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-Ceph

Sunday, August 16, 2026

The Minish Cap: Wedding Cake

Wedding Cake

Slice of Cake: Link can buy delicious slices of cake from the bakery, but they aren’t very good for him and only heal one heart when eaten. There is a chance a kinstone piece has been baked in as a special surprise.

Royal weddings are affairs of state, not romance, The binding of two families together concentrates power and influence. As such, there are often rival families who would be eager for the wedding to go awry and the two families be put at odds instead of aligned.

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For our wedding, we went with two cakes from a local bakery known for amazing cake. Now, whenever we want to celebrate our marriage, we can go to that bakery and get a slice of the same cake we celebrated with on that special day. Also, you can just buy a cake topper and make any cake a wedding cake.

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Thursday, July 9, 2026

Drewly 2026: Carrot on a stick

Carrot on a stick

Carrot on a stick: Get your mount moving that sweet 3% faster with your very first trinket, a carrot on a stick. All you need to do is journey into the desert, kill a oasis kaiju, and return with one of its scales to be rewarded with this exotic trinket.

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*pulls teeth out and hikes up pants*

Back in my day you had to walk to different zones in World of Warcraft and that 3% speed boost eventually added up to save you quite a bit of time.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is the month-long art challenge where you don’t make any new art. Just celebrate all the art you’ve already made, finished or not.

How do I join?

Share whatever work you’d like, however you’d like to share. Tag your posts #Drewly #Drewly2026 #Drewly26.

You can also join me on reddit at /r/Drewly

See all my Drewly posts here.

Get your official Drewly stickers here.

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-Ceph

Sunday, May 17, 2026

The Minish Cap: A nest of golden eggs

A nest of golden eggs

Gold Kinstone: Like their more mundane counterparts, golden kinstones are broken into two halves and give some reward when the matching pieces are fused back together. Unlike the less luxurious kinstones, Link fuses the golden kinstones exclusively with pedestals and doing so u locks forward progress in his journey to the sky peoples’ cloud top homes.

The gilded goose lays golden eggs when listening to the songs of the enchanted harp. The giant that keeps the harp and the goose has no use for the solid gold eggs, but they do love hearing the harp play and they love their evening chats with the goose. The eggs are unceremoniously tossed in the giant’s midden which is the most valuable room in the realm, if you value gold more than friendships.

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

I finished the line work for all the items in Twilight Princess! It took more than two years to get that hunk of inking done and I finished it last week! Now I get to color every piece and then I’m done! Finding moments to celebrate throughout long projects is the only way to finish long projects.

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-Ceph

Sunday, May 3, 2026

The Minish Cap: A flaky croissant

A flaky croissant

Croissant: Available for purchase at the bakery, these refreshing rolls restore a few hearts when eaten. Link also has a chance to find a kinstone fragment baked inside the bread.

Flaky dough with hundreds of paper thin layers of butter are the hallmark of the croissant. It is also the bar that all apprentice bakers must meet to graduate into the rank of sojourner and be set off to work and learn in the bakeries of the Royaume. The bakers guild’s high standards and commitment to education have made the pastries of even the simplest town a delicious treat.

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There is some to do on the internet about curved vs straight croissant, but I don’t have enough time to really find an answer with proper support. Let me know if you know and tell me how you know what you know.

What can we really know anyway?

One way you can improve the world is to reach out to your friends with strained or estranged familial relationships. That sort of thing takes a toll on a person , so check in with them and offer them love.

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-Ceph

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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-Ceph

Sunday, January 11, 2026

The Minish Cap: Wedge of cheese

Wedge of cheese

Yellow Picolyte: Picolytes are consumable supplements that grant a brief boost to the chance for finding various items based on which picolyte is eaten. Yellow picolyte increases Link’s chances of finding rupees. Link can only purchase yellow picolyte after clearing the carpet in Hyrule Town for Beedle and bringing Lon Lon milk to the Minish researcher studying the Pico bloom plant.

Having a simple wedge of cheese means you are prepared for any meal. Grate it into soup, slice it onto sandwiches, or just take a bite for a snack. The next time you go traveling, make sure you wrap up a stiff white cheese as your stalwart companion.

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Federal agents acting under orders from the U.S. government murdered a woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This act of violence shows the reckless disregard for constitutional rights and public safety that typifies the Trump administration. If you are able, please ask your leaders to pressure and sanction the U.S. government until it changes its behavior.

