• festnt@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    i wish there was more wholesome in 4chan. though i guess if there was, it wouldn’t feel as impactful

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    It’s possibly the fithieth time I’ve read this, but it still brings a tear to my eye.

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      6 months ago

      Anon should write and then narrate some D&D audiobooks for kids!

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        There’s plenty of those around already… well… maybe not exactly for kids perse… but I’m sure most dnd stories are kid friendly enough. A couple of ogres decapitations never hurt anyone.

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    Jfc, a green text I actually relate to.

    My kid has a friend that used to have an unstable situation. No details, but it was rough enough courts got involved.

    But when they were part of a d&d group via discord, my kid mentioned me being a forever DM. So, I would end up in voice chats telling old stories to the group when the DM had obligations.

    A few weeks into this, my kid asks permission to stay up late for this other kid. I’m not known for bending health related stuff like good sleep without a damn good reason, but I made an exception and let them chat a while.

    But, my kid falls asleep, and I hear this other kid crying, and my heart fucking breaks. I pick up the tablet and ask if I can help. The kid asks me to tell them a story like I do when DM can’t play.

    So I did. Maybe fifteen minutes in, I hear snoring.

    For a while after that, the kid would ping my kid here and there and ask if I could talk. They were alone, and scared, and feeling a lot of hurt, and sometimes a voice over a device was all they could get. Which was fucking brutal on my end. I’m a well known asshole, but some things just get you. Nobody should be that lonely, you know?

    Anyway, it isn’t the same thing, but it resonates.

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    OP is part of the ancient human tradition of oral storytelling. Any good Dumb Dumb Mister is.