam roller for getting in there. Heating it helps a lot. https://acuball.com

I just entered this with a collection I called “Land’s Sake.” https://upittpress.org/prize/drue-heinz-literature-prize/ #Writing #WritingContest #AmWriting

Flowering cacti at Whistling Gardens. #Bloomscrolling #cactus #cacti #succulents #NaturePhotography #flowers #FlowerPhotography

More beauties from Whistling Gardens. #bloomscrolling #trees #FirTree #fir #evergreen

Tew‘s Falls. #waterfall #NaturePhotography

I think I will be doing a storytelling performance in Toronto next month for National Indigenous Peoples Month. If it’s the same as the past two years, it will be broadcasted online. I’ll share the details when I get them.

@bmacDonald94 my grandfather died of a rare cancer. Every man in his unit died of the same cancer around the same time. I don’t know what he was exposed to. He never told us what he did because it was top secret.

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

I planted this variety of pole beans this year. I hope they grow well! https://heritageharvestseed.com/products/sadies-horse-runner-bean-seeds #beans #gardening #PoleBeans #HeritageVegetables

We are headed home now. So grateful I was able to hike to the lookout on such a beautiful day and have our lunch in peace. This little bird hung out with us. When we headed back, we met the crowds. We went at the best possible time, when we had the trail mostly to ourselves. #hiking #BruceTrail #BrucePeninsula #cliffs #GeorgianBay

I’m no good with corporate jargon. Every time I see the word “stakeholder,” I think of vampire slayers. #language #jargon #vampire