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WELCOME TO THE RAINY CITY

 UNDER CONSTRUCTION  

Welcome to my paracosm page.
I'ma 30something immersive/maladaptive daydreamer. I made this site to talk about something very special to me: my paracosm, the rainy city.


I used to be really embarrassed to talk about my paracosm in public but that lead to dark places because it's really important to me and I want to share it with people! Cringe culture is dead and I want to let go of any residual embarrassment so I built [am building] this website to give people a little peek into my inner/other world.


Is the rainy city a soulscape or a paracosm? Yes.


Links marked with a will take you outside of pine island projects.

PARACOSM

setting

Setting information is divided into diegetic & exegetic .

diegetic

The rainy city is Mariel Boatwright's paracosm/headspace, made into a physical place with a combination of math and magic. The cost of living there is the color of your eyes: sooner or later, everyone's eyes turn monochrome gray.

exegetic

The rainy city (always lowercase) is an original universe paracosm that crosses over with The Silmarillion/The Lord of the Rings, TSUBASA: RESERvoir CHRoNiCLES and His Dark Materials as well as other personal paracosms, redacted and also redacted. As a crossroad world , it could technically cross over with any story.


I'm a Lewisian worldbuilder, which is to say, I'll throw in everything but the kitchen sink with little regard for "realism." The rainy city operates on the rule of cool.

residents

Italics indicated a day-tripper .
Yes, I am a day-tripper in my own paracosm.

    Boatwright family

  • Mariel (Aldreich) Boatwright (she/ immortal - elf)
  • Tristan Boatwright (he/ 33)
    • Thea Boatwright (she/ 12)
    • T.J. Boatwright (he/ 12)

    • Aldreich family

  • Gabriel Aldreich (he/ immortal - elf)
    • Kristopher Aldreich (they/ 20)
    • Blue Aldreich (they/ 20)

    • Cohen family

  • Sarah Cohen (she/ never ask a lady her age)
    • Ari Cohen (she/they/ 19)
    • Benji Cohen (he/ 15)

    • &c.

  • Blue John Flowright (he/ immortal - other?)
  • Vee Zając (e/ 25?)
  • Jasper Sloan (he/ 36)
    •    dæmon: Xenia
  • Rose North (æ/ 35)
    •    dæmon: Polaris

      Rose is my parame — æ is literally me with a different name to differentiate between me/parame.

    non-residents

  • Elouan (he/ immortal - vampire)

    Elouan livees in a world diagonally adjacent to this one, connected through the rainy city but he does not live (and is not welcome) there.

  • Emily Chopra (she/ 20)

    Emily is one of Kristopher's college friends but she comes to visit the rainy city often.



Some of these characters show up, in disguise, in my fiction and poetry but these works are "non-canonical" to my paracosm and not part of the story continuity.

TROPES

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

SETTING TROPES

Portal Crossroad World : the rainy city is one of these

CHARACTER TROPES

STORY NOTES

Story notes are posted to my junk drawer journal, Dreamwidth community profilepineisland in the 'verse: rainy city tag or paracosm misc. Notion page.

INFO

general information

COMING SOON

about me

L?/C? G(bX sM+/F+/X+) F(A&/D+)
O(cS+e/Ba-&/C+/?) Sp(H+/Hm+) I?*/T-
soulbond code


neurodivergent symbol I'm a soulbonder (but not plural ):

soulbond describes the common experience of a writer who finds that characters can take on a life of their own, sharing a connection and communicating with the author.
Fanlore: Soulbond (Fictive Presence)
The rainy city is my other/inner world or soulscape and neurodivergent special interest.

my history with paracosms, soulbonds, etc.

The rainy city started getting built in 2006 or so, though Mariel had been around since 2001 and I had been Meep since 2003 - but my history with imaginary friends &/ soulbonds goes back as far as I can remember: some of my earliest friends were what I would later call "soulbonds," characters from books I read that walked, fully formed, into my mind and stayed with me long after I finished reading. (I have vivid memories of biking around with Molly McIntire, the American Girl character.)


I don't take any of this too seriously because I was in a soulbonding cult a long time ago. It's not uncommon .

site info

paracosm v1 .s o u l // whispers is named after the early '00s soulbonding info site, .s o u l // whipsers (archive / PDF text copy ).

info desk

Soulbonder.com
Dreamwidth profile: fictionkind community fictionkind Note: Community for soulbonders, otherkin (including fictionkin), &c. Dreamwidth account required to join.
From Fiction
Dreamwidth profile: lb_leelb_lee's Essays Index

other worlds

These links are a mix of paracosms, inner/other/secondary worlds, &/ soulbond/gateway/plural systems!


The Sevenfold
Interstellar System
Numbers Story
Para/Cosm
Penwrythe's Dreams
The Black Sands

 

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