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TORO
@destinytoro.com
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Illustration ➕ Animation ➕ Patterns

Inspired by the flora, fauna, and indigenous arts of
📍Borikén/Puerto Rico

#NoAI

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TORO @destinytoro.com · May 28
🧵 Buiti/buenas! I’m a disabled artist in Borikén/Puerto Rico. All of the flora and fauna in my work are based on species here in PR and the Caribbean. I study and incorporate Taino designs 🌀

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#ArtSky #illustration #NatureArt #IndigenousArt #DisabledArtist #BlueskyPR #NoAI
Destiny is looking at the camera wearing a black KN95, glasses and jewelry with her hair pulled back sitting in a car. TORO logo (illustrated black bull with gold septum and TORO between the horns) surrounded by teal, green, and blue watercolor illustration.
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New design in my threadless shop!

They are having a huge sale right now... great time to get gifts for others or yourself for less 🙂

Available in lots of different t-shirt colors! Also hats, mugs, pillows... all froggy! 🐸

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Picture of a bright orange t-shirt in close up to see a very colorful frog surrounded by brightly-colored dots in an abstract pattern. The frog is basically dark brown but is covered with dashes and dots in bright colors to form pleasing patterns.
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Trying to get some urgent end of the month 'keep-the-lights-on' funds together over the next couple days. I'd also love to replace my Apple Pencil that is on the fritz; without it, I can't work.

Please support however you can- via Ko-fi, my shop, by sharing my posts and website. Gracias🖤
destinytoro.com TORO @destinytoro.com · 5d
Just finished up my 2025 Gift Guide including 🖤new🖤 Gift Cards that will be available through Día de Reyes AND a section of other artists to shop with this season!

Please share with folks who want to do their holiday shopping with artists and small businesses!! We really need the support this year.
Gift Guide — TORO
This guide highlights some of the items in the TORO shop that are great options and combos for gifts
www.destinytoro.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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➕➕ Sets ➕➕
Mugs for the coffee lover. Cards for the one who stays in touch. Notebooks for the writer, journaler, doodler. And zipper pouches for the one who stays organized 🖤

Shipping to U.S./PR/Canada included 📬

Check out my 2025 Gift Guide:
www.destinytoro.com/giftguide

#ArtShop #illustration
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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📣 Print re-release :: until Nov 30 📣 I have 4 prints from previous Limited Collections available until the end of the month! If you weren't able to grab one when they were originally released, you have a few more days left 🖤

https://www.destinytoro.com/shop/prints

#ArtShop #art #illustration #NoAI
Gold graphic of a framed print, illustrated with a guaraguao (hawk) with a space scene emerging from its mouth, with partial mint green border with plants and bats. Text reads "fall 2025, shop update, framed prints out now, destinytoro.com" Gold graphic of a framed print, illustrated with a tall purple being pouring water from a ceramic vessel over a mountain landscape, which turns into a waterfall, where a person is bathing . Text reads "fall 2025, shop update, framed prints out now, destinytoro.com" Gold graphic of a framed print, illustrated with blue being floating in water, bordered by sea plants, a shrimp and a fish, and coral. Text reads "fall 2025, shop update, framed prints out now, destinytoro.com" Gold graphic of a framed print, illustrated with a bat-shaped human painted with black jagua ink, sitting on grass, bordered by guavas. Text reads "fall 2025, shop update, framed prints out now, destinytoro.com"
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Does anyone have an idea whether the Social Security Emergency Inflation Relief Act has any real chance? I know it was introduced earlier this year & didn’t go anywhere, now it’s been introduced again.
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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➕➕ Gifts under $50 ➕➕
Calendars, greeting cards, mugs, & stickers hand illustrated with love, by me 🖤
Shipping to U.S./PR/Canada included! 

Check out my full 2025 Gift Guide:
http://www.destinytoro.com/giftguide

#ArtShop #art #illustration #PuertoRico #NoAI
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Shop with artists this week 📣

I highlight several artist shops in my gift guide, please check them out and share 🖤 destinytoro.com/giftguide
destinytoro.com TORO @destinytoro.com · Oct 26
Spend your holiday money with artists! Many of us are barely scraping by, & we have so much artwork and prints and products we’ve designed that we’re so proud of.

