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QUICK, WHAT LETTER DID I JUST FINGERSPELL IN ASL?

Destiny seemed a little surprised as she pulled up a letter "B" in American Sign Language before the graffiti tag that spells out "itch" on the wall. Destiny is a pale woman with rimless glasses, long dark red hair with a golden blonde front bang. She has a gray jacket on with a striped navy shirt and a necklace.

Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Did you know that most of *How Lovely!~* takes place in Pittsburgh? The story's visual style is inspired by Andy Warhol's approach to Pop Art. Warhol was born and raised in Pittsburgh, too! Enjoy an old art repost of the trio!

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Scooter is a very good watchdog... watchgecko. I adore her.

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

Been thinking about my life stuff, and there's a theme with this. I'm grateful that I have the self-worth to step away from situations when continuing to engage isn't going to make things better. Keep being yourself and keep creating!

Drawing of Sake the Cat drawing on her Wacom tablet monitor with a pen, other paw on the keyboard. At her computer seat and desk. Text split in half both above and below: "I don't owe anyone continued communication after they've disrespected, mischaracterized, minimized, and silenced me. I know what happened, and I have no interest in narratives I don't believe in."

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

HOW LOVELY!~ MAIN CHARACTER HIGHLIGHT: TAIYA VASILEV Taiya Vasilev, Kuro’s childhood best friend, is known for getting into mischief together, like pranking people. His biggest flaw is indecisiveness. More story-filled doodles coming soon. ^w^ Please bear with me as I work things out.

A professional digital reference sheet of Taiya Vasilev, titled "Indecisive Netural." He is a very plain-looking young adult man with medium-long dull dirty blond hair, wearing green hat, dark red jacket, green top, jean, and green shoes. The other parts showcase him without hat, being anxious over two flavor of potato chips, and cheerfully just baked a pie, with his hair pulled back.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You will never take Deaf Art voice away.

screenshot from Instagram story, picture of painting of vibrant pink-purple hands fingerspelling in ASL, "fuck ice" with captioning on top and bottom: "Recently, I got a form submission via my website with threat about painting over this drawing. Fine, but please know you are the selfish one for erasing the Deaf voice for detainees, and I will continue to make art that generally represents Deaf/ASL users, whether you like it or not. I will stand for what's right and many people appreciated this. You will never erase Deaf art voice, even if it is heavily political."

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

HOW LOVELY!~ CHARACTER: KURO HEBITO Kuro Hebito, the protagonist, embodies pessimism with a feminine Medusa-like energy from his longer hair. He grapples with societal BS, insecurity, & principles while rebelling against a powerful biotech corp to uncover Thailand’s truth. Stay tuned!

A professional digital reference sheet of Kuro Hebito, titled "The Pessimist." He is a very young adult man with spiky two-toned light blue hair, a longer strand of hair appear to be alive like a cat tail. The end of that strand of hair can tranform to a cheerful femimine horned viper creature with stronger emotions and personality than Kuro himself, highlighting funny opposite dynamic that his hair snake annoys Kuro. The other parts showcase his eyepatch, shoes, and necklace.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

HOW LOVELY!~ TRIO CHARACTER HIGHLIGHT: HOPE FOX Hope Fox, formerly 07, is a Deaf girl with scarfhands. She is a manifestation & embodiment of an optimist, both the beautiful and the challenging sides of "happy" More story-filled doodles are on their way. Stay tuned for tomorrow next character! ^w^

A professional digital reference sheet of Hope Fox, titled "The Optimist." She is a young girl with short orange hair, wearing a dark brown and yellow outfit, showing her scarf and hands that can extend with larger hands at each end to move around, along with a relaxed version. Her shoes are highly detailed, featuring white, brown, and pink colors.

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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 · 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

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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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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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 · 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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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Boo! I've meet some very sweet casual users of gen AI, esp like my dad, and I kind of spare them, because they're not the one in power nor being malicious/hurtful. It is kinda scary seeing some people get overly dependent on gen AI. I created this status other day, I think you might would like it.

Screenshot of Sakeozo's Threads post from 1 day ago, "A thought that has been sitting with me:
An influx of Deaf people are using gen AI to write/type, and it may be due to their internalized audism, so they feel pressured to "improve" their writing, to write as "well" as like hearing people do, without really understanding the output of their ai-generated writing. This excessive dependency harms their authentic, human-to-human communication, like we are not already dealing with an ongoing epidemic of language deprivation syndrome."

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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 · 18/03/2026

ᐛ👉👉 heheh look at me now I'm my own art style!! The nose!

A collage featuring artist Destiny Slater (Sakeozo) centered between two columns of her artwork. Destiny is a pale-skinned white woman with glasses, blonde bangs, and long dark brown hair in braided pigtails, she has an intentional dab of white cream on her nose, smiling. Both left and right columns contain four super close-up character face illustrations each. Every character features a distinct, shaped highlight on the tip of their nose, just mirroring like the artist's. At the bottom, a watermark reads "SAKEOZO" next to an "ILY pet" icon.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A fun, long-overdue animation practice: an ASL sentence featuring my original character from my ongoing graphic novel, How Lovely!~ She signs, "Hi, my name's Hope!" I dropped it because she's not intended for animation, altho I’d love to create an animated spinoff of my comic once it's published.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

You shared that post and yet you post ai bullshit. Really?

A screenshot of a bluesky post Shared by OP, the post was about data centre protest.

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Yeah, I agree, Dr. Santos would look good as a dragon! As a Pittsburgh local, I expected a furry at The Pitt. I was thrilled to see a fursuiter in the ER, haha. After researching Filipino mythic dragons, I learned about Bakunawa, which inspired this character design. Enjoy! #ThePitt

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

$Panel 10: 6 PM (6pm) Exactly as what I expected, a nurse walks in just to tell me it’s broken. The panel features a real X-ray image of a foot, with a red circle highlighting a clear fracture in one of the toes. In the bottom right corner, Destiny is peeking in, tear-eyed, leaky nose, and giving a sarcastic thumbs up. At the center of bottom under panel, there's an artist's watermark logo by Sakeozo. Icon featuring ILY pet.$

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Hey everyone! I'm a month late with this year's Hourly Comics Day, oops! I took my time cuz I do this for free, just for your enjoyment in a quick minute, lol. Plus, my broken toe made me depressed, struggled with my usual routine. Enjoy this year's Hourly Comics Day, despite the delay! >XP

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Sakeozo 🍵 @sakeozo.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Hello, happy March, it's my birthday month! I’m honored to illustrate a fanart profile picture for March, created for a server dedicated to two of my favorite characters from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Josuke Higashikata and Rohan Kishibe!

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