E. Juniper Kelsey

Also, it's my birthday! Pretty please buy the anthology with my story in it it's very good and all the proceeds go to OutLine Aotearoa 🥺

The cover of a book with foliage and a tūī on it with the title Rainbow Stars Unite over a pale blue background with stars and a face saying "A new book out by queer authors? Sounds gay, I'm in!"

Thursday thought: Your weekend TBR deserves something special. Something vibrant, heartfelt, and powerfully queer. The Rainbow Warriors Unite anthology is that book. Get it today at: books2read.com/RainbowStars

#QueerLiterature #QueerFantasy
#QueerSciFi #QueerMemoir #HopefulFiction #MagicalRealism

Let's establish now, before it starts, NZ does not have an immigration problem.

This approach is borrowed from the UK and USA. Let's not buy into it.

I wonder if they've realized that a lot NZers aren't that keen on Māori bashing so they are going for a new approach.

Bet Starmer's real glad he sacrificed yet more credibility and popularity to help this guy out

starmer always charting the least popular course on every issue is pretty impressive, really. "the US can use our bases to bomb people, but doing that is bad" congrats, you managed to get our bases attacked in such a way that generates zero good will with anyone, masterful

well in't that a pretty thing to stay up for?

Really hammers home when it's in the shadow of the Earth that dang this really is just a bunch of rocks floating around huh. don't mind me marvelling at the majesty of the waltz of the spheres, moon orange

NZ Herald, Audrey Young: "Christopher Luxon's Clare Curran moment - can he recover?"

I'm sorry, I can't believe NZME journalists are STILL using Labour MP Clare Curran as a synonym for fumbling to answer questions.

Do you know what she did? She used a personal Gmail account for Ministerial use in 2018.

Know who did that more recently? Current MP and media darling Erica Stanford.

I have become Lady Normalgirl.

The panelz progress thus far. Going for a mix of the original and the Enterprise-E. #akira #startrek #firstcontact #ilm #7ftakira #ilmheroakira #enterprise-e #sovereign #blender #b3d #modeling

a 3d render showing the light cruiser with all prograde thrust drives burning. It has a light and dark gray livery with blue stripes and two pairs of ball-shaped fuel tanks in the midsection. NACS RELENTLESS 20 NAC-CL-20

finally, after a 7 month hiatus i have finally made something new in blender

The Relentless-class light cruiser is a 2.5 generation cruiser that was in service within the Collective Navy, known as a "transition" design due to its emphasis on fast attack.

#blender #scifi #spaceship #worldbuilding

Me holding my copy of Rainbow Stars Unite

This could be you!

#QueerAnthology #SpecFic #LiteraryFiction #ContemporaryFantasy #QueerPoetry #QueerJoy Character count hashtags

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Did the launch week frenzy pass you by? No worries! Rainbow Stars Unite is still shiny, new, and waiting to be read. Perfect for your weekend TBR. Discover 13 unforgettable LGBTQ+ works of literature today: books2read.com/RainbowStars

This is precisely the problem with the liberal media: no conscience, no connection with reality, no interest in the consequences of their actions. Just utter self-righteous self-justification. I'd rather have a soul than be "media literate" the way this lady means it.

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

For years we said they’re going for a genocide of trans people and for years we were told to “stop being so dramatic.”

Now we’re at the point of human experimentation with the explicit goal of eradicating us.

Can we call the genocide a fucking genocide now?

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Very funny to me, also, that "The Arsenal of Freedom" is the name of an episode in Star Trek TNG where autonomous AI weapons killed an entire civilization and there's a sales hologram still on the planet trying to sell them. it was originally a commentary in the sale of F-14 Tomcats to Iran(!)

Myself, reading at the launch event

My "writer" lanyard

The lovely crowd at the launch event

Pink Planet By Bianca Parker Norielle was tempted to call it “the pink planet.” She’d seen lots of pink planets, of course. She’d seen lots of planets of every colour and very few of them had felt worthy of the definitive article. But no, this one, this was the pink planet. A lot of Norielle’s time was spent at the ship’s single window, gazing at the far-too-slowly passing expanse of nothing that made up most of the universe. Planets were always a welcome diversion when they came by, but the majority disappointed, not especially different to any of those preceding them. This one, though, was different. This planet was an event as she didn’t want to miss a moment of. “Sala, how pink would you say that planet is?” she asked.

Had a really lovely time at the Rainbow Stars Unite launch last night. I got a story in a book! You can see it right there! Thanks to everyone who made this collection possible and to any and all readers (maybe you???) who purchase it. Which you can, here: books2read.com/RainbowStars

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

we are mere hours from Trump admin officials going on TV and talking about how women and LGBTQ people are oppressed in Iran and that's why we need to bomb them

meanwhile half the US has forced-birth laws in place and Kansas just revoked every trans person's drivers license

Screenshot of a social media post by a verified account named David Seymour reading, “Our dinner for Persian freedom fighters was well timed. Let freedom reign this time.” Below the text is a photo of a dining table set with plates, glasses, and a vase of flowers beside large glass doors. Outside the doors hang several green-white-red flags with lion-and-sun emblems. A folded cloth sits on a countertop in the foreground.

Let's not forget that Seymour called New Zealand's first Iranian born member of parliament, a woman whose parents fled the regime as dissidents, a "menace to freedom" resulting in her needing extra security as threats increased

He directed contributed to her being hounded out of public life

What's that? I'm a published author now and folks should pick up a copy of the anthology my debut short story 'Speakeasy' can be found in among a bevy of great works with all the proceeds going to charity at books2read.com/RainbowStars ? Well, I never!

Screenshot of an X post by Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher, a Democrat running against Lauren Boebert, criticizing the sharing of photos from closed-door or classified hearings and referencing tweets about members of Congress during active insurrections. The post quote-tweets Benny Johnson, who shared a wide photo of a hearing room labeled “Full Shot of the Clinton Epstein Testimony currently ongoing,” with a name placard reading “Rep. Boebert” visible on the table.

Boebert is a disgrace.

If you wanna be radicalized against GenAI, try running an online business while these thieving shitbricks try to scrape your site at all hours of the day, creating a looping, endless DDoS.

Fuck generative "AI." It's all slop built on wholesale theft.

The standard can’t be ‘he probably won’t.’

#QueerJoy #FoundFamily #ComingOutStories
#MagicalRealism #QueerWriters #QueerFantasy Character count hashtags

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Today, a shared vision hits the shelves! Rainbow Stars Unite is more than an anthology; it's a conversation, a community, a spectrum of queer realities that we desperately need. If you've ever felt unseen, these stories are for you. Available NOW: books2read.com/RainbowStars

#pretendpanel
It's all about being fit for purpose. That's why I am often involved with so many groups at once. 

I love a workshop for short stories, which is why Jade and Jamie and I built a workshopping process into our Auckland Queer Writers Anthology (which releases tomorrow, link below!) 

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