lae astra
@laeastra.com
レイ🌌 artist & writer in tokyo. narrator, singer, voice actor. vegan🌱 jp-en localization
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the thing about gender is I don't have a favorite color, and this seems to anger a lot of people. I've had people tell me they know my favorite color even though I don't know it. (That's not an allegory; that exact thing has happened.) But I don't have a favorite, nor is my favorite "no colors"
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
the thing about gender is I don't have a favorite color, and this seems to anger a lot of people. I've had people tell me they know my favorite color even though I don't know it. (That's not an allegory; that exact thing has happened.) But I don't have a favorite, nor is my favorite "no colors"
最終日に見れてよかったです！ありがとうございます😊 thank you for sharing your amazing artwork, looking forward to seeing it again!
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
最終日に見れてよかったです！ありがとうございます😊 thank you for sharing your amazing artwork, looking forward to seeing it again!
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Got my copies of Love on the Horizon! My editor TJ @ferenteeny.bsky.social did an amazing job as always 🥰
September 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Got my copies of Love on the Horizon! My editor TJ @ferenteeny.bsky.social did an amazing job as always 🥰
This World Is Not Yours by @kashinggiwa.bsky.social in the SFF section at Kinokuniya Shinjuku bookstore! Happy to see it here in Tokyo <3
May 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This World Is Not Yours by @kashinggiwa.bsky.social in the SFF section at Kinokuniya Shinjuku bookstore! Happy to see it here in Tokyo <3
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I did voice work for this Pokemon Sleep & Pokemon GO Plus + announcement video - first ever job with Pokemon!
Childhood lae who loved playing the games & collecting the cards would've been in disbelief (I think my first card was Paras 🍄)
#voiceactor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJB_...
Childhood lae who loved playing the games & collecting the cards would've been in disbelief (I think my first card was Paras 🍄)
#voiceactor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJB_...
Pokémon Sleep | Enjoy an even richer Pokémon Sleep experience with Pokemon GO Plus +
YouTube video by The Official Pokémon YouTube channel
www.youtube.com
April 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I did voice work for this Pokemon Sleep & Pokemon GO Plus + announcement video - first ever job with Pokemon!
Childhood lae who loved playing the games & collecting the cards would've been in disbelief (I think my first card was Paras 🍄)
#voiceactor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJB_...
Childhood lae who loved playing the games & collecting the cards would've been in disbelief (I think my first card was Paras 🍄)
#voiceactor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJB_...
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beestung is now open for new work by two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers!
we're usually only open for a few days or so!
beestungmag.com/about/
we're usually only open for a few days or so!
beestungmag.com/about/
About / Submit – beestung
a quarterly micro-magazine of non-binary writers that’s sweet and stings
beestungmag.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
beestung is now open for new work by two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers!
we're usually only open for a few days or so!
beestungmag.com/about/
we're usually only open for a few days or so!
beestungmag.com/about/
Cooked some veggie soup with potato and white beans
#veganfood
#veganfood
April 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Cooked some veggie soup with potato and white beans
#veganfood
#veganfood
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Now that I'm back from the US and not in fear about being detained at customs for my political beliefs, I helped create a charity album for Palestine!
'Composers for Palestine' is a collection of beautiful indie video game music. Enjoy, donate and share!
RT's appreciated
tinyurl.com/yeyw4yta
'Composers for Palestine' is a collection of beautiful indie video game music. Enjoy, donate and share!
RT's appreciated
tinyurl.com/yeyw4yta
Composers for Palestine, by Various Artists
16 track album
tinyurl.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Now that I'm back from the US and not in fear about being detained at customs for my political beliefs, I helped create a charity album for Palestine!
'Composers for Palestine' is a collection of beautiful indie video game music. Enjoy, donate and share!
RT's appreciated
tinyurl.com/yeyw4yta
'Composers for Palestine' is a collection of beautiful indie video game music. Enjoy, donate and share!
RT's appreciated
tinyurl.com/yeyw4yta
My narration is in this episode of Hometown Stories on NHK World, featuring origami artist Fuse Tomoko!
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
Unfolding a Life with Origami - Hometown Stories | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Artist Fuse Tomoko discovered origami as a child. For over 60 years, she has created large-scale geometric works, earning global acclaim. We take a look into the art of creating worlds through paper.
www3.nhk.or.jp
March 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
My narration is in this episode of Hometown Stories on NHK World, featuring origami artist Fuse Tomoko!
