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apricot
@areyoshi.bsky.social
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33 | they/them | AuDHD | webcomic creator, Art Director for tidalwavegames.com, wearer of many hats | Pennsylvania.

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Josh has a trust fund but he's also got a heart of gold (and maybe some actual gold?)

(As the #1 Josh hater I will still implore everyone to give him a chance!)
#HBHS
Art of a smug looking rich teen with a sweater tied around his shoulders. He has pink hair and blue eyes, and much of his color scheme is pink, brown, and khaki. He has a dismantled rowing oar thrown over his shoulders because, yes, he is on the rowing team.
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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This launched a furious debate in our dev chat about who counts as the Sasuke LOL. Even though he's already well known, we had to settle on our resident sad boy, Mark.
#HBHS
Teenaged sad boy, Mark, from the Heartbeat Highschool TTRPG dating sim. He's got a long dirty-blond mullet and is moodily playing the guitar while wearing his red flannel and torn jeans. The guitar is very graffiti'd and says things like "I want to live" and "Nevermore" and has the cool S on it. Mark's expression is one of concentration, eyes closed and brow furrowed.
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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We all know Pikachu altered my brain chemistry, but I don't talk enough about OoT kid Link or the OVA Tails. They informed my stylistic tastes a LOT and I feel like it's probably at least a little clear in my art!
Kid Link sitting on a stump and looking at Navi the fairy. He's got a cherubic face and thick limbs that still seem to carry some youthful baby fat, making it clear that he's young and strong Miles Tails Prower as he's seen in the 1996 Sonic the Hedgehog OVA film. He's tiny and cute, with basic shapes and a limited color palette carrying the design Alex the cat girl from apricot's webcomic Kattabolt. Her design is colorful with a lot of repeating shape language and cute kiddo qualities.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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To quote @shastiepow.bsky.social... "baby spotted"
In-game photo of the Pokemon Goomy. It's just hanging out in the grass while it rains at night.
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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They look cool, right?
Photo screenshot of apricot's Pokemon Legends ZA character dressed like a mobster and looking mean
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Photo screenshot from Pokemon Legends ZA with two cute Pichu. One looks feisty and the other is just vibing.
November 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Pokemon Legends ZA screenshot photo of a Charizard napping while it sits in a rooftop garden with the cityscape behind it.
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Pokemon ZA photo of apricot's character dressed in pink and blue colors to match the Sylveon standing next to them while they have tea and a cute dessert.
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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(A personal favorite. #PLZA ALMOST hits all my pokemon photo mode check boxes)
Pokemon Legends ZA photo featuring the bird Pokemon Fletchling sitting on top of a street lamp on a cloudy night.
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Personal #PLZA photo thread that I'll add to here and there. I have a lot of fun and nice pics I've taken because I cannot be left alone with a photo mode
In-game screenshot photo from Pokemon Z-A, showing apricot's character next to a Greninja. They are both punching dramatically into the air, against a backdrop of the setting sun.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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🎨 I've been somewhat stern up till recently about which #HBHS images get released early, but I'm making an executive decision to show you this image of Chloe.

Pre-order our dating sim: heartbeat-highschool.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Chibi art of a cute fat girl with blue hair that's tied in a side-ponytail. She's wearing colorful overalls, purple eyeshadow, and has charms hanging from her scrunchie. She is holding a fish that has been lovingly rendered in much more detail than the rest of the image. Chloe (the girl, not the fish) is from Heartbeat Highschool, a solo journaling dating sim TTRPG. If you must, you may call the fish Bertram.
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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one of our Call of Cthulhu players got a fumble but we recently made the switch from Roll20 to Foundry
Simpsons meme of Marge incorrectly yelling at Bart. The text has been altered. Marge: Roll20, no! Bart (with the Roll20 logo on his head): What? Marge: Sorry, force of habit. Marge: Foundry, no!
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Well, if the Mamdani political font says so... *wiggles eyebrows*

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In the Mamdani campaign font: KATTABOLT. It's on break but worth the read. It's about my webcomic!
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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current workload be like

(but you can help me by checking out both projects!
kattabolt.com - my cool webcomic!
heartbeat-highschool.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... - the cool dating sim I art direct!)
classic meme of the distracted boyfriend holding his angry girlfriend's hand while he looks appraisingly at another woman, but in this case the boyfriend has apricot's profile picture on the head, the angry girlfriend is a discord emoji of an angry Alex the cat girl from their webcomic, Kattabolt, and the other woman has the logo for the Heartbeat Highschool TTRPG on top of her face. The joke is that apricot is ignoring Kattabolt and focusing on HBHS instead.
November 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Who would win: Yappy Zappy Cat Girl or Dark Scary Hallway?

