iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 27/10/2026

There’s a full moon out tonight! 🌕 If you’d like a werecreature story with subversion of the uncontrollability theme, strange cellular biology, and a bag of shed human teeth… here you go! parisvivian.itch.io/the-claws-of-the-ounce (All art mine.) #BookSky #UrbanFantasy #DarkFantasy 💙📚🪐🌃📚🩸

A digital drawing of Ash, a young, thin white woman with a grey-and-black bob cut and amber eyes. She is standing with her head tilted forward, a very tired / dejected expression on her face, as a disembodied hand holds a translucent full moon in front of her right eye. On the dark grey background behind her, curving up in an arc over her head, are the phases of the moon, with the full moon replaced by her eye in a circle of snow leopard fur.

A digital art piece showing Orion, a white man with short brown hair and green eyes, sitting behind a table. He leans over an open book, frowning as he draws something on a diagram with his pen. A messy stack of papers lays to the side. To the right of him is a close-up of the diagram: it's an anatomical diagram showing Ash's digestive organs, heart, lungs, and brain.
He's drawn dotted lines around her liver to indicate it should be larger, and through her small intestine to indicate it should be shorter.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 21/10/2026

I regret to inform everyone that Flashes (the BlueSky Instagram equivalent) appears to be using genAI 😞 They posted this pic with the trademark garbled text last month. Seriously, why? (And the rest of the pic looks totally fine, it’s scary.) #NoAI #AntiAI

A screenshot of a post from Flashes App’s official BlueSky account, talking about introducing push notifications. At the bottom of the pic is a push notification used for an example; the letters of the second half of the example account’s name, which I’ve circled in blue, distorted in the usual “AI generating text” manner.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 17/10/2026

Decided that in addition to an “Austroraptor”, she’s also the creator’s not-very-covert attempt at a “spinosaurid”. (For the most part, only smaller dinosaurs were made bc of space limits.) Not 100% sure how I feel about the croc teeth. #OC #dinosaur #bird #avian #CreatureDesign #SciFiArt #scalie

Pencil-sketched bust of a dinosaur-ish creature, resembling a great egret with a crocodilian snout. She is looking back wide-eyed.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 04/10/2026

Cover reveal for Forest in a Shadow Box, the second book of the Verdantland Trilogy! Drawn by me as usual. 😁🦋 Coming December 17. Preorders open here: parisvivian.itch.io/forest-in-a-shadow-box #BookSky #ArtSky #ScienceFantasy #ecofiction #IndieAuthor #VerdantlandTrilogy 💙📚🪐 ⚔️📚🌈🚀💫 ♿️♾️📚

The cover for Forest in a Shadow Box by me. It shows a European peacock butterfly with the hind wings of a common yellow swallowtail lying on a small glass panel with a pin behind / below it. The background is red with a speckled design.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Both Taryn and Hollis from the Verdantland Trilogy are bisexual! Taryn’s signature hourglass necklace was a gift from an ex-boyfriend, and she’s currently dating a woman (Florence). Have a snippet where Florence gives her some f/f romance recs.

“This was my favourite novel from last year.” Florence pulled a thick book from the centre of the right shelf. On its cover was an illustration of a paint palette hanging from a garland of cerise flowers. “It’s about a woman who has to lift a curse put on her and her painting business. As she travels across the land, she falls for her guide, a seamstress who can talk to plants.”
“Nice.” Taryn took the book, feeling its weight in her hands.
“Here’s another book I really loved.” Florence stood on her tiptoes to take another tome. This one was thinner, its cover a beautiful photograph of blue-green waves foaming against rocks. “Partly because it’s set in Acropora, and one of the main characters lives in the same district as my mom! It’s about three people who meet the Winged Woman of the Sea.”

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026

Actually nvm, I’ll post the images too.

The cover for A. C. Harper’s The Shoreline, showing a boy standing on a lake shore at sunset with an empty canoe in front of him. It is in a stereotypical “AI style” and has anomalies like wildly inconsistent post sizes on the pier (which apparently doesn’t attach to the shore) and a too-short paddle(?) lying in the canoe.

