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Every story in Luridity follows rebels, lovers, and dreamers fighting for their present and a future worth living in. A. Dani's fiction includes cyberpunk with a core of hope, inclusive cozy-spicy romance, tales of survival, identity, and belonging: little splashes of bright, brilliant neon sparks gleaming from the shadows.

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Featured Stories

How Fate Met Sascha - Intro

Prose | Feb 18, 2025

An interactive choose-your-own-path adventure starring you, Fate, and Sascha, about the night the two of them met and their teamwork first began.

How Fate Met Sascha (Free to Read!)

Inside: Heist, Mayhem, Found Family, CYOA
Content Warning: Egregious use of innuendo. (This IS a story about Luridity's irrepressibly omniflirtatious gay hacker, Fate, after all.)
Summary: Fate has agreed to a face-to-face meeting with you, to tell you the story of how he and Sascha met. It's a tale of luck, timing, and spectacularly bad decisions...but is any of it the truth?

Begin Your Interactive Adventure Here!

by Dani, with Canva

SWEEP // TIMIL CITY (Free to Read on Ream and Itch!)

Inside: Rebellion, Origin Story, Hope Sparks, Found Family (and one secret code!)
Content Warning: Poetry. Swears. Drone laserfire going pew pew.
Summary: Her sector is no stranger to being violently uprooted by corporations again and again, but someone has to say enough is enough. Elyrica Rune never expected it to be her, but she's determined to be heard.

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Copyright 2021-2025 Once Upon a Goal, LLC. Luridity 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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On Art for Luridity

_{Neither stock art nor AI generations capture every tiny, sneaky detail a human artist can, and neither put food on a person's table. I love working with commissioned artists and frequently hire them for custom pieces. However, my dream of blanketing the entirety of Luridity in glorious custom art--particularly, funding it--is very much a work in progress. To add flavor and depth, I use a mix of tools: Canva for mashups, collaging, and finalization. HeroForge and Portrait Workshop for character bases. DungeonFog for maps. While Luridity was in non-commercial mode, these were fine, but as Luridity transitions into a commercial project with the release of ebooks and other products, I'm reviewing and updating all visual assets to ensure full compliance with licensing terms (for instance, Ikonthology's extended commercial license for some genre-specific icons!). This may involve reworking some previously published articles or replacing existing images. Please excuse the dust during this transition!

Stock and Licensed Art:
I source elements from public domain art, appropriately licensed CC-BY or CC0 stock images from trusted sites like Pexels and Unsplash, & some purchased stock art (with a focus on artist-rendered content) when I'm putting together collages and kitbashes in Canva. Whenever possible, I reference the creators in the image details so others can discover their portfolios.

AI-Generated Content Policy:
In the past, I’ve used tools like MidJourney to generate visual additions to the images used on non-commercial Luridity. As part of the transition to a commercial project, these AI-generated elements are being replaced with standardized art styles and branded design elements. Where AI-generated elements temporarily remain (i.e. in collages or as mockups for commissioned work), they are clearly noted in the image details. Only images that are not generated with AI and have appropriate commercial licensing are used in my published novels, subscriber content, and merch.

If you have questions about my image sources or licensing, feel free to contact me—I’m happy to provide additional details!}

Cover image: by A. Dani (designed with Canva)

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