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I hope you enjoy! I would love to hear any thoughts/feedback you might have :)

I ended up doing it anyway, since it was something I wanted to get around to anyway. Now available as an epub on my website: brie.gay/writing/

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Brie's Writing

I don't have an epub publicly anywhere, but I have created one for a friend and could redo that if it's easier

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A monster hunter reluctantly takes a vampire captive, much to the vampire's delight. Chloe was having a good date, up until about halfway through dinner. With her night ruined, she hoped to enjoy the...

I've written a short(ish) story that should qualify Trans lesbian vampire romance. There are some threats of violence, but none of it is sexual www.scribblehub.com/series/12843...

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Vampire Prey

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Brie @brie.gay · 01/10/2026

I think that any company/CEO that claims to see sentience in LLMs should also be required to pay them a minimum wage

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Brie @brie.gay · 30/09/2026

I get a couple new readers per week leaving kudos on AO3 (the easiest to quantify). It's not a ton, but it would surely be more if I was actively posting new things. I would probably rather post more writing than post more social media, so that's okay with me

Brie @brie.gay · 30/09/2026

And then for whatever niche a story is in, there's probably ten different discord servers for the community or specific authors, many of those have a channel for self promotion (especially if you're at all active on the server)

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Brie @brie.gay · 30/09/2026

Simply posting a serial on a website does actually get you some readers: Some people browse new updates, some people look for specific tags (even on scribblehub/royalroad, if you look for specific combinations of tags there arn't that many stories)

Brie @brie.gay · 23/09/2026

Some people are convinced that basically everything is AI unless it meets some extremely specific criteria IMO it's simply not worth my time to convince those people, it's too much effort and they're probably never going to be satisfied

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Brie @brie.gay · 20/09/2026

syncthing is a genuinely very cool piece of software it does a single thing very well, making it an excellent choice to use in all sorts of scenarios

Brie @brie.gay · 18/09/2026

A coworker's (cis) daughter deciding that she wanted a different name My coworker is thrilled about this and thinks it's really cool. I have no idea what her daughter's old name was because my coworker doesn't ever mention it. I love that coworker

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Brie @brie.gay · 09/09/2026

This is the fun part of how the internet works Your ISP might not be lying to you and it might not be a raw capacity problem on google's side (but it's probably at least partly one of their faults) It's kinda amazing that the internet doesn't fall apart more tbh

Brie @brie.gay · 09/09/2026

My favorite part is that you could make almost the same post but simply choose to not be annoying: "Would the eldritch whispers actually be as effective as they are in the story? The humans know that the voices aren't real, couldn't they resign when the voices start to get to them?"

bel @steelybel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reposted by Brie

when u see claude on the github repo

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Brie @brie.gay · 05/09/2026

I had an idea in mind for mine, so I found a picture that I had taken and traced over the scene in krita (with a few modifications). It doesn't look amazing (I'm probably better at art than I was then), but it was good enough for my purposes

Brie @brie.gay · 03/09/2026

I would still not enjoy telling a friend that I didn't like their writing, especially in the absence of a request for feedback, but even then I would probably just pick something that I honestly liked about their writing (which almost every piece of text has), and then comment on that specifically

Brie @brie.gay · 03/09/2026

FWIW, I don't think I would be bothered by a friend reading one of my stories and not liking it, your friends might not mind too much either? especially if accompanied by feedback, I'm particularly grateful for some harsh/negative feedback I've gotten

Brie @brie.gay · 01/09/2026

Sometimes I'll look back on writing more than a few days old and see ridiculous comments (from me) like "TODO: don't like that word" The word is actually totally fine, I have no idea why past Brie was being so picky.

Brie @brie.gay · 01/09/2026

Not every trans person wants to be quizzed about their experiences, but I promise that basically every space/community has some trans people who would love to help

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Brie @brie.gay · 01/09/2026

Many trans people (such as me) think that including trans people in art is neat and are happy to answer questions It isn't weird or shameful to not know things, I've gotten into situations when writing where I had to ask a friend "hey does your body work like this? does this actually make sense?"

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Brie @brie.gay · 20/08/2026

Outside of any moral objection to LLMs (which I also have), I'm constantly shocked by the number of people willing to blindly ship LLM output When I'm writing a document, I don't even trust my coworkers on subjects they're experts in without verifying

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Brie @brie.gay · 08/08/2026

Think about how great it would be if women had done foundational research in multiple scientific fields. Too bad that never happened. Women aren't real. Here's what we think a woman doing science would look like. Have fun!

