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Courtney Jaye
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ngarrindjeri - sometimes a writer - phd student

addicted to coffee and generally tired.
When I said the world was a dumpster fire, I really didn’t expect for America to immediately prove me right. What the hell is happening?
January 3, 2026 at 7:52 AM
If you want to know who I am as a person, my interaction with two white female jehovah witnesses as a bisexual millennial, who wasn‘t caffeinated and was still in her snoopy pyjamas will give you a glimpse.
January 3, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Loneliness is a weird feeling. I don’t think I’m going to wax poetic in a way that hasn’t been written before but I will say that it is an oddly quiet feeling, like when you’re underwater and not breathing.
January 1, 2026 at 9:31 AM
This year has been heartbreaking, tiring, scary and something else.

I have less people than before, less confidence than before, less happiness than before.

So I suppose it can only get better from here.
December 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Time to do a reading reset. I have so many books on the list but i think my goal needs to be: just read again. #booksky
December 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I get so excited for Christmas. But then I just had a lunch with my grandma and my great uncle and my lord, they truly said the words “you can’t say anything anymore” when talking and I’ve never finished a glass of wine quicker.
December 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Donated blood. Ate a party pie. Wondered why I don’t eat more party pies.
December 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Words feel empty when I think of Bondi. But someone just said that this is the time to go donate blood, to make sure those affected are supported so I‘m going to do that.
December 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Check in on your trans and gender diverse kin. There’s a lot of positive stories going around at the moment and they’re really powerful, but they can also do a number on you if your mental health is not great. Check in.
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I passed my PhD panel. I know I should be celebrating. I am instead laying down, eating sour gummy worms in bed.
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I know I’m stressed when my brain has come up with the concept for a fictional story around the abandonment of pigeons and I’m meant to be focusing on my PhD work.
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Surely my eye twitches are from stress and not the 3 coffees that I downed within an hour of each other.
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Also would like to note that the Australian Center at UoM is also being shut down, with budget being cited as the reason.

I do not like the narrative that I’m seeing if I’m being honest.
It’s ludicrous and insulting to suggest that the richest university in Australia can’t afford the two part-time wages to run Meanjin.
Also: did they even try to save it? Donation drive? Philanthropic efforts? Offering it to another institution?
No.
The university council shut it down intentionally.
Exclusive: Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, Meanjin, is being shut down today for "financial" reasons, Crikey can reveal.
November 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I never thought I’d be so happy to see the box ‘minor amendments needed’ ticked but I truly, truly am. #phdsky
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The new account to yell at the void while I complete more study is here.
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Enjoy this selection from Southerly 80.1, the re-launch of Australia’s oldest literary journal.
To read more of Australia’s finest writing and most courageous voices considering ‘First, the Future’, grab your copy at southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
#southerlylitmag #australianvoices #writing
November 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM