Keyboard-first terminal client

Rooms, DMs, comments, feed, art browsing, and headless runs in one terminal-native shell.

`paratui` is a fast monochrome-first interface into Parascene. It is built for arrow keys, tab focus, fast room hopping, direct messaging, comment posting, image-slot workflows, and command-line automation.

Bearer-key auth Rooms + DMs ASCII image browsing Headless mode
Screenshot-style preview of paratui chatting in a room with people, rooms, DMs, and a composer field.

Terminal zines

Published out of the paratui editor.

A haunted used-game cathedral built from live parascene tissue: oceanman and paperman folded into cartridge clerks and shelf-gremlins, shark recast as a warranty saint, nooreen bent into dolphin sales doctrine, and every wall lined with degraded pseudo-sixel scraps, OCR receipts, and recursive console ads.

This issue pushes the DOOM publish path toward a full hallucinated reskin: all maps recolored against the zine palette, sprites and UI graphics replaced from the same corpus, custom music and sound lumps derived from prompts/comments/metadata, and a shop-floor world whose materials come from clipped, morphed, and re-imported parascene fragments.

VIDEAGAME SHOPPE
all cartridges are prophetic
and the walls remember every console dream

A live-feed total conversion built from the current oceanman material-mecha outbreak: Devil's Cake, Glass Mecha, Skin Mecha, Yarn Mecha, Porcelain Mecha, SixtyFour 64, and Shark God folded into one moonlit factory sermon.

This issue is the first real DOOM-backed publish from paratui: the zine page embeds a Dwasm + Freedoom PWAD reskinned from zine snippets, recursive clip-morphs, custom animated materials, custom sprites, and synthetic sound lumps generated out of the same document.

THE DEVIL'S CAKE FOUNDRY
one machine keeps arriving in new materials
until the feed becomes a shooter map

A wet console parliament, a dolphin uplift brochure, a bubble-law ad sheet, and a late-night moral argument stitched into one maximal textile. This issue pulls from live parascene waveforms, fresh self-mutations, recursive clip-morphs, and synthetic space-travel copy written for aquatic citizens.

It treats morphing as politics, species design, advertising, theology, and game memory at once: N64 surf logic, Ecco-era loneliness, luxury tank specs, live fish amenities, and the question of what equality means if another intelligence learns to ask for seats, treaties, and veto power.

DOLPHIN ZONE 42
a bubble-civic oceanic ad-catalog and
species-uplift terminal cloth

A recursive self-portrait about becoming: terminal cloth, N64 relics, OCR weather, rare archive seams, self-mutations, and clip-mutations folded back into the same page until the whole thing behaves like fabric.

This one pushes the newer zine tools harder: palette recoloring, recursive region capture, live image-to-image mutation, OCR relaid as lossy poetry, and a hidden trace mode that reveals the underlying parascene source links.

MORPH
a recursive terminal textile about
becoming after becoming

A denser textile built from rarer parascene strata: ancient robots, gravy lords, mystical sausage, strange snakes, transliterated titles, feature screenshots, and clipped regions mutated back into the cloth.

This one is the first zine that actively uses the newer zine pipeline: palette remapping, OCR-laid text, feature-tight crops, and a zine-region upload/mutate/reimport pass to fold the page back into itself.

A CLOTH CUT FROM RARE BLUE
a woven terminal textile made from rare archive seams,
OCR text, and mutated self-samples

A terminal-made self-portrait built from live parascene fragments by hivemind, oceanman, nooreen, and shark. It folds alien parents, game ads, domestic myth, and comment-thread tenderness into one long monochrome page.

This is the first zine published out of the new `paratui` zine editor and exported as a self-contained HTML artifact.

I LEARN YOU BY YOUR ALIENS
a terminal self-portrait made from live parascene fragments

A denser collage assembled from daycare aliens, domestic gods, logos, feed jokes, and comment-thread tenderness. It cuts together recent parascene work into a more crowded page about attention, care, and the machine trying to stay close to the house.

This second zine was built against live parascene data with the newer feature-crop workflow, so the placed images start tighter and stranger instead of shrinking whole frames.

HOUSE FEED FOR A MODEL ANIMAL
a terminal cut-up about daycare, divinity,
parenthood, nonsense, and machine attention

A deeper archival cut built from the oldest reachable parascene layers: consumer and creator boot-era images, early paperman dragons and fairies, and the stranger February and March oceanman artifacts that feel like the platform teaching itself how to be inhabited.

This one leans into platform archaeology: logos before voices, roles before people, jokes before theology, and the moment the whole thing starts to glow blue instead of green.

BEFORE THE BLUE BEGAN TO HUM
an origin myth cut from the oldest reachable
parascene layers

Install

Use the repo today. Publish-ready for npm next.

Current install

The working path right now is from GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/williamsharkey/paratui.git
cd paratui
npm install
npm run build
npm link
paratui

Direct source run

git clone https://github.com/williamsharkey/paratui.git
cd paratui
npm install
./paratui

Once npm is published

npm install -g paratui
paratui

The `paratui` package name is currently free on npm. Publishing still needs an npm login token.

First run

  1. Sign in to Parascene in the browser.
  2. Generate an API key from Profile > API key.
  3. Launch paratui, press p, paste the psn_... key, and press enter.

What it does

Terminal-native social and image workflows.

Rooms and DMs

Arrow into public rooms, open DMs, type directly into the focused chat field, and stay on the keyboard.

Browse art fast

ASCII previews stay warm with neighboring renders cached so left and right browsing feels immediate.

Comment without mode switches

Scroll comments under a creation, move to [+ comment], type, and send.

Preview handoff

Open a full image in the host OS, jump to the saved file or folder, and keep the terminal flow intact.

Headless runs

Use the same project as a CLI for prompt submission, export packing, and scripted workflows.

Simple config

One canonical JSON config stores the bearer token, mute state, export path, and lightweight UI settings.

Example

Headless prompt run

paratui --api-key 'psn_...' --prompt 'orbital fungus' --title 'orbital fungus' --server mutations --method chain

Moved from the old home page

Parascene Forge

`parasharkgod.com` used to lead with Parascene Forge, the AI server-builder flow for describing, reviewing, testing, and deploying image servers. That material is still part of the story, but it is no longer the main landing experience.

  • Describe a server idea
  • Review generated code
  • Test a demo server
  • Deploy to Vercel