The cover for The Inbetween by the same author. It shows a boy sitting and typing at a desktop, shown from behind at a 3/4 angle like in the last picture. Everything is blurry and there’s a “piss filter” effect.

Old cover for The Inbetween, showing the MC and his socially imposed “girl self” (he’s a trans boy) sitting on a couch with a desktop behind. In the foreground is a bizarrely detached keyboard. The image is painfully old “realistic” AI style, I don’t quite know how to put it in words.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026

You can add A. C. Harper to the list 🥲 Obviously stereotypically AI covers and promo images and “off” responses to other people’s posts. (You can easily find the images in his media tab, so I’m just posting a couple examples of the responses.)

Post from me reading: Me in promo posts for TCotO: It’s got carni-cuisine! Ash in the chapter I just finished editing: “Breakfast was two tins of tuna choked down with ice water.”
A. C. Harper’s response: Carni-cuisine sounds deliciously chaotic. What dish does Ash swear by, carnival classic or culinary horror?

A reply by A. C. Harper to someone else, reading: Heck yeah, loving the mix of truth, queerness, science and stories. If you’re into coming-of-age or queer vibes, check out The Inbetween or The Shoreline on Kindle Unlimited (purple heart emoji) (stack of books emoji).

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026

Question for other #autistic people: when you look at a projection (from a movie projector or such), do you see RGB bars in your peripheral vision if you move your eyes to look at something else or focus on another part of the “screen“? Wondering if this is related to quicker visual processing.

Three squares in pure RGB display colours next to each other, forming a strip. Eyestrain warning.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026

#WIPSnips A snippet from Forest in a Shadow Box! Waiting for an aerial performance to start 👀🦋

“I hope the show’ll start ahead of schedule,” he muttered. His short hair, the same green hue as the fuzz on his wings, barely blew in his attempt at a breeze. “I’m boiling over here.”
“What will that change?” Alba asked. “It’s not like the performers’ wingwinds will make a difference from this distance.”
“It’ll distract me from this heat.”
“Fair.”

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026

Love the first ID suggestion on these just being “life-form”. (And life being listed as a “state of matter”.)

Screenshot of an iNaturalist ID suggestion simply reading “Life: State of matter Life”.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026

Here’s the full first 2 paragraphs:

If you asked Machaon to pinpoint the moment when his mother had become a monster, he wouldn’t be able to do so. Pins and points were her thing, not his, and anyway there wasn’t a single action or conversation he could look back on and pierce a needle through. It had kind of crept up on him.
All he knew for certain was that the first time he’d seen her walk that path was on the afternoon following the forest conservation fundraiser.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not. 😁🦋 (WIP, hoping to get it fully done by the end of the year but rushing it is a terrible idea) #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

“If you asked Machaon to pinpoint the moment when his mother had become a monster, he wouldn’t be able to do so.” - Forest in a Shadow Box (Verdantland Trilogy 2).
The background is a photo of a European peacock butterfly sitting on small pink flowers. Credit: Alicia Karlsson on Unsplash.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

#WIPSnips Decided to do “fangs”! Have part of Aharceot’s intro in Apricot Sun.

Her lips peeled back to bare thin blood-red fangs. She spoke in a voice that was barely tied together, her jaws so visibly aching to snap but instead being forced to settle for the piddling act of forming words.
“Hand over the idol.”
(The word “snap” is italicized).

