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A. Dani, Author of Luridity

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pan poly witchy indie author. 18+ LGBTQ+ inclusive hope-topian cyberpunk & cozy-spicy romance. found family fighting for better tomorrows in books, text-based games & worldbuilding 🌈📚💜 #DefytheDarkness 🚀 luridity.com 📧 https://luridity.com/newsletter

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · Dec 20

Sascha wants to steal corps data & run, but security updated! Fate hacks her comms to offer help...with a side of unhelpful innuendo. Free CYOA: 2 primary paths, some quirky derailments, & 4 unique endings! 18+ cyberpunk interactive fiction on World Anvil! www.worldanvil.com/w/luridity/a...
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Cyberpunk city street background with the words Pick Your Path: How Fate Met Sascha, Luridity. https://www.worldanvil.com/w/luridity/a/how-fate-met-sascha-intro

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · 10h

So that's your warning that my fangirling will continue and probably intensify on my feed, over every aspect of this entire game series 😅 I'll try to #hadesplaythru or #hades1 if you need to block my obsession at any time 😂

A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · 10h

Gonna start a Hades 1 playthru on Twitch next week (Tues 11am EST) bc folks need to experience how insanely awesome it is even if they, like me, have impressively terrible gaming skills. 🤣 Don't worry, will be updates on Luridity books/game progress too, to help me grab forward momentum on both. 🌈📚💙

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TJ Trewin 👾 ❰ pixel artist ❱ @tjtrewin.com · 1d

I added a bunch of box drawing elements to my latest fantasy pixel font, Knightwood :D

tjtrewin.itch.io/knightwood-p...

If you layer things up you can even customise it to make different coloured patterns, borders, ropes, vines, chains, and UI elements!

#PixelArt #PixelFont #Font #IndieGameDev

Knightwood fantasy pixel font, 250+ languages, bonus glyphs, 16px tall overall with 8px high uppercase

Text in a dialogue box made using the font: "TJ Trewin: Did you know that if you add box drawing elements on different layers, you can add shading & make unique patterns!"

The examples show vines and ropes with optional shading, chains, and decorative border patterns.

A pixel aesthetic indie game mockup "KrakenQuest", made entirely using elements from the font. Rope adorns horizontal black cinematic bars, framing an ocean and sky. The sky has a gradient made using shade character blocks. Kraken tendrils rise from it, made with border elements. The start menu UI buttons are also made from these elements, with text: NEW GAME, LOAD GAME, EXIT TO DOS.

A mini game mockup of an Objectives screen or quest log at a tiny scale resolution. Text: "Objectives. Steal 100 loot (optional). Learn Benny's whereabouts. Travel to the bear pits. Continue (left right arrows)"

The border elements show example use as checkboxes for incomplete, complete, and in progress.

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · 12h

Wow! Congrats on your victorious hunting foray, Peaches!

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TJ Trewin 👾 ❰ pixel artist ❱ @tjtrewin.com · Sep 24

take that, perfectionism, I finished another thing!! 😤

alongside Septembit & Swordtember, I've been chipping away at this lil 8px font that I've lovingly named Ochito :D

tjtrewin.itch.io/ochito-pixel...

it's great for teeny tiny text! 🔍

#PixelArt #Aseprite #Font #IndieGameDev

Ochito

Ochito is only 8 pixels tall (including accents) and its name is a combination of the Spanish word for eight, ocho, plus the diminutive suffix -ito! Ochito is quite literally "little eight" :D

It's perfect for teeny tiny text! I made this font so I didn't have to keep drawing all my words manually lol

An example showcasing some of the glyphs from the Ochito 8 pixel font, including basic and extended Latin characters, punctuation marks, numbers, currency symbols, and Roman numerals from 1-12.

1-bit style pixel art mockup (using only two colours) of a fictional Zelda game for Gameboy to showcase the Ochito 8 pixel font in the UI.

1-bit style pixel art mockup (using only two colours) of a fictional Zelda game for Gameboy to showcase the Ochito 8 pixel font in the UI. Dialogue text as Link interacts with a gossip stone: "They say that there is a secret near the lone tree which is not far from the river in the northwest part of Hyrule Field."

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · Sep 23

Happy #BiVisibilityDay! Please check out my book "A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams" which is a sapphic Swan Lake retelling with a disaster bi forest witch and distinguished pan princess.

It's part of an awesome itchio bundle too!

itch.io/b/3263/bi-vi...

Bí Visibility Week Itchio Mega Bundle. 50 books by bi/ pan authors. Fantasy. Scí fi. Romance. Horror. Lit Fic.

A LAKE of Feathers and Moonbeams. A sapphic Swan Lake retelling. Katya will do anything to please her mentor and partner. But, when he asks her to keep a princess prisoner, she must reconcile the man she has always known with the villainous scheme he is presenting himself as. With the princess missing, war threatens to tear their magical forest apart. She must decide if she can betray her partner or betray the woman she is falling for. Also available as an audiobook.

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · Sep 22

It continues.

