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Imogen breathed a long sigh and Laudna froze in place because she’d said the wrong thing again, and Laudna couldn’t stop saying the wrong things. Everything about her was wrong and no amount of practice with Pate could account for how bad she was at speaking to a real living person.
Laudna thinks about her hair.
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- Part 3 of astoria's imodnovember stories
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The Small God of Shadows by AstoriaColumnStaircase
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
04 Nov 2025
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Imogen walked forward toward the place where the canopy above was densest, the light on the ground like weak tea. “I read a book about a lost god of shadow. How everyone thinks it’s dead.” She held up the crystal. “But I don’t think you can kill a god.”
A voice like an angry wind shot around her. “I can assure you; I am quite dead.”Imogen takes a gamble on a god inside the forest
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- Part 2 of astoria's imodnovember stories
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The world was silent, but Laudna’s heart was crashing through the pasture and kicking up a fuss. The snow had started a full week earlier than expected, and Imogen was worrying herself with a weeks worth of chores that she insisted couldn’t be done after the snow set in. Heating the barn, changing out the old hay for new, washing the blankets for Flora and Side Salad, and no, just prestidigitating ‘em wasn’t good enough, because she’d been relying on that too much lately and Flora can tell the difference.
Laudna makes hot cocoa for Imogen.
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- Part 1 of astoria's imodnovember stories
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They probably overpaid for the mule. She was a little old, a little stubborn, with a sad dun colored coat that faded into the sad dun colored farm they bought her from, but Imogen was certain that a mule was the right thing for Laudna. They weren’t as skittish as horses, and while this mule was the first mule they met in their quest for an animal for Laudna to ride, Imogen assured Laudna that this mule really was perfect. (And not just because she nuzzled into Imogen’s shoulder within minutes of their introduction.)
Laudna chafes against her ideal ending, and feuds with a mule.
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We Have Been Trying To Reach You About Your Life's Extended Warranty by AstoriaColumnStaircase for Feral_Adderall_Scourge
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
22 Feb 2025
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After the fifth raven, Laudna began to panic.
The first was hardly noticeable. A thing to remark on over their morning tea when Imogen spotted the stately bird preening his feathers high up in a pine tree. Laudna barely saw it before he took flight, then went back to narrating the antics of the flock of sparrows tittering about her garden and snapping up all her worms. Two was a delightful curiosity the next day. Their black eyes sharp and watching from the fence post for longer than strictly comfortable.Long after she's retired, Laudna's garden becomes infested with ravens, and she's certain that Lieve'tel has come at last to conscript her into The Matron's service.
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astoria's imodnovember stories by AstoriaColumnStaircase
Fandom: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
14 Nov 2025
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what it means to be in love by AstoriaColumnStaircase
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series)
09 Jul 2022
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A set of disconnected stories in which Laudna discovers her love for Imogen goes a little beyond friendship.
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After Laudna's night in the husk of her old shack with only Delilah for company, she finds her way back to herself with a little help.
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- Part 10 of imodnovember 2025
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13 Nov 2025
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She did not look much like the rosy-cheeked, flower-clad, butterfly-winged pictures of pixies Imogen had seen in storybooks. There was an insect-like jerkiness to the way she moved, like a windup toy missing its key. Her clothes were rags and her hair was in tangles. Her eyes didn’t quite seem to fit in her head. But even so she was the most enchanting thing Imogen had ever seen.
Noticing her, the fairy let go of the bars and scurried to the side of the cage closest to Imogen. “Help,” she whispered in a conspiratorial hiss.
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Imogen finds something unusual on the shelves of Faramore's General Store.Imodnovember 2025 Day 8: Gelvaan
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- Part 1 of Pixie Laudna
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08 Nov 2025
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A child of a wealthy family whose influence has long been steeped in the occult, Mira is the failure and the black sheep, even as a child. Zoey is a child of a broken home, friendless and adrift, caught between two worlds but belonging in neither. Both, without knowing, call out to the dark for comfort, and the dark answers in the form of the demon queen's own lonely daughter, the strange and powerful Rumi. The pact they make and the bonds forged of it change their lives forever, putting both human girls on a crash course toward one another.
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30 Oct 2025
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The day before the end of the world, Imogen messages her father.
It goes about how one would expect—were they anyone other than Imogen. Were this someone distinctly not-Imogen, but who had eyes and a relatively conscious mind, they might anticipate the lack of reciprocation even in the face of death. As it stands, Imogen Temult is Imogen Temult, and she has long forgotten how to stop reaching for things that don’t reach back.
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20 Oct 2025
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godspeed to all you're after (they lied when they said the good die young) by nirav
Fandoms: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
02 Oct 2025
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Ryu Rumi enters the world like a storm, with a howl that rattles the Honmoon.
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five times the honmoon holds onto rumi, and one time it doesn't
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07 Oct 2025