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cropped comic panel from the webcomic Kattabolt. Alex the cat girl has long black hair, green eyes, big round glasses, and cat ears along with her human ears. She looks excited and happy as she calls out to someone we can't see. Another cropped panel, this time featuring a mysterious figure dressed in a dark green cloak as they stand facing a dark hallway that sits inside dilapidated ruins. The lighting around them is pink and purple, lit by a torch on the wall that bears a strange flame of the same color. There is a partial bit of dialogue visible, with the cloaked stranger saying "...Well, no," before the rest is cut off.
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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I'M A WEEK LATE BUT
In-game photo from Pokemon of a tired looking man with rectangular glasses and a middle part
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Mood
Orange and white stuffed kitty toy lying on a car dashboard. You can only see the toy's face in the reflection from the windshield glass, which is dappled with raindrops. The mood is somehow somber. (His name is Teddy and he is my driving buddy)
October 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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🎨 Little dude *almost* stuck the landing. True story about baby nephew, who is trying his best!

#comics #comicoop #art
❤️? patreon.com/areyoshi
A three panel comic titled "He's Fine", depicting apricot and their sister following behind a redheaded baby who is learning to walk. In panel one the baby trips, catches himself with one hand in panel two (much to the relief of the adults,) and in panel three he falls flat on his face regardless of his efforts, because babies don't make sense.
October 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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INFORMAL POLL: Were you ever told to do this as a child? By a sibling or anyone else when you were complaining about being thirsty too far from home?

I've been getting a lot of mixed reviews on the universality of this particular childhood experience LOL

🎨 #comics #art #comicoop
Three panel journal comic titled "Whining". Panel one has a label that says "Sometime in the late 1990's..." And features a young apricot. Their hair is long and unruly, they are missing a baby tooth, they have a prominent lazy eye, and they are sweating against an orange background that suggests a hot summer day. apricot says "It's hot out! I'm tired... and I'm thirsty! Ugh!" In panel two, apricot's slightly older and much more well kempt sister looks back at them and says "Stop whining. Just drink your spit for now." In panel three, apricot's face has contorted with bitterness as they say "THIS DOES NOT QUENCH THE THIRST, SISTER."
October 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Right after filming this I clipped those daggers
#MimisaurusRex
October 14, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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🎨 I never did post the finished version of this, did I? A while back I drew a lineup of our Call of Cthulhu players' investigators (+ Kibble, my favorite NPC disasters.)

The cat is an important party member, of course.

#KittensDidNothingWrong #OC #TTRPG
Character lineup art featuring seven people and a cat. From left to right, their names are Bull, Kittens, An, Corinne, Royce, Jax, and SYC (the cat). Bull is the tallest by far and Kittens is the smallest (obviously not counting the actual cat.) They are all dressed well to reflect the 1920s.
October 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Reality sucks, I want video game rules 😤

This comic is public on Patreon with some additional commentary: www.patreon.com/posts/dirt-b...

#comicoop #comics
A two panel comic in which apricot, their dad, and their sister (who has a baby on her back) are all hiking up a hill on a clear day. In panel one, the sister says "The race track is different this year to avoid all the windmill construction (so they gotta go around it.) In the next panel, apricot looks disappointed and bitter as they look down and note, "...In a video game you'd get to ride THROUGH the construction sites..."
October 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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#MimisaurusRex says microchip your pets (and don't forget to actually update the profile or it's useless!)
A gray, one-eyed cat named Mimi, who has her tongue sticking out. Notably, she has a tag on her collar that says "PetLink". If she were to become lost, the tag would serve as a notice that a veterinarian or animal shelter could scan her to get my contact information off of her microchip.
October 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Dirt bike races have a lot of starts because it's different classes, but here's my brother-in-law's start, I think the whole concept is cool. Nobody wrecked during his, but I did see a few immediate wipeouts on that turn from other classes. You can hear my family chattering lol
October 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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For sure, OoT will always be the standout for its evolution of the series. I can't even pit the two against each other, though, MM is my favorite example of creative asset reuse. It gets to shine as its own thing!

(pic cause it makes me laugh)
Screenshot of tumblr tags which read "why would you pit two bad bitches against each other?" meaning that both things are great for their own merits
October 1, 2025 at 5:02 AM