Luridity
Here in Luridity, you'll explore an evolving sea of stars and discover wild, fun worlds and worldbuilding loaded with tongue-in-cheek humor and innuendo...sometimes balanced with poignant moments and a healthy dose of cuddles.
You'll encounter queer and straight characters of various gender identities and lifestyles, their lives past and present, their budding relationships and lifelong partnerships. Lovers and friends here communicate, survive, and ultimately--hopefully--thrive together, even as worlds crumble.
Stories here are dripping with passion AND plot. We keep things safe, sane, and consensual. We know what happens before AND after the Happily Ever Afters. Our Luridity community is a safe haven for readers who believe that love is love, people are people, and dreams can be made reality.
Greetings Enablers, and welcome to Luridity!
Cybernetic technology ever accelerates into the future, while neglected infrastructures and utilities crumble inward and backward as if chased by the past. The whims of the powerful change daily at the expense of the powerless. Still, Luridity's people call their respective slices of the Galaxy--in this reality and on the virtual Network many plug into--"home".
Living here are clan- and pack-bound Kynd, minorities like humans and extranaturally gifted aliens, and even smaller groups of society-forming species. They exist, ultimately, as people do when they've little agency in the paths taken by stars: they eat, sleep, work, date, dream, lust, escape, hope, fear, explore, mate, fight, play, imagine, collaborate, try...everything and anything to survive.
Living here are clan- and pack-bound Kynd, minorities like humans and extranaturally gifted aliens, and even smaller groups of society-forming species. They exist, ultimately, as people do when they've little agency in the paths taken by stars: they eat, sleep, work, date, dream, lust, escape, hope, fear, explore, mate, fight, play, imagine, collaborate, try...everything and anything to survive.
Let the elite argue, spend ceaselessly, and play their games of territory, bribery, trade, and governance.
Everyfolk else will live.
Everyfolk else will live.
Luridity has 100 Enablers
Copyright 2021-2024 Once Upon a Goal, LLC. Luridity content is owned and published by Sarah Templeton (WA: DaniAdventures) under the pennames Cera Daniels and A Dani. Luridity CSS and Logo Design by the bestest, most awesomest TJ: TJ Trewin! All Images, unless otherwise stated, are licensed and/or designed by Sarah Templeton (Dani). Any additional artwork is credited to its respective owners. All Rights Reserved.
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Together we soar! Portions of my site have been commissioned from and/or assisted by members of the WorldAnvil community. Luridity Theme Song commissioned from, written and produced by musical genius Lu Cutuli! Get your own Gothic Mirror CSS, as seen on my Character Bios, and more from the incredibly talented Stormbril's CSS shop! Project Progress gauge chart with css only by fsbraun; adapted to WorldAnvil by brilliant tinkerer Jan Kaltenecker! Thank you, friends!
While I VASTLY prefer hiring artists for commissions and frequently do (because there's simply nothing like seeing EXACTLY your characters, and neither stock art nor an AI will ever be able to capture the tiny sneaky details a human artist can), I am a long way from being able to fund my dream mission to blanket the entirety of Luridity in glorious custom art.
Since I can't art from scratch on my own, in order to have something in the meantime with which to flavor the galaxy I use several paid tools to create images for Luridity. Canva is my go-to for mashups, collaging, and finalization. For base character images, I often use HeroForge, Portrait Workshop, and Artbreeder and modify from there. I use Midjourney AI to generate placeholder images and mockups of what I want eventual commissions to look like. The iterations I go through with Midjourney AI have typically involved hours, if not days, of prompting and retuning and reprompting to reach a final image base, which I then edit and insert as part of a fuller design. For maps, I use DungeonFog. In other images, you will see sourced public domain as well as appropriately designated commercially licensed, CC-BY, or CC0 stock images from a variety of sites. (Pexels and Unsplash are my favorites for the latter.) Though typically not required by the creator in many CC0 cases, I attempt to reference image sources in the image details as often as possible so others can find the contributing portfolios. Luridity's public site is free to read and non-commercial. Only images with open commercial-compatible licensing or that I've obtained commercial release for are used in my commercial work (i.e. published novels, paywalled articles for subscribers, merch). In the case of images including generated elements via AI, these are noted in the image details. In the case of licensed images and commissioned pieces, these are also noted in the image details. If you require further information or license proof, please contact me.
Since I can't art from scratch on my own, in order to have something in the meantime with which to flavor the galaxy I use several paid tools to create images for Luridity. Canva is my go-to for mashups, collaging, and finalization. For base character images, I often use HeroForge, Portrait Workshop, and Artbreeder and modify from there. I use Midjourney AI to generate placeholder images and mockups of what I want eventual commissions to look like. The iterations I go through with Midjourney AI have typically involved hours, if not days, of prompting and retuning and reprompting to reach a final image base, which I then edit and insert as part of a fuller design. For maps, I use DungeonFog. In other images, you will see sourced public domain as well as appropriately designated commercially licensed, CC-BY, or CC0 stock images from a variety of sites. (Pexels and Unsplash are my favorites for the latter.) Though typically not required by the creator in many CC0 cases, I attempt to reference image sources in the image details as often as possible so others can find the contributing portfolios. Luridity's public site is free to read and non-commercial. Only images with open commercial-compatible licensing or that I've obtained commercial release for are used in my commercial work (i.e. published novels, paywalled articles for subscribers, merch). In the case of images including generated elements via AI, these are noted in the image details. In the case of licensed images and commissioned pieces, these are also noted in the image details. If you require further information or license proof, please contact me.