# aubrie in the open
> Independent essays on technofeudalism, identity, and community resistance by Aubrie Johnson. Biweekly, no-AI.
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## Pages
- [About this newsletter, and its author](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/about.md) - Aubrie Johnson
- [Essays](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/blog.md)
- [Contact](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/contact.md) - Your Name Your Email Your Message Send message
- [You're here!](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/freeee.md) - Thank you for subscribing! As a professional rabbit hole digger, I start with something specific and follow it until I find the structure underneath. You'll hear from me every couple of weeks with essays about technofeudalism, identity, community resistance, and the connective tissue in between. If…
- [Aubrie Johnson — Writer & Creator on the US West Coast](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/home-header.md) - I'm a writer, artist, creator, interviewer, and occasional Wikipedian. I've written for The Bold Italic and ZORA. I'm 120k words into a supernatural thriller about a witch, a witch hunter, and an assassin starting a cult "coven" in futuristic San Francisco. When I'm not writing fiction, I'm probabl…
- [Microblog](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/now.md)
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- [You're in ✨](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/welcome.md) - Welcome — and thank you! Your support means a lot to me, especially at this stage in my novel writing journey! Here's what happens next: The novel — Once a month, you'll get pages from my (as yet untitled) supernatural thriller about a witch, a witch hunter, and an assassin and their cheeky little…

## Posts
- [Whimsy will save us all](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/wicker-2026-whimsy-amatonormativity.md) - Low stakes and unserious stories are a hard-reset on the meaning of love
- [Are you not entertained (by AI art?)](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/are-you-not-entertained-by-ai-art.md) - There's this needling feeling in the back of my head that we're all just jingling keys at each other.
- [Welcome back to 2015!](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/welcome-back-to-2015.md) - 2026 reads like we all died a decade ago and have been reenacting a single day á la Source Code ever since.
- [BL lovers have broken containment](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/bl-lovers-have-broken-containment.md) - After years of being relegated to manga/manhwa and Wattpad, the West is finally letting fangirls live...sort of.
- [Fine! I'll get on the clock app!](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/2026-07.md) - As of 1 July, I am: Working on * Introducing myself on Booktok — Mostly yelling about tropes and capitalism, if you’re into that * First draft of an untitled urban fantasy thriller — 90,000 words and counting! Thinking about Two words keep coming up throughout my research: irony and ambiguity. Iron…
- [Everyone is Twelve Now](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/everyone-is-twelve-now.md) - Last year, one guy made an observation about some Americans' descent into a tribal, impulsive mindset that steamrolls over civility and reason. I think he's on to something.
- [The resurgence of misogyny-as-horror](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/the-resurgence-of-misogyny-as-horror.md) - Psychological horror, bodycams, and true crime all have one thing in common.
- [Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/technofeudalism-what-killed-capitalism-yanis-varoufakis.md) - Capitalism is ripping us a new one, but there's been a new challenger on the scene for decades now. Maybe it's time for a new approach?
- [Why LinkedIn culture is obsessed with failing up](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/why-linkedin-culture-is-obsessed-with-failing-up.md) - Meet the heroes of the professional crowd, and their forgotten sidekicks.
- [What happens when communities bend to nearly breaking](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/what-happens-when-communities-bend-to-nearly-breaking.md) - How a novel about witches became a career in asking dangerous questions
- [Can somebody check on Character.AI?](https://www.aubrieintheopen.com/can-somebody-check-on-character-ai.md) - C.ai is pushing out its own users

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