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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From: Labyrinth Labyrinthos (1987), dir. Rintaro, Madhouse/Project Team Argos

Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

P.S. We may love the new look or hate it, but I hope we can all at least agree that the abysmal horizontal item bar needs to be finally put to rest.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Anyway, I've already made peace with it. The remake will introduce the classic formula to the modern Zelda fans and bring new people into the fandom. I'm just sad it's not as good as it could have been.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I do like many things about the new look, and what disappoints me most is that the inconsistency was so avoidable. I *want* to like it, I'm really trying to see the "fairy tale come to life" people talk about, but all I can see are lifeless doll heads on hyperrealistic, overdesigned bodies. Alas.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No wonder there's so many "Nintendo hired this man" comments. Honestly? I wouldn't be surprised if they actually saw those fan remake videos and that was their actual starting point for discussing the remake's art direction.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It can't decide between puppet theater and next-gen realism. The main characters are too realistic for puppets yet too puppet-like to feel alive. Most NPCs look like they belong in a stylized cartoon. And a porcelain cherub bombing giant realistic Dodongos just breaks my suspension of disbelief.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

About the OoT remake... well. I guess I'm one of those people who can only complain? I do see what they were aiming for. I LOVE the idea of a puppet theater-looking game and I think it fits Zelda very well. But based on what we've seen *so far*, I don't feel like the remake really pulls it off.

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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We and the people who made this nearly destroyed the earth because of supposed irreconcilable differences.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

libretranslate.com maybe? Afaik they use more traditional machine translation (Argos Translate). But I haven't used it much honestly.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

From: Heroic Times (1984), dir. József Gémes, Pannonia Film Studio

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The fan translation I played with made Epona say something like "I will always understand you, whatever shape you take" and it was so touching I didn't even realize a horse would naturally be nervous about the wolf form XD

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Maybe they did vary! Even AMH populations differ on this, so that's reasonable. Honestly, though, I think both articles oversimplify things. Neanderthals had long childhoods like AMHs, but their exact growth patterns might differ from modern people.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I'm planning to clean up and upload two more little books illustrated by Repkin quite soon.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Here are some pages from a little book illustrated by Pyotr Repkin, an art director for a number of Soviet cartoons (including Mowgli, the Soviet adaptation of The Jungle Book). You can really tell the drawings were made by an animator. The full book (very short): archive.org/details/syn_...

A vintage 1983 book cover for "СЫН-ЖУРАВЛЬ" (The Crane Son) by R. Batulla. The illustration features four grey cranes soaring against a yellow sky. Below them is a dark teal silhouette of a forest. The author's name is Р. Батулла (R. Batulla); the book's title is "Сын-журавль" (The Crane Son")

A two-page spread from a vintage illustrated children's book. The left page features a badger and a hare running excitedly toward a wooden watermill next to a small stream, drawn on the next page. Russian text is integrated into the layout on both pages.

The text:
Отдохнули — и опять побежали. Вот и мельница. А радуги уже нет.
— Где же краски? — опечалился барсук. — Где наша радуга?
— Не печалься, — сказал заяц, — найдём мы радугу. Она выходит после дождя. А когда солнце пригревает, она исчезает. Видишь, солнце пригрело, и ты высох. Завтра мы обязательно поймаем радугу.
На другой день дождя не было. Радуга не вышла.
— Завтра день рождения белки. А я не нашёл краски. Что делать, что делать? — причитал барсук.
— Ничего, успокойся, — сказал заяц, — я знаю, где радуга. Когда нет дождя, она отдыхает на поляне.
Заяц был всезнайкой. И барсук поверил ему.

A two-page spread from a vintage illustrated children's book. On the right, a squirrel, a hare, and a badger stand together on a small mound, marveling at a lush, colorful patch of wildflowers dotted with tiny glowing sparkles of dew on the left. Russian text is integrated into the layout on both pages.

The text:
И они побежали на поляну. Прибежали и видят: спит радуга на поляне, рассыпавшись на цветах и травах.
— Тише, — прошептал заяц, — соберём осторожненько краски и отнесём белке.
Но как только они прикоснулись к траве и цветам, росинки упали на землю. Краски радуги исчезли. Барсук заплакал от огорчения.

— Не надо, — сказал заяц, — не плачь, барсук. Пойдём расскажем белке всё как есть.
Белка носилась с ветки на ветку, собирала шишки. Она готовилась ко дню рождения.
— Белочка, прости меня, — сказал барсук, — я не смог достать тебе краски. Хотел взять их у радуги. Но радугу не удалось поймать.
— Зато, — сказал заяц, — мы тебе покажем поляну, где радуга спит. Хочешь посмотреть?
— Ой, как интересно! — захлопала в лапки белка.
И они побежали к поляне. Прибежали, смотрят:
<на травах, цветах и листьях сверкают разными цветами росинки. Все краски радуги собрались здесь.>

A two-page spread from a vintage illustrated children's book. The left page features two illustrations of an ant in the rain: one finding a grub inside a hollowed-out nut, and another confronting a grub poking out from a fallen apple. The right page shows the ant climbing a large tree trunk in the rain. The tree's crevices are filled with grubs. Russian text is integrated into the layout on both pages.