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 10/09/2026

WIP of Tú. Trying out a bit of a new style (thinner lines, going to try more shading + fabric effects). It’s kind of funny how I keep drawing her but still don’t have a concrete design for Canopus (the actual MC). #OC #OriginalArt

A drawing of a bigender Vietnamese person with light brown skin and spiky brownish-black hair wearing a reddish-brown crop top, shown from the shoulders up. He is looking to the left with a mildly interested expression.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 02/09/2026

Can guarantee that A Summer with the Immortal, my sci-fantasy novel about a woman finding a girlfriend (among other things) while on a mission to ID a phytotoxin, contains no AI! 😁 (Sequel well in the works!) kobo.com/ebook/a-summer-with-the-immortal parisvivian.itch.io/a-summer-with-the-immortal

The cover for A Summer with the Immortal by me. It has a red lily with six petals and a long antenna-like stamen on a light green background. It is surrounded by labelled arrows reading: Mutagenic phenomenon. F/F with a meet-cute. Autistic MC and LI. Fantastical biotech. Environmental politics. Ancient ruins with strange secrets. Library love.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 25/08/2026

“Austroraptor” design for my sapient difauxsaur project, based on a great egret (in breeding plumage / colours). #OC #OriginalCharacter #dinosaur #CharacterDesign #bird #CreatureDesign #SciFiArt

A drawing of a raptor-like creature resembling a great egret (white feathers, long legs and snout, bunch of long feathers on the hips and throat, green stripe down the snout) looking at the viewer with an unnerving smile. The background is cyan.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 12/08/2026

TMotAS Update of the Day 🌇 The duality of chapter subtitles. #ChedantaChronicles #WriteSky #IndieAuthor 🖋️📖💰

Chapter 13: In Which the Past Keeps Rippling Out Into the Present.

Chapter 14: In Which Darby May or May Not Receive Answers.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 09/08/2026

A tale of waxing moons that must be turned away from, scripts that must be shredded, and how the sharpness of self-hatred so easily turns outwards. Kobo: kobo.com/ebook/the-claws-of-the-ounce Itch: parisvivian.itch.io/the-claws-of-the-ounce 💙📚🪐 🌃📚🩸 ♿️♾️📚 🖋️📖💰 #IndieAugust #shifter #DarkFantasy

A promo graphic for my novel The Claws of the Ounce. In the centre is the cover (drawn by me). It shows a bunch of papers on a desk, with the top paper having a picture of a snow leopard-like creature looking fearfully at the viewer as she crushes a waxing gibbous moon (one of a long line of moons) under her front paw. Around the cover are several arrows with the following labels: Werefelines. C-PTSD & anxiety rep. Breaking cycles. Carni-cuisine. Cool emo/goth roommate. Carrying around a bag of your own shed teeth. Shady researchers. South Ontario setting.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 09/08/2026

If you stretch the definition of “cat” to include all Felidae: Ash, MC of The Claws of the Ounce, is a snow wereleopard who discovered the fact the night after her abusive parents kicked her out. She spends most of the story ruled by trauma-born self-hatred ☹️ Sebastian is a werelion - born (1/2)

A digital drawing of a snow leopard-like creature looking fearfully at the viewer as she crushes a waxing gibbous moon (one of a long line of moons) under her front paw. She has humanlike amber-orange eyes, a choppy bob cut, and earrings + industrial ear piercings.

An art piece of a young white man with shaggy brown hair, hazel eyes without visible whites, and whiskers on his chin and brows. He is leaning forwards, looking cautiously to his left. The silhouette of a lion head stretched forth from behind his head, drawn in pencil instead of digitally like the rest of the piece.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 09/08/2026

A fyotav, a thermoacidophilic sophont from a tidally locked planet orbiting a red dwarf, and a couple of their distant evolutionary ancestors. More about them in the replies. #SpeculativeBiology #SpecBio #worldbuilding #SciFiArt #OriginalArt

Drawings on paper. At the bottom is a fyotav, a sort of bipedal dinosaur-shaped alien with long arms. They have a proboscis resembling a neck and featureless mask-faced head, seven eyes (two visible at the base of the proboscis, one at its nape, two on the chest facing down), several breathing openings on the back + one at the tail tip, and are wearing a backpack-type thing. There are close-ups of their hand, which is biramous - three thick digits splitting into six along their length (text states they are all opposable to each other) - and of their foot, which seems to have three regular digits (actually fused with skin and muscle).

