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transmogrify: a transitive verb meaning to change completely; transform, esp. in a grotesque or strange manner.
(They've been on the run together for a week and two days when Laudna finds Imogen shaving by the river. On bodies, comfort, holding and being held.)
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09 Jun 2025
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A brief history of Whitestone: In 805 PD, the Briarwoods arrived.
There is, arguably, no more important a moment in its history beyond its conception and liberation. The discovery of residuum, the establishment of The Grey Hunt—none so definitive as the five-year span of brutality inflicted here.
Except, perhaps, that in 790 PD, on the outskirts of the city, in the cold and twisted embrace of The Parchwood, a girl is born.
This girl will not leave a mark on history, she will not be known as a hero or a scholar or even a martyr. Victim, people will paint her. Casualty. History will not remember this girl for her dolls or her love or her artistry. She will not be remembered for reaching out with her craft-calloused hands for more. They will not remember that more reached back.
In 811 PD, one week before the city is saved by its rightful heir, this girl receives a letter. It is signed: Yours in Service, The Lord and Lady Briarwood.
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Laudna wonders how much of her hunger is her own, at the core of it all.
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08 Jun 2025
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all of us are going forward; none of us are going back by ziggyzaggystardust
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
25 Mar 2024
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“Do you ever think that we’re going to lose it?” Laudna asks, finally, her voice that kind of deep gravel it becomes when she’s fallen deep inside herself.
“Lose this?” Imogen asks, looking around them, as the first drops of rain begin to fall outside. She swallows. Weighs the truth against the lie. “All the time.”
Imogen and Laudna (and their little ones), and the peace after the storm.
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10 Jul 2024
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Capable, Exalted: A Primary Source History of the Ruidian Solstice by cairophoenix for cravensburger
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
16 Feb 2023
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It has been more than eight decades since the Ruidian Solstice. In the library of the Cobalt Soul, an archivist discovers Laudna’s journal.
A love story in dream diaries and letters and notes. Featuring art by dadrielle.
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07 Jun 2024
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The first time Imogen told Laudna about the storm it was, appropriately, storming.
Laudna’s eyes had been swallowed by a blackness darker than that of the night surrounding them, catching and reflecting even the most minuscule scatterings of light in a way that made her gaze look full with shooting stars. She had taken her leather-shielded hand to hold in both of hers as she listened. It was the first time she could remember someone taking her hand simply to hold.
She said, here is what she knows of the storm: it is unrelenting, it is violent, it is hers.
In the time that has passed since that night the same things that have changed about the storm have changed for her and Laudna—which is to say, nothing at all.
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07 Jun 2024