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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Jackie Chan Adventures: Snake Talisman

Snake Talisman

Snake Talisman: The power of the snake is invisibility. As long as a person had the talisman on their person, they can become invisible at will.

You can download the complete set of talismans here (pay what you want) or here ($3).

You can also get a sticker of your favorite talisman here.

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Monday, November 17, 2025

Jackie Chan Adventures: Dragon Talisman

Dragon Talisman

Dragon Talisman: The power of the dragon is dominion over flame. With this talisman, one can breathe fire, throw fireballs, and control flames.

I loved Jackie Chan adventures as a kid. I haven’t returned to it as an adult, but I have never forgotten the zodiac talismans or the shadow khan masks. I can now say I’ve collected all twelve talismans, and I’ll be sharing them with you over the coming days.

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Sunday, November 16, 2025

The Minish Cap: The Often Pouring Pitcher

The Often Pouring Pitcher

Water: Plain water held in an empty bottle. Link can scoop up fresh water and use it to water bean stalks and put out fires.

The Everflowing Ewer held a limitless supply of water, but it was accidentally destroyed by questing knights. This lesser vessel, the Often Pouring Pitcher, can slowly fill itself to the brim over the course of a few hours. While that isn’t enough to save an entire village from drought, the pitcher is enough to keep a home well stocked with cool clean water.

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While the actual experience of playing through the everflowing ewer quest in Oblivion isn’t wonderful, the lore and flavor have always stuck with me, and it is one of my go-to legendary artifacts that aren’t immediately game-breaking for my home games.

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Sunday, November 9, 2025

The Minish Cap: Eat Me

Eat Me

Red Potion: Red potions are potent enough to fully heal Link’s missing hearts, regardless of how many he is missing. As they have fewer limitations on their healing, they are more expensive to purchase at Syrup’s shop. Link must also unlock the ability to buy these improved potions by fusing kinstones with a particular Forest Picori.

Are you too small? Is there something you need lying just out of reach? Eat this to grow.

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I’m fairly certain that this is the last of the Alice in Wonderland references in this set. I can’t remember drawing a flamingo-shaped club or an anthropomorphic playing card. If I did, it just goes to show you that I have made such a large project as to forget exactly what all makes it up.

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Sunday, November 2, 2025

The Minish Cap: Drink me

Blue Potion: In The Minish Cap, blue potions heal eight hearts when drunk. Link can purchase blue potion from Syrup the witch, but he must have an empty bottle to store the concoction.

Are you too big? Does an obstacle with a tiny opening block your path? Drink this to shrink.

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Alice in Wonderland was one of my favorite movies as a kid, but I have still not sat down and read the book. It is on my shelf in my ever-growing to-read list, but that is purgatory for books.

US election day is coming and the country is in desperate need for some turning around. Please, vote if you are able, and I hope you realize that most of our country’s problems are not the result of foreign peoples ruining the American dream, but are instead caused by the ultra-wealthy elite consolidating wealth and power at the expense of everyone else’s well-being.

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Friday, October 31, 2025

Happy Halloween!

Skeleton Suit: No one has to know these came from your regular clothes and not a box of costumes you only open for Halloween.

If you want to dress any of your stuff up for Halloween, you can get these as stickers at my Redbubble here.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Axes for Orctober!

Rexxar’s Axe: Rexxar is a hero of the Horde and was instrumental in the founding of Orgrimmar on Kalimdor. As he is Mok’Nathal, he has Ogre and Orc heritage, meaning he can wield two of these heavy-looking axes with ease.

Horde Grunt’s Axe: The footsoldiers of the Horde are outfitted with this simple, large axe that can be used one-handed with a shield or two-handed to take advantage of the incredible strength of even the lowliest Orc warrior.

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Rexxar is a direct rip-off of Darkwolf from Fire and Ice. Watching Fire and Ice long after playing the Orc single-player campaign in Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne was my personal moment of finding out Blizzard just remixes existing properties without really changing them all that much. Most people probably realized that when they noticed a lot of items in WarCraft 3 were just direct superhero references from comics. That realization really helped me with my imposter syndrome as a GM when I couldn’t come up with a perfectly unique story and instead wanted to copy or remix.