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
Can’t wait to read!! 🤩
I’m absolutely thrilled to reveal the cover of THE KING MUST DIE, my new science fantasy novel about found family, revolution, and second chances. The incredible artist, Eleonor Piteira, included so many little details from the book!
Out from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social this October!
Out from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social this October!
March 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Can’t wait to read!! 🤩
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ALOCASIA is now accepting previously unpublished creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by queer writers. Our honorarium is $50 per contributor.
Deadline: May 31.
More details: alocasia.org/about-send-w...
Deadline: May 31.
More details: alocasia.org/about-send-w...
March 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
ALOCASIA is now accepting previously unpublished creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by queer writers. Our honorarium is $50 per contributor.
Deadline: May 31.
More details: alocasia.org/about-send-w...
Deadline: May 31.
More details: alocasia.org/about-send-w...
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After endless ER surgeries & tests, finally have my first reparative surgery on May 1. My health has left me unable to regularly work, my student loans are about to default, etc. (aren't we all going thru it).
In case you have dollars to spare: ko-fi.com/justinaoba
Anything appreciated, thx
In case you have dollars to spare: ko-fi.com/justinaoba
Anything appreciated, thx
Buy Justin a Coffee. ko-fi.com/justinaoba
Become a supporter of Justin today! ❤️ Ko-fi lets you support the creators you love.
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March 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
After endless ER surgeries & tests, finally have my first reparative surgery on May 1. My health has left me unable to regularly work, my student loans are about to default, etc. (aren't we all going thru it).
In case you have dollars to spare: ko-fi.com/justinaoba
Anything appreciated, thx
In case you have dollars to spare: ko-fi.com/justinaoba
Anything appreciated, thx
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8. “At Firefly Moon Thrift Shop” by @laeastra.com
I’m a big fan of how lae can take huge worlds and distill them into gentle, intimate moments—this one takes so much interstellar world-building and concentrates it into a small shop with a parka for sale.
www.radonjournal.com/issue7/at-fi...
I’m a big fan of how lae can take huge worlds and distill them into gentle, intimate moments—this one takes so much interstellar world-building and concentrates it into a small shop with a parka for sale.
www.radonjournal.com/issue7/at-fi...
www.radonjournal.com
March 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
8. “At Firefly Moon Thrift Shop” by @laeastra.com
I’m a big fan of how lae can take huge worlds and distill them into gentle, intimate moments—this one takes so much interstellar world-building and concentrates it into a small shop with a parka for sale.
www.radonjournal.com/issue7/at-fi...
I’m a big fan of how lae can take huge worlds and distill them into gentle, intimate moments—this one takes so much interstellar world-building and concentrates it into a small shop with a parka for sale.
www.radonjournal.com/issue7/at-fi...
I’ve been working as a freelance voice artist in Tokyo for many years now.
I recently did the singing for a track called “Driven By Hope” in Phantasy Star Online 2!
(Lyrics - Akari Kaeda
Music - Hideaki Kobayashi)
PSO2:NGS ダークファルス・ヴァエル戦の曲に歌手として参加させていただきました。
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RR9...
I recently did the singing for a track called “Driven By Hope” in Phantasy Star Online 2!
(Lyrics - Akari Kaeda
Music - Hideaki Kobayashi)
PSO2:NGS ダークファルス・ヴァエル戦の曲に歌手として参加させていただきました。
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RR9...
[ PSO2NGS ] Dark Falz Vael / ダークファルス・ヴァエル Theme Phase 2- Driven By Hope
YouTube video by AZ (Luna)
www.youtube.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I’ve been working as a freelance voice artist in Tokyo for many years now.
I recently did the singing for a track called “Driven By Hope” in Phantasy Star Online 2!
(Lyrics - Akari Kaeda
Music - Hideaki Kobayashi)
PSO2:NGS ダークファルス・ヴァエル戦の曲に歌手として参加させていただきました。
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RR9...
I recently did the singing for a track called “Driven By Hope” in Phantasy Star Online 2!
(Lyrics - Akari Kaeda
Music - Hideaki Kobayashi)
PSO2:NGS ダークファルス・ヴァエル戦の曲に歌手として参加させていただきました。
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RR9...
Hi, here’s me as Xiang from @kashinggiwa.bsky.social’s book, The Splinter in the Sky!
