• Gifset of Critical Role, Episode 65. Taliesin Jaffe as Ashton Greymoore: There were little sections of my life where I prayed.ALT
    Ashton: And I begged. For anything, to all of them, to any of them.ALT
    Ashton: And the only time they’ve ever spoken to me… was the one who tried to fucking kill me less than a week ago.ALT
    Ashton: So. I’m here to save us. I’m here to save the people who live here.ALT
    Ashton: Hell, [a giant pile of earth] was more responsive and made me feel better and connected me to something bigger than anything in my fucking life.ALT
    Ashton: Just the ground itself did more.ALT
    Ashton: So, yeah, y’know what? I am all for faith. And I’m not gonna pick a god. They can pick me.ALT
    Ashton: It’ll be the first one that actually prays to me, and then maybe I’ll fucking answer.ALT
    Ashton: I’ll wait. They can fucking beg.ALT
    Ashton: And I will listen, which is more than they ever fucking did.ALT

    I’ve had a life. I think a lot of us here have had a life. And I can count the really good days practically on two hands.

  • Gifset of Episode 2 of Candela Obscura. Robbie, narrating Howard’s actions: Howard comes to, looks about. Doesn’t say a word to any of his friends.ALT
    Robbie: He pulls his little kit out of his jacket. It’s his laboratory equipment. He sets it on his lap.ALT
    Robbie: And he removes a scalpel, and he removes his hat.ALT
    Robbie: And he makes a small incision in the top of his own head, about three inches or so wide. Parts it with his fingers.ALT
    Robbie: Sets it back down. He pulls out a small handsaw with a crank, like a drill. It’s got a circular drill bit in it.ALT
    Robbie: He puts it on the top of his skull, and just begins to crank. And crank. And crank.ALT
    Robbie: You sort of smell that powder, that earthy powder of bone mixed with blood.ALT
    Robbie: And then you just hear a (pop) and a tiny piece of his skull comes out. He puts it inside of his surgery equipment.ALT
    Robbie: Blinks his eye. Squeezes his skin back together. It’s bleeding pretty good. Puts his hat back on, and says…ALT
    Howard: Ah, well. Sometimes you just have to expand your mind.ALT

    An ancient cultural tradition. It’s been around for millennia. I never thought I’d try it myself, but it just… it was in the moment!

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    Gif of everyone at the table reacting to Howard's previous line. Ashley as Auggie, Anjali as Charlotte, and Laura as Arlo all stare in shock while Matt smiles.ALT
  • Gifset of Campaign 3, Episode 63 of Critical Role. Marisha, as Laudna: “They went back to where it all started.”ALT
    Taliesin, as Ashton: “Back home.”ALT
    Laudna: “To Jrusar, then?”ALT
    Ashton: “Yeah. Come on, family. Let’s go get the rest of the kids.”ALT

    There, in a torch-lit tavern inn interior, you see the figures that you saw scryed on once before, gathered around in conversation with a bit of anxiety and hope in their eyes.

  • Gifset from Campaign 2, Episode 48 of Critical Role. Marisha, as Beau: “I thought you'd be excited. I thought I did a damn good job in there. I thought me and Caduceus both did. I was talking to Nott and we thought for damn sure that you would be so stoked about this goddamn fucking tower.”ALT
    Liam, as Caleb: “You know, in the abstract, I am, but the problem with friends is that you have to care about them. And I wander away.”ALT
    Beau: “Wow. Wowwww. Fucking cool, Caleb!”ALT
    Off-screen, Laura as Jester: "Caleb is really cool!" Beau: "Yeah, he's cool. You're cool, Caleb! See, Jester thinks you're fucking cool! Because she's your fucking friend!"ALT
    Travis, as Fjord: "I'm trying to sleep. What are y'all doing?" Beau: "Sorry, Fjord!"ALT

    This is everything I like about both those characters happening all at once.

    +bonus:

    Bonus gif of Liam as Caleb: "I'm going to stand in front of a tree for twenty seconds and do this..." Liam then silently screams.ALT
  • Gifset from Episode 11 of 4-Sided Dive. Taliesin: "[Ashton has] less of a routine, and it's mostly just, like— Oh, man." Off-screen, Ashley: "Mental preparedness for the day?" Taliesin: "No. It’s, oh boy."ALT
    Off-screen, Marisha: "Get drunk in the morning. Get drunk in the afternoon." Taliesin: "Take the... I'll call it, it's medicinal. Which is a terrible thing to say, but it's pain management."ALT
    Taliesin: "And then at night it is, do you stay up a little bit too late getting angry and talking to helmets? Or do you drink enough to pass out, and then, in the morning, just have another little drink to take the edge off."ALT
    Taliesin: "But yeah, he's just not okay. It's a very, very unhealthy wake up and not a fun wake up. It is that like, 'Well, I guess I'm back.'"ALT
    Ashley: "I will say, I love that you are playing someone and representing a character with chronic pain."ALT
    Taliesin: "Thank you. Part of it is having some chronic pain, which definitely..." Off-screen, Ashley: "Oh yeah." Taliesin: "Which, you all know about that, but—"ALT
    Ashley: "Yeah." Off-screen, Taliesin: "It's not fun." Ashley: "No." Taliesin: "I know people who have it worse, but, yeah."ALT
    Taliesin: "It is definitely... And it also helps with the, 'Why are you so angry?" Like, 'Oh, here's a really good reason.'"ALT

    [DANI]: Ashton means a lot to me, personally, based on my own chronic illness struggles and my own chronic pain struggles. And so it’s been very emotional to see that represented in you, and I know how incredible it is for you to have this catharsis as well to get to play him. And it means a lot to me to be able to see their journey.

