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33 | they/them | AuDHD | webcomic creator, Art Director for tidalwavegames.com, wearer of many hats | Pennsylvania. Read KATTABOLT: kattabolt.com | patreon.com/areyoshi

2 disembodied chibi heads of a mysterious webcomic character wearing a green hood. You cannot see their eyes and they both have no discernible expression, but the one on the right has a glowing pink shine where an eye would be. There is a big 2 in the top right corner and the comic url in the bottom left.
three disembodied cutesy heads of the blue haired cat boy Leigh, from the webcomic Kattabolt. One head looks bored but the second is grooming the third like a real cat. It's a bit weird. There is a large 3 in the top right corner and the comic address in the bottom left.
Lightly edited screenshot of apricot's GW2 Asura in a cutesy pink and yellow themed outfit. They are standing in a library and reading a book. There's a flower crown, a scarf, a cute sweater, and even a skirt to complement the character's big floppy ears so that they look extra cute.
4 disembodied chibi heads of Chris from the webcomic Kattabolt. Chris is chubby, Black, and has freckles, with short, natural hair. 3 heads are stacked, with the fourth one looking up at them in surprise. There is a big 4 in the top right and the comic url in the bottom left.
Art of 5 disembodied heads featuring the same fox boy character, Ray, from the webcomic Kattabolt. Each head has a different expression as they mingle cutely amongst one another. There is a big 5 in the top right corner and the comic URL from the post at the bottom left.
Art of 6 disembodied chibi Nathan heads stacking on top of one another. Nathan has pale skin and blond hair. One alarmed looking head is about to fall from the sky onto the ones below it, and they all have different cute expressions.
Snapchat of apricot's ceiling in a dark room. Some light is hitting the ceiling paint from just behind the blackout curtains and something is reflecting onto it, creating a faint band of colors on the ceiling. The colors appear to be orange, dark blue, light blue, and green. apricot asks in the caption, with an arrow pointing to the colors, "what flag is this..."
cropped screenshot from apricot's stream, showing the live video feed trained on a cat bed. Instead of a cat there is an anime boy figurine in the bed.
7 scribbly heads of Alex the cat girl, all stacked in a cuddle pile and with different cute expressions. The number 7 is in the top right hand corner and the comic website from the post above is in the bottom left-hand corner. I drew this and said 'what does this have to do with the comic?' but my friends convinced me to use it anyway, so here you go, it's Alex's head as if she was a little bodiless creature and also there's 7 of her? They look happy at least.
Kattabolt webcomic promo. Alex the cat girl is looking down at a map as she flattens it with her hand and says 'wow!'
A simply drawn top down battle map which features a bridge crossing a river, some hazardous rocks you could use to cross instead, a big empty space for fighting, and some trees you could hide behind. There is a quarter coin that takes up 4 grid spaces serving as the Rat King, who has 6HP and has big scary art on the right side of the map. Three pieces of cocoa cereal represent rat minions, which have 1HP each, and a cornflake represents the player character, who also has 6HP. The PC has 3 potions available and has been drawn by a cool child to resemble a half human/half scorpion abomination who was nonetheless hired by a village to kill the rat king. Yes, you get to eat the cereal when you kill a foe, and killing the rat king earns you a quarter.
Kattabolt webcomic promo. Alex is sitting at a nighttime cook fire with Eli, the old wagon driver from chapter one. His palrow, a large yak/cow-like creature, is laying comfortably in the grass nearby. Eli's dialogue has been replaced and now reads "Kattabolt is back! Even if it's not this one you should def be reading a comic today."
Big Boy 4014, a large black steam engine from WW2, as seen in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 2026. Steam is flowing freely from the top of the train and becoming indistinguishable from the clouds in the sky.
Video of the Big Boy 4014 train pulling into Altoona for a brief whistle stop. There's a big crowd watching the train and many are filming this rare arrival.
Kattabolt webcomic update promo. The cropped preview art for the chapter cover shows a red apple lying in the dirt amongst some forest debris, with small pawprints pressed into the dirt from whatever creature has walked by.
The cute hedgehog pokemon, Shaymin, walking amongst some pink flowers.
A scanlated page from Kuroko no Basuke. Kuroko is crying with a towel over his head and the other players stand up as the timeout ends. Kuroko: damn... Announcer: timeout over.