On top are prehistoric evolutionary ancestors. One resembles a fish or lancelet with a protruding snout and two pairs of forked fins: text reads “Vibration-sensing organs along back, gill pores along sides. Muscle blocks delineated here but not actually visible. Limbs evolved from gill spurs (used to help pump low-oxygen water)”. The other is quadrupedal, vaguely resembling an early mammal; it has a distinct proboscis (though not as long or developed as the fyotav’s), and the limbs are more separated from the respiratory orifices.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 06/08/2026

Forest in a Shadow Box snippet 🦋 Fun fact: Florence is a f/f romantasy fan. #VerdantlandTrilogy #WriteSky #SapphFic #LesFic 🪐📚🌈 🧡🦄📚 🖋️📖💰

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 30/07/2026

#SummerOfStories I already shared my current #1 fave passage (the opening to 🦋), so I’ll just do one I like above-average (and have posted a bunch of times before but w/e). It’s from Book 1 of 🦋’s series. I like how I showed both differences & similarities between autistic ppl / characters here.

“A lot of foods you can’t tolerate, you say?” Florence laughed. “I’m the same way. For example, I can’t stand fruit. Any fruit.”
“You’re drinking fruit juice right now.” Taryn couldn’t wrap her head around what she was saying. How it was possible to not like any fruit?
“Juice is fine. Solid fruit is the problem. I can’t explain it very well. It’s something about the texture and the juices when they’re still in the flesh.”
Actually, Taryn understood that. She loved eating olives despite being disgusted by olive oil. She occasionally enjoyed loud music, even though a shout of lower volume could bring her close to tears. A number of her repulsions seemed arbitrary to others. Thankfully, her family had always believed her about what she could and couldn’t tolerate. Understanding was not a prerequisite for respect.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 29/07/2026

Here’s my sci-fantasy novel about a bio student‘s quest to find out what’s making some phone-lilies sick (also the world is in the grip of a mutagenic phenomenon but it’s… actually pretty chill?) 😁 Kobo: kobo.com/ebook/a-summer-with-the-immortal Itch: parisvivian.itch.io/a-summer-with-the-immortal

A graphic. On the left is the cover of my book A Summer with the Immortal. It shows a red lily with six petals and a long, antenna-like stamen on a green background. On the right is text reading: Acacia, the renowned immortal of Eopolis, has run into trouble with his new biotech project. His radio-lilies, grown for use as telephone antennas, are wilting. The cause? There's something in the soil - and it's Taryn's job to figure out what. However, the thing about life in the Tachytelozoic Era is that it's ever-changing. Taryn throws herself into the investigation. As a lifelong biology enthusiast, this is a most tantalizing mystery for her. However, the thing about life in the Tachytelozoic Era is that it’s ever-changing. By the end of this summer, her priorities might become quite different indeed… Mutagenic phenomenon, fantasy biotech, sapphic meet-cute, autistic MC and LI, environmental politics, ancient ruins, pseudo-gryphons, library love.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 26/07/2026

#SummerOfStories Have Darby from 🌇, Taigex from 🧤, and Machaon from 🦋, all drawn by me!

Underneath two palm trees on a pale beach, a young white woman with a dusty pink shag haircut looks out at the ocean. She is leaning forward slightly. The sky is deep blue with a brilliant white-and-yellow star visible between the two trees. Underneath the palm leaves are five large pods, each one a different shade of brown and with a lettuce leaf-like structure protruding from it.

A digital drawing of an alien with an emu-ish body shape, purple fur with white spots on the back, and gold eyes with rectangular pupils. She is rearing up and smiling triumphantly, her long multiply-split tongue sticking out of her mouth. Her tongue has a translucent glove on it. Behind her is a dark sky with a flash of lightning.