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PayPal Cut Millions From Steam, Now They're Freezing Dev Funds

YouTube video by Bellular News

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · Sep 22

In case anyone is wondering where my game time will be spent this week: Thursday. XD Now I just gotta finish up these revisions on undercity shenanigans so I'm allowed to play in the underworld! #hades2

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Supergiant Games @supergiantgames.bsky.social · Sep 22

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · Sep 22

Easy to downplay what we actually get done sometimes. Often many moving pieces can be forgotten when tallied up over time, but it's all progress in creating the things & sharing them with readers, so it's awesome to have such a lovely result as reminder. 🥳

A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · Sep 21

40s & ADHD here too, been struggling so hard to learn Spanish. I know some French, German, & Italian; it occurs to me after catching this post: learned those as I was singing them in opera (need to know the meaning to evoke it on the stage). Unconventional learning! Whatever it takes, you do you! 😍

A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · Sep 21

Look at them all!!! They are gorgeous! Congrats on getting them out there 😍📚💙

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · Sep 21

Oh no! But it's so true how "contemporary" it's become at larger scale. I was already putting in phone numbers for certain organizations along with my content warnings; maybe I'll do a forward too 🤣

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TJ Trewin 👾 ❰ pixel artist ❱ @tjtrewin.com · Sep 21

Septembit 2025 complete!

I took a Zelda-inspired approach to my "city" :D
with inspiration from Oracle of Seasons, Link's Awakening, and Ocarina of Time

#PixelArt #Aseprite #Septembit #Septembit2025 #1Bit #Zelda #TLoZ #Gameboy

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · Sep 21

omg you ANIMATED it! It looks amazing!!

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · Sep 20

Hard to revise some of my cyberpunk stuff when dystopian fiction things I wrote last year are now actual reality & feel more like horror. Anthology does ok balancing w/ hope-topian, but the romance novel...hm, perhaps more smut to symbolize the community values of people coming together? 😏 💙🌈📚

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · Sep 20

Love how curious crab is about the new neighbors 😆💙 The castle plan got you such a crisp video!!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Sep 19

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · Sep 19

Today may be entirely junk journal time - I feel like ripping paper and gluing broken things together in interesting ways will be good for a put-my-brain-cells-back-together day.🥰

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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social · Nov 6

A drawing of an anthropomorphic goat and sheep, the goat is saying “THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE FORCE OPPOSING HOPE IS DESPAIR. THE DESPAIR WE FEEL IS MANUFACTURED.
AND WHAT HAS BEEN MANUFACTURED CAN BE TAKEN APART.”

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Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · Sep 18

Our artist applications for "We've Always Been Here" are now open! Help us show that queer people have always existed, and always will 💕

Please share and tag your favorite artists!

forms.gle/zHiVqh3SrsnT...

#ZineSky #AToZines #Zine #Zines #ArtZine #QueerArt #LGBTQArt #ZineApps #ArtistsWanted

A graphic with a vibrant rainbow background, announcing "Artist applications now open!". The white text box below reads, "Artist applications are now open for 'We've Always Been Here', a queer history zine. Let's show everyone that queer people have always been a part of history. This is a paid opportunity, contingent on our Kickstarter successfully funding." Beside the text box is a digital illustration of a north African girl with short, curly hair, wearing overalls, sitting beside an easel with an oil painting she's made of another girl.

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Basil 🌿 @basil-mage.bsky.social · Sep 7

Lil creature

Drawing of a green alien puppy with the caption; "It's okay to be a lil weird creature"

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Eldrichryptid @eldrichryptid.bsky.social · Sep 18

Four years ago I got to illustrate this super cool TTRPG Zine! It's a great addition to your campaign, but If you've never seen the #ethnis setting itself, it's well worth a look!

#ttrpg #ttrpgmodule #ttrpgsupplement #zine #zinequest #ttrpgart #digitalart #art #magazine #gaming #tabletopgames

Monolith: Path of Transcendence (TTRPG Zine) by EthnisStudio

A zine which takes you on a journey from mortal to divine. Use it as a single-player roleplay or TTRPG supplement.

ethnisstudio.itch.io

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A. Dani, Author of Luridity @luridity.com · Sep 18

Delightful rep from my state calling for straight-jackets with hard steel locks for an entire segment of the US population - I know who needs to be in one and it's sure as hell not you.

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Ademal The Narrator @ademal.bsky.social · Sep 17

I'm seeing a lot of people debate and moralize about what has happened rather than what's about to happen.

America has camps, and lawmakers like these are convincing people I belong in one.

The lunatics are running the asylum.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 17

1. Anti-trans rhetoric heated up yesterday on the far-right, with two congresspeople and major Republican figures calling for the institutionalization of trans people.

Both Reps Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson made such calls. Musk, Loomer, and Walsh echoed them.

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Two Republican Congresspeople Call For Institutionalization Of Transgender People

Representatives Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson both called for the institutionalization of transgender people On Tuesday.

www.erininthemorning.com

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