Okay, but the question on my mind is: have we come to a consensus on which Party member is the local dice goblin (either in a 21st century au or when they’re adults with the ability to commission or make them in some way, or just as 40-50 year olds who are still playing when the Internet makes it possible to get lots of fancy sets because I’ll admit that I have no idea how easy or difficult it was to get fun dice in the 80’s)?
Because like?
I feel like Dustin could go either way. Like, I could see him getting really into different sets. But I could also see him being the guy in the group who always points out that, assuming your current set doesn’t have any balancing flaws, you only “need” one set. Depends on how he feels about the concept of luck, I guess.
But also, Lucas?? Dice goblin Lucas? I don’t know! I don’t have any good reasoning here! It just sparks joy when I think about it. I think it’s a fun idea! And Max would laugh her ass off when she found out, which is always a win.
But also MIKE? I fully believe Mike would angrily dump his bad dice in jail, so I could totally see him with a massive stack of extras to pick from. Plus, then he can be a scary DM and roll WAY too many dice to generate damage after one of the Party members did something stupid or wildly dangerous or totally failed some check/save. Grinning the whole time while the others scream at him.
But Will? Will who definitely can’t afford to fund his habit as a kid, but as soon as he has disposable income as an adult?? Buying all the dice. Collecting them. Having a different set for every campaign. Having favourite ones which always roll nicely and ones that he likes the look of but which always roll badly so they’re not allowed to even touch the table. Mike laughs about it and then proceeds to get talked into setting the fancy ones up in a nice display case in their First Real Working Adult living room.
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[ID: ten images of text together in a litstack
1: Confession: I will think of you forever
2: a post by gaphic: It’s only tragedy if you convince yourself, for even just a moment, that everything could be ok, despite knowing it won’t be. Tragedy lies in ‘so close, yet so far.’ It’s avoidable because it would only take a tiny alteration to prevent disaster, but human nature is in the way- not maliciously, not knowingly, despite trying so hard.
3: a tiktok comment and answer: Are they lovers? / Worse
4: a post by iamalivenow: gay sex won't fix this. it'll probably make this worse. that being said don't you want to see how much worse it can get?
5: Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.
6: tags from manywinged: #technically they know and understand each other better than anyone else alive #but they communicate that in the most fucked up insane unnecessarily complicated way and think thats normal
7: I don't think you've ever felt anything that didn't hurt you. / We've found each other, out of everyone else in the world. Does that hurt, too?
8: "I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do."
9: Should we go into it together / If I go into it with you I will never come out
10: of course the love is there. / still, / still, / still.
big fan of essek thelyss, not the fanon interpretation, which is either "smol bean, tiny fragile elf who's a sweetheart and basically a child" or people mistakenly calling betrayal of one's home country a "war crime" and then proceeding to be flippant about it anyway, but the real Essek
pretentious motherfucker that committed treason bc he though he was smarter than everyone else
learned to float literally just to impress other rich people
canonically neutral evil
basically head spymaster of his country and master of lies but sucks shit lying to his friends
stayed bitchy even after his redemption arc
"there is nothing I would love more than to not be around you all for the remainder of this day"
a space wizard that crushed someone with telekenesis just to show off (the person was already dying)
sexy feet, nice ass, overall hottie
fell in love with a traumatized wizard of his enemy country and it was mutual despite all the betrayal
faggot
gave away state secrets to enemy wizard bc he though he was sexy
discovered time travel with his boyfriend
proceeded to say they shouldn't use time travel (bc now he's a good boy) but was willing to sacrifice everything and help if his bf wanted to use it
once confessed he had such a bad fight with his dad that his dad ran into the demon caves and never returned (essek doesn't feel bad about this at all)
young for an elf but still 120 years old, he called his bf "young man" and flexed on him about how much more evil he is