Orctober is mostly a miniatures wargaming meme or challenge, but here is my contribution to the month of the Orc.

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Sunday, October 26, 2025

The Minish Cap: Have you seen me?

Have you seen me?

Lon Lon Milk: Milk from the Lon Lon Ranch is sold in Hyrule Town once Link has unlocked the ranch door with the spare key. Link can drink milk to restore some hearts during his adventures.

Isn’t it weird that they left the picture blank for the missing kid on the side of this milk?

What did you say...wait, who was I talking to?

It’s sad that another kid is missing, and I feel like I almost recognize them from somewhere.

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Micro fiction for your pre-Halloween weekend.

If you find yourself pulled into a missing kid ad and erased from the collective memory of your loved ones, bang and scream on the walls of your new home. It won’t help, but at least you’ll feel like you're doing something.

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Friday, October 24, 2025

Cursed Relic: Blair Witch Stick Man

Blair Witch Stick Man

Twanas: The depths of the woods are marked with the Witch’s stickmen. When you start to see them, it's already too late.

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This was going to be my Halloween drawing last year, but I really didn’t enjoy the process, so I stalled and didn’t finish until it was too late.

Cursed Relics is a lower-stakes Inktober response challenge started by Alba BG. Check their work out.

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Sunday, October 19, 2025

The Minish Cap: Grandma’s glasses

Grandma’s glasses

Dog Food: Link can sneak behind the counter at Stockwell’s shop to find this bottle of dog food. When confronted about taking the merchandise, the shop owner says Link can keep the bottle if he can just feed the man’s dog. Feeding the dog opens up a new empty bottle to help Link on his adventure.

“Oh, Grandma, what big eyes you have.”

“All the better to see you with, my dear.”

“But your glasses are on the table, how can you see me Grandma?…Grandma?”

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Grandma got eaten by the wolf. She was food for a dog. That’s how we got dog food being glasses. Don’t feed your dog glasses.

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Friday, October 17, 2025

Cursed Relic: Journal 3

Journal 3

The Third Journal: The final journal contains an encyclopedia of information concerning the creatures and beings that live in and about Gravity Falls.

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Getting all three journals together is usually the first step to having a pretty bad time, so collectors beware.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

WHEL, 66.6 THE BEAST

WHEL, 66.6 THE BEAST.

It’s Damn Good Radio

I drew real merch for a fake radio station.

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Sunday, October 12, 2025

The Minish Cap: An enchanting enchanted harp

An enchanting enchanted harp

Graveyard Key: Link needs to visit the royal tomb inside the locked graveyard. Getting the graveyard key is as simple as asking the grave keeper for the key, but the key is promptly stolen from Link by a thriving bird and hidden in one of the trees in the area. Once Link sprints face-first into the right tree, he can reclaim the key and enter the royal tomb.

In the morning, this enchanted harp plays a hopeful song that energizes all who hear. At dusk, it plays a calming melody that relaxes the body, mind, and soul. Late at night, all alone, the harp plays a song full of longing and despair, grieving some great loss forgotten by all, save the forlorn harp.

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How the heck is a harp the key to a graveyard? Classical Greek myth references, that’s how. Orpheus wanted to bring his love back from the dead, so he went into the underworld to lead her out. To pacify Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of the underworld, he played his harp so finely that the dog was lulled into a deep sleep.

I also wanted to finish the set of items from the golden goose section of Jack and the Beanstalk, so I needed a magic harp.

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Friday, October 10, 2025

Cursed Relic: Journal 2

Journal 2

The Second Journal: The second mysterious journal catalogs many of the impossible objects that can be found in Gravity Falls, as well as spells and magic that could be used to unravel the fabric of reality. It is unfortunate that children are the primary owners of this journal.

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If you know anything about Gravity Falls, you know we are missing a piece of the puzzle. Stay tuned.

Cursed Relics is a lower-stakes Inktober response challenge started by Alba BG. Check their work out.

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