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darthplagal
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40. She/her. Retro-ish gamer. VGM geek. Droid. Likes JRPGs, Zelda, randomizers. Knits a lot, including for charity game marathons. Ace. (It rhymes with bagel. 🥯)
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Shipped off my latest round of @zeldathon.com prize knitting today. 📫
A photo of a hand-knit blue scarf with red trim with The Legend of Zelda Hylian crest hand stitched onto either end. There is also a light grey hat with a repeating pattern featuring small blue dogs and a black hat with a repeating pattern featuring the Sheikah eye design thing. A hardwood floor is also visible.
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The stuff I made is in the prize pool today! tracker.gamesdonequick.com/tracker/ui/e...
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A photo of a royal blue scarf in the style of the scarf from Hyrule Warriors sitting on a hardwood floor. The scarf has red trim and the Hylian crest duplicate stitched onto it in red and yellow on each end. A pair of fingerless gloves in light blue with a darker blue trim at the top and bottom and on the edge of the thumb. The Triforce crest from The Legend of Zelda has been stitched onto each glove in yellow.
September 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Bon, allons-y.
A photo of a white mug reading “Happy 40th Birthday” sitting on a dark brown desk. There are two computer keyboards on the desk because the new 40-year-old in question is a giant nerd.
September 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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12. (out of order and belated) Ice Palace
A screenshot from The Simpsons. The family shoots a commercial for Homer’s Mr. Plow business featuring Grandpa Simpson as “Old Man Winter”
August 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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11. Ganon's Tower
A screenshot from The Simpsons detailing a list of follies the city of Springfield embarked upon, including a popsicle-stick skyscraper, a 50-foot magnifying glass, and an escalator to nowhere. Ganon's Tower has a lot of floors and the player must complete a gauntlet-style climb to reach Agahnim and unlock the final Ganon fight.
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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10. Turtle Rock
A screenshot from The Simpsons featuring Homer and Marge seated outdoors at an open-air concert featuring the music of John Williams. A single pink laser is visible behind Marge's head. She says "There's lasers! You like lasers!" to Homer, who feels that special effects are disrespectful to the music of Star Wars. (That's the joke.) Several areas of Turtle Rock involve enemies shooting lasers at the player.
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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9. Misery Mire
A screenshot from The Simpsons in which Ralph Wiggum is giving his parents a highly exaggerated account of Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner being caught kissing in a closet. The caption says "And I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me." Vitreous, the Misery Mire boss, is a giant eyeball surrounded by many smaller (baby) eyeballs.
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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8. Thieves' Town
A screenshot from The Simpsons featuring a scene from a documentary about town founder Jebediah Springfield. He's seen to be fighting a bear (which is clearly some guy in a bear costume). Blind, the Thieves' Town boss, is a bear in his true form.
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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7. Swamp Palace
A screenshot from The Simpsons. The Simpson family basement is flooded. A repair worker is knee deep in water, staring at a leaking pipe. Marge says "The basement is getting awfully flooded and I think the cat's down there." You have to flood Swamp Palace (more than once) to be able to access certain areas via swimming.
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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6. Skull Woods
A screenshot from The Simpsons featuring various townspeople standing around outdoors. Dr. Hibbert says "So our most pressing concern now is determining who owns such a valuable skeleton." Skull Woods has several entrances that consist of various bones.
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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5. Palace of Darkness
A screenshot from The Simpsons featuring Groundskeeper Willie fleeing a classroom while multiple small turtles are pinned to his body. The caption says "Save me from the wee turtles!" Palace of Darkness has many small turtle enemies who are, frankly, very annoying.
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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4. Agahnim's Tower
A screenshot from The Simpsons featuring the various "nerd" characters asking highly specific questions about the Itchy and Scratchy video game at a fan event, specifically "Is there a way to get out of the dungeon without using the wizard key?" Agahnim's Tower is a dungeon with a wizard. Ha ha ha.
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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3. Tower of Hera
A screenshot from The Simpsons featuring Helen Lovejoy waking up Reverand Lovejoy in the middle of the night. She says "It sounds like Ned Flanders is having some sort of crisis" while holding the phone receiver out towards her husband. Reverend Lovejoy says "Oh, probably stepped on a worm." The Tower of Hera boss is Moldorm, a giant worm.