A pencil drawing of a white teen boy with folded pterosaur-like wings / arms kneeling and looking to the left with a neutral expression. He has a long tail tipped with fin things resembling a swallowtail butterfly’s hind wings. A much smaller doodle to the side shows him from a different angle to make sense of his anatomy.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 24/07/2026

Some facts about The Gift of Gloves, my WIP sci-fi xenofiction novella about the effects of the invention of gloves in an alien society! #QuestPit #SF #A #WIP #LGBT

A graphic reading: The Gift of Gloves. This is a story from the dawn of a world. A restless soul uncovers a miracle between the cracks in a tree’s bark, a way for her people to have more tools, more food, more medicine. The world changes forever in a lightning flash.
Unfortunately, it also opens the path for new sorts of wrongdoing. (One might call them unnatural, but beings which can think have left immutable natures well behind…) The background is a photo of a lightning bolt striking through a vivid purple sky (credit: Felix Mittermeier on Unsplash).

A graphic with text reading: The Cast. Taigex, the inventor. Her lifelong yearning for more has finally borne fruit. Sezten, her mate. She has the foresight her partner often lacks. Yaxtan, the ruler of their home valley. She is grieving a death the invention could’ve prevented. Lapax, emissary from and ruler-to-be of the neighbouring valley. Yaxtan’s selfishness has hit her hard. Kurex, Yaxtan’s mate. He does little, but through that does a lot.
Next to each description is a little bust of the character. They are furry, snouted creatures with whiskers and goat-like eyes. Taigex is purple with yellow eyes and a longer snout and is looking down lovingly at Sezten. Sezten returns the gaze; she is desaturated pink with light green eyes and fur sticking up on her head. Yaxtan is medium purple with green eyes and is baring her teeth. Lapax is medium pink with yellow eyes and dyed yellow markings. Kurex is dark pink with tired-looking orange eyes and bent whiskers. The background is a close-up of pink faux fur (image credit: Gabflicks on Pexels).

A graphic reading: Setting. The Gift of Gloves is set in an alien equivalent of the Mesolithic. Even the climate of the planet is similar to that of late Pleistocene Earth. Like humans, txentx are a highly social, omnivorous, originally plains-dwelling species which specializes in stamina; however, there are of course major differences, among them being the fact that they lack hands and can only manipulate objects via their prehensile tongues. Taigex's people inhabit a mountain valley in a region with a subarctic climate. They trade with a neighbouring valley annually, have a system of proto-writing, and hold that txentx are inherently, nigh-unchangeably morally good.
The background is a picture (drawn by me) of a ghostly txentx with pink fur, yellow eyes, and drops of soul-stuff on their whiskers. They are sitting, showing their emu-like body, and looking down.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 24/07/2026

The world of Harenocus is very old, and its Sun very radiant... but there remain many shadows where secrets can hide. • Runaway precog MC 👁️ • Her gambler father 🎰 • Her suspicious sister 🪡 • Dependent friendship 🦪 • Beastly demigods 🐺🦅 • Heretical sects ☀️ • Multiple disability rep ♿️ #WIPPit #F #A

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 24/07/2026

The Gift of Gloves 🧤 When Taigex discovers a way for her kind to protect their tentacled tongues, the sudden selfishness of her valley’s ruler might ruin everything. • Alien POV 👽 • Stone Age setting 🪨 • Tree worm slime tech 🪱 • Anti-bioessentialism • The harm of silence 😶 #QuestPit #SF #A #LGBT

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 24/07/2026

Forest in a Shadow Box 🦋 When Machaon’s mother gets radicalized into an anti-forest conservation group, even his wings may not provide him with a good way out. Meanwhile, Taryn grapples with her own unlikely, secret place in the country’s worsening political climate. #QuestPit #F #SF #Dis #LGBT

A moodboard for a story. Top left: A red peacock butterfly sitting on magenta flowers. Top centre: A protest sign with a drawing of the Earth and the words “One World”. Top right: Tree branches with orange and yellow leaves. Centre left: The outdoor dining area of a beachside restaurant. Everything is white, except the chairs which are brown wood. Centre: The title of the story, "Forest in a Shadow Box", on a red background. Centre right: A cup of tea with painted yellow flowers around the rim and a bunch of tiny white flowers floating in the tea. Bottom left: A near-infrared photo of a derelict boat resting beneath a bush; the bush appears red and the sky appears cyan. Bottom centre: An assortment of pinned butterflies and moths. Bottom right: A train travelling through a forest. The trees around it are still green, but the fallen leaves on the tracks are orange.
(All images from Unsplash and Pexels.)