Bad doodle of Alex the cat girl from apricot's webcomic Kattabolt, pasted onto a photo of a white T-shirt and given glowing eyes. In poorly edited text it says "i am going to beat you to death"
Roku app which has some popular shows to watch but also an advertisement banner for a "Am I Gay Test" which says "Am I Gay Take this test to determine if you are gay straight or bisexual"
2 panel comic for Make a Terrible Comic Day. Panel 1: caption reads "pet sitting..." And depicts two dogs drooling and whining as they stare upwards. Panel 2: apricot is defensively guarding the food in their hand, which is captioned as a "tiny little yogurt bar". apricot says "Piss off, you already ate!"
overgrown standard yorkie dog standing in a yard and looking back at the camera
doodly zoomed in crop from a Kattabolt webcomic panel. It's still in the rough draft stage and shows a childish drawing of a map with some question marks and two scribbled faces labeled "us"
apricot drew little seal flippers on the picture of the lemon where it has a little kitty mouth shape
The same one eyed cat as the first post, but now with no filter and her eye in the sunlight. It's a beautiful mix of colors, more yellow on the outside but with a big splotch of green that's almost blue in the center.
One eyed gray cat staring directly at the camera with her tongue out while laying on carpeting in very dramatic lighting. Her eye is open wide and looks more yellow than its usual green, thanks to a Snapchat filter.
Kattabolt chapter one print edition, cropped screenshot from Kickstarter. Less visible are the words "Kattabolt is an ongoing fantasy webcomic about young cat girl Alex as she travels abroad. Let's print chapter one!" There is big red text that says CLICK ME with an arrow pointing to the Notify Me on Launch button, and a cute image of Alex positioned as if she's yelling it.
line art from the kattabolt webcomic, showing alex the cat girl upside down and flailing her limbs so wildly that it appears she has multiple of each, like a cartoon smear. I prefer to do the more smear bits when I color, so this just looks silly.
A gray, one eyed cat sitting on a white windowsill. She has a blue collar and a big neon green name tag that says MIMI. If I had to put her vibes into a single word, it would be "impish"
hey check out how hard i can cry meme, except edited to be the cat girl Alex from the webcomic Kattabolt. in panel one Alex runs up to someone and says "hey check out how hard i can mask" and in panel two she is staring blankly into the void with a noise filter around her head.
sketch of Alex the cat girl from the webcomic Kattabolt. She's crouched down and facing the viewer, a determined look on her face as her hair flies behind her as if she's just skidded back and caught herself during some kind of action scene.
Original character art from probably a decade ago! It's Benji, a young adult man with fluffy blond hair that's brown at the roots. He's wearing big round glasses, a pink hoodie, a pleated skirt, and thick leg warmers with chunky sneakers. He's smiling and throwing out a peace sign.
cropped screenshot of Alex the cat girl, from the Kattabolt webcomic. She is very stressed out, gritting her teeth with her lips pulled downward and her eyes are huge, with upturned eyebrows. Above her there is a wavy stressed sound effect of "aaaaaaa"
messy doodle of Tails from Sonic, he is in a loosie goosy style and not at all on-model.
Hastily drawn Pikachu on apricot's wrist, just below their actual tattoo, which is the button sequence for the Song of Storms.
fan art of Marshal the squirrel from Animal Crossing. He's a white cartoon squirrel wearing a blue vest, and in this drawing he looks a bit smug while holding a wrapped gift up.
A three man jazz guitar group playing music in a coffee shop
Three panel comic titled "Baby's First Concussion". Panel 1: a toddler is standing up and happily saying "mah bwoo" (which means "my Blue" in baby). There is a thick horizontal line in the middle of the child's forehead. Panel 2: flowers and bubbles decorate the panel as they horizontal line slowly opens up to reveal a third eye in a magical girl transformation kind of way. Panel 3: the toddler is sitting on the floor, tongue out, looking up and watching Bluey on a hologram projected from the now-open third eye.
A drawing based on the quoted photo of a crane walking past a fishing pole in a way that made it look like the bird was the one carrying the pole. In the art it's intentional, with the crane carrying the pole for real and wearing a fishing cap. There is a caption that says "gone fishin`"
comic panel rough draft of an old man with a beard, a hat, and a large scar on one side of his face that runs through a blind eye. He looks nice and affable.
The weather Pokemon, Castform, excitedly flying high away from the Hoenn weather institute in its rainy cloud form. It's foggy and gray outside, with poor weather clearly closing in.
