Sakeozo 🍵

@sakeozo.bsky.social

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

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."
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.
Paintery, cartoon-style drawing of an anime bunny character in retro-like outer space (orange and blue). The anime bunny character has duo-toned brown hair connecting with bunny ears, wears a cropped white hoodie with an oversized hood, and has orange plus and blue minus signs scattered throughout the design. Below, the character is dressed in a black, tight-fitting bodysuit. In the background, comet-shaped objects resembling minus and plus symbols are flying by. Under the anime bunny's arm, there is an artist icon logo watermark by Sakeozo featuring an anthropomorphized ILY ASL character.
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.
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.
Red textured framing around an animation. On top, with several decorative doodles of hearts, gecko prints, and strawberries, titled "Name Sign Animation" and "Heather." The animation features the Sakeozo artist watermark and logo. Heather is a woman with shoulder-length hair, some of which is gray, wearing a dark purple shirt. She signs her name, which looks almost like "sun" in ASL, by spreading her fingers out at her face. When she does this, a glow appears and then fades out. The background is purple and filled with silly unicorn doodles.
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, 🖕."
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"
Second round, VOTE for Sakeozo's new profile picture! Number from 1 to 4 in a row of circular profile picture illustrated. 1 is a very close-up of Destiny as gecko with tongue sticking out, bright green background. 2 is a little further away version of 1, with pink to green gradient background. 3 is super up-close of Destiny but with dark lipstick on. 4 is same as 3, but without dark lipstick on. "I've narrowed it down to two options and edited them to stand out more. So, let's try again with a new round!"
Black background with white text at the top, "Vote!" Below it, smaller text, "Sakeozo's new profile picture." Five circular profile pictures are displayed in a horizontal row, labeled from 1 to 5. 1. Stylized portrait of Destiny with glasses, blonde hair with dark roots, teal eyes, dark lipstick, and a small heart-shaped cheek mark. Small decorative animals are in the hair. (Gek on left, Bibi on right) 2. Close-up of Destiny with glasses, blonde hair, teal eyes, dark lipstick, and a smiling open mouth. 3. Destiny with an exaggerated expression: raised eyebrows, wide eyes, open mouth. 4. Cartoon gecko version of Destin y, with glasses, two-tone hair, large teal eyes, and tongue out. 5. Front-viewing cartoon gecko version of Destiny, wearing glasses, with two-tone hair, large teal eyes, and tongue out.
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.
Few green and blue confetti shaped as gender symbol on a concrete ground, with sneaker shoes sneaking in the frame from bottom.
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."
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.
Rough sketch pencil hand-drawn frame-by-frame 2D animation of Hope Fox signing "Hello, my name is H-O-P-E!" at the bottom right. It is a drawing of her to show a reference of what she would look like when colored in. She has two scarf hands that hold her up. At the bottom left, there is an artist's watermark logo, Sakeozo, containing a logo icon design of Destiny as an ILY pet.
A screenshot of a bluesky post Shared by OP, the post was about data centre protest.
A Full-body digital illustration of Dr. Santos from The Pitt as a Bakunawa dragon character. Dr. Santos is an anthropomorphic dragon with pale green and yellow scales, light yellow/green fins behind her ears, and small dark horns. She has a kind, slightly weary expression and dark hair tied back. She wears dark brown medical scrubs, a greenish-blue long-sleeved undershirt, and a stethoscope draped around her neck held by her. Her spiked tail from behind her with fin in the end. The background is a soft-focus, blurred image of a hospital room, and the text "Dr. Santos the Bakunawa Dragon" is written in a dark red, hand-lettered font to her right. On the left beside her face, there is an artist's watermark logo, Sakeozo, the icon is an ILY pet.
