Video game deaths in the style of Edward Gorey

Every evening, the Daily Dot delivers a selection of links worth clicking from around the Web, along with the day’s must-see image or video. We call it Dotted Lines.

• Check out the most epic facial hair at the Daytona 500.
   
• Thomas Pynchon’s new novel will take on the dotcom bust and 9/11.
   
• Watch this: Riff Raff gave a tour of Art Basel.
   
• This is supernerdy and superawesome: Students write an academic paper on the train-stop scene in 2004’s Spider-Man 2.
   
• The funniest viral video today: a naked bro locked out of his hotel room, caught on the security feed.
   
• And learn about Lil Poopy, a 9-year-old rapper who slaps a grown woman’s butt in his music video.
   
• And just what we need after a long day of celeb worship: Taylor Swift–inspired “goats yelling” mashups.

WANT. Here’s a parody of Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies, with video game characters instead. Click for bigger. (Buy the poster here.)

And our favorite video of the day: This little girl named Kayla loves the moon more than you’ve ever loved anything.