The Speaking Squid

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-Ceph

Sunday, April 26, 2026

The Minish Cap: A little clock with a big personality

A little clock with a big personality

Compass: Link can find a compass in each dungeon in The Minish Cap. Like most Zelda games, the compass shows where treasure and bosses are located within the dungeon where the compass was found. Finding the compass is usually the reward for solving a puzzle or succeeding in a difficult combat encounter.

The story goes that this clock is from the estate of a noble who died while under a witch’s curse. Apparently, the noble was cursed with a beastly form, but the servants were all transformed into furniture and housewares, ever bound to the fate of their master. This clock is probably just a regular clock, but it does seem to linger on 3:41 and 8:18 when the hands seem to make a mustache on the clock’s face.

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The first time shows a mustache, why do you think I picked the second time I did?

As I write this I am almost done with the line art for the items from Twilight Princess. That set of drawings has taken me more than two years and I am so close to being done I can actually sense progress. I’ll still have to color all the drawings, but we are almost through and that is an amazing feeling.

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Sunday, April 19, 2026

The Minish Cap: Our last piece of bread

Our last piece of bread

Brioche: These tasty loaves can be purchased at the bakery and heal a single heart when eaten. Some of the loaves are baked with a surprised kinstone piece inside, which means you should hew with care until you are sure if there is a friendly rock in your food or not.

I know this is our last piece of bread, but we need to know the way back to the edge of the forest so we can find our way home once we find the snipe nest dad sent us after. He said that us going after the snipe nest will solve all of our families' money issues so it’s bound to be worth a lot. Maybe we can ask whoever lives in that strange looking hut in the clearing up ahead.

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My vast collection of item cards includes a lot of these odd ones that people always ask, “why would anyone need that?” I love randomly picking some item cards to spice up loot drops in my games and getting one of these weird ones. Sometimes I have a great idea, sometimes my players have a great idea, and sometimes it just get stowed in their shared loot for so long that I come up with a “the vault has ants” plot because they stored a crumbling slice of bread.

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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Zine: You owe me an apology

You owe me an apology

I made this zine to process my feelings around a really negative set of experiences I had with someone.

Feel free to copy, distribute, share, remix, etc. as you’d like.

The Ko-Fi link is pay what you want, so you can download a printable pdf or png for free.

I ruminate with my feelings if I don’t talk about them, journal, or externally process in some way. This zine is the culmination of talking, journaling, and doomscrolling through those big feelings.

Releasing this zine into the world is a sort of exorcism to facilitate moving forward from the harm.

I’m not open to the questions about what happened or with whom.

Check out my socials for more zines and a bunch of item cards that are nothing at all like this.

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