This is Luridity, where everyday folk fight for their present and a future worth living in: one that lifts spirits, celebrates differences and respects identities, and invites love in, rather than giving hate handoutsFate: what's wrong with a 'hateful' handjo--OH, sorry, misread that!.

I'm A. Dani, and Luridity's stories and text-based games are my answer to the darkness"Make it NEON! Mwahaha...". Luridity is a demand for shameless existence and an immersive reminder of empathy. It's also, if you couldn't tell already, chock full of cheeky innuendo (which is...mostly...balanced out with cozy cuddles), whether you're reading it in the worldbuilding or the romances, the platonic and/or comedic quick fics, or even the dashing adventures.

If you believe in found family and the power of community, if you think cyberpunk dystopia is cool and all but its shadows need fireworks of hope instead of casually accepted despair...

Luridity has been waiting for you.

// sooo what's actually in here? //

(scroll down & click on some glowy labels to explore)

Thriving communities who defy the darkness

It's tough to survive in a cyberpunk undercity alone. Beneath the surface of Luridity's posh corporate-governed capital of Timil, the Below takes care of its own.

• Resistance networks and families of choice/circumstance
• Compassion and sometimes nosy neighbors
• Tired vendor: "Where'd this soup come from?" Someone nearby who had an extra bowl handy: "You forgot to eat lunch!"

Interactive fiction with mischief and questionable choices

Play your way through unpredictable stories...or just through a lovely night on the town.

• Multiple paths: Good. Bad? Chaotic!
• Fate, shoving his nose into all the things
• No wrong answers, but seriously, look, Enabler, if you blow it up, you clean it up

Platonic, wild adventures & the occasional felony

Sometimes the most powerful love isn't romantic...it's just about showing up. And Luridity's friends show up for each other in ways big, small, and occasionally raunchily obnoxious.
// Fate: hey it was just the one time!
// Sascha: It's literally EVERY time.

• Bonding time
• Weird side quests
• Thieving from the rich to give to the poor
• Hacking & undermining evil to spread the dreaded curse of empathy

Cozy-spicy romances with healthy, supportive relationships

Luridity is chock full of queer and straight love stories. I still need to publish my poly stuff, but it's coming.
// Fate: heh. hehhehheh. 😏

• Safe, sane, consensual kink
• Wholesome smut
• Aftercare
• Lovers who communicate? YES PLEASE!
• Lovers who listen? HECK TO THE YEAH!

Backstories with all the feels

Okay look, there may be sad stories and devastating past experiences, but there's also laughter among the tears, and there's plenty of comfort and cuddles!

• Characters facing the weight of trauma, pain, grief
• Tender second chances and earned joy
• Fate trying to cheer you up with an escape octopus wearing a monocle

// Fate //

😈

"lil dude's name is mortimer! the monocle is SO POSH and he's got the biggest brain this side of luridity! some people might think otherwise, but his #1 fan--me, it's me--thinks his escape vectors are ri-dong-culously impressive."

Plus, while all the communities thriving in all the sectors and levels of the Below and all the people experiencing life are important, a person needs room to find themself, too.

• Secret in-character journal entries
• Thoughtful tales of finding where one belongs

Very (TM) Serious (TM) Worldbuilding (TM)

Luridity has all your cyberpunk favorites, and some sci-fi ones too: high tech but low life, invasive corpo policies to evade and security squads to dodge and defy, cybernetic-whatever-you-need, neon, space aliens/ships/stations...

• SPACE TRAINS
• handwavium-powered biometric identification (bioIDs!), wristcomps, and VIDscreens!
• Luridity's own virtual and reloadable coin-based currency: Kitsch!
• SPACE JELLIES THAT EAT SPACE TRAINS