Hey... what have you got there? A fan-made recipe book, available both physically and digitally, with proceeds going to charity? That's cool, that's cool...
This recipe book is a labour of love by a bunch of Dragon Friends fans and contains over 20 cocktail and food (but mostly cocktail) recipes, lavishly illustrated, themed around those adventurers we call the Dragon Friends.
Pre-ordering is a MUST if you want a physical copy! Pre-orders are open until September 14 and I will be posting more about this to remind you until then! All proceeds going to Foodbank Australia.
[ID: Two panels from Dungeon Meshi. The first scows Senshi clutching his face as tears start to spill out of his eyes, saying, "I've always... always wanted to have this soup one more time." He's not wearing his helmet in this panel, so his face is unusually visible, detailed and vulnerable. The second panel shows himself as a youngster, surrounded by his old mining team, all smiling at each other, one of them rubbing Senshi's head. Modern-day Senshi continues, "Thank you. All of you. Thank you." End ID.]
Holy shit. I anticipated some tragic backstory from the "I must feed the young ones" panels, but what I'd guessed was that Senshi might have become so devoted to cooking and eating literally whatever because he'd previously survived a famine and had seen children starve to death. I did not expect him to have been the child who was the sole survivor of a doomed travel party, one of whom was determined to feed Senshi first because he was the youngest, and that Senshi has lived with the fear of having inadvertently committed cannibalism by eating stew that he'd never quite known the contents of. I'm happy for him that Laios deduced and confirmed for him that it was griffin meat, that he was able to taste the meal that saved his life once more and remember the friends he lost. Seriously, I'm crying, and also earnestly relieved that while his backstory is pretty dark, it's not the type of fucked up I'd been preparing myself mentally for.
Dragon friends art dump from the past few months BC I realised I haven't uploaded any of these here also I'm so normal about them (click on the images for better resolution thanks Tumblr <3)
i have never been so unwell yet simultaneously at peace since discovering the magic of dnd (& ttrpgs generally)
how beautiful is it that given the opportunity, we simply want to tell stories together? stories to comfort, to discover, to heal, to explore, to teach, to inspire, to unite, to love.
what a wonderful way to say "hey, we were here. i see you. share this with me. remember me. " how wonderfully human we all are.
go watch demons and daughters on youtube (& follow the DamselsInDicestress on twitch for early access to new episodes) if you want to see these absolutely heartwrenching regency era, estranged childhood best friends teenage lesbians embark on a harrowing and chaotic adventure, uncover a demonic underworld, and desperately yearn for one another the whole time.