KJ
@propertyofkj.bsky.social
Author of sapphic fiction. Won some awards. Australian. Friendly. Quite mental. Mostly sad. Apparently rather funny. That last one is debatable. https://linktr.ee/kjlesfic
It’s nice to read an ‘oldie’ but a very very good ‘goodie’.
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@reallymckay
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@reallymckay
Rereading favourites
There’s comfort in an oldie but oh so goodie
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September 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It’s nice to read an ‘oldie’ but a very very good ‘goodie’.
kjlesfiction.substack.com/p/rereading-...
@reallymckay
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@reallymckay
Asking for help - part two
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Ignore subscribe: that’s just substack being bossy.
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Ignore subscribe: that’s just substack being bossy.
TMS - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
A thousand woodpeckers attacking the air above your skull
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July 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Asking for help - part two
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Ignore subscribe: that’s just substack being bossy.
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Ignore subscribe: that’s just substack being bossy.
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The vulnerability of asking for help
Short version: I’m admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital because I need help, and because it is impossible to live in a mind that is convinced it has no place with the living.
open.substack.com/pub/kjlesfic...
Short version: I’m admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital because I need help, and because it is impossible to live in a mind that is convinced it has no place with the living.
open.substack.com/pub/kjlesfic...
The vulnerability of asking for help
Short version: I’m admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital because I need help, and because it is impossible to live in a mind that is convinced it has no place with the living.
open.substack.com
June 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The vulnerability of asking for help
Short version: I’m admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital because I need help, and because it is impossible to live in a mind that is convinced it has no place with the living.
open.substack.com/pub/kjlesfic...
Short version: I’m admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital because I need help, and because it is impossible to live in a mind that is convinced it has no place with the living.
open.substack.com/pub/kjlesfic...
The vulnerability of asking for help
Short version: I’m admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital because I need help, and because it is impossible to live in a mind that is convinced it has no place with the living.
open.substack.com/pub/kjlesfic...
Short version: I’m admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital because I need help, and because it is impossible to live in a mind that is convinced it has no place with the living.
open.substack.com/pub/kjlesfic...
The vulnerability of asking for help
Short version: I’m admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital because I need help, and because it is impossible to live in a mind that is convinced it has no place with the living.
open.substack.com
June 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The vulnerability of asking for help
Short version: I’m admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital because I need help, and because it is impossible to live in a mind that is convinced it has no place with the living.
open.substack.com/pub/kjlesfic...
Short version: I’m admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital because I need help, and because it is impossible to live in a mind that is convinced it has no place with the living.
open.substack.com/pub/kjlesfic...
🌈🏳️🌈 happy northern hemisphere Pride month. Be strong. Be loud. Be joyful.
June 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
🌈🏳️🌈 happy northern hemisphere Pride month. Be strong. Be loud. Be joyful.
May 31, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Things I will never do.
Sky diving
Scuba diving
Snorkelling
Caving
Rock climbing
Shark tanking
Go outside the house on certain days
Sky diving
Scuba diving
Snorkelling
Caving
Rock climbing
Shark tanking
Go outside the house on certain days
May 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Things I will never do.
Sky diving
Scuba diving
Snorkelling
Caving
Rock climbing
Shark tanking
Go outside the house on certain days
Sky diving
Scuba diving
Snorkelling
Caving
Rock climbing
Shark tanking
Go outside the house on certain days
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After a tough year, the sapphic book community deserves some joy.
That’s why I’ve teamed up with 100+ sapphic authors to bring you the Pride Month Book Calendar!
Daily giveaways, free books & discounts all June long!
Sign up & enter a book gift card giveaway now:
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That’s why I’ve teamed up with 100+ sapphic authors to bring you the Pride Month Book Calendar!
Daily giveaways, free books & discounts all June long!
Sign up & enter a book gift card giveaway now:
jae-fiction.com/pride-month-...
May 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
After a tough year, the sapphic book community deserves some joy.
That’s why I’ve teamed up with 100+ sapphic authors to bring you the Pride Month Book Calendar!
Daily giveaways, free books & discounts all June long!
Sign up & enter a book gift card giveaway now:
jae-fiction.com/pride-month-...
That’s why I’ve teamed up with 100+ sapphic authors to bring you the Pride Month Book Calendar!
Daily giveaways, free books & discounts all June long!
Sign up & enter a book gift card giveaway now:
jae-fiction.com/pride-month-...
Unless they start with MONEY, an indie who wants merch to give away, an editor, a cover artist, book postage, a website, a newsletter, etc finds it difficult - those things don’t happen when they’ve got $45.67 in the bank. It’s just KU and advertising on social media.
Reviews help.
#indieauthors
Reviews help.
#indieauthors
May 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Unless they start with MONEY, an indie who wants merch to give away, an editor, a cover artist, book postage, a website, a newsletter, etc finds it difficult - those things don’t happen when they’ve got $45.67 in the bank. It’s just KU and advertising on social media.
Reviews help.
#indieauthors
Reviews help.
#indieauthors
Any symptom I have is either put into my bipolar bucket, or my schizoaffective bucket, or my autism bucket, but if it doesn’t fit anywhere there, it goes in the menopause bucket. There’s weird shit in that one.
#Menopause
#Menopause
May 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Any symptom I have is either put into my bipolar bucket, or my schizoaffective bucket, or my autism bucket, but if it doesn’t fit anywhere there, it goes in the menopause bucket. There’s weird shit in that one.
#Menopause
#Menopause
Chemist is playing ‘Sex on Fire’ over their in-store radio. 😳 The store is full of oldies getting their weekly pill-packets. It’s hilarious.