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 24/07/2026

If you want a quick read for #SPAAW, consider When In Erebus, my alternate history novelette about luminiferous aether and protest art! Itch: parisvivian.itch.io/when-in-erebus Kobo: kobo.com/ebook/when-in-erebus #SelfPublishedAuthorAppreciationWeek #IndieAuthor #BookSky 💙📚🪐📚🌈 🖋️📖💰

A graphic. On the left is the cover of my book When In Erebus. It has gold Art Deco-ish designs - the Sun surrounded by stars, machines sucking light out of the sky, and a pair of wire cutters lying on a building diagram - on a black background. On the right is text reading: 1887: The Michelson-Morley Experiment gives a positive result. 1918: First use of a deatherizing apparatus. 1926: The Erebus Project begins. 1932: The mechanic Lucian Prestwich vows to end it. Weird physics, alternate 1930s NYC, impenetrable darkness, internal sabotage, art is political, everything is, NO to tech oligarchs, M/M.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 22/07/2026

NSFW 🔞 Tonight in Apricot Sun: Darby canonically jerks off to pinups in her room. Yes. #WriteSky #NSFW #bisexual 📚🌈🚀💫

Darby pushed the curtain aside. The first place her gaze went was to the picture cards stuck to the wall above her desk, little pinups of sexy people (mainly women, a couple of men). She remembered angles of indulging in her lust for them, and a phantom of the sensations tingled through her blood.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 21/07/2026

Happy #SelfPublishedAuthorsAppreciationWeek! 😁📚 I’ll stretch this out over a few days. A Summer with the Immortal is available on Kobo: kobo.com/ebook/a-summer-with-the-immortal and Itch: parisvivian.itch.io/a-summer-with-the-immortal #IndieAuthor #SelfPublishing #ScienceFantasy 💙📚🪐 ⚔️📚🌈 ♿️♾️📚

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 16/07/2026

In Datéyon (the ancient megacity in which 🌇 WIP takes place, precious metals are plentiful... well, primarily in the district from which the Chedanta family hails... thanks to a divine blessing. Their house's roof is plated with platinum (see snippet). The casino where Cevare snuck his (1/2)

The Chedanta family’s house was no exception. Its sloping roof bore platinum shingles, currently covered in a thick layer of satiny whitish patina. Her parents could never agree on what to do with that periodically mushrooming shine; Cevare was bent on scrubbing it off whenever it started to form, while Benya was in favour of letting it be.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 15/07/2026

Here’s a picture (credit: Natural History Museum of Denmark):

A Symbion (cycliophoran) attached to a lobster’s mouth bristle, as viewed under a microscope. It is light brownish-yellow and shaped kind of like a blobby cartoon hand with three fingers and a short thick stalk instead of a wrist.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 14/07/2026

Also, not from a finished or current project, but I think about them a lot: Canopus (no up-to-date art) and Tú from my sci-fi setting. Two journalists who get sent to meet with a recently-contacted planet. Canopus is neutrois (anything except s/he, ve/ver mainly), from Brighton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (cont.)

A pencil sketch of a bigender Vietnamese person with spiky medium-length black hair smiling as she looks up to the left. Her name, Tú, is written in big block letters next to him.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 14/07/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Hollis Donici, one of the main players in the Verdantland Trilogy, is agender. They’re an archaeologist, believe in ghosts, and, alas, are under a lot of stress… Here‘s a drawing of them preparing their favourite mushroom burgers, and a snippet of banter with a coworker:

A pencil sketch of a white person with longish wavy brown hair looking to the side and smiling at someone offscreen as they flip a portobello mushroom high over a grill.

