Orange Pekoe

Just heard the news about Kazuki Takahashi. I'm... pretty shaken up about this right now, but I just want to say that without him, without Yu-Gi-Oh!, I don't think I'd be where I am today. I messed around with the cards when I was little, never really playing by the actual rules until much later. I watched the anime after school, right after Pokémon. I played the video games, as confusing as they were for a kid. I got older... and I met a silly boy in high school who played the TCG at the lunch table. Then I got real into it, falling in love with all these characters Takahashi created, the universe in the manga & anime just pulled me right in. I drew, SO MUCH. Now, me and that silly YGO lunch table boy are more or less married, and we've gone to multiple YGO tournaments, made so many friends, memories, and experiences revolving around this franchise. So many things in our apartment have been metaphorically 'touched' by Takahashi. Figures, the whole Duel Monsters manga set, blu-rays of the movies, even animation genga that's framed on the wall. So yeah. Takahashi... meant something to us. I'm just so sick of crying, man. 2022 has been really hard. @studio_dice, thank you for being a huge part of our lives. Thank you for creating an amazing world with stylish and over-the-top characters, for creating the biggest card game in the world. Thank you for everything. Rest well, king. Legends never truly die. [Here's some old art from just after high school, when I was in peak YGO brainrot. Thanks for listening to my vent. I still need to talk about TERA too, but... that post's for another day.] #pechoart #fanart #yugioh #kazukitakahashi #ygo https://www.instagram.com/p/CftmLvYLR7E/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Thank you for being such an inspiration for so many, Miura. And thank you all for coming together in XIV with a tribute like this... It's awesome ;_; I love the Dark Knight aesthetic sooo much. Miura's Berserk has inspired SO many people, so many designs and stories touched by his influence. I've never read or watched Berserk myself, but I knew how much of an impact it made. Maybe I should read it now, though it's forever unfinished... Rest easy, Papa DRK. ;_;7 #ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv #xiv #ffxivscreenshot https://www.instagram.com/p/CPGiQ6MHQn5/?utm_medium=tumblr

Couldn't sleep so I made a meme https://www.instagram.com/p/COmbIPgH6G-/?igshid=1bg61kcsa36gp

Do y'all like my interactive table decor https://www.instagram.com/p/CIUrcTVnO9W/?igshid=1eiypam5ejixy

Oh, y'know. Just watching JoJo with my roach children. Totally normal day. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIUmLvRn78a/?igshid=1btnrzcyy8xhh

Excuse me, sir... I'm supposed to be getting out of bed, sir... https://www.instagram.com/p/CIQuvspnF-i/?igshid=1wszmo54ypp3c

Fluffy demons, the lot of them https://www.instagram.com/p/CIPiLsGHPdi/?igshid=1k30eofdr99hp

He looks like a toy 😭😭😭😭😭😭 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIEXM-sHpmx/?igshid=1kajn59v8tllg