    +bonus:

    Taliesin: "Nothing works right. You were built poorly. Sorry. Yeah." Off-screen, Dani: "Too real!" Taliesin: "Too real? Just like, 'Oh, god.'"ALT
  • Gifset of Aabria Iyengar as Deanna from Episode 52: "Imagine life is like being a snowflake, and you are fragile and discreet, and you dance on the wind."ALT
    Aabria: "But when you cross over, it’s like landing on the ocean. And for a little bit, you’re a snowflake on the ocean."ALT
    Aabria: "But after a while you melt, and you are the ocean."ALT
    Aabria: "It's hard to come back from something like that."ALT

    I was wherever you go next.

  • Gif of Marisha, as Laudna: "Ashton."ALT
    Gif of Taliesin, as Ashton: "We won, but we... We did it. What?"ALT
    Gif of Marisha, as Laudna: "Where are we?"ALT
    Gif of Taliesin, as Ashton: "Where is everybody?" Off-screen, Matt replies: "You glance upward, and you see about 10 feet up, slowly sitting upward, Orym."ALT
    Gif of Liam, as Orym, sitting up. Matt says off-screen: "Orym... as you catch yourself and look down... you can see Ashton and Laudna." Liam says: "I start looking for the Voice of the Tempest as well. What is this?"ALT
    Gif of Marisha, as Laudna: "I don't know. Do I have Pâté with me?" Off-screen, Matt replies: "Pâté is not with you."ALT
    Gif of Taliesin, as Ashton: "We're okay, though? We're not hurt, we're not..." Off-screen, Matt replies: "No more than you were moments ago."ALT
    Gif of Taliesin, as Ashton: "Where's everybody else? I'm gonna start searching." Off-screen, Marisha as Laudna says: "While they look around, I look up."ALT
    Gif of Matt narrating: "As you look up, and you scan the horizon, in some distance, you see [Ruidus] standing, and a singular, solid red beam that vanishes below some sort-of far-off mountain line."ALT
    Gif of Marisha, as Laudna: "Are we even still on Marquet?"ALT

    Laudna, you glance around as your vision comes to, and you see yourself sitting on the edge of a rocky cliff, almost. The smell that hits your nostrils is kind-of sulfurous and acrid, acidic. And you look around you and there are these pools of strange colored liquid… but you are in an unfamiliar landscape.

  • Two side-by-side gifs of Matthew Mercer in Episode 50, acting as Caleb Widogast, as he lectures to the party: “[Dunamis] is a very obtuse form of magic that kind-of exists between the fabric of all other forms of power. It’s the oldest and one of the most fundamental forces within Exandria and beyond.”ALT
    Gif of Taliesin as Ashton and Liam as Orym listening while Caleb continues, off-screen: "It has the capability of altering Time, Space, Probability, Entropy."ALT
    Two side-by-side gifs of Taliesin as Ashton, fighting in previous episodes. In the first gif, he describes an attack while Ashton is in their Time rage: "As [the red and blue shift] comes in close, it's almost as if I swing back to hit it, and there's this little blue line. It suddenly fades, and there’s just— I’m already at the other end of it."  In the second gif, he describes using a Chaos Burst while Ashton is in his Space rage: "I'm going to charge up, and a portal is going to open in front of me. I'm going to [toss my hammer] straight down into it, and a portal above that asshole is going to come down."ALT
    Two side-by-side gifs of Taliesin as Ashton, still in previous episodes. In the first gif, he describes using a feature of the Probability rage: "I’m going to use my reaction to trigger Dreadful Misfortune. So you have to make an attack roll against their own AC."  In the second gif, he describes Ashton entering the Gravity rage: “The crystal, the glass inside my head starts to get a little dim and light just seems to get a little dimmer around me. There's just this strange…”ALT
    Gif of Taliesin as Ashton and Liam as Orym, back in the present, listening to Caleb speak: "It is dangerous in the wrong hands, and unfortunately, a very strong source of it has been in the hands of the Assembly and Ludinus for some time."ALT
    Gif of Taliesin as Ashton and Liam as Orym, appearing contemplative and concerned, after Caleb has finished speaking.ALT

    It’s recently occurred to me that I should probably ask people about this. I don’t want people to get hurt in there, so I’m… It’s very strange. The best I can describe is whatever magic resides in that crystal feels very new, yet very old.

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    We’ll gather who’s available and able-bodied. See that our wounded are taken care of. And we’ll attempt to meet you there as soon as possible. Be safe.