A male cardinal sitting on apricot's bird feeder
crop from a Kattabolt Patreon post, featuring some beta designs for Ray and Leigh from 2021. There is some text visible but it's all cut off character details. everyone out. The bandages on his arms (cut) and frequently enough to keep them fres (cut) himself; he has a fire resistance, but is n (cut) Only two people can truly hurt Ray's feeli (cut) As fot Leigh, he's mo (cut) up appearances. The (cut) pockets who live in (cut) like it. Leigh keeps (cut) has a bag for hidin (cut) (which Ray resists.) L (cut) that he's cautious a (cut) and Ray's interests in (cut) Header: Triangles... I may have steppe (cut) choices and shap (cut) the reader's tutorial (cut) There is some art visible at the very bottom with a bit of Ray and Leigh's heads, but that is also cropped out.
composition shot showing progress of Alex from page 46 of the Kattabolt comic. It goes in order of thumbnail, draft, lineart, and then color. The hashtag from the post is at the bottom, as well as the Kattabolt logo and the webcomic URL.
4 progress shots of an art piece by apricot (in this case the cover of the HBHS game book.) The first picture includes a cropped photo of their sibling so they could copy the pose. The other pics are further progress, with the main focus being that the photo reference helped apricot complete the picture in both a timely and ethical way.
A brown and white tuxedo cat sleeping on a pillow. She has a pink nose with a brown dot on it. Behind her there's a Switch 2 with Pokemon Fire Red on it, with the trainer standing in front of Mewtwo.
Pokemon GO snapshot of a shiny Pawmot in AR mode, standing on a cement walkway around some ivy and other greenery. Instead of being orange, shiny Pawmot is pink.
A promo image for apricot's Patreon, featuring cropped snippets from four different Pokemon fan art pieces for the first part of 2026. There's Feebas, Morelull, Meowth, and Castform.
Pikachu cans on the shelf! They're sitting in front of a Ditto-as-Pikachu doll and a fluffy detective Pikachu. Between them is a Pikachu figure who dropped its ice cream, which ket brought home for me from a trip to NYC.
A pulled out photo showing apricot's Pikachu collection, which includes the little shelf from the previous post but also a longer shelf holding many Pikachu dolls. Some of apricot's book cases are visible as well, clearly disorganized because they do not have enough space for books, please send help.
Small shelf with a lot of different little Pikachu figures and other memorabilia on it. The collection is nice but potentially off-putting for anyone who doesn't understand the power of a multiple-decade spanning special interest. There's also a large 3D printed cartridge made to look like the Pokemon Yellow game cart, as well as some framed animation notes on Pikachu.
A promo image for apricot's Patreon, featuring cropped snippets from four different Pokemon fan art pieces for the first part of 2026. There's Feebas, Morelull, Meowth, and Castform.
Fan art of the fairy Eeveelution Pokemon, Sylveon. This art is from the year Sylveon was revealed, so it's pretty old! Still cute, though, mostly thanks to a somewhat lineless style and Sylveon playfully having its tongue sticking out. The background is just a cute bubbly sort of pattern.
Altered art of cat girl Alex from the webcomic Kattabolt. She is a girl in a blue and white uniform, hovering idly in front of a colorful stained glass window and looking pensively at a glowing orb floating above her palm. What's been altered is that the usual orb from Alex's outfit has been replaced with the photo of the real world "mysterious orb" from the article in the quoted post.
Headline: Mysterious "golden orb" found in ocean depths off Alaska in 2023... (Text cuts off.) "Scientists spent over two years identifying a mysterious object found off the coast of Alaska in 2023." Image: photo of a strange gold colored lumpy ball, taken underwater where it sat on some rocks. There's a hole in the side and it appears to be hollow.
black and white photo of a paper airplane still upright in the air thanks to landing in the pinch of a clipboard fastener.
Art of the cat Pokemon Meowth, laying on a plush purple pillow and licking its tail. The view is from outside a window and looking past the window pane. There are polaroid photos hanging off a nearby wall. The overall vibe is cozy.
older art of Alex the cat girl from the webcomic Kattabolt. She's got her back mostly turned towards the viewer. She's lit dramatically and heavily silhouetted. Her expression is serious, eyes intense and looking nothing like the cuter Alex that the comic readers know.
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Alex the cat girl from the webcomic Kattabolt, featured in two sketchy comic panel rough drafts. In panel one she is scooping food from a bowl into her mouth and in panel two she has a big chunk of bread hanging from her mouth while she puts the rest of the bread back in her bag.
A black cat laying on the back of a couch while a brown and white tuxedo cat lays on the couch cushions. Both girls are looking at the camera. There are various stuffed animals and blankets around them.