“What’s the song saying, Gladys?”
“What’s the song saying, Gladys?”
May 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Chemist is playing ‘Sex on Fire’ over their in-store radio. 😳 The store is full of oldies getting their weekly pill-packets. It’s hilarious.
“What’s the song saying, Gladys?”
“What’s the song saying, Gladys?”
Here we have a novel where the dog doesn’t die. It’s a miniature poodle called Fruit Loop. A human main character dies, though.
May 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Here we have a novel where the dog doesn’t die. It’s a miniature poodle called Fruit Loop. A human main character dies, though.
“I told her it didn’t matter how body positive I was, the world still equates being fat with moral failing. Just like it equates being seriously ill with an absence of fortitude and being mentally ill with a lack of resilience. It’s not fair nor true – but it’s what we all perpetuate and believe”
May 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“I told her it didn’t matter how body positive I was, the world still equates being fat with moral failing. Just like it equates being seriously ill with an absence of fortitude and being mentally ill with a lack of resilience. It’s not fair nor true – but it’s what we all perpetuate and believe”
“Our culture regards ppl who are mentally unwell with suspicion, questioning the severity of their symptoms and sincerity of their experiences. We wonder if they’re just not trying hard enough. Victim-blaming ppl who are mentally ill happens coz of a view that willpower is the key to recovery”
May 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“Our culture regards ppl who are mentally unwell with suspicion, questioning the severity of their symptoms and sincerity of their experiences. We wonder if they’re just not trying hard enough. Victim-blaming ppl who are mentally ill happens coz of a view that willpower is the key to recovery”
“People are ok if you’ve been mentally unwell once. But twice? 3 times? She’s in hospital again? That’s not a palatable, ‘media-friendly’ kind of mental illness. A woman who publicly speaks about her mental health needs to confidently smile on magazine covers while wearing white linen and no shoes.”
May 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“People are ok if you’ve been mentally unwell once. But twice? 3 times? She’s in hospital again? That’s not a palatable, ‘media-friendly’ kind of mental illness. A woman who publicly speaks about her mental health needs to confidently smile on magazine covers while wearing white linen and no shoes.”
I had a cat on my lap for 20 mins tonight and after all that purring, I’m feeling calm enough to sleep. Cats are therapy.
TherapyCats
TherapyCats
May 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I had a cat on my lap for 20 mins tonight and after all that purring, I’m feeling calm enough to sleep. Cats are therapy.
TherapyCats
TherapyCats
I wrote an essay-thingy about ‘Discovering Nicola’ by Clare Ashton
1/2
1/2
May 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I wrote an essay-thingy about ‘Discovering Nicola’ by Clare Ashton
1/2
1/2
On this day in 2021, I published ‘Change of Plans’ and promptly ignored it because ‘Ignis’ called and I also went to head hospital.
Despite being cast out into the open waters, ‘Change of Plans’ amassed 700 ratings and reviews all on its own.
Go, you good little book.
Despite being cast out into the open waters, ‘Change of Plans’ amassed 700 ratings and reviews all on its own.
Go, you good little book.
April 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
On this day in 2021, I published ‘Change of Plans’ and promptly ignored it because ‘Ignis’ called and I also went to head hospital.
Despite being cast out into the open waters, ‘Change of Plans’ amassed 700 ratings and reviews all on its own.
Go, you good little book.
Despite being cast out into the open waters, ‘Change of Plans’ amassed 700 ratings and reviews all on its own.
Go, you good little book.
Kick Back, my sapphic football book, is on special for $1.99 this week. Have a look at the video if you’re not sure what AFLW is.
youtu.be/jZRiX2ypGFY?...
youtu.be/jZRiX2ypGFY?...
April 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Kick Back, my sapphic football book, is on special for $1.99 this week. Have a look at the video if you’re not sure what AFLW is.
youtu.be/jZRiX2ypGFY?...
youtu.be/jZRiX2ypGFY?...
I’m shouting about these books!
They.
Are.
Amazing.
If you love epic fantasy with fabulous plots, queerness, humour, dragons! and characters that make you invest in them—INVEST I tell you—then the Everlands Cycle is for you.
queerfantasy books
They.
Are.
Amazing.
If you love epic fantasy with fabulous plots, queerness, humour, dragons! and characters that make you invest in them—INVEST I tell you—then the Everlands Cycle is for you.
queerfantasy books
April 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I’m shouting about these books!
They.
Are.
Amazing.
If you love epic fantasy with fabulous plots, queerness, humour, dragons! and characters that make you invest in them—INVEST I tell you—then the Everlands Cycle is for you.
queerfantasy books
They.
Are.
Amazing.
If you love epic fantasy with fabulous plots, queerness, humour, dragons! and characters that make you invest in them—INVEST I tell you—then the Everlands Cycle is for you.
queerfantasy books
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As part of the wonderful @jaeauthor.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Event, The Perfect Matchmaking is on sale for only $0.99 💰
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April 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
As part of the wonderful @jaeauthor.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Event, The Perfect Matchmaking is on sale for only $0.99 💰
jae-fiction.com/sapphic-spec...
jae-fiction.com/sapphic-spec...
Morning walk 30 mins ago 7.30am Wednesday
April 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Morning walk 30 mins ago 7.30am Wednesday
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March 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The first Boiling Point email for #ausvotes25 has just been sent
Boiling Point is a simple idea where politically informed Australians (that's you!) are asked to share content with the less politically informed in your peer groups
Sign up here #auspol > docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Boiling Point is a simple idea where politically informed Australians (that's you!) are asked to share content with the less politically informed in your peer groups
Sign up here #auspol > docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...