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Comix.one @comix.one · 29/09/2026

ANNOUCEMENT: As promised, this is first of a few announcements. We're getting into Webcomics! We've been asked quite a few times about this. Webcomics is a huge and we're really sad to see Tapas go. We want to create a home for all kinds of amazing comics including webcomics.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What do you think of them?? Does this excite you, or do you have anything better for me that'd be more on-brand of me in your mind? Let me know! Thank you so much.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Gek adoption battle begins??? Anyways, if any one of them interested ya, then please contact me!

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hello all! I'm finally ready to announce the release a batch of adoptable geks that you can take for a cozy, sweet home. Check them out. :3 ko-fi.com/sakeozo/shop

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Heya! I’m Destiny, a gecko-obsessed Deaf artist in Pittsburgh working toward Portland. I draw, make comics, and animate original characters, ASL icons, and visual clarity for Deaf characters in media. More work, socials, and commissions: www.sakeozo.com/links (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Maybe tomorrow-- Maybe tomorrow-- Maybe tomorrow-- Maybe tomorrow-- Maybe tomorrow-- Maybe tomorrow-- Maybe tomorrow-- Maybe tomorrow--

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The face of Atom... Do you think she's still innocent?!

Atom, a pale yellow murphy patternless leopard gecko looking wide-eyed and cute, smiley.

Atom biting Destiny's thumb, Atom's eyes are squeezed shut hard. Next to her is a blue rubber duck.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I draw! :D (Experimental drawing of a possible redesign of my original character, Taiya, one of the main trio characters from my work-in-progress comic, How Lovely!~)

Selfie of Destiny posing next to her small sketchbook on a wooden table in a cafe.

Artistic close-up shot of drawing book, Destiny's hand/body. The drawing is upside down. The drawing shows 4 different red pencil sketches, with black cleaner pencil drawing overlapping 2 of them, all of Taiya.

The drawing of Taiya. There are four drawings, all with red pencil sketches. Only two of them have a cleaner rough black pencil draw-over. Three are bust shots and one is a full body. The character is a husky, clean-shaven young man with shoulder-length wavy hair, wearing a boxy hat with a jacket coat over a V-shaped collar. He has a wide protruding mouth, eyelinered eyes, and thick eyebrows. He is chubby.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It is so cool to see how much I've changed over the last 4 years. I definitely aged a little, but I've become more pretty, happy, and confident!

Destiny when she had short-hair green hair, rectangular frameless glasses, and marbled gray t-shirt. In a cluttered bedroom as background.

Destiny with a very long dark reddish brown hair, golden blonde bangs, polished minimal makeup on. She's in gray tank top shirt, with background showing her bedroom being so much more clean.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Lava waits patiently as he is pooping in his personal bathroom. Bonus: potty house next to it. Lava is a very polite and private pooper while my other 2 female leopard geckos poop openly and shamelessly at a corner for everyone to see. What a good clean boy.

AFT gecko chilling with his bottom half of the body inside a peanut-shaped hide next to potty house decor. The floor is paper towel. The gecko looks content.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In few months from now, we are nearing our third years into our relationship, and I am extra infatuated with him tonight so I'm going to share my sketch dump of my boyfriend for you to see and enjoy!!

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I am begging people to understand that not every comic you see online is a “meme” 😭 Just because a comic gets mislabeled as "meme" doesn’t mean you should remove/cover an artist’s watermark. I know it can be done out of ignorance, but please respect artists’ work and give credit!

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hi! This comic is going viral again, but sadly someone covered up 2 watermarks, so no one would be able to find me from this. If you see a watermarkless+creditless repost, please encourage them to credit to me with tag or link to my website, or preferably share my post directly!