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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2. Desert Palace
A screenshot from The Simpsons featuring Bart and Milhouse standing in an open field. The caption references Bart saying "With your book smarts, and my ability to exploit people with book smarts, we can figure out a way to get them back together." This is a reference to a labour dispute between Principal Skinner and the teachers, but the Zelda connection is a reference to the fact that you use the Book of Mudora to enter Desert Palace.
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I forgot about this, but I once collected a series of images comparing the A Link to the Past dungeons to Simpsons moments. A thread:

1. Eastern Palace
A screenshot from the Simpsons episode with the Hullabalooza music festival. Homer is recoiling from having been hit in the stomach with a cannonball. The reference is that there's a room in Eastern Palace where cannonballs are shot at you.
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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That's time on my 2025 Four Job Fiesta run! #ff5fjf2025
A screenshot of the final battle of Final Fantasy V. NeoExdeath is crumbling. Ninja Bartz (who is silenced), Knight Krile (who is berserked), Summoner Faris (who is blinded), and Time Mage Lenna (who didn't have any status effects) watch. Everybody lived!
August 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Inside you there are two wolves.
A screenshot from the game Pentiment. The protagonist Andras Maler stands in the middle of a wooden house while a character named Old Otto sits and works at a table lit by a single candle. Andras has a thought bubble that says "I should get some sleep... or break into the library."
August 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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MY SISTER FOUND IT.
A photo of a white girl with glasses and frankly ridiculous bangs wearing a sun dress and an officially licensed Nintendo Game Boy fanny pack (black with pink trim and text). She is slouched on a beige couch with a flower pattern and is focused very intently on her Game Boy. Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins is visible in the cartridge slot. A navy blue balloon emblazoned with white 5s is also on the couch.
July 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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And done.
A photo of a royal blue scarf in the style of the scarf from Hyrule Warriors sitting on a hardwood floor. The scarf has red trim and the Hylian crest duplicate stitched onto it in red and yellow on each end.
July 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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It happened (part 1; it still has to happen again on the other end. And it will, after a break.)
A cropped photo of a royal blue scarf made to look like the scarf from Hyrule Warriors. The completed bottom edge has red and blue stripes with the Hylian crest duplicate stitched above them. The rest of the scarf is partially visible, with the unsewn other end kind of crumpled to the left.
July 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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It’s still happening.
A photo of a royal blue scarf with red stripes at the bottom. The Hylian crest from the Legend of Zelda series is more fully stitched onto it than it was when I last posted a photo. The Triforce is yellow in the middle and the winged pattern surrounds it in red. There are still two yellow curved stripes to add. (Then it all has to be redone on the other side.)
June 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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It’s happening.
A photo of a portion of the royal blue scarf (with red trim) I’ve been knitting, now with a red embellishment and yellow Triforce (from the Zelda series) duplicate stitched/embroidered onto it.
June 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Next: making a bunch of test swatches and practicing duplicate stitch until I feel totally confident that I won’t mess up on the six-foot tube I just cast off.
A photo of a royal blue scarf with red stripes at either end lying on a hardwood floor. It’s folded in half, like it would be if it were draped around a person. The ends are curling up a bit because of stockinette stitch. They’ll be closed with fringe later.
June 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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It was also a total delight to be on mod duty for the @ladyarcaders.com Out of Bounds 2ronto streams this weekend! GG to the event team and runners for putting on such a cool, energizing time.
A screenshot from the Lady Arcaders Out of Bounds 2ronto end credits featuring white text against a synthwave-style green and purple background. The credited Head Moderators are Morgan Cassidy and Kasaki. The credited Moderators are Cy (cyanphibian), darthplagal (that's me!), dish, kariohki, Kasaki, Lazlotus, MenaceMandz, MJPastellis, Morgan Cassidy, Rebecca S Peebs, and sapphire in pink.
June 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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I didn’t know it was World Knit in Public Day when I brought it to my parents’ place. 1.5 feet of blue to go.
A royal blue knit scarf with red trim (in progress) on circular needles is curled up on a lap. A wicker bench is visible in the background.
June 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM