Sakeozo 🍵

@sakeozo

🍵 Deaf artist + cartoonist • PGH🔁PDX 🍓 Original stories, cozy art & some good trouble 🦎 Fueled by matcha, geckos, & side quests ≽^•⩊•^≼

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Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· 4d

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.

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· 11d

[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.

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· 20d

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."

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· 24d

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.

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· 24d

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!

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· 25d

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.

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· 29d

Fuck ICE.

Hi! I've been quiet about these drawings for several months. With everything that has happened since then, from what I've witnessed in my local communities and beyond to the very personal impact on people I love, I no longer feel comfortable keeping them to myself. You need to know about what's going on in this country.

Sharing these pieces feels more important now than ever. Through my art, I want to contribute a small piece of Deaf and ASL representation while expressing the emotions I've been carrying: anger, grief, frustration, and deep solidarity with those affected by ICE's inhumane and senseless actions.

The hot pink piece was placed in front of an ICE facility, and it's still there to this day. To me, that's a reminder of how powerful a visual voice can be. I am honored to have that as my very first street art.

And not only that, the square wooden platform was spraypainted by me for the first time and I mixed it up with markers. I've gained so much new art experience from that short time, and that's something a community support will give me in the way ICE could never give to just anyone, not even to their own families.

Art has always been one of the ways I process what I see and what I feel. These pieces are my way of speaking out, standing with my community, and making it clear where I stand.

🖕 Fuck ICE.

Painting on sidewalk, a very vibrant hot pink with purple and blue shading and yellow/white highlight hands in ASL fingerspelling with letter below, "FUCK ICE", at the top-left corner is an original drawing of the same thing on paper, next to a red small backpack.

A square wooden platform and mixed media on it with paint, spraypaint, and marker of a giant vibrant blue and pink middle finger smashing on "ICE" lettering that is breaking apart.

Blob cartoony ASL hands spelling "FUCK ICE" and appear to be melting

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Jul 13

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!

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Jul 9

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, 🖕."

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Jul 8

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"

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Jul 5

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...)

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Jul 5

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?

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Jul 4

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.

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Apr 23

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.

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Apr 14

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."

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Mar 25

Rest in piss, Sora!

"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.

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Mar 18

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.

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Mar 15

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.

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Mar 12

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.

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Mar 6

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

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Mar 4

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

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Mar 4

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

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Mar 1

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!

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Feb 28

Gecko on a toilet. 😨

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Feb 28

Scooter and I. :D

A selfie of Destiny with no makeup, her hair twist-braided. She is smiling as she's holding a leopard gecko up with her left hand. She has a golden-brown bracelet, is wearing her dark green Sign-a-Thon shirt (which is mirrored backward), and is in her bedroom background, showing a sleep mask on the wall and a sexy backside lady neon sign. The lighting is orange.

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Feb 28

Stinky. U__U

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Feb 25

Just so you know, this is the level of accessibility Deaf people received. The captions are messed up. The camera angle on ASL interpreter is too high. The FPS is low. The lighting is poor. These issues affect how Deaf people get info. It didn’t used to be this way until Trump cried about ASL.

A screenshot from YouTube of Trump speaking, the closed captioning repeating, at the bottom-right corner, an ASL interpreter is in a very low-quality orange/yellow lighting with camera being too high up.

Sakeozo 🍵@sakeozo· Feb 25

It was very late at night, almost at the time of early bird's alarms, anxiously waiting about on some news about a friend. With these turmoil within, I doodled a bunch of jellyfish cats. Trying out the jellyfish species. It was a nice exercise, you should try that too. :3