DB Powell

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She/they. 🇨🇦 FR<>EN translator. Wannabe writer. Animal lover. Wrestling fan. Reading challenge creator. Night owl. Yeet genAI into the sun.

Results from the Terrebonne riding in the 2025 federal election: Liberal candidate wins by 35 votes, <1% margin and a flip from the Bloc incumbent.

Book cover of Heavenly Tyrant: a Chinese woman with a jaw-length bob and golden eye mask, dressed in a long golden dress of scaled armor with matching elbow-length gloves, surrounded by swirling abstract coils of a yellow dragon's body

Cover of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman. Against a blood red background, a grayscale family gathers around a long dinner table with a plain white tablecloth. At the head of the table, mother sits before a large serving dish, while her husband and three kids await with empty plates. Of the five, only the youngest son appears normal: the other four's faces are covered in TV static/snow that completely obliterates their features. The pattern of static is also weirdly reminiscent of the texture of crumpled tinfoil - an apt analogy.

Cover of Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram. A small silhouette of a man is surrounded by a weighty maze, with openings into rooms that glow crimson, shadows of truncated ladders, and staircases that slash diagonally in concrete, with dark sconces that cast minimal light.

Cover of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. All sorts of small animals peek out from a field of grasses and wildflowers, while two yellow eyes shine in the black background of this vivid illustration. There are also two teeth and a single eyeball with a purple iris and attached optic nerve strewn about. The moon and stars shine high above.

An indigo milkcap mushroom, broken at the stem and revealing fabulous blue gills, on a green, grassy forest floor

Cover of Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez - a pattern of the classic representation of a man (like on bathroom signage) in black, interspersed with the equivalent symbol for women in very light gray on a white background

Cover of We, the Others by Toula Drimonis: a black and white photo of a male cook behind a diner counter

The three Muppets that sing Mahna Mahna. In the center, a hot pink skinned Muppet with bright green body hair, an orange mane, a pale pink nose and hollow yellow eyes. It is flanked by two identical pale pink skinned Muppets with hot pink body hair, dark lashed eyes on top of their heads, pink horns on either side, and bright yellow lips

Cover of The Gnole by Alan Aldridge, Steve Boyett and Maxine Miller. A small mole/gnome character smiles and sits on a levitating bed of moss. His robe and pointy hat are decorated with twigs, leaves, berries, fungi, and antlers

Cover of Plague Ship by Andre Norton. A white male astronaut in a white spacesuit peers over his shoulder as he flees a landed silver rocket in the background. In one hand he holds a blaster, and in the other, a bird cage with a kiwi-like greenish bird. Another armed astronaut in a lime green suit is in hot pursuit

Cover of Astérix et Cléopâtre : Astérix, Obélix and Cleopatra recline on a pink fabric-covered dais with green and blue tasseled pillows, while Numérobis bows before them with architectural plans in hand. In the background, pyramids rise from the desert, and Amonbofis lurk with an evil smile from behind a column. (character names may be different in English - I'm going with the original French)

Cover of Le salaire de la peur by Georges Arnaud: a sepia-toned photo of two grimy men, one of whom is injured and leaning on the other, in the cab of a transport truck

Cover of Babel by R. F. Kuang: a monochrome etching of a tower rising among the rooftops of Oxford University, with pigeons lying around it against a dark sky

Cover of Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice, Old English font on a red ombre background

Captain Harlock, or Albator as he was known in the French dub in Quebec.

Cover of The Translator's Invisibility by Lawrence Venuti, an abstract mix of magenta, green, and goldenrod.

Cover of the book "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" by Rick Rubin: a small black dot and wider black ring reminiscent of a stylized vinyl record over a plain gray field.