Some of us physically cannot work in trad jobs due to disabilities. Help us survive this season! 🖤

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adorablespite.bsky.social Adorable Spite @adorablespite.bsky.social · Oct 26
Anyone else skipping spending on the holiday's this year??
Best way to take a bite, is to not let them get a bite out of you..
Imagine if 10% of us didn't spend money except for necessary stuff, till after New Year??
That's our plan...
Just a thought....
Happy evening😴😴😴😴
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Monthly Supporters also get a discount on my main shop 🖤 When you sign up, you'll see a code in the welcome info and a post available with the code as well.

So grab your discount and do your holiday shopping with my gift guide! destinytoro.com/giftguide
destinytoro.com TORO @destinytoro.com · 1d
Last week to become a Monthly Supporter on my Ko-fi to get November's postcard!

All of the flora and fauna in my work are based on species here in 🇵🇷 and the Caribbean. I study and incorporate Taino designs 🌀

http://destinytoro.com/ko-fi

#ArtShop #art #illustration #NoAI
Graphic of colorful illustrated skull stickers with a black checkmark obscuring them, a butterfly postcard, and an abstract landscape postcard, surrounded by line and dot designs. Text reads, "October, November, December, for Monthly Supporters, destinytoro.com/ko-fi". On a blurry photo of a Puerto Rican landscape.
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Last week to become a Monthly Supporter on my Ko-fi to get November's postcard!

All of the flora and fauna in my work are based on species here in 🇵🇷 and the Caribbean. I study and incorporate Taino designs 🌀

http://destinytoro.com/ko-fi

#ArtShop #art #illustration #NoAI
Graphic of colorful illustrated skull stickers with a black checkmark obscuring them, a butterfly postcard, and an abstract landscape postcard, surrounded by line and dot designs. Text reads, "October, November, December, for Monthly Supporters, destinytoro.com/ko-fi". On a blurry photo of a Puerto Rican landscape.
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Part 2, Mama's turn! Describe your cat's personality with one photo:
A photo of a tuxedo cat partially loafing behind a doorframe, looking at the camera. Text reads "Am I the drama?"
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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➕➕ #Stunday Sunday ➕➕

Lost Bayou Ramblers at the Music Box, a magical evening

📍New Orleans, 2016
November 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Well, I tried to take a cute lil group selfie but none of us are good at it. I TRIED OK
Photo of Destiny smiling behind 2 black and white cats. One is blurry and mid blep. The other looks like she’s rolling her eyes and annoyed. Photo of Destiny smiling behind 2 black and white cats. One is blurry and completely leaving the whole photo situation. The other is about to do the same. Bc MOM YOURE EMBARASSING
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Ancestors adorning and adoring each other 🖤 From OPIA, my 2024 Limited Collection about ancestors living their afterlives in parallel to us.

#whistpr #bone #art #illustration #animation #IndigenousArt
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Happy #Caturday 🖤
Describe your cat's personality with one photo:
A smokey black kitten with faint tabby stripes laying on her back with her paws curled, looking at the camera, hoping that you rub her tummy. Contrary to cat parent intuition, it isn't a trap, she realllllly loves it when you rub her tummy. It's why her name is Belly.
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Did you know the Monterey Aquarium has playlists for relaxing and studying? This one is all about nudibranches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOeQ...
2 Hours of Nudibranchs to Relax/Study To | Lofi Hip Hop | Monterey Bay Aquarium Krill Waves Radio
YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium
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November 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Comments on the Thursday Art Show are always filled with amazing artists who are selling cool work or taking commissions, check them out!
catsofyore.bsky.social Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 5d
THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-Al generated ✨CAT-RELATED✨ art/crafts and I will repost! From now until 8:30 pm EST. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!
Photo of my fluffy white cat Francie meowing at the camera with her toothless pink mouth. Sloppy digital crayon above and below her since art show.
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Just finished up my 2025 Gift Guide including 🖤new🖤 Gift Cards that will be available through Día de Reyes AND a section of other artists to shop with this season!

Please share with folks who want to do their holiday shopping with artists and small businesses!! We really need the support this year.
Gift Guide — TORO
This guide highlights some of the items in the TORO shop that are great options and combos for gifts
www.destinytoro.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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☕️Did you know you can choose your own set of 3 mugs from my shop for a discount?!

