Entrants So Far, & Please Check Your Name Against This List If You Should Be One.

EDIT: So, here goes the lottery drawing for the prize!

BAM. Hina-ichigo it is! Congrats~ I'll be writing you soon to see what you want! ♥ I'll try to add the new entries soon, (sorry, I've been working on something.) ~and good luck to everyone else for the end of the contest, which ends at the end of November! 12 prizes and another participation prize will be given away then.

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If you haven't heard about the contest yet, or would like to join us in this collaborative event to make a free, downloadable, Zelda calendar for next year; please see this info thread! It has everything you should need to know. You can also look at the post I made just before this one to get a better idea of what it's about. The contest ends at the end of November.

 At this time I am only checking the contest email, not my other message centers.

Below I'm going to list the people who have gotten valid entries to me, as well as the number of entries I have from each person. If you sent something in before Oct 29, 5:00 PST, and do not see your name on this list, please re-send your email to the contest's email address: historyofhyrule.contests@gmail.com 

Besides 6 pieces that were more recently sent in, you can find all the current entries in this gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/historyofhyrule/sets/72157630007526131/ (I'll add the more recent entries when we get everything for the Oct 31st prize)

If you see an error, please let me know ASAP. This is also the current list of people eligible for the Oct 31 "Participation Prize":

1. Linksliltri4ce
2. Paper-Plate
3. Robson B
4. Drisana Rodriguez-Martin
5. Hina-ichigo
6. Poly
7. Mizueyes777
8. Bookwormtiff
9. Val Toukatly
10. KingdomTwilightXIII x2
11. Christian H.
12. Ryttu3k
13. Doudet
14. SYChunsa
15. Kylias Darkheart
16. Erika P.
17. Kyle L.
18. mrpretzel
19. Gakoru
20. Elizabeth R.
21. Clara B.
22. Karlen T.
23. Cojirou
24. Ashleigh
25. Julieta
26. Gimme x2
27. Breana Melvin
28. Kreus
29. Miniktty
30. ApplejackMan
31. Link24656
32. Ryuupix
33. Kyasarin Mire
34. Jujulica
35. Karnella
36. Lisa H.
37. Kudaku
38. Fainttos
39. Song C.
40. BunBun
41. Carolyn D. x2
42. StardustFawkes x5
43. Nummonkee
44. Kichisu
45. Zelidnia x2
46. Michel F.
47. Lunasatomi
48. Polina T. x2
49. Miry x2
50. FierceDeku
51. Leeatard0
52. Dagronrat
53. Christin
54. Ryoga
55. Kuurankukka
56. Leia C.
57. AttractiveAustrianAristocrat
58. Tawny
59. Amber W.
60. The Williams'
61. Evanatt
62. Pizza Breath the Awesome
63. Chato Jr.
64. Methuselah-Alchemist
65. Aud Green
66. Mellifera-imiya
67. Link Fanatic

Removed from Participation Prize List Simply Because They Already Won One (still eligible for one of the 12 calendar spots though! No worries):

1. Waffletea
2. Ebillan x2

Out due to art issue, at least until reply is received: (Please email me back)

1. Leah
2. Crystal M.

In Emergencies: If you think your emails are not getting through, or you have sent something but not heard back from me by Oct 30th, please use my other email melorasworld@gmail.com and/or leave a comment (not a note! I don't often check DA notes) on this DA journal entry: http://woodland-mel.deviantart.com/#/d5jdkkq


Please go ahead and post your piece to a gallery so there is a time stamp, in case there are problems with emails.

Just one month until the Zelda Fanart Contest Ends!

CONTEST INFO! Please join us!!

PRIZES: There's ocarinas, manga, toys, figurines, DA Subscriptions, and I'm also giving away a bunch of Japanese & English copies of Hyrule Historia.

And another deadline is coming up~ The main contest doesn't end until the end of November, but if you finish your entry by midnight on October 31 you'll have a chance to win one of these things:

CHECK IT OUT!

Go read about it! Get inspired! And enter so we can make it freakn' AWESOME!

Again, this contest is really just being held to make a free 2013 calendar for everyone: so it's also kind of a collab. Even if you don't care about prizes~ consider entering just to make something that every Zelda fan can use and love.

Spread the word so it doesn't suck! :3

And, if you have any questions, just ask! (email only right now: historyofhyrule.contests@gmail.com )

~Melora

Also, I'm still mostly absent because I'm trying to put a series together for a gallery. You can really only reach me about the contest through the contest email. I will not have time to check other messages until mid-November or later. 

New Doujinshi Added: Together + Bonus Comic

I totally forgot to post that I had added this back before I went in for surgery. It's another wonderful doujinshi, called "Together," by Usagi Paradise (Misa) with a guest appearance by Minato. It's one of the rare ones for Spirit Tracks, but it also features Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess: Link's Crossbow Training. There is also a Smash Brothers bonus comic that came with it. Enjoy!

Amazing Conceptual Thinking & Making Sense of the Zelda Series

There's not enough that I could possibly say about this concept turned comic. I haven't loved something "Zelda" this much in a long time. Not only is it an extremely wonderful short story exercise, it concisely helps everything in the series make sense. Read it and think about that. It's also a wonderful concept for a new game: A way to do something different in the series but keep it the same. And, as an illustration exercise: it does what all great illustrators preach and teach: Illustrates what the soul of story is about but uses the pictures to give it a more thoughtful depth. It makes it more than what you might see based on the words alone.

Nintendo, give these 2 guys some money and then make this game. This is what I want the next time I play  Zelda. And, to the creators of this, thank you for giving us this! You're freakn' awesome.

Via Reddit

Writing and Concept: LacksMass
Illustrations: OhCrapADinosaur

The text reads:

I want to play Zelda backwards. You start with your hook shot, fire arrows, slingshot, the whole stack of crap. The world is at peace but the fear of something horribly coming is looming in the back of your mind. You don't know how much time you have left and there is no one for you to pass your hero status to. So you begin to travel. Giving your treasures to old friends to guard and hide. Leaving your weapons at the bottom of forsaken temples and setting traps to keep them safe. Giving the keys and hints to those who will keep the legends alive.

At last you retreat into a cave with nothing but your sword. As a gift from the gods the power from the master sword extends your life as it slowly fades. And there you wait until the day the new hero finds you. And with a smile and hope for a brighter day you can pass along the sword, now devoid of most of it's power to a young man dressed in green with your words of wisdom. "It's dangerous to go alone. Take this."

It LIVES

I'm back; surgery was good and bad. The surgeon did a good job but one of the nurses screwed me over. My blood sugar is still seriously out of whack thanks to her and that's also making my arm hurt (I suppose? Something is setting it off and that's the only thing that makes sense.) So it's slow going. I'm down to one-arm typing on brain fog.

But I'm at least good enough to be up now! I have 55 emails to reply to, so it's still going to look like I'm gone~ but trust that I'm here working away. Again, apologies for the delays. I also might forget some of the things I should have gotten to: If you don't hear from me in a few days about something you said to me a while back, please write again. Thanks!

~Melora

Sever Downtime on the 4th

Don't freak out if the site is down for a few hours on October 4th, it's just my host switching servers.