“Uh, Hollis?” He let out a chuckle. “Are you alright? Did the ghosts get to you too?”
“We’ll talk later,” they said briskly. “We should get to the research station as soon as possible.”
“Good idea. I’ve been waiting to return to the world above.” Morris gazed up at the ceiling with faux-wistfulness. “It’s been so long since I’ve seen the sun.”
“Not even two hours,” Donici deadpanned.
“Time is subjective, you know.”

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 12/07/2026

#SummerOfStories Snippet from 🦋. Machaon and his father have their picnic come to a premature end.

They packed up their stuff and hurried back towards the house. Machaon took the food, eating the remnants as they went, while Tomas carried the folded blanket under one arm. They got home right in the nick of time, the first drizzle of rain pattering against the grass as Tomas closed the door.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 11/07/2026

#SummerOfStories A more tired, accomplished short of bliss. Featuring a snippet from 🧤 for once.

“That was incredible.” Sezten let out a long breath and watched it turn to mist above her chest.
“You take the stick next time.”
“When is next time?”
“As soon as you wish.” Taigex sat up and set to grooming her mate's mane, plucking out clumps of snow with her teeth.
“I was going to say as soon as we catch our breath,” Sezten leaned over to return the favour, “but now I think that can wait a bit.”

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 09/07/2026

#SummerOfStories Consicor (co-MC of 🌇) is literally a fashion designer. There was no other choice for this.

Consicor worked for the fashion guild. A lot of the clothing she wore was of her own design. The blouse she currently had on, matte white fabric with shimmery gold circle designs along the midline, was one of the creations she'd shown off at the last design show before Darby had left. So was the white hat with star-shaped purple beads sewn in around the brim.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 08/07/2026

#WriterShareWednesday FiaSB, sequel to A Summer with the Immortal, is the tale of a boy whose mother has been radicalized into an anti-forest movement, a uni student grappling with her place in the country’s climate, and the falsity of ”staying apolitical”. Also there are winged people.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 06/07/2026

Apricot Sun Update of the Day 🌇 I absolutely love the chapter titles. #WriteSky #fantasy 🖋️📖💰 📚⚔️

Chapter 10: In Which the Sun Issues a Press Statement.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 05/07/2026

#SummerOfStories (belated) #WriteSky Not epic or monumental, but certainly goosebump-worthy (and also the only one I could share without spoilers): part of 🌇’s prologue. Darbicor and Cevare’s game is up…

The game continued with a reshuffling. Darbicor engaged her precognition again. The stranger would most likely pull electricity-water-ice next... or maybe he’d sneakily reuse the acid while taking electricity and...?
???
The futures wavered in front of her. No longer windows but mirages, fragile warped air that shivered and shook. And then they vanished entirely, a sensation like the click of a short-circuiting wire snapping through her brain as her physical eyes were forced back into focus.
(Italicized) What? (un-italicized) Darbicor stared at the screen, watching the stranger draw his cards. (Italicized) I couldn’t have overexerted myself. Could I? (Un-italicized)
No, she didn’t feel overexerted. She waited a few heartbeats and tried to turn on her precognition again, but received only a strange staticky sensation under her tongue for her trouble.
She didn’t hear the footsteps until it was much, much too late. Until the closet door flew open, yanked with such force that the handle banged against the wall as light poured in from the hallway.
Everything ended in that instant.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 02/07/2026

#SummerOfStories I like starting them with casual discussion of / allusion to the central SFF elements, or a brief explanation of them (written in a way that doesn’t come off too “exposition-y”). Not always, though. I started TCotO (published novel) in media res, and as for 🦋… here you go!