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Brie @brie.gay · 08/08/2026

Waiting until it's past my bedtime to write the scene I need to, but this is good The POV character is very tired, I'm just deeply committed to accuracy (NOT procrastination)

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Brie @brie.gay · 03/08/2026

Worth noting that this seems totally orthogonal to data centers It's obviously evil and shouldn't be done, but it's not like it would take a lot of computers to do this

Brie @brie.gay · 31/07/2026

This is a well thought out feature with uses other than misinformation and harassment, right? Nobody will dox someone then send them pictures of what it would look like if their house was bombed, right?

Brie @brie.gay · 29/07/2026

Android Auto is an excellent experience, I'm really glad it doesn't require a touch screen I think it's hilarious that my car technically has a touchscreen given how entirely useless it is

Brie @brie.gay · 29/07/2026

My car (2021 Mazda) technically has a touch screen infotainment system, although it doesn't accept touch input while the car is moving (makes sense) or in Android Auto (???) There is a little knob and a few buttons to control all of the infotainment systems, and a separate volume dial It's great

Brie @brie.gay · 25/07/2026

It's gonna be fun, I'm excited for the monster romance panel!

Brie @brie.gay · 23/07/2026

I think it would be extremely hard to follow, even assuming universal good faith Queer women have a hard time identifying and agreeing on specific elements of queer fashion, I think cishet women would be very lost

Brie @brie.gay · 21/07/2026

I'm trying my best but it's really hard :(

Brie @brie.gay · 14/07/2026

I've thought about writing a story where a character gets healing powers that start to apply HRT to a closeted or unaware trans girl I'm sure I've read a story along these lines before, but I can't actually think of examples right now

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Brie @brie.gay · 14/07/2026

I have looked into it but not gotten one: my understanding is that this is theoretically possible, but modern implants almost always last significantly longer than that

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This was partly an opportunity to learn Rust, my background is mainly C++ (meh) and Python (love), but I didn't really consider web based platforms because I wouldn't find that as fun Web has some major advantages, you have all kinds of font/formatting options and accessibility features built in

Notably for text editors, there are clearly some font and text processing things still missing from egui It gets most things right, but there's no way to do paragraph spacing (separation between newlines but not between every line), and the "indent first line" option in cheese paper is wonky too

I really liked working with it! It's not perfect in every scenario, things that would normally be really easy (e.g., pop ups) can be annoying, but for the most part it makes sense to me I did a first attempt at cheese paper in Python with tkinter, that was not a fun experience at all

I wanted "Scrivener/Manuskript", but where I can - sync between multiple computers without ever thinking about the state - go on walks and use a basic text editor on my phone to make meaningful changes (without worrying about breaking things) So now there's yet another open source text editor :)

Organized text editor for writing fiction

I kinda sorta did this? brie.gay/cheese-paper/ It has the features I care about, which are not necessarily the ones that anyone else wants Notably, it has metadata and organized scenes (like Scrivener), is fairly simple, and is really good at processing syncs (from whatever sync tool you use)

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Cheese Paper

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Brie @brie.gay · 04/07/2026

I don't actually need behavior indistinguishable from a human either, different behavior is also fine One of the key parts of dating someone is that they have their own ideas and goals and passions, I do not get why anyone would want to replace that part

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Brie @brie.gay · 04/07/2026

I think that dating a robot who is indistinguishable from a person in behavior, intelligence, and agency would be neat. If you can solve those problems, I definitely do not need to make them look 100% human

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Brie @brie.gay · 02/07/2026

I'm even being good and not talking about anything truly secret or sensitive There's just a lot to be gleaned from combining my position, what I do talk about, and various things I know. I don't think you can avoid this while still keeping a useful resume

Brie @brie.gay · 02/07/2026

Thinking about how much non-public information you can gather about my employer from a copy of my resume

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Brie @brie.gay · 01/07/2026

You can even observe this directly with LLMs: they didn't instantly take over or massively replace workers, but they sure did a lot of automated insurance claim denials or reduced customer support channels Existing problems, just on a larger scale now

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Brie @brie.gay · 29/06/2026

After everything I went through, they couldn't even pretend like they were somewhat interesting???

Brie @brie.gay · 29/06/2026

They cut mine up and then sent me a message saying that they were "grossly unremarkable"

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Brie @brie.gay · 26/06/2026

I hope you like it! This is super cool, interactions like this are the coolest part of releasing Cheese Paper

Brie @brie.gay · 26/06/2026

I am not a bus driver so it doesn't seem like I should ever be the only person on a bus while the engine is running, and yet,