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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 9h

My poem "In Slipstream" has been reprinted by @interstellarflight.bsky.social in their collection Infinite Branches: Queer Speculative Disability Poetry in Conversation. magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/in-slipstrea...

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In Slipstream

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 13h

Today is #OrangeShirtDay or #TruthAndReconciliationDay. Canada is far from perfect. Today we look upon our past and what a future could hold. #some reading if you’d like. There are also many radio shows holding special programs today landback.org en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_a...

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LANDBACK – Indigenous Lands Back Into Indigenous Hands

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

While my partner was playing some #Tropico6 I had my laptop running some #HeroesOfMightAndMagic2Gold. Sometimes the game will really humble my bad fight choices heh

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#OffTheRopesStudio Wrestling was in the Registry tonight. It was a lot of fun. We don’t go out often. We didn’t know the wrestlers bit they had a lot of variety.

Ringside at the Registry theatre with Off The Ropes Wrestling

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

CW: Death mention. Celebration of life. Today was the celebration of life for one of my coworker’s partner. She was an acid artist and gardener. He felt overwhelmed, trying to figure out what to showcase. I reassured it was good to show the painting and costuming. I understand, I would feel similar

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is gojng to be a NicolasCage movie called #Madden in November. The thought of Nicolas Cage being John Madden beings much more joy than it should. Tomorrow is my shoulder ultrasound and maybe seeing wrestling?

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is tonight! I'll be telling a tale of vengeance and woe.

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just finished a playthrough of #LunarHDRemastered. Did I collect all the thing? Uhhh, nope, but it’s still a fun game. I keep forgetting all the little dialogue bits that change throughout. Sometime I’ll get to playing Eternal Blue. What game is on your current playlist?

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just watched season 3 of #OnePunchMan, it’s good to see other characters actually being able to do things. The power scaling really does care more for the particular match up it seems. I know, I should just read the manga, but the show is fun. It’s actually cool out today. Is colder weather here?

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey, I won a thing! And I'm proud of this story, a retelling of a traditional Inuit folktale.

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#Civilization7 on PS5 seems all glitchy. In the modern age an opponent was supposed to win an Economic victory. Had the turn countdown then just.. didn’t end? And now the progress bar is stuck at 70%. Is it because we’re playing Hotseat? It’s really annoying

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yesterday was a big cleaning day for us. We didn’t do a Spring clean, so Summer is just as good. We also played more #Civilization7. This time it didn’t crash badly when we started the modern age, great success heh

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Watched a video talking about the #HeroesOfMightAndMagic3Remake and it’s kinda funny. There’s those who are going in with optimism, and those who remember, wait, this IS Ubisoft we’re talking about. Here’s hoping it actually cones out with the expansions. Otherwise GOG version is still the best

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#Solasta2 has the multiplayer co-op now available. Don’t have anyone to play it with currently, but I hope it runs smoothly. I know it’s still Early Access but it’s fun for what it is.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Come celebrate the launch of this special edition. I'll be reading the beginning of my gnarly northern horror story.

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#Workout of the evening. I should get into the habit of going when my partner had their workshops and such. Time to float awhile

Workout of the evening. Things in pounds

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Was in a #FireEmblemPathOfRadiance mood. Played through chapters 7-10, and was doing well in 11 until I forgot the boss had a bow. I even did the prison mission with complete stealth. Didn’t get the Master Seal or any chests but it’s something I haven’t bothered to do before. Short walk time

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#HugOffer for a Friday~ I should get to #LARP today amd tomorrow, energy pending. Looking forward to it. Shall NPC this time

A Cis white male with a red beard offers a hug. He wears a grey shirt

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My partner found a new to us game, #Dredge. No spoilers. I’m really looking forward to it. We’ve only just begun and already things are getting a bit trippy. Today is so not an excited for work say. Humidity is climbing up again. Do not want

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In movies I did not expect to watch, a 1973 one called “The Baby”. My partner knew someone who watched it while working out. They dropped a weight on themselves. I can understand why. Definitely a weird one. What even did I just watch?

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My flash fiction, “The Tick Tick Tick of Today and Tomorrow’s Smoky Promise," appears in Unfurled: An Anthology of Trans and Genderqueer Voices. My story is about possibly breaking through procrastination. books2read.com/u/b5eEy7

Image of the cover of the book Unfurled: an anthology of trans and genderqueer voices. Edited by Marion Lougheed and Brett McTavish. Featured author: Shantell Powell.

The cover is black with a lilac-coloured splat design.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I bought a little hut for Putuuqti about two months ago. He ignored it for a month, and now he loves it. Look how happy he is. He's smiling!

A chinchilla inside a tiny wooden cabin with a door and window. He's visible through the doorway. His eyes are half closed, his head perked up, and he looks very content.

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Our latest game of #EldrithHorror. We went against Nyarlathotep and with a staggering 7 character deatgs, there was no chance for the world. Sorry all, corruption is bad

The end game board of our latest Eldritch Horror game. We went against Nyarlathotep and the Corruption beat us dead

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Today is the company golf day in Tillsonburg. I have not golfed in years, and already expect to be terrible. At least we’re playing best ball.

A Cis White male with large red beard. He’s wearing a blue plaid shirt and a black hat

The sign of the gold course we’re playing at today

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My prize-winning story The Salmon Eaters, a retelling of a traditional Inuit tale collected by Inuk ethnographer Knud Rasmussen over 100 years ago, is now online at Necksnap. necksnapmag.com/contest/the-...

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Contest Second Prize - necksnapmag.com

The Salmon Eater by Shantell Powell This story is the second place winner of the 2026 NECKSNAP x M E N A C E Emerging Voices in Speculative Fiction Prize. Ímarasugssuaq was taller than any man I’d eve...

