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Korean / hobbyist artist / TVXQ fan & ship Homin / Yugioh fan, slave for Prideshipping & DSoD addict / Code Geass fan - Lelouch/C.C. is my OTP / DON'T REPOST MY ARTS w/o my permission / @aminotvxq and @amino_ygo on twitter / @aminoygo.bsky.social on Bluesky / ycajal on DeviantArt / aminotvxq (15899061) on Pixiv

[aminotvxq]

BEHOLD THESE WORKS OF ART😭😭❤️❤️

I finally got to have my own gorgeous figurines of Atem and Magician's Valkyria🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

I went to Yokohama and Akihabara, Japan in late April to both attend TVXQ concerts at Nissan Stadium and hunt for some Yugioh merch. The Atem figurine was definitely one of my targets. I was THRILLLLLLLED as soon as I found one at an otaku shop located in the metropolitan area of Yokohama🥹🥹 The Valkyria one wasn't on my list and my travel budget had nearly been drained on the last day of my trip, then a secondhand unopened one was in stock at Traders in Akihabara!🥹🥹🥹🥹

Now they're enshrined in an acrylic case at home😘

I also got some awesome new cards that were fresh out of the newest booster pack series featuring some overframe cards😍

Because of their cool design and rarity, some overframe cards are ridiculously expensive😭 So I only got to buy four of them, even though they were definitely on my shopping list. The Dragoon and the Dark Magician I got were priced around 6,000 and 4,000 Yen per card, respectively, at different trading card shops. I was willing to pay cuz I'd wanted them so badly😭😭

But these MFs had such BS prices I didn't even bother to try💀

Just look at the price tag💀💀 Do pieces of paper really need to be this pricy💀💀💀💀??? I'd rather buy a brand-new smartphone or a home appliance💀💀💀💀

So there was no choice left for me but to buy their budget alrernatives that had regular in-frame art🥲 Still look cool tho🥲🩷

[bloodsangsangre-deactivated2017]

So near where I live, downtown there are a lot of shops that sell knock off items.

The scariest ones are when they really don’t give a fuck about copyright infringement.

[aminotvxq]

I'm fucking crying literally😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[aminotvxq]

It's the children's day in Korea. I draw a children's card game protagonist as per usual :3

[aminotvxq]

I've been drawing Atem for tens of thousands of times by now since my childhood.... it's never not gonna be fun until I die😊

[aminotvxq]

"The future I once dreamed of has fallen apart... or so I thought."

This isn't technically for celebrating the 10th anniversary of the DSOD, but still intends to carry the vibe. This february, I got myself a pair of official acrylic standees of Atem and Kaiba. They gave me a churning inspiration for this work. The way they were facing the same general direction...🥹 it looked like they were confronting opponent(s) together as a team.

It would've been part of what Kaiba had been dreaming of by the time the Battle City tournament was concluded. He finally admits that Atem is the one he can grow and thrive further together with, not knowing that Atem would leave this world that early...

[aminotvxq]

I'm sick and tired of AI. Tech giants shoving into my throat generic AI "art" that's clearly stolen data from authentic art from amazing human artists, automated AI "translation", and compulsory AI "overviews"... Just leave ME and OTHER HUMANS alone and let US do the jobs for crying out loud🤢🤮

Social media and blogs are being plagued with soulless bots and so-called 'premium accounts'. Selfish people behind the accs are only smart enough to care about raking in easy money, but not smart enough to care about what impact their actions can actually bring about to the social media community and the society as a whole.

The AI fatigue has forced me to reduce screen time significantly in recent weeks. The internet no longer feels like a safe haven for me and other traditional internet folks. I gotta take this opportunity to read more physical paper books that are, of course, written by humans...😭

[aminotvxq]

I shouldn't have played Pokemon Pokopia

This game takes addictiveness to a whole other level💀

Pokopia has even made me ditch my cellphone entirely to grab onto my switch 2 for the last two weeks. That's just how addictive it is.

