WELCOME
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Welcome to my paracosm page.
I'm a 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.
PARACOSM
setting
Setting information is divided into diegetic & exegetic.
diegetic
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 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
- Mariel (Aldreich) Boatwright (she)
You might recogize (a version of) Mariel from My OCs page! - Tristan (Delacroix) Boatwright (he)
- Thea Boatwright (she)
- T.J. Boatwright (he)
- Gabriel Aldreich (he)
- Kristopher Aldreich (they)
- Jude Aldreich (they)
- Blue John Aldreich (they)
- Sarah Cohen (she)
- Ari Cohen (she/they)
- Benji Cohen (he)
- V. Zając (he/e)
- Jasper Sloan (he/they)
- Rose North (she)
- dæmon: Polaris
Rose is my parame — she is literally me but I use a different name (and pronouns) in-universe.
- dæmon: Polaris
Boatwright Family
Aldreich Family
Cohen Family
&c.
Italics indicates a daytripper.
Yes, I am a daytripper in my own paracosm.
Some of these characters show up, in disguise, in my published fiction and poetry but these works are "non-canonical" to my paracosm and not part of the story continuity.
INFO
general information
soulbonding
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paracosms
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inner/other worlds
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immersive daydreaming
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about me
L?/C? G(bX sM+/F+/X+) F(A&/D+)
O(cS+e/Ba-&/C+/?) Sp(H+/Hm+) I?*/T-
soulbond code
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.The rainy city is my other/inner world or soulscape and neurodivergent special interest.
Fanlore: Soulbond (Fictive Presence)
I don't take any of this too seriously because I was in a soulbonding cult a long time ago. It's apparently not an uncommon experience.
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).