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Finally have a convey in #FireEmblemPathOfRadiance. Honestly had to drop a few things because of my poor planning. It’s nice to be playing this again. Sure wish my Oscar would get a Str up annnnny time now

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'll be reading from "The Old Woman Who Became a Bear." Come celebrate with us!

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#Workout for the evening. Mostly leg stuff. A short workout is better then no workout right?

Workout for the night. Things in lbs where applicable

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Preorders are now open for the anthology Raw Blood and Nerve volume 1. My story "The Vanishing" is featured within. It's about a world that is... vanishing. Sorry about the A-hole link. It's the only one I've got. amzn.to/3UFDIIO

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Raw Blood and Nerve: For Freakish Frights on Feverish Nights

Raw Blood and Nerve: For Freakish Frights on Feverish Nights eBook : Grass, Alex, Halpert, David, Zachary, Jordan, Powell, Shan, Mîrzoi, Cristina, Martinez, Gator, Kellermeyer, M., de Maupassant, Guy, Grass, Alex: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There we were, playing our hotseat game of #Civilization7. We just went from the Exploration Age to the Modern Age. Then our game just… froze. No autosave, and the last save we had was a manual one I made like an hour previously. We’ll just count that as a learning thing and we’ve restarted anew

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#Workout of the day. Kept the workout short this time. Glad my rotator cuff is healed. My last workout was May20. Jinkies

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Last night in Marathon Gaming we went back to #FinalFantasyTacticsAdvanceA2. Much of our time this time around was battling other clans and doing trials. I also remembered to buy helmets, as a fair bit of our rooster did not have the Wizard hats on. Another raining day here. Might go to the gym

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Felt like playing a Fire Emblem game so restarted #FireEmblemPathOfRadiance. Mostly because I never beat the sequel may as well start at the beginning. I forgot how limited the inventory was in the first bit. I should do some short exercises or something during those enemy phases heh

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We went for a 19.7 KM bike ride. For my partner that’s no biggie, but that’s a big workout for me. Wish my endurance didn’t crash in the last 1/4

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A Cis white male, tired after a bike ride, about to cool off

During the beginning bit of the bike ride when I was feeling good.

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You can now listen to all our stories and poems! My old woman vengeance story "The Old Woman Who Became a Bear" is now available to listen to here. It was inspired by a traditional Inuit story collected by Inuk ethnographer Knud Rasmussen. I hope you like it.

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Last night’s #Dream had someone in the world wishing humans didn’t have arms. In a flash we all lost our arms. Any robotic or other attempts to make functional arms were destroyed. Instead we all attached weapons ala #CyborgJustice. Let me tell ya. Trying to drive with a morning star and a shovel

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yesterday was a big #Civilization7 day for my partner and I. We completed an Age and just started in the Exploration age. It’s very different that tech is capped by Age so that there is some semblance of balance between players. Not sure I’m a huge fan of rough winds destroying my ships though

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Picked up #Civilization7 for the PS5. Was glad to find a physical copy. Haven’t delved into it too much, but so far it’s enjoyable. Also glad there’s hotseat for co-op The morning are being slightly cool, which means having my windows open in my space as long as it’s not raining, glorious

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yesterday we had some company over and it made for a nice hangout. In the later evenjng I glt to play some #ForTheKing2 online with friends and it was a lot of fub. It was between this and #Wartales and this is more in line with the fun silly we wanted. For the Resistance~

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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So I have a book coming out next year....

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The cooler mornings make me excited for Authum. Can Summer be over now? I’m done feeling cooked please. Besides widescreen is there any differences between #BreathOfFire3 on the PSX or the PSP? Still enjoying playing #LunarHD. Alex is now a Dragonmaster… or is he?

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Last night’s #Dream was game based. I was in a tabletop game that one week would be our group of adventurers trying to save the world, and the following was war battles to see how long the armies could hold out for us to do it. I wish I could be part of such a game, alas.

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We watched #TheClonedTyrone tonight and it was a lot of fun. Good satire is always a plus. Plus, it felt like a little detective movie in there. Also playing more #LunarHD. Realized I missed some items but so not restarting for them

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#Pentiment has been an enjoyable game to see my partner play through. Occasionally I might wander around or help solve a puzzle, but it’s an engaging game once it gets going. I forget who suggested it, but it is a fun one. We’ve just changed protagonists

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Went on a bit of an evening adventure. There was the #NightMarket going on. Many fun shops and local artists. So many people. I got people’d out quickly. Was also nice to bike there for some exercise

A large Cis white male giving a thumbs up. He has a red beard and is wearing a mask. Behind him is a busy market

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My #LARP group had been having little art prompts lately and I thought I’d join in. Art by me. One with pencil crayons, the other a pen

A sketch with my characters Daybreak and Solar sitting back to back on a mountaintop

The prompt was, “Magazine cover”, and this one was of Soldina Orhelm Aprewood, Ace Detective. The ex fiancée of my character Phantom

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

First day back to work is being quite busy. For the most part I’m keeping up. Only one boss has given me the, “You’re not doing things like Jack did” well, no, I’m not. My partner would rather we moved out East so, ya know, be happy I’m here ;p

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Why does #FinalFantasyResonance remind me so much of #EiyudenChronicles ? I mean, kind of similar styles. I’ve jumped back on nostalgia and picked up the #LunarHDCollection. It’s nice getting back into playing Silver Story.

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Kyle (Daybreak) He/Him @daybreakoak.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Today has been a rest day. I will say it was really great getting to sleep in my own space and bed. Not worrying about waking my partner up with little movements helped. We played a fair bit of #Civilization7, and I played a little of #ForTheKing2 on my own. I’m not sure if my friends will like it

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