If you want an apolitical space, this isn’t it. America is currently ruled by a violent and despotic regime that is ignoring rights and laws domestically and internationally. If you let this continue, it will be worse for many people.

This is a heavy after blurb for such a pastoral post, but the government killed an onlooker for not making their jobs easy enough. We are worried and we need help.

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Sunday, January 4, 2026

The Minish Cap: A suspiciously friendly radish.

A suspiciously friendly radish.

White Picolyte: Picolytes are consumable supplements that grant a brief boost to the chance for finding various items based on which picolyte is eaten. White picolyte increases Link’s chances of finding kinstones. These picolytes are available as soon as Link can clear a space for Beedle to open his shop in Hyrule Town.

The rightful leader of our kingdom has been usurped and replaced by a villainous changeling. The true heir has been cursed with the shape of a radish headed scarecrow carved with a simpleton’s grin. This time of year, every farmer, gardener, and rancher has put up a radish topped scarecrow to greet harvest spirits, which makes finding our prince almost impossible.

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The USA illegally invaded Venezuela after illegally attacking Venezuelan ships all while illegally arresting those they deem undesirable. We are the villains of our own story. The Trump administration is a blight that illustrates just how vile America can be.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Holiday: Raise a toast to fighting for a better tomorrow

Raise a toast to fighting for a better tomorrow

New Year’s Eve Shot: A lot of really cool things happened in my life this year, and they are almost entirely overshadowed by the rise of Fascism, Racism, and violence in the US and globally.

That shit sucks.

Celebrate tonight and come back swinging next year. We must be entirely intolerance, and overtly hostile if we must, to any intolerant ideology for peace and tolerance to win the day.

I’ll be blasting This Year by the Mountain Goats at midnight, I hope you’ll join me.

Thanks for helping me survive this year, and I know we can make it through the next one together.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Sunday, December 28, 2025

The Minish Cap: A poisoned apple

A poisoned apple

Red Picolyte: Picolytes are consumable supplements that grant a brief boost to the chance for finding various items based on which picolyte is eaten. Red picolyte increases Link’s chances of finding hearts. These picolytes are available as soon as Link can clear a space for Beedle to open his shop in Hyrule Town.

An apple treated with the deadliest poison in all the realms. Eating such an apple can kill even the hardiest person. A single bite is enough to put a person into a sleep like death from which they might never wake.

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In my playthrough of Oblivion Remastered, I actually used the poisoned apples to kill as part of the Dark Brotherhood quest line. While it was annoying to set up the rooms and tedious to wait for NPCs to sit down to dinner, the payoff of watching the poisoned apple actually slay my target was delightful. I definitely did not have the patience to sit through that when I was playing Oblivion as a kid.

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-Ceph

Sunday, December 21, 2025

The Minish Cap: Everything you need to get to the ball for one low low price.

Everything you need to get to the ball for one low low price

Orange Picolyte: Picolytes are consumable supplements that grant a brief boost to the chance for finding various items based on which picolyte is eaten. Orange picolyte increases Link’s chances of finding fairies. Link can only purchase orange picolyte after clearing the carpet in Hyrule Town for Beedle and bringing a red potion to the Minish researcher studying the Pico bloom plant.

This spell can turn any gourd into a full-sized carriage outfitted for regal comfort. You will need to supply your own horses and staff, but we have another spell available to turn local fauna into highly effective horses and staff. As a special offer to you, our most loyal customers, if you purchase both transfiguration spells, we will throw in a personal glamour to make you appear as a well-to-do noble for no extra charge.

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I grew up on fairy tales and infomercials. I think that is a bit obvious.

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Sunday, December 14, 2025

The Minish Cap: Mangetout

Mangetout

Green Picolyte: Picolytes are consumable supplements that grant a brief boost to the chance for finding various items based on which picolyte is eaten. Green picolyte increases Link’s chances of finding mysterious shells. These picolytes are available as soon as Link can clear a space for Beedle to open his shop in Hyrule Town.

Mangetout was the dying word of La Chevalier Vert as they grasped your hand in their final moments. Their falling hand left the most peculiar gift in yours, a single snow pea pod. You were supposed to find the knight and get their help, now all you have is a dead knight, a snow pea pod, and the strange command “mangetout”.

Mangetout is French for “eat all” and it refers to snow peas because you can eat the peas and the pod. I learned that because of a very fun song from a very fun band.

Mangetout by Wet Leg. Check it out. Your welcome.

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