Panel 13: 9 PM (9pm) Boyfriend sent me an ADHD toy reaction video, and we talked about doing something like that. Four speech bubbles against a purple background show different fidget toys: a spring, a plastic tube, a hand squeezing a stress ball, and a set of magnetic rings. At the center of bottom under panel, there's an artist's watermark logo by Sakeozo. Icon featuring ILY pet.
Panel 9: 5 PM (5pm) Urgent care time! I’m mad because I realized this meant I can’t go to gym for a while! Destiny is sitting in the passenger seat of a car, wearing a winter hat with cat ears and a green scarf. She looks angry and is looking at her phone. Small red backpack on her lip. Beside her is an older man with a blue beard and a Pirate baseball cap, her father, he is driving the car. At the center of bottom under panel, there's an artist's watermark logo by Sakeozo. Icon featuring ILY pet.
Panel 5: 2 PM (2pm) Hi, unplanned “morning” doomscrolling on a depression rectangle called phone. An extreme close-up of Destiny’s face, focusing on her tired eyes reflecting a screen. She is holding a smartphone close to her face. A small speech bubble says, "This sucks balls." At the center of bottom under panel, there's an artist's watermark logo by Sakeozo. Icon featuring ILY pet.
Panel 1: 12 AM (12am) I just updated a nicer picture of myself online! Destiny, a woman character with blonde and brown hair, wearing cat-ear headphones, and glasses, sits at a computer desk. She is giving a thumbs up. On the monitor is a real-life photo of Destiny herself. The desk is cluttered with a water bottle, toothpick, keyboard, mouse, ear swab, and a drawing tablet monitor. At the center of bottom under panel, there's an artist's watermark logo by Sakeozo. Icon featuring ILY pet.
A dark purple background in a painterly style with a limited color palette. At the center is a giant four-leaf clover, each leaf featuring a front-facing bust portrait of both characters from Jojo's Bizzare Adventure. Josuke Higashikata appears on one leaf and is mirrored on the opposite leaf, while Rohan Kishibe occupies the remaining leaf and is likewise mirrored across from himself. Josuke wears green lipstick and eyeshadow, holding a rose between his teeth. Across from him, Rohan smirks smugly, appearing reluctant to admit his impression of Josuke. In the bottom-right corner is a white artist watermark logo by Sakeozo, with an ILY pet icon.
Inside a stall of a grungy public restroom, a bright orange gecko is sitting on the toilet whimsically to herself. The environment feels very worn out and dirty, there's a toilet plunger next to the toilet and a mite on the wall. At the upper-right corner, there is an artist's logo as watermark by Sakeozo.
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.
A sitting sad, moping chubby chibi leopard gecko with back slightly facing the viewer on a painterly textured orange-green ground background fading to white toward upper-right corner. At the upper-right area, a handwriting in all cap reads as "STINKY" and multiple arrows points at the sad moping gecko. Just under the tail, there's a subtle artist watermark logo, Sakeozo.
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.
Traditional drawing of 13 different jellyfish cats undersea, in varying bright colors, species, size, shape, and personalities. A bunch of small bubbles here and there.
A picture of a traditional drawing of a female anthro cat from the bust up. Her arm is idling in front of her. The colors are apparently to be fought with various coloring techniques, but overall it is mainly a blue cat with pink secondary fur color and a purple shirt. In the bottom-right corner, it is signed by Destiny Slater on 2/22/2026.
A close-up of Destiny's face, showing from just below her nose to the top of her head. She is slightly angled downward. On her blond bang, she wears three hair clips, one on the left with a design of an ILY pet, and two on the right, Bibi the Deaf Cat's head and the @w@ emote text.