The coolest stuff about this game is it allows you to build the entire community (communities actually, cuz you gotta manage five seperate towns) for your favorite pokemon. Some people have gone full-blown on architecture stuff like minecraft fans do. I'm not even remotely close to that lofty level but I've already set my ambitious goal to build an entire Domino City from scratch someday😂

Aside from infrastructure, bonding with the pokemon residents is also a crucial part of the game. Once the tutorial part was done I dashed to Pallete Town to bring my ultimate fav pokemon Rowlet to my house🥹❤️

Imagine what life would be like and what society would be like if, in real life, you opened your eyes to wake up to the sight of your favorite pokemon sleeping beside you every morning.......🥹❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷

Icing on the cake: the selfies you take with pokemon using the in-game camera are randomly displayed on the title screen, reminding you every single time of all the endearing memories you've shared with the pokemon folks. The way Pokopia exploits people's innate desire for connection and bonding......😭😭

[aminotvxq]

I'm finally an official resident of Pokopia🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

Switch 2 has been in and out of stock over and over in Korea recently due to surging demands caused by Pokopia. I've been one of such people who couldn't wait to play it😭 My ditto is in blue from head to toe, inspired by Kaiba's BEWD💙

[aminotvxq]

The ad from Super Groupies actually goes:

"Now it's finally time to settle this once and for all!"

*Atem and Kaiba take off shoes*

I....... Uh...... I...... I have so many questions that need answers.........😂😂😭😭😭😭😭😭 It's been years since I became an adult, I definitely deserve answers........😏😏😏😏😏😏

[aminotvxq]

Sunday midnight thoughts on Atem's appearance in the BBT...

It got me breathless when the movie posters and trailers were out in late 2009. At the time, my heart had never moved on from the painful void the shape of him ever since he left this world in 2004 at the end of the show and the manga. I knew the movie was partially just set up in the past where he was still around. It didn't change the brutal fact that he's dead for good anyway🥲 Despite all such depressing and disillusioning intrusive thoughts, his majestic presence in all the teasers, and ultimately the film itself, felt like a shower of carbonated nectar in years of decimating droughts☔️ The bone-chillingly refreshing rainwater managed to fill the void at least temporarily.

The above screencaps were the pinacle of artistic perfection for me. I could put several carpets with the images printed on them over the voids to cover them up in my heart. If only I had known that, seven years later, I would get to see the actual Atem in the afterlife we all had been missing so badly and only dreaming of in the DSOD🥹

[laquilasse]

Part 1/4 of a little prideshipping comic I did for a gift exchange!! The prompt was just so good I had to keep running with it so it ended up with like 22 pages..so stay tuned!

[aminotvxq]

You get me clutching my heart🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

[aminotvxq]

Went to a business trip late last week to Brussels🇧🇪 I'd never been to Europe in my entire life, and the visit to my first ever European city was just great!😍 If only I had been on a vacation to enjoy the experience enough... I also wish euros hadn't been too strong against the Korean won😭😭

[aminotvxq]

I'm still not done with this rather simpler black-and-white piece😔 I had spent the entire late last week in Brussels for a business trip, then wasted last week recovering from the double jet lag back home💀

[aminotvxq]

Ever since 22 years ago, Dark Paladin has been my ultimate all-time favorite monster card that Atem has. He's quite challenging to draw though, compared to base Dark Magician😭 It feels rewarding to be finally able to draw him properly🥹🥹 Back when I first fell in love with him, my drawing skills weren't good enough to draw this dragon slayer wizard who's got absolute drip🥵🔥

[aminotvxq]

I'll call it a day for today :-3 will work on the rest (and of course anatomical error correction💀) tomorrow

[dorodoroart]

I saw the Toying With Daddy (yep that’s the manhwa title) art trend and I was like….. SMUG MALE ART TREND??????? WITHOUT SETO KAIBA????? UNACCEPTABLE

[aminotvxq]

HE TOO HOT FOR WUT😭🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

[aminotvxq]

I love how Kaiba is among only a handful of main yugioh characters to whom real-world hair dynamics can apply😂 Atem yours is just a freak get outta here