before you scroll past this —
i need you to know somebody wrote it thinking about you. 💌
the one who told them you were tired. they kept needing you anyway. 🙋
the one who said it the whole time and got called dramatic.
the one everybody decided was okay with it just because you kept showing up.
pull up. sit down. i heard you the first time. 🤍
who we for 🫂
raeni's journal is for the teen who had to grow up too early. that's the heart of it.
the one watching everybody while nobody checks on them. the one who's tired of being the responsible one. the one who just wants one normal day.
you don't want attention.
you want somewhere quiet to put the truth.
public audience is 16+ and inclusive — all genders, all orientations, all neurotypes. if you ever were that kid, or you still are, you got a room here.
period.
where raeni come from 🍼
before raeni, there was a lil girl named qian.
born way too soon. seven months in the womb, then dropped into this world fighting streptococcal meningitis from inside an incubator.
tubes. 🩹 machines. a body too tiny to even be a body yet, swinging at death.
and while she was fighting for one breath after another — her daddy walked out the door. 🚪
sit with that for a sec.
left before she could talk. gone before she could even ask anybody to stay.
so naw — raeni ain't fall out the sky. ✨ she came from a girl who learned real early that grown folks leave. a girl who had to grow up before she was supposed to.
that scar tissue tho?
it turned to gold. 💛
and that's exactly what raeni made of.
who raeni is 🖤
raeni lebeau is a creole teen from new orleans. the one watching everybody while nobody watched her.
she the version of qian still in it. the one writing poems at lunch instead of sitting with the cool kids. the one stacking journals like a secret library only she could walk into. 📚
and one night — late, with her calico cat chat watching — she figured out that when she wrote the truth, her words started to glow.
that's the dark fantasy part. her magic is honesty.
and maybe — she a version of you too.
what this place is 🕯️
raeni's journal is an interactive online magazine + a dark fantasy webtoon.
where ignored feelings become glowing truth. not somewhere you gotta dress your truth up all pretty before you allowed to set it down. nah.
we don't do that toxic positivity here. 🚫
we believe you the first time. no rushing. no fixing. no calling your hurt “dramatic” just ‘cause somebody else didn't know how to hold it.
the words nobody wanted to hear?
those the ones that glow. ✨
this is for:
- 📓 the one who told them and got brushed off
- 👁️ the one watching everybody while everybody assumes she's fine with it
- 🌙 the one who just wants one normal day
- 🎮 the one escaping into roblox, doodles, webtoons, music, and late-night texts
- 📝 the one who feels more like themselves in their notebook than out loud
- 🏠 the one with too much happening at home
- 🙋 the one carrying secrets nobody handed her
if that's you, you belong here. full stop. 💯
how this whole world fit together 🏠
let me put you on real quick:
LeBeau Magazine 📖 — the publisher.
Raeni's Journal 🌙 — the interactive online magazine. right here, where you standing.
The LeBeau Diaries 🤎 — the dark fantasy webtoon. raeni's story, panel by panel.
The Shadow Krewe 🌊 — the secret room. quiet, anonymous, nobody at home knows about it.
Raeni 🌹 — the one walking the whole way with you.
every word here is a letter 💌
raeni is qian's heart walking around outside her body.
and this journal? it's the letter somebody wish had been written to the girl she used to be — the one stacking diaries like a secret library only she could enter. 📓
it's for her.
and it's for you, exactly as you are, reading this right now. 🤍
step inside 🚪✨
you don't gotta pretend you fine here. so come on in:
the parts of you they couldn't understand?
those was never your flaw.
they was your fire. 🔥
come let it glow. 💛