Two-panel comic of a pharmacist lady giving testosterone medication to a large, buff, bearded man. She cheerfully says, "Here's your testosterone, ma'am!" to a very masculine trans man, who responds, "...Thanks" with eyes closed.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Hi! Sometimes my old trans comic from 4 years ago resurfaces, often with reposts that had more engagement than my original. Sadly, it went viral again without my 2 watermarks, showing watermarks don’t fully protect creatives from theft. Thankfully, the reposter credited me with link, they're da MVP!

Crudely doodled Destiny as a Gecko grimacing at two red circles on a comic to point out two watermarks have been removed. Gecko Destiny says, "Bro, whoever removed the watermark before this reposter is mega cringe! Shame on you! Thankfully, the reposter credited me..." The comic is partly covered, but it shows a female pharmacist cheerfully passing a bag of medication to a buff, bearded man. She says, "Here's your testosterone, ma'am!" The buff, bearded man closes his eyes, saying, "...Thanks." to emphasize the irony.

Two compiled screenshots of post from X, with typed-in captioning, "It happened again! My old trans comic from 4 years ago went viral again! I made it when I thought I was a trans man, something my trans man friends and I joked about being misgendered despite rocking a beard and a buff body." and "MVP to the person who credited me, esp since two of my watermarks were removed." at the bottom-right corner is a screenshot of reposter linking to my website, with green drawn heart and handwriting, "Thank you for being a decent person."

Original, watermarked comic. a female pharmacist cheerfully passing a bag of medication to a buff, bearded man. She says, "Here's your testosterone, ma'am!" The buff, bearded man closes his eyes, saying, "...Thanks." to emphasize the irony.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

[REPOST FROM 2022] One of my geckos, Scooter, during the feeding time, she decided to randomly jump off of her tank about 5 ft high like it's a jailbreak. That scared me so much! She's okay, she only licked her eye and walked off like nothing happened... That girl never stop scaring me.

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WOLLY @wollymight.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

THANK YOU FOR 8K, BLUESKY!!!!!!! To celebrate, we are giving away a Smolotov zine and 3 Smolotov stickers!!! …and something else that’s even cooler!!! But it’s a secret for now 👀❤️ Rules: share this and be following me! I will choose a random person on August 8th at 8:00 PM central 🍾🔥

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hi, I'm letting you know that I'm pivoting my art around what I offer in my Ko-Fi shop. I took down sticker, given shipping now over $6, it no longer makes sense to mail items costing less. Instead, stickers will be used as Patreon & Ko-Fi membership rewards. I'll be updating them soon, stay tuned!

A screenshot of Destiny Slater / Sakeozo's Ko-fi shop interface featuring three items for sale: a digital ASL-inspired font, a free printable zine titled "Stages of Authoritarianism," and an original 8x8 canvas painting titled "Change."

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This old bad drawing I did forever will be one of my favorites xD

Crude, classic MS Paint drawing of two characters in an alley, vibing like cool douchebags to an animated beatbox playing "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" by Offspring, with the lyrics displayed above: "Give it to me, baby, uh huh, uh huh, give it to me, baby, uh huh, uh huh, give it to me, baby, uh huh, uh huh," and all the girls say I'm pretty fly for a white guy. The character on the left is a green T-Rex with incorrect feet anatomy, wearing sunglasses, smoking a cigar, and crossing his arms. His shirt is dark teal with a bunch of poorly placed and pasted patterns of Will Smith's face on it. The character on the right is a typical human hairy greaser man with an overbite, big lips, star-shaped sunglasses, and tight gray pants; he is dancing.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Art Fight attack at mattmaple! I went harder on this piece than I originally intended to. Please enjoy! Thank you for drawing my IceCream the Sugar Glider character!

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

IMPORTANT: THIS IS A SILLY MASCOT, NOT A FURSONA. MY FURSONA IS A BLACK-FOOTED CAT! Anyways, I wanted to draw up what's below my profile picture, so people knows she's a gecko wearing long "socks" (aka shedding skin lol) cuz I wear long socks IRL. :D She's literally just like meeeee!