A textured digital illustration of a female purple bunny furry character with long, wavy deep reddish purple hair. She has large brown eyes, many eyelashes, few sticker on cheek, and she is playfully sticking her tongue out. She wears a simple very dark olive-green t-shirt and has small bandages on her arms. She is holding a poofy plushie of Art the Clown with an oversized yellow flower sunglasses. The colorings are vibrant, the drawing is hand-inked style with a bright pink glowing outline around the character to pop out, along with a textured teal background. At the bottom-left corner is a small artist watermark logo of ILY pet with text saying "Sakeozo"
A DM exchange between SpotifyCares and Sakeozo on X, in which Spotify as a response to Sakeozo's concern about disappearing lyrics and lyrics being paywalled, with typical polite customer service speak troubleshooting, linking Sakeozo a song track to Rick Roll for her to check the lyrics out. Sakeozo laughs it off and clarified herself, in return Spotify responds with cookie-cutter "you are valued" speak.
messy rough sketch sdrawing of broken toe next to upside-down foot rester and a cat is looking at the foot. "4pm, broke toe, lol. My dumb ADHD ass objext impermance forgot foot rest was there, thought I stubbed 3 toes, took socks off and.... Oh nice."
Holding up a cute light blue plain wallet with small chibi dinosaur eating icecream with brand name, "Gugu". Wallet is held up while the background is of computer screen showing a work-in-progress four-panels comic page of a couple making love playfully.
A selfie of Destiny holding mini-zine about stages of authoritarianism, using tomato analogy.
Character refernece sheet of Sake the Black-footed Cat, she is Deaf, Pisces, and INTJ. Listed with her likes and dislikes next to color palettes. From top to bottom, there are 3 views of Sake without clothes, 4 views plus unique pose of clothed Sake. Three headshots to show 3 different hairstyles. One feral form. 9 chibi Sake to show all different outfits. Returning back to the list of likes and dislikes. Sake likes Drawing, iced matcha latte, green+pink+brown combo, cats, geckos, moths, metal music, synthwave, crystals, dead stuffs, kawaii, anime, certain taboo topics, salty food, ancient internet memes, tea, siren, women, long socks, girlboss, and pho soup. Sake dislikes Horses, pea soup, sweet foods, scratching on wet paper texture, mildew odor, lotion that make you feel like you have a second skin, mysticism, and inconsiderable people. The background is loose imperfect grid, soft sunset. At the bottom-left corner, there's an artist watermark by Sakeozo with icon as ILY pet.
This promotional graphic for the zine "Stages of Authoritarianism" showing an egg-headed mascot holding a sign that offers a free printable download. The layout contains 8 comic panels across the bottom. Modern, dark-grey text boxes in the corner provide product details, informing you to download the zine for free or via donation on Ko-Fi. At the bottom-left corner, there is an artist watermark logo.
A rough sketch page filled with expressive character headshots. Different faces, designs, genders, hairstyles, and moods are shown in loose, messy linework. The drawings feel experimental and emotional, like concept sketches or warm-ups exploring personality and identity. Characters of the follow contains: Hope Fox, Taiya, Kuro Hebito, Kuro's dad, Mita Bold, Yamin Noor, Medusa, Auguste, Sahime, and Boom. In the center-upper-left, there is a watermark logo by Sakeozo.
DestinyMew holding up a book that says, "How to NOT get on Encyclopedia Dramatica, things I never told Obama"
Screenshot of a Ko-fi membership tier titled “YUMMY SUPPORT,” priced at $15 per month, showing an illustrated banner of three tacos filled with green garnish, a horchata rice with cinnamon stick in purple bowl, and a small yellow hand signing "Sticker" in ASL, below the image is a green “Join” button, text stating “29 places left,” a short message saying the supporter is treating the creator to a snack, and a list of rewards including everything from the Tea Time tier plus monthly stickers and an art print mailed with a handwritten thank-you note.
Illustration of an original character named Hope Fox sitting on one large striped scarfhand while another oversized scarfhand waves behind her. She has short orange hair and wears dark clothing with warm yellow and orange accents. The background is a solid red rectangle, and the artwork is done with bold, flat colors and visible marker texture. Signed with Destiny Slater | Sakeozo on 1-9-2026.
