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Cue the dramatic piano! I was overcome with sudden inspiration to sprite this thing. I used renders of the official model to ensure that the details and proportions were accurate, though I simplified the head for the sake of making the rotation frames easier. I’ve never actually played Link to the Past, but I tried to follow its art style and limitations as best I could.

Sounding Rocket Launches CHESS Mission to Study the Matter Between Stars : The Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph, or CHESS 4, was successfully launched on a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket at 12:47 p.m. EDT, April 16 (4:47 a.m. local, April 17) from the Kwajalein Atoll in The Republic of the Marshall Islands. (via NASA)

God smiting some random palm trees

Does the world need more cheap paperback HP Lovecraft novella reprints? The American Eldritch Society for the Preservation of Hearsay and Rumor sure thinks so. Our new edition of the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is available here if you’d like a copy, with its elegant and serene new cover by Lee Grant. 

“Lovecraft’s body of fiction is split into two main groups of writing, the initial Dream Cycle and the subsequent Mythos Cycle. While the Mythos heavily explores 20th century natural philosophy, drawing on archeology, evolution, geology, and astronomy to sustain its terrors, the Dream Cycle is a bit looser - a bit more personal. Lovecraft wove fragments from his own vivid dreams into the texts, imbuing them with a clarity of vision that pervades through the conjured worlds. Because Lovecraft’s most affecting dreams were unrelenting nightmares, horror abounds on the page.” - from the introduction, Into the Unknown, by Aladdin Collar