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 02/07/2026

(the mutation-hotspot which gave rise to volareans). But then Machaon goes to a town where many of the inhabitants are volareans, where *everything* is made with them in mind… and has his mind absolutely blown by the sudden easiness of it all. “If only my mother were to see this…”

He couldn’t get over how roomy the buildings were. The views through the store windows revealed enough empty space between their shelves for an adult volarean to half-spread their wings. When he entered the pharmacy, it seemed utterly unreal that there was no danger of knocking its skincare salves or supplement bottles off their shelves if he forgot to move in exactly the right way.
Don’t worry, whispered the open air between him and the aisles. You’re every bit as welcome here on the ground as you are in the sky.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 02/07/2026

Unlike me, he also has dyscalculia. This doesn’t hugely affect him in the story, but I do mention him using aids like an abacus and a digital clock. ♿️♾️📚

It was the digital type. Uncommon and expensive, but a necessity for him. His dyscalculia made the act of reading an analog clock take inconveniently long; each time he saw one, it was like the first time all over again, him having to piece together what the arrangement of the hands meant (especially if the face didn’t have actual numbers written on it).
The ease of reading it offered was extra convenient right now. Otherwise he might’ve trapped himself in denial, convincing himself he’d misread and equally slowly rereading it several times over in an attempt to make it “make sense”.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 01/07/2026

While he is medicated for most of the book, there are parts where he isn’t. Here’s some of how I write that (also lots of parentheticals). You can maybe see what I meant with “chronic understimulation“ as a descriptor - a brain trying to stuff itself full. #DisabilityPrideMonth #ADHD #ActuallyADHD

There really was so much STUFF around him, from the stack of multicoloured hairbands holding that girl’s ponytail together to the patchy white sides of the chalkboard eraser to the ribbed texture of his notebook’s binding, and each of those things sparked a chain reaction of associations in his brain. For example:
That girl’s hairbands would make a rainbow if you added orange and indigo and purple and switched the yellow and blue around. Wait, why is indigo considered its own colour on the spectrum when it’s just a shade of blue? Are there actually two distinct blues in a rainbow? Come to think of it, when was the last time I saw one?
And so on for every single thing he noticed.

(The paragraph about hairbands and colours is italicized.)

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 01/07/2026

In Kenor, ADHD is called “chronic understimulation” (based on my own perception of what the “core” of it is). For Machaon and his father, their medication is tea made from an altered plant - and has developed into a beautiful part of both their lives. #DisabilityPrideMonth #ADHD #ActuallyADHD ♿️♾️📚

Machaon’s tea-drinking habit was another thing he’d gotten from his father. It was out of necessity. Both of them had chronic understimulation, a condition for which the most popular treatment was a tea made with buzz flower—an altered variant of thyme with long-lasting stimulant properties. He drank it every morning with breakfast.
This had led him to develop a taste for all forms of the drink. Right now they were having simple black tea. As he perched at the table, waiting for the teapot’s contents to cool to drinkability, Io took one of yesterday’s leftover sandwiches out from the fridge.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 01/07/2026

#DisabilityPrideMonth #autistic #ActuallyAutistic Now, it isn’t like life is a complete breeze. Both women have to deal with sensory issues and people sometimes overlooking / forgetting about them. There’s also the fact that Telluria is a world of constant change (mutagenic phenomenon), which…

Taryn was the type who easily got attached to things being one hyper-specific way. This tendency stemmed from the oversensitivity of her senses. Since small differences in stimuli could cause her physical pain, she instinctively protected herself by latching on to the things she knew were safe. And since she perceived so much more of them, this latching on was down to the very finest grain. Having a safe thing taken from her always threw her off and made her upset. She'd learned to manage it, but it was still unpleasant.

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Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social · 01/07/2026

They also bond through showing each other stuff relating to the other’s special interest (biology for Taryn, photography for Florence). The fact that they, for example, never make eye contact does not make their relationship any less meaningful. #DisabilityPrideMonth #autistic #ActuallyAutistic

Behind her stood who could only have been her parents. Both of them had dark brown eyes (like Florence's, as she saw now) and light skin, and shared a similar short hairstyle between them, but otherwise they looked very different.

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