February 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Hi, here’s me as Xiang from @kashinggiwa.bsky.social’s book, The Splinter in the Sky!
Looking forward to this book! An essay I love by @rabblerouses.bsky.social is in it <3
@electriclit.bsky.social
@electriclit.bsky.social
Pre-order Both/And, a vital anthology of essays by trans and gender-nonconforming writers of color, sharing stories of joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery from EL and Denne Michele Norris! https://buff.ly/3EwBC60
February 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Looking forward to this book! An essay I love by @rabblerouses.bsky.social is in it <3
@electriclit.bsky.social
@electriclit.bsky.social
i recently did narration work for this documentary about a support group & community safe space in japan for filipino women. as someone who has migrated a few times, their stories were really moving, as well as the perspectives of their kids born & raised here.
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
Kalakasan: Empowering Filipino Women in Japan | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
In Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, there is a place that Filipino women living in Japan call
www3.nhk.or.jp
February 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
i recently did narration work for this documentary about a support group & community safe space in japan for filipino women. as someone who has migrated a few times, their stories were really moving, as well as the perspectives of their kids born & raised here.
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
finally deleted insta from my phone, feels liberating 🙌 (though i already hadn’t felt motivated to post creative things or work things there for quite a while)
February 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
finally deleted insta from my phone, feels liberating 🙌 (though i already hadn’t felt motivated to post creative things or work things there for quite a while)
Can I cosplay as Xiang? 😆
THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY is out today in trade paperback!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Sp...
To celebrate, here’s some of the art I drew while writing it:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Sp...
To celebrate, here’s some of the art I drew while writing it:
November 15, 2024 at 1:23 AM
Can I cosplay as Xiang? 😆
“…poems flourish and die in the span of their own short breaths, requiring us to bring their imaginative short-circuits back into life through our own fleeting encounters, over and over again.”
<3
<3
November 14, 2024 at 7:02 AM
“…poems flourish and die in the span of their own short breaths, requiring us to bring their imaginative short-circuits back into life through our own fleeting encounters, over and over again.”
<3
<3
Still thankful to the very lovely @heartlines-spec.com for making space and time for my little story, Blue Sunset.
www.heartlines-spec.com/blue-sunset-...
www.heartlines-spec.com/blue-sunset-...
November 14, 2024 at 5:28 AM
Still thankful to the very lovely @heartlines-spec.com for making space and time for my little story, Blue Sunset.
www.heartlines-spec.com/blue-sunset-...
www.heartlines-spec.com/blue-sunset-...
Beautiful writing by @bpladek.bsky.social
“She diminished, enfolded by green, until he was left alone in the dream’s fairy no-place: its ideal of a meadow, which did not exist but lived only in the mind as a language for loving real meadows, a door into their endless summer, a way through.”
☀️🍃
“She diminished, enfolded by green, until he was left alone in the dream’s fairy no-place: its ideal of a meadow, which did not exist but lived only in the mind as a language for loving real meadows, a door into their endless summer, a way through.”
☀️🍃
Reposting bc I've heard this story's spoken to some folks. <3
My fav story I've written is up @strangehorizons.bsky.social--about our love for books & history & our need to see ourselves in them.
A trans guy meets a beloved author in a dream, who he suspects was trans too. Then stuff gets weird.
My fav story I've written is up @strangehorizons.bsky.social--about our love for books & history & our need to see ourselves in them.
A trans guy meets a beloved author in a dream, who he suspects was trans too. Then stuff gets weird.
The Spindle of Necessity by B. Pladek
"[...] she appeared, a pale woman of about twenty, with the long androgynous face mid-century novelists always called coltish. Probably she could have even passed, in different dress. Clothes meant a lot more in the ’40s."
"[...] she appeared, a pale woman of about twenty, with the long androgynous face mid-century novelists always called coltish. Probably she could have even passed, in different dress. Clothes meant a lot more in the ’40s."
November 14, 2024 at 5:17 AM
Beautiful writing by @bpladek.bsky.social
“She diminished, enfolded by green, until he was left alone in the dream’s fairy no-place: its ideal of a meadow, which did not exist but lived only in the mind as a language for loving real meadows, a door into their endless summer, a way through.”
☀️🍃
“She diminished, enfolded by green, until he was left alone in the dream’s fairy no-place: its ideal of a meadow, which did not exist but lived only in the mind as a language for loving real meadows, a door into their endless summer, a way through.”
☀️🍃