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Owner of Underhaven
Oh good, you made it! This is the story index-index, the nexus, if you will, of Luridity's novels, novellas, and short stories. Here you can browse by genre, character, and even by Zone, if you'd prefer to find stories by place instead of people.
Every tale celebrates the lives and loves of Luridity's characters as they play, work, and experience their galaxy. I know you're here for the wholesome smut with plot, adorable meetcutes, and BDSM scenarios, but when you're also in the mood to see what happens next or to dig in more deeply to a character or place, you'll also find stories where you can investigate backstories, expand on present situations, and uncover relationships outside the bedroom.
Clicking on a story will take you to that novel, novella, or short's index page, where you can see its full description and expanded details, including an expansive tag list, all content warnings, all involved characters and species, and related articles. Interactive chapter links are also provided and access is based on the following:
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Free Reads
Some Luridity stories are open for reading by anyone who drops by. In fact, most of them I will be serializing on Ream, which means early access chapters can be read there with a free account! (Paid subscribers get chapters faster, but with a follower account you will get a chapter a week.) Once done, the interactive chapter links will be activated on the story's Index page here on World Anvil and marked as either free or subscriber-only reads as I work toward publishing ebooks of the completed work!
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18+ Stories
Luridity's stories include wholesome smut of the safe, sane, and consensual variety for folks ages 18 & up. Those stories are flagged as NSFW content on World Anvil. This means if you are 18+ and want to read them, you must be logged in to your (free!) World Anvil account to access the story, and the "NSFW/18+ Content" tile under your account features must be set to Enabled. Once you've got that done, you're all set to read!
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Subscriber Content
Luridity's stories have been made possible through the awesome support of my subscribers! Your subscriptions help me focus on writing, allow me to commission cover art for ebooks, and keep this place running. To give y'all some extra special thank yous, access to some stories will remain exclusively subscriber-only. These stories are marked with a . A story's Index page and all of its tags and details are accessible to all, even if a story is in serialization or has been published as subscriber-only.
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Story Key
Gender Designations:
M:
maleF:
femaleMtF:
trans, assigned male at birth, femaleFtM:
trans, assigned female at birth, maleI:
intersexEnby:
non-binary ^Note: Other gender identities exist in Luridity; check the story indexes for more information!Story Length
Quick:
Super short story.Short:
up to 10k words.Novella:
up to 40k words.Novel:
typically 60k+ words. Subscriber Only:Story Type:
Past:
Character Backstories and prior relationship tales.Platonic:
Just Friends hanging out, doing friend things.Savory:
Meaty slice of life or Action-heavy, Romance-lightSweet:
Friends or more-than-friends or lovers or partners, being adorable cheesy nerds, goofing off, the occasional meetcute.Spicy:
Companions or lovers or partners, doing spicy things. Kinks and/or BDSM tags are noted in Story Indexes.Stories by Genre
Cyberpunk
Hackers, neon, information and data streams, mechanical implants, and augmented reality.Post-Apocalyptic
Gritty, survival of the fittest, and limited resources. Currently this genre spot also includes Owner of Underhaven stories due to the world they take place on.More genres will go here as soon as serialization gets closer; please stay tuned!
Stories by Character
Sascha Bennett
Sascha Bennett
Fate
Fate
Jet'l Rheitt
Jet'l Rheitt
Corsan "Alex" Alexander
Corsan "Alex" Alexander
Owner of Underhaven
Owner of Underhaven
Stories by Zone
Centralvest Zone
Eros Zone
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On Art for Luridity
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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.
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