• Gifset from Chapter 2, Episode 2 of Candela Obscura. Brennan Lee Mulligan as Sean Finnerty: I have Marion in my arms who’s been injured…ALT
    Sean: And I’m running through trenches, trying to get back to the lieutenant. It’s a total route.ALT
    Sean: The lines fall into either side of us. I’m running and can see enemy soldiers running the same direction as me, ahead of me.ALT
    Sean: It’s total fear. And then I just start hearing, ♪(baseball stadium “Charge!” vamp)♪ALT
    Sean: And I start to… I’m gone. I’m fully gone, and LT’s words are the only thing I can hear.ALT
    Sean: In the moment that I’m listening to Nathaniel’s commands, I get to die.ALT
    Sean: I get to not be myself. I get to just be someone who’s doing what he’s told, and I don’t have to think about what I’m doing.ALT
    Sean: And it’s the first rest I’ve had in a long time.ALT

    What is it like for you being back in this moment, with the two of them?

    • September 30th #candela obscura#candela obscura spoilers#brennan lee mulligan#sean finnerty#critical role#critical role spoilers#criticalroleedit#candelaobscuraedit#basil.gif#circle of needle and thread#i don't even have words for this like. yeah. yeah
  • Gifset from Chapter 2, Episode 1 of Candela Obscura. Travis Willingham as Nathaniel Trapp reacts as Spenser Starke narrates: You see Sean down below, a dog on his arm. Nathaniel: Finnerty, up the rope!ALT
    Brennan Lee Mulligan as Sean Finnerty: The ump’s nowhere to be found! It’s chaos out here, folks!ALT
    Spenser, off-camera, to Brennan: I’m going to have you make a Move roll, to try and get to that rope in time. Nathaniel: Move it, move it!ALT
    Spenser, off-camera: Are you trying to get to the rope in time? Brennan: I think with LT, I think with my lieutenant yelling, “Move it, move it…”ALT
    Brennan: Something autonomitc—my spine moves, of so many drills over and over again.ALT
    Brennan: But I think without him there, I don’t go for the rope. I just stay here fighting dogs until I’m dead.ALT
    Nathaniel: That’s an order, Finnerty! Up the rope!ALT
    Sean: You got it, LT!ALT

    What a bunch of bums. They got no batters, they got no pitching. You did good, Finnerty. Very good. Five for five, batting a thousand.

    • September 2nd #candela obscura#candela obscura spoilers#candelaobscuraedit#criticalroleedit#critical role#critical role spoilers#travis willingham#brennan lee mulligan#nathaniel trapp#sean finnerty#basil.gif#circle of needle and thread#i have so many feelings about this like. the Dynamic. sean's ptsd & the adrenline rush mechanic. nathaniel immediately yelling out to him.#anyway. i'm super normal about this circle
  • Gifset of two episodes of Critical Role. Aabria as Deanna, in Episode 64: Are you worth saving?ALT
    Sam, as FCG, in Episode 68: Are you worth saving?ALT
    Matt, narrating: You are thrust out of your communion.ALT
    Matt: She leans in close, and the perspective seems to shift, where she feels like she's right in front of you and your height.ALT
    Matt: With enough force that you hit the back of the wood, and your eyes burn like you had been staring into the sun itself.ALT
    Matt, as Avandra, the Changebringer: Of course.ALT

    Are you scared? Yes.

    • August 13th #critical role#criticalroleedit#critical role spoilers#cr spoilers#aabria iyengar#deanna leimert#sam regiel#fcg#matthew mercer#basil.gif#cr3#bells hells#love a good parallel love how matt is portraying all the gods
  • 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.

    • July 14th #critical role#critical role spoilers#cr spoilers#criticalroleedit#ashton greymoore#taliesin jaffe#basil.gif#cr3#ashton#bells hells#ashton 'abandonment is the neverending theme of their existence' 'one of the reasons i allow myself to get the shit kicked#out of me is in the hope that people are actually watching' 'character who nothing good has ever happened to'#greymoore's response here just makes so much sense & others have said it but it rlly is so fucking compelling#in regards to also being like. 'main priority is fuck ludinus we Live Here.' anyway character of all time to me
  • 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!

    +bonus:

    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
    • July 1st #candela obscura#candela obscura spoilers#co spoilers#candelaobscuraedit#vassal and the veil#robbie daymond#howard margrove#critical role#criticalroleedit#critical role spoilers#i don't know how to tag co edits forgive me lmao#basil.gif#i literally can't get over how cool this was. AND taking the point away from focus and putting it into sense. incredible
  • Gifset of Campaign 3, Episode 63 of Critical Role. Liam, narrating Orym's actions: Orym lingers by the body, and after half a minute of just staring at him...ALT
    Liam: Reaches into his belt and pulls out the locket that he took from someone he killed by the Malleus Key.ALT
    Liam: Took it as a reminder because he felt bad for it.ALT
    Orym stares at the body of Bor'Dor, holding the locket.ALT
    Orym: We're at war.ALT
    Liam: Tosses the medallion out onto the body.ALT

    With what’s at stake, there’s no second guessing. There’s only going forward.

    • June 24th #critical role#critical role spoilers#criticalroleedit#cr spoilers#liam o'brien#orym of the air ashari#basil.gif#cr3#orym#bells hells#i was waiting for the locket to come up again and this was so chef's kiss
  • 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.

    • June 23rd #critical role#criticalroleedit#cr spoilers#critical role spoilers#cr3#laudna cr#ashton greymoore#marisha ray#taliesin jaffe#basil.gif#bells hells#ashton#laudna#it really is so sweet to me that they're about to reunite where they started :(
  • 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
    • April 6th #critical role#criticalroleedit#marisha ray#beauregard lionett#caleb widogast#liam o'brien#travis willingham#basil.gif#beau#caleb#fjord#mighty nein#c2e48#'i am not going to gif c2 so i can actually catch up' <- liar. i'm on e53 now but there's like five conversations from this ep i loved
  • 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
    • March 24th #critical role#criticalroleedit#4 sided dive#taliesin jaffe#ashley johnson#ashton greymoore#basil.gif#cr cast#cr3#ashton#when tal & dani said 'nothing works or fits right (built poorly)' & 'i either want to be screaming or asleep or throwing up.' felt that
  • 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.

    • March 17th #critical role#criticalroleedit#critical role spoilers#cr spoilers#deanna leimert#aabria iyengar#basil.gif#cr3#deanna#bells hells#i love her :( also love the ongoing theme of c3 being about like those who get left behind/'npcs'/etc.