Dicember Day 31 - Pride Flag!

[sorcyress]

Dicember Day 31
Pride Flag Dice
(Obtained 2021 10, from Foam Brain Games)

I came up with the idea for this project back in August. My original goal was to take a ton of photos during the summer (check!) and write all the entries well before December actually started. And you know, I got close! I wrote all but ten pre December (and look, a 66% is not a good grade but it is a passing grade) and a bunch more through the first week of December. But my original goal was to write all the entries *before* I randomized what die would be what day, which I didn't quite manage to do.

Subsequently, I am writing this entry on December 7th, and I know for a fact that it will be the Last Day Of Dicember, the entry that runs on December 31st. Part of me feels like I should try and do something extra special with it? Certainly, in just a week of posting, I have been very pleased by the number of people in my life who have made nice comments about the project¹. I'm glad y'all like it! It's been a _lot_ of fun for me, and I will try very hard to do it again next year with more of my vast hoard!

So, here we go. The last set for this year:



Have I said I don't like inclusions? Yeah, a couple times. Have I _meant_ it? It sure doesn't seem like I have! Or maybe it's just that they're so ubiquitous that a modern dice collector can't get away from them.

But this set, like most of my favourites, benefits from having an inclusion that is less a specific object and more an abstraction. The pride stripes in here are meant to invoke a flag, but they don't really need to waste time looking exactly like a little rectangular flag. They're rather more successful as a riot of colour and happiness and, well, pride!

I like colours. I like symbolism (especially vexillological symbols). I like queer shit. I like dice. Pride flag dice are all these things and I like it very much!

Thanks for letting me show you my toys this month. I hope you have an excellent 2023.

~Sor
MOOP!

1: Including Lauradi's incredibly charming "okay, but is there a game where you actually need to use ALL the different sizes of dice" to which my answer wasn't, and should've been, "let me tell you about Dice Farmer (click through to the subsequent five or so comics).

Comments

[canyonwalker]

The pictures of dice with inclusions you've shared generally haven't struck me as, "Oh, those look nice." This set does look nice. And it's not so much because of the pure aesthetic as much as what it represents. Well, it represents something important and it doesn't look bad, aesthetically.