The Speaking Squid

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-Ceph

Sunday, July 19, 2026

The Minish Cap: We are gonna stay BFFs forever!

We are gonna stay BFFs forever!

Kinstone Piece: Kinstone fusion is a mighty force for change in the Minish Cap and Link needs the right piece to fuse kinstones at the right time. Kinstone pieces come in four different colors and various different shapes. Link is gifted pieces, finds pieces, buys pieces, and sometimes earns new pieces for fusing Kinstone pieces.

Others might say they are going to be best friends forever and mean like a really long time. I mean forever when I say forever. These charms link two souls together permanently, or as long as they are intact.

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Being a BFF is a serious commitment, but sharing art for Drewly doesn’t have to be.

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 see posts of Drewly’s past here.

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

Get your official Drewly stickers here.

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-Ceph

Sunday, June 7, 2026

The Minish Cap: A dandelion gone to seed

A dandelion gone to seed

Green Kinstone: Green Kinstones are the base model for Kinstone fusion. Combing one of Link’s pieces with a person’s piece from around Hyrule usually unlocks a minor treasure or a new opportunity for adventure, often in the form of a rarer Kinstone piece for more fusing. Link can find these Kinstone pieces while by cutting grass. Slaying enemies, digging holes, and anywhere else he’d normally find a rupee or a heart.

Find a flower, gone to seed

Make a wish and fate may heed

Intention’s power, vision’s clear

So many fish and beggars cheer

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I often say, “if wishes were fishes…” assuming people know the phrase, “If wishes were fishes, we’d all swim in riches. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.” Many don’t, but now you do.

Go find a dandelion and make a wish, you never know if it may came true.

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-Ceph

Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Minish Cap: Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Red Kinstone: Kinstones are found broken and fusing matched pairs of kinstones with the people Link meets on his journey unlocks boons, treasure, and new places to explore. Fusing red kinstones often changes something about the world. A person is inspired, a pathway opens, or a treasure appears somewhere else.

Happy birthday to you

Haaaappy birthday to *insert name of loved one here*

Happy birthday to you

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My Kinstone drawings are mostly things to make wishes as wishing is such a core part of fairy tales.

My older kid loves these drawings more than almost any other that I have made because they can play blowing birthday candles out and then they magically relight. Their love for these makes these drawings some of my favorites from this set.

If you can do anything creative. Share it with your kids early, they will be impressed and tell everyone about your amazing skills.

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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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