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Liliana saying “Nothing is more important to me” and Imogen’s instant pushback, versus Laudna’s “I love you” and Imogen’s face crumbling with emotion and exhaustion because she KNOWS that’s true, because she sees and feels and trusts it every single day.

#sometimes I think about the conflation of the actors & characters body language and expressions #and I think it’s so weird that we watch grown adults sitting around a table making faces #and we’re like ‘oh my god that little nod they’re so in love’ #it’s such an incredibly fascinating level of suspension of disbelief #that said #you can’t tell me the spirit of a horse girl disaster lesbian doesn’t possess ms bailey at that table #critical role #imodna #imogen temult #cr3 #laudna #liliana temult #cr spoilers

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— You're my tether, Laudna. Sometimes I feel like I'm about to float away, but as long as you're there... — You quite literally pulled me from darkness and death. That tether goes beyond this realm and this life.

Bonus:

#critical role #imodna #imogen temult #laudna #cr spoilers #cr3

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there exists … an imodna playlist that I’ve been carefully curating since 2022 with genre-consistent, thematically-appropriate songs with hyperspecific lyrics and every time I listen to it I froth at the mouth a little bit. it’s in chronological order. it starts with laudna, then imogen, then their meeting and getting on the road and I know I made it but ahhhh

edit: here's a link. it's a constant wip

#imodna #every time I add a song or edit it I go a little more insane #I’m so picky #this is no hate to anyone but I refuse to put generic love songs on this playlist #by hyperspecific i mean there is a song about a corpse falling in love with the person caring for body her after her death #it’s me and my relatively obscure folk-country-gothic artists or bust #(with a few exceptions) #you can find it if you search imodna on spotify the image is the same as my pfp #edit: apparently you cant find it by searching theres now a link in the replies #its not totally organized yet #one day ill post the whole thing with all my rationale for each song but the first uhh 50ish songs are solidly ordered #loose order is prologue -> laudna -> imogen -> meeting -> on the road -> are they in love? #tagged accidental flowers in hair motif

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#the lil nod #critical role #laudna #imogen temult #imodna #cr spoilers #cr3

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8 intelligence 9 initiative bliss

-Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 92

#Matt’s persona shift in the second half was so funny to watch #‘your friend is dead. he sacrificed himself for you. your mom claims to love you. insight check.’ #‘that moon sure is red! :D’ #cr spoilers #cr3

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See I watch Critical Role because I like a good story. Sure there are things I’d like to see, lore I’d like to learn, theories I’d like proven right or wrong, characters I’d like focused on, but all of that is secondary to getting to enjoy a good story. And while I know very little about the Crown Keepers, I am familiar with most of the actors involved and know them to be great storytellers. That earns them a bit of trust and patience from me. So while the second half of c3e92 wasn’t what I came into the episode hoping to see, I am more than willing to wait to see how the story plays out before I decide how good/bad the timing was or whether it improves/detracts from the greater narrative of C3.

That said, I don’t mind people saying that they were disappointed. You come to a C3 episode and you expect to see a whole episode of Bell’s Hells. That’s completely understandable. What I don’t get is people saying the Crown Keepers aren’t a part of this story.

They’re a part of it because Orym and Fearne were members. They’re a part of it because Dorian was and still is a member of Bell’s Hells. Deni$e, Dariax’s (maybe) ex, was a member of Team Issylra and is a friend of Laudna, Ashton, and Orym. They’ve got several members with close connections to the gods, so they’ve got skin in the game of what happens to the pantheon. They’re as much a part of this story as Vox Machina and the Mighty Nein, and that’s on purpose. This is a pan-Exandrian event. Everyone is involved.

#this!!! #critical role #cr spoilers #cr3

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Laudna :))))

#art #critical role #laudna #cr3

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rotating them around my brain like a microwave

#imodna #imogen temult #laudna #art #critical role #cr3

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Endless Bells Hells

#i was laughing so hard #critical role #cr spoilers #cr3

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can't unpack this rn but laudna's reaction to liliana was sooo interesting. I think a lot of us expected her to be angry and overprotective of imogen but instead laudna was the most sympathetic

#no fr #critical role #cr spoilers #laudna #cr3 #imogen temult #imodna #liliana temult

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I think I made a post about this way early on but I fucking love how Chet handles people that the party disagrees with. He always pulls off the little "now, i completely understand where you're coming from, i get what you're saying, even if these guys dont, haha, but, for clarity-" followed by an incisive, clever, pointed question. And it works, so fucking often, and its just.👌so satisfying to watch.

#no fr #him rationalizing with delilah was so impressive #cr3 #cr spoilers #critical role #chetney pock o'pea

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When Aabria talked in the chat about going for an opening after FCG’s death, I wasn’t expecting her to take MATT’S job

#plsssss #cr spoilers #critical role #cr3

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opal is consecuted.

ludinus is in aeor.

dorian is leading the crown keepers to orym.

orym has a sending stone to caleb widogast.

caleb widogast is in a relationship with essek thelyss, a leading figure in dunamancy, the study of the luxon beacons.

IT'S. ALL. COMING. TOGETHER.

#exu calamity airing way back … exploring the fall of aeor and the ties to the gods… #the long game holy fuck #cr spoilers #critical role

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“We’re more than just what our creators intended for us” - Laudna

#godddddd #laudna #cr spoilers #cr3 #delilah briarwood

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“Imogen, I love you” - Laudna

“I love you too” - Imogen

#episode highlight for sure #cr spoilers #critical role #laudna #imogen temult #cr3 #imodna

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she deserves to go a little apeshit as a treat

#art #imogen temult #critical role #cr3

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i admit im a little disappointed we are once again kind of deprived of seeing bh deal with the emotional repercussions of a character death. however.

this is cool as hell.

#thats what fic is for ig! #this is not a criticism to be clear #I was just really looking forward to the heartfelt convos we haven’t gotten in forever #bc everything has been rushing #critical role #cr3 #cr spoilers