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Dicember Day 20
Rainbow Splash Dice
(Obtained 2021 02, from Ice Cream Dice)



It's another entry from my beloved Ice Cream Dice, purveyors of delicious math rocks (note: for legal reasons, do not eat the dice)! These are not an IceCreamDice original, but they are fairly unique among my collection for their exquisite texture. That paint-splatter effect appears to be a physical one, done over a set of plain white dice, and it means that you can feel the drops of paint as you handle the dice. Oh, they're certainly well sealed --I've never had paint fleck or chip off-- but it's definitely more bumpy than traditional dice. I find this a very appealing thing (I like sensory stuff!)

Also the rainbow colours chosen are just perfect. As a Big Ol Roleplaying Queer (or "Gaymer" as I believe the kids these days say), I have acquired a handful of pride sets here and there. These are not officially any kind of pride set, but they live in the pridebag with more blatantly flagged dice, because I love the idea of a chaos-based rainbow flag, getting the idea across in an explosion of colours in every direction, instead of carefully stacked stripes.

("wait, the pridebag?" well yes. It has a rainbow of icosohedrons embroidered on it, and holds a good half-dozen sets or so. I don't collect dicebags with the same fervor I do their contents, but I've obtained several official ones by now, a few with themes. I've got a great jack-o-lantern bag that I hope to put all my Halloween dice into next time I organize, and a radioactive lime green that might just become the slightly snarky "you have _how many_ green dice?!" bag.)

~Sor
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Dicember Day 22
Cosmic Stars Dice
(Obtained 2022 05, from TableTop Loot)



I was worried, because between making the list-of-sets-to-write-about and actually, you know, sitting down and writing, TabletopLoot announced they were going out of business, and put all their dice on sale. Oh no! I have enjoyed the previous purchase, oh well, guess I better drop a way-too-much on way-too-many sets while they're cheap...oh wait. wait, you're not going out of business after all?

Turns out one of their close friends bought the business and will be officially in charge come the new year. So that's cool, because this set I have of theirs? Came to me completely free of charge, as a very nice little surprise they threw in. And it is _so pretty_.

One of the things I really like about dice is that they are *all* _so pretty_. Even sets in colours that I wouldn't naturally pick up for myself (compare sometime the number of green sets to literally any other colour...) are still exciting and satisfying to admire and play with and look at. So the blue and red galaxy swirl here wouldn't necessarily be my first thought, but once it was in my hands? Oh, oh very yes, oh _fabulously_ yes! Look at it shimmer and glitter and be Just Plain Glorious!

I like this set to the point where I *almost* bought another one in the closing-not-really sale. Almost. Sorta kicking myself that I didn't. All is well though, I only need one pretty set to hold at a time!

((As an aside, my original TTL order came with a little note on the invoice explaining that there were different bags for different dice sets because they don't open-and-rebag the dice they purchase wholesale, as a way of reducing waste. I really appreciated that fact!))

~Sor
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