Cartoon drawing. "Me as Derpy Gek!" Destiny as a whimsical cartoon gecko with two wall-eyed eyes, one bulging out of her head. She has long deep red hair with a golden blonde bangs, a Fitbit watch, and holds a green phone with a kawaii happy emote speech bubble popping out of her phone. In her other arm, she carries a sketchbook labeled "Messy hot gurl art book, Sakeozo" and pencils. She wears an incomplete, shed-looking long sock resembling long socks. In the bottom right, the artist’s watermark features "Sakeozo" with an ASL "I love you" icon in anthropomorphic form. The background is a grungy pink-to-green gradient with a white pop-out outline around the character.

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hive Mind! I am looking for a Deaf or Partially Deaf artist/graphic designer who signs (I'm not overly bothered whether that's BSL, ASL, or what) who might *potentially* be interested in doing some SFF book covers for pay. These are fact-finding enquiries for me at present, not immediate contract.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I haven't animated someone signing their name in a while. I tried new techniques to make it special. This is dedicated to Heather, an amazing ASL interpreter who helped me connect to the hearing world during art school. I wanted to make this for her 50th birthday. Thank you, Heather!

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I got restricted because I owe @Meta... $0.00.

Screenshot of Facebook post, "I recently discovered that Meta restricted my art account, Sakeozo, because I supposedly owed them money for an unfinished ad campaign back in 2019. Guess how much I owe?
$0.00
Why do I need to pay anything when I had zero balance?
As a result, my account was marked with a "fraud and deception" restriction. My reach dropped, my comments were getting filtered as spam, and fewer people were seeing my artwork.
The most interesting part was that this didn't take effect until June 21, 2026, several days after I criticized a disinformation-spreading "journalist" through DMs privately, which then followed with me being called out publicly, and I then experienced mass-scale harassment from the MAGA community. Fortunately, it was extremely short-lived, and I am not in any immediate danger. I can't prove these two situations are connected, but the timing is coincidental, perhaps triggered by mass reporting.
I went in circles with Meta AI. It couldn't lift the restriction, and I couldn't "pay" the balance because there was nothing to pay. There were also no live agents available when they offered it. I finally took it upon myself to troubleshoot by adding my payment information and put $2.00 into prepaid funding.
Within minutes of adding the funds, the restriction disappeared and my account status returned to normal. I then deleted the inactive ad campaign and removed my payment information.
All this was put up as a silent paywall with a $0 balance that I had no idea about for years, suddenly triggered after some menial online drama. Through all of these years, it was just last month that this happened. No notification, no email. No phone call.
I'd insult Meta, but frankly, they do it to themselves. This is pathetic. A piss-poor auto-moderation system that led to censorship without effective communication. To the Meta team, I'd tell you to do better, but you'll just feed that to your AI, so let me make this loud and clear: go fuck yourselves, 🖕."

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Art Fight friendly fire attack on @kinglucifurr.bsky.social I saw this dude is obsessed with knives, so I had to make a meme reference. ;D I enjoyed this.

Deer-horned demonic vampire-like dapper male character with red hair and black outfit, sitting smiling with background showing knives collection. Caption, "when your whole family questions your life choices, but a random person says you have a cool knife collection"

John Cera sitting smiling with background showing knives collection. Caption, "when your whole family questions your life choices, but a random person says you have a cool knife collection"

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I've narrowed it down to 2 options and edited them to stand out more. So, let's try again with a new round! (Personally I have a soft spot for the derpy gecko one...)

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I'm thinking about updating my social media profile picture, I wanted to extend to y'all to vote for the pfp you like the best! What one do you think is the most warming, readable from small size, and most like me if you know me?

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Little teaser to what I've been working on.

Cropped out, on top-right is Kuro's hairsnake being happy, fangs not out, flowery and sparkly. At the bottom-left is section of Kuro's face, showing end of his long alive hair that has a reddish hot pink eye with green pupil, popping out with sfx.