Illustration of an original character named Hope Fox sitting on one large striped scarfhand while another oversized scarfhand waves behind her. She has short orange hair and wears dark clothing with warm yellow and orange accents. The background is a solid red rectangle, and the artwork is done with bold, flat colors and visible marker texture. Signed with Destiny Slater | Sakeozo on 1-9-2026.
A close-up shot of a leopard with several scars clamped down onto a deceased and wounded nazi soldier by the neck. Both are staring towards the viewer, the leopard with the upper length of its muzzle scrunched up, it's eyes intense and glowing with a hint of blue, and the nazi with lifeless eyes, broken teeth, and blood trailing down from the neck, mouth, and nose along with tears. The background consists of a forest on fire with several mangled bodies strewn about. "Meltdown" is overlayed over the fire with the name "Rylon The Leopard" under it.
Screenshot of sakeozo setting with a pop-up, "due to laws in your region, certain features on bluesky are currently restricted until youre able yo verify youre an adult. Learn more in your account settings."
Hope Fox standing and smiling, looking at the yellow hand on her right signing, "Yo, I'm Hope!"
A halfbody of Icecream the Sugar Glider, she is a female anthropomorphic sugar Glider in split color. At the bottom left corner there is a very tiny signature by Destiny Slater/ Sakeozo.
Four ILY pets characters signed out in order from left to right as 2026. The first two are green, female, leaning toward the left, looking at 6 with surprise. 0 is a pink male character with a bead bracelet on his left ankle; he looks at 6 with worry. The second two are a chubby purple female with long rectangular glittery nails; she looks at 6 with worry. 6 is an orange nerdy character wearing glasses, displaying "2026," and has a band-aid; he is puking. At the bottom of the picture, it says "2026!" and the background is abstract. There is a Sakeozo watermark in the corner
Three geckos looking at the viewer with huge puppy eyes with such intensity.
Upclose of hawkmoth vibrating and fluttering wings on Destiny's wrist, gripping on brown srunchy hairband.
Zoomed in picture from OP of two black cats chilling on a blanket.
Elyon Badger in Family Guy Death Pose on the floor as screenshotted from the original video with handwrtitten rainbow text above, "Vote for the cool candidate" with a bunch of sparkles all around.
Goblin Shark person holding a mug of bubbly root beer, he declares, "I eat drinks" before he shoot mouth out to slurp drink up then retract back in. He is wearing plaid orange polo shirt, jeans, and there is an artist watermark logo above his tail.
Character refernece sheet of Sake the Black-footed Cat, she is Deaf, Pisces, and INTJ. Listed with her likes and dislikes next to color palettes. From top to bottom, there are 3 views of Sake without clothes, 4 views plus unique pose of clothed Sake. Three headshots to show 3 different hairstyles. One feral form. 9 chibi Sake to show all different outfits. Returning back to the list of likes and dislikes. Sake likes Drawing, iced matcha latte, green+pink+brown combo, cats, geckos, moths, metal music, synthwave, crystals, dead stuffs, kawaii, anime, certain taboo topics, salty food, ancient internet memes, tea, siren, women, long socks, girlboss, and pho soup. Sake dislikes Horses, pea soup, sweet foods, scratching on wet paper texture, mildew odor, lotion that make you feel like you have a second skin, mysticism, and inconsiderable people. The background is loose imperfect grid, soft sunset. At the bottom-left corner, there's an artist watermark by Sakeozo with icon as ILY pet.
Educational clip of a puppet paper grab shaking to a side as an adult man using Makaton and speaking "The crab is walking" but in ASL it look like a opening and closing vagina moving sideway.
Scooter, female leopard gecko, she is mostly plain of pattern except for her head and tail.
Kratos from God of War stands up and simply say, "no."
Destiny smiles awkwardly ad she holds up Bibi the Deaf Cat, bomb character, cardboard box hat, ILY fella, and Hydrogen character. Above her is Sakeozo logo.