The text:
— Куда-куда? — откликнулся этот кто-то. — Здесь живу я, убирайся.
Муравей узнал личинку и заметил, что она уже половину ореха съела. Расстроился муравей, пошёл дальше. Что тут поделаешь? А дождь льёт и льёт.
Муравей увидел на тропинке яблоко. В нём тоже была дырочка.
«Вот где я пережду дождь», — снова подумал муравей и только сунулся внутрь, а там другая личинка. Красная, в кольцах, злая-презлая.
— Ты куда? Моё яблоко. Уходи, пока цел!
И пошёл муравей дальше. А дождь льёт и льёт.
Попалась ему на пути старая корявая осина. Вся в дырках.
«Здесь тысячи муравьёв могут спрятаться от дождя», — подумал муравей и полез на дерево. Но не тут-то было. Из всех щелей осины лился яркий свет, доносился гул голосов. Здесь пировали червяки.
— Друзья, поздравляю вас! — кричал один из них. Он был толстый, <важный. Наверное, главный. — Сегодня мы дружно съели эту осину. Завтра мы перейдём на другое дерево. Послезавтра — на третье, потом на четвёртое, пятое, десятое... И так мы съедим весь лес!>

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A while back, I scanned some Soviet children's books and uploaded them to Internet Archive (link: archive.org/details/@olg...) and I want to get back to it. The art in them is great and deserves to be shared.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

He probably had to grow up fast even by their standards. Also, he looks like the kind of guy you'd want to swap bad-life-choice stories with over a cup of whatever passes for coffee in Neanderthal times.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Спасибо! Хочется верить, что стиль ещё ищется - тянет к традишке, но на компе быстрее, а жизнь коротка. Хотя результатом довольна)

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Yasmeen ✨ ياسمين @yamisha.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🔶Commissions Update!🔶 New option available: Hand-painted anime cel style ✨ Please check my carrd for more information: yasmeencoms.carrd.co Sharing is appreciated ❤️ #art

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I love them! They’d make a great dynamic duo.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

As the internet becomes increasingly unpleasant and overwhelming, I think people are starting to use real life to escape from it instead of the other way around. At least that's true for me. I mostly check my DMs and the people I follow from time to time and that's it

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Thanks! Aquamentus might not be the toughest boss, but it’s the first one, so this is probably what the battle would’ve felt like for Link (and the player).

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Yasmeen ✨ ياسمين @yamisha.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A very happy 40th anniversary to my favourite video game series, The Legend of Zelda! February 21st, 1986 was the release date of the first game in the series. I decided to make a piece directly celebrating this first instalment. #loz #zelda40th #legendofzelda

Artwork depicting Link, Ganon, and Zelda from the first instalment of the series. Link crouches at the front with sword and shield in hand. Zelda is to his left, holding up the triforce shattered into eight, alongside the supporting cast (fairies, Impa, and the merchant). To the right is Ganon holding his ivory trident, and his minions emerge ready to attack (Stalfos, moblin, lynel, and keese). The title is written at the top in while and gold "The Legend of Zelda". The backdrop is dark green.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I was actually going to draw Link having a midlife crisis for his 40th anniversary, but I've been too busy having one myself.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Today is a Zelda day! Here's a NES/Famicom Zelda fanart I haven't posted yet.

Link from The Legend of Zelda fighting a large single-horned dragon Aquamentus. Link climbs the dragon's back with a sword in his hand, to approach its head. The dragon breathes fire. In the distance, a Triforce fragment levitates over an altar.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

There's too many of them and the postman marks them as spam

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

*forgot to note, all artworks are made by Galina Shakitskaya.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The whole work is pure audiovisual poetry, highly recommend finding and watching the full version (it's only 17 min long)

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I tested smarter models on a niche anthropology topic and they dug up two real books even I didn't know existed (later found them on Libgen). So I believe the tech itself does have potential but the models used for general "research" are worse than nothing and it's infuriating in so many ways

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Early video game publications are among their weakest spots for some reason. I have a whole list of "early Zelda artists" they just fabricated out of nowhere lol

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

У них вообще огромные проблемы с любой информацией, которая не доступна на инглише или других западноевропейских языках. Даже у российских нейронок. Слишком большой перекос в training data.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Not an AI hater but this feature is such useless garbage. This is their dumbest model and it's called "Dive Deeper"🤦‍♀️

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Sounds like a perfect gift for trolls. Maybe there's a chance they'll let people turn it off if there's enough backlash, they reacted pretty quickly with that downvote feature and the one that revealed the account's origins

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Zelda fans are more intense about what's "real" than philosophers lol.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

He said back in 2019 that the BotW sequel would be inspired by RDR2 but as someone who's played both, I can't name anything in common between RDR2 and TotK besides them both being open-worlds. So... maybe there's some hope 🥲 I don't think they have a solid vision yet

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Sorry to hear that, I hope you feel better soon. Please be kind to yourself. Cozy at home is the best plan!

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Tea is a great loss 😭 Is that temporary or absolute?

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Kenton M @kenton-m.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

cosmetics and more! been a bit since last devlog so lots to talk about. youtu.be/wm8KSQBQ7ZI

youtu.be

Devlog | OoT Romhack (Indigo) Cosmetics And New Features

YouTube video by Kenton M

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Can't blame these people. BotW Link/food is literally my OTP

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I'm very sorry. These moments are truly the worst. 🫂

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Amazing! Congrats on getting this treasure! I wonder about the art for other games in it. Are they all in that animation-frame-style? Those are my absolute faves from that time. (May it be also the first official instance of Link having pants? Lol)

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Yasmeen ✨ ياسمين @yamisha.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Sticker Orders are up! And shipping internationally! Please fill in this form: forms.gle/9PtrY9LzWZat... Form closes Wednesday, November 12, 2025.

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I was so disappointed you can't talk to them in the wolf form :(

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Dweller of the Void @lost-and-not-found.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

For me, yes and no. They are our beloved memes and I'm genuinely glad they exist (and I don't think they're *that* bad! they're a part of the era). I'd just still keep them in a category of their own.

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