Kuro without his eyepatch which revealed his scaley eye, mumbling "ugh not now" as he shoo away his activated hairsnake, smiling innocently. Kuro have blue spiky hair with dark tip, navy blue cloak, brown long-sleeved shirt, and mesh net undershirt.

Cropped side view of Hope Fox, she has her hands clasped together, looking sideway at you, smiling. She have orange hair with white side turf hair, black/yellow scraf with soft limp hands at end, and dark top with yellow glows.

Up-close to Hope Fox, smiling and looking at you. She have short orange hair with white turf side hair pieces, glowing yellow goggle, dark top with flowy sleeves, and striped yellow and black scarf.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month! Given the current political climate, it feels more important than ever to say it. Signed, A bisexual detrans woman. Detrans care is still trans care.

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Sami Mark @samimarkart.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Mantis couple! #bugsky 🐙 🐡

An illustration of two (nearly) symmetrical praying mantises. The one on the left stares at the viewer, the one on the right is missing a head.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Very good video, as expected from PBS, and this is why I strongly believe we need to put halt on the hoarder-like growth of ai data centers and start holding people in power with serious accountability. What is your takeaway from this video? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p42...

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We Saw What AI Data Centers Don't Want You to See

YouTube video by PBS Terra

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Detrans healthcare is trans healthcare.

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Meg @meganroseruiz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The only way to know for certain that an image wasn’t made using Generative AI 🖋️

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Do you know that I made a Deaf Webcomic Creator masterlist that you can go support? Many cool stories to discover online. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Destiny's Deaf Webcomic Masterlist (Active)

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

A lack of education in art and disdain for art is a widely recognized characteristic of fascist ideology. #BeAware

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Excuse me, you dropped your genders.

Few green and blue confetti shaped as gender symbol on a concrete ground, with sneaker shoes sneaking in the frame from bottom.

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MeKenzie Martin Art 🎨 @dm7.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Hello artists. Are you struggling with shading? My Forms & Values Practice Resource gives you 65+ 4K lighting refs to finally master light & form. Happy painting! 🎨 gum.co/u/7b7nrqcd #artstudy #digitalart #learnart #artfundamentals #drawingtips

An image that reads Art Fundamentals Forms & Values Practice Resources

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Internalized audism is driving an influx of Deaf people to "improve" on writing to the hearing's standard through gen AI, without understanding the output. This excessive dependency on AI destroys human-to-human communication skills. It's worrying, given the language deprivation syndrome epidemic.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Y'all... You have to look at comment replies of this post So many cats 👀

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Cyn @cyndavilachase.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I wrote this so I could reread it every time this string of thoughts passes through my mind. Maybe some of you might be in the same boat. (1/3) #comic #lifecomic

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Trying to catch up on social media today left me exhausted. My feed is full of gen-AI picture posts from Deaf businesses, ASL classes, events, & even Deaf art organization. It's ironically tone-deaf. I don’t want to complain, but it’s weighing on me more than I can express... - A human Deaf artist

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

With everything going on, who the fuck still goes out with that one cursed cult red hat publicly?! 🥴 Fuck MAGAs.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Rest in piss, Sora! (Throwback to when I drew Sora's newly released 3D "animation" of a monster getting stomped on violently. An old art repost.)

"Regulation on AI Gen now!"

Referring to the quote retweet, a small monster AI-generated by OpenAI is being mercilessly crushed by a huge boot, discolored teal green and yellow. The monster is severely injured, bleeding profusely. Both of its eyeballs have been popped out of their sockets and remain fixated on the floor. Desperately, the monster reaches out towards a candle as its flame takes seemingly laughing and mocking at the dying creature.

Next to the boot, there is a watermark by Sakeozo.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Anyone else feel like their art style evolved dramatically after a major life event? If so, please show and tell in comment!

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Woah!! SO MANY FOLLOW TODAY, WHAT HAPPENED, WHERE DID ALL OF YOU COME FROM, HELLO!

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