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sorcyressDicember Day 27
Copper and Green Swirl "Bullfrog" and "Emerald Vale"
(Both obtained 2021 02, Bullfrog from Beholder's Gaze and Emerald Vale from Ice Cream Dice)
I have a problem.
Wait shit no, I've used that as a lead-in to an entry before. So now I have two problems: That I'm not a creative writer, and that sometimes I, er, accidentally get duplicates.
In my defense, it is a VERY PRETTY set! Sets. Two very pretty sets! But as it turns out, like with many manufactured items, copies abound. I know in many cases, it's because a lot of dice sellers sell wholesale dice from bulk manufacturers as well as their own unique designs. That may have been so with this doubling --although the two sets are subtly different if you look closely!
In my spreadsheet, they are labeled as a matte set and a translucent set. There's also the matter of luster on the numbers --one set is numbered in a glittery silver, the other in a sleek grey. Also in my spreadsheet there is a note, for both: "may be switched". I posted an order photo from when I received the Ice Cream Dice ones though, and I think through careful study I can identify that it's the more matte and grey ones.
(My spreadsheet is not meant to be infallible though. Certainly, I don't have price data for anything pre-2020, and I have discovered a delicious flaw in the "buy mystery sets from multiple shops and then let other people put them into my dailies calendar for me" plan, which is, er, I don't recognize this beautiful mystery set, and there are multiple options for where it arrived from. I do the best I can with what I have!)
((Also, fun fact, in that photo linked in twitter, all three of those sets were originally written up, in the time before posting. Then I decided that having _four_ Ice Cream Dice sets is maybe a lot, even though I am pretty fond of them, and swapped the Caramel Apple for the wee pumpkin coloured we saw previously. Creating this series of posts has been an ADVENTURE, let me tell you!))
(((Third and final fun fact, part of the problem was that these were purchased before I had started the dice spreadsheet. Part of why I have the spreadsheet is to try and keep track of what dice I do already have, especially since there are some I have not yet earned and so can't go look at whenever I want! I think I've only failed once since --I'm pretty sure there are two separate sets of cool looking blood-spattered dice in my "to be earned" pile, each from a different company.)))
I think these are the Ice Cream Dice "Emerald Vale", the more matte and grey:
And these are the Beholder's Gaze "Bullfrog", the more transluscent and silver:
And both are very very pretty, no?
~Sor
MOOP!
Copper and Green Swirl "Bullfrog" and "Emerald Vale"
(Both obtained 2021 02, Bullfrog from Beholder's Gaze and Emerald Vale from Ice Cream Dice)
I have a problem.
Wait shit no, I've used that as a lead-in to an entry before. So now I have two problems: That I'm not a creative writer, and that sometimes I, er, accidentally get duplicates.
In my defense, it is a VERY PRETTY set! Sets. Two very pretty sets! But as it turns out, like with many manufactured items, copies abound. I know in many cases, it's because a lot of dice sellers sell wholesale dice from bulk manufacturers as well as their own unique designs. That may have been so with this doubling --although the two sets are subtly different if you look closely!
In my spreadsheet, they are labeled as a matte set and a translucent set. There's also the matter of luster on the numbers --one set is numbered in a glittery silver, the other in a sleek grey. Also in my spreadsheet there is a note, for both: "may be switched". I posted an order photo from when I received the Ice Cream Dice ones though, and I think through careful study I can identify that it's the more matte and grey ones.
(My spreadsheet is not meant to be infallible though. Certainly, I don't have price data for anything pre-2020, and I have discovered a delicious flaw in the "buy mystery sets from multiple shops and then let other people put them into my dailies calendar for me" plan, which is, er, I don't recognize this beautiful mystery set, and there are multiple options for where it arrived from. I do the best I can with what I have!)
((Also, fun fact, in that photo linked in twitter, all three of those sets were originally written up, in the time before posting. Then I decided that having _four_ Ice Cream Dice sets is maybe a lot, even though I am pretty fond of them, and swapped the Caramel Apple for the wee pumpkin coloured we saw previously. Creating this series of posts has been an ADVENTURE, let me tell you!))
(((Third and final fun fact, part of the problem was that these were purchased before I had started the dice spreadsheet. Part of why I have the spreadsheet is to try and keep track of what dice I do already have, especially since there are some I have not yet earned and so can't go look at whenever I want! I think I've only failed once since --I'm pretty sure there are two separate sets of cool looking blood-spattered dice in my "to be earned" pile, each from a different company.)))
I think these are the Ice Cream Dice "Emerald Vale", the more matte and grey:
And these are the Beholder's Gaze "Bullfrog", the more transluscent and silver:
And both are very very pretty, no?
~Sor
MOOP!