All flora & fauna based on species here in Puerto Rico/Caribbean 🇵🇷🖤

Shipping to US/PR & Canada is included in the price of all the items in my shop 📬

https://destinytoro.com/shop

#ArtShop #art #illustration #NoAI
A green ceramic mug with a blue, pink, green, and yellow illustration of a manatee mom and baby in a mangrove on a colorful blurred background A black ceramic mug of an illustrated Blue Heron with a green frog and a blue fish in a celestial scene on a colorful blurred background A green ceramic mug with a black, white, and green illustration of a Puerto Rican Crested Toad among palm trees and Cayur flowers on a blurred background 3 blank mugs with black, pink, and green accents labeled with 1, 2, and 3 on a colorful blurry background
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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New essay just posted. Please consider checking out my new blog if you’re into personal essays and talking about deeper topics ✍️ 🖤🩶🤍

#blogs #bskywriters #writing #storytelling #essays

medium.com/@jasminemgeo...
Essay no: 1 — The Failure Paradigm
November 19, 2025
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November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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A thread on vision-touch synesthesia! 👇 I love learning about other types of synesthesia.

I have auditory-tactile synesthesia, meaning I feel sounds as physical sensations. It can range from being excruciating to euphoric.

Drop a question in the comments if you have any, I’m happy to answer!
mikeachim.bsky.social Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 6d
So, this is wild:

In 2015, the podcast Invisibilia featured a woman with a very unusual condition.

Whenever Amanda (not her real name) sees someone else experiencing something - sneezing, getting stung by a wasp, eating chocolate - she physically echoes a version of what they’re feeling.

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A stock photo of a hand reaching out to touch a mirror that contains a mirror-image of the hand.
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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If you are- or know- a musician, poet, creator that needs a short #NoAI animation for their next project, my portfolio video shows various examples for various budgets. 

You can see the full version here:
https://destinytoro.com/animation

Contact me on my website to collab 🖤
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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📣 Print re-release :: until Nov 30 📣 I have 4 prints from previous Limited Collections available until the end of the month! If you weren't able to grab one when they were originally released, you get another chance 🖤

https://www.destinytoro.com/shop/prints

#ArtShop #art #illustration #NoAI
Gold graphic of a framed print, illustrated with a guaraguao (hawk) with a space scene emerging from its mouth, with partial mint green border with plants and bats. Text reads "fall 2025, shop update, framed prints out now, destinytoro.com" Gold graphic of a framed print, illustrated with a tall purple being pouring water from a ceramic vessel over a mountain landscape, which turns into a waterfall, where a person is bathing . Text reads "fall 2025, shop update, framed prints out now, destinytoro.com" Gold graphic of a framed print, illustrated with blue being floating in water, bordered by sea plants, a shrimp and a fish, and coral. Text reads "fall 2025, shop update, framed prints out now, destinytoro.com" Gold graphic of a framed print, illustrated with a bat-shaped human painted with black jagua ink, sitting on grass, bordered by guavas. Text reads "fall 2025, shop update, framed prints out now, destinytoro.com"
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I donate a portion of proceeds from my Tea Party for M.E. series to OMF, and this month donations will be *tripled*!

If you've had your eye on the print or greeting cards, this month is a great time to grab them 🫖🖤

destinytoro.com/shop/all/tea-party-for-me

#art #illustration #MECFS #LongCovid
A dark wood framed illustrated print of 4 colorful floral teacups on saucers and a teapot in the center. The handwritten title “Tea Party for M.E.” is in the top center, and the TORO signature is on the bottom. There are 4 white dots in a diamond shape around the elements. On a blurry background. 5 black greeting cards splayed diagonally- four cards each have a colorful teacup on a saucer and one has a teapot with colorful floral designs. On a blurry background with handwritten text "Tea Party for M.E."
November 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Become a Monthly Supporter on my Ko-fi by the end of this month to get November & December's postcards!

All of the flora and fauna in my work are based on species here in 🇵🇷 and the Caribbean. I study and incorporate Taino designs 🌀

http://destinytoro.com/ko-fi

#ArtShop #art #illustration #NoAI
Graphic of colorful illustrated skull stickers with a black checkmark obscuring them, a butterfly postcard, and an abstract landscape postcard, surrounded by line and dot designs. Text reads, "October, November, December, for Monthly Supporters, destinytoro.com/ko-fi". On a blurry photo of a Puerto Rican landscape.
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I was planning on joining Folktale Week this week, but I decided I didn't have enough materials planned yet & it was going to be too much of a rush to get it together. I'm a sick lil slug, I don't do rushing.

In March there is a World Folktales & Fables Week, & I'm going to take my time for that.
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM