TORO
@destinytoro.com
Illustration ➕ Animation ➕ Patterns
Inspired by the flora, fauna, and indigenous arts of
📍Borikén/Puerto Rico
#NoAI
destinytoro.com
Inspired by the flora, fauna, and indigenous arts of
📍Borikén/Puerto Rico
#NoAI
destinytoro.com
Pinned
TORO
@destinytoro.com
· 15d
🧵 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 🌀
destinytoro.com
#ArtSky #illustration #NatureArt #IndigenousArt #DisabledArtist #BlueskyPR #NoAI
destinytoro.com
#ArtSky #illustration #NatureArt #IndigenousArt #DisabledArtist #BlueskyPR #NoAI
Reposted by TORO
A little detail shot from my new art comic zine book thing I’m working on. I’m excited about the painting on this page but even more excited about the words. So excited to share the finished book with you all.
January 14, 2026 at 7:06 PM
A little detail shot from my new art comic zine book thing I’m working on. I’m excited about the painting on this page but even more excited about the words. So excited to share the finished book with you all.
BMC newsletter is coming out tomorrow 🖤 Sign up 👇
"Working with more looseness and more abstraction not only allows me to move past the brain wiring that says 'stay within the lines' but allows for my muscles spasms and pain and fatigue to be part of the artwork, not something to struggle against."
"Working with more looseness and more abstraction not only allows me to move past the brain wiring that says 'stay within the lines' but allows for my muscles spasms and pain and fatigue to be part of the artwork, not something to struggle against."
Join: Borikén Mail Club — TORO
borikenmailclub.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:39 PM
BMC newsletter is coming out tomorrow 🖤 Sign up 👇
"Working with more looseness and more abstraction not only allows me to move past the brain wiring that says 'stay within the lines' but allows for my muscles spasms and pain and fatigue to be part of the artwork, not something to struggle against."
"Working with more looseness and more abstraction not only allows me to move past the brain wiring that says 'stay within the lines' but allows for my muscles spasms and pain and fatigue to be part of the artwork, not something to struggle against."
Borikén Mail Club members, you are getting a video of this gorgeous sunrise in your inbox in a couple days! 🖤
If you want to decompress with me on my porch and get art in your mailbox, you can do that here: borikenmailclub.com
If you want to decompress with me on my porch and get art in your mailbox, you can do that here: borikenmailclub.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Borikén Mail Club members, you are getting a video of this gorgeous sunrise in your inbox in a couple days! 🖤
If you want to decompress with me on my porch and get art in your mailbox, you can do that here: borikenmailclub.com
If you want to decompress with me on my porch and get art in your mailbox, you can do that here: borikenmailclub.com
Just a lil heads up for the artists who follow me, I did Elizabeth Haidle’s Secret Sketchbook course a few years ago and loved it SO so much, I still use the exercises in my journal.
This year’s enrollment closes in a couple days, check it out here:
jonathanhaidle.thrivecart.com/secret-sketc...
This year’s enrollment closes in a couple days, check it out here:
jonathanhaidle.thrivecart.com/secret-sketc...
Secret Sketchbook trailer
YouTube video by Elizabeth Haidle
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Just a lil heads up for the artists who follow me, I did Elizabeth Haidle’s Secret Sketchbook course a few years ago and loved it SO so much, I still use the exercises in my journal.
This year’s enrollment closes in a couple days, check it out here:
jonathanhaidle.thrivecart.com/secret-sketc...
This year’s enrollment closes in a couple days, check it out here:
jonathanhaidle.thrivecart.com/secret-sketc...
Reposted by TORO
Are you looking for a meaningful way to spend $10/mo and support a disabled, indigenous artist?
BMC provides me an essential, stable, recurring monthly income while shop sales and commissions fluctuate throughout the year.
20 new members will help my most basic bills get met every month.
BMC provides me an essential, stable, recurring monthly income while shop sales and commissions fluctuate throughout the year.
20 new members will help my most basic bills get met every month.
Join: Borikén Mail Club — TORO
borikenmailclub.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Are you looking for a meaningful way to spend $10/mo and support a disabled, indigenous artist?
BMC provides me an essential, stable, recurring monthly income while shop sales and commissions fluctuate throughout the year.
20 new members will help my most basic bills get met every month.
BMC provides me an essential, stable, recurring monthly income while shop sales and commissions fluctuate throughout the year.
20 new members will help my most basic bills get met every month.
Telling me that I have to become familiar with and use AI to continue building an illustration career is the equivalent of telling me I have to repeatedly have Covid infections to fit in with the “group” so I can survive.
I’m going to continue to protect my brain, not use AI, & mask, tyvm.
I’m going to continue to protect my brain, not use AI, & mask, tyvm.
January 13, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Telling me that I have to become familiar with and use AI to continue building an illustration career is the equivalent of telling me I have to repeatedly have Covid infections to fit in with the “group” so I can survive.
I’m going to continue to protect my brain, not use AI, & mask, tyvm.
I’m going to continue to protect my brain, not use AI, & mask, tyvm.
After dealing with some shenanigans, I finally got confirmation today that my voter registration for a U.S. state I no longer live in has been canceled, and I was able to register to vote in PR.
I’ll take that win for today.
I’ll take that win for today.
January 12, 2026 at 11:21 PM
After dealing with some shenanigans, I finally got confirmation today that my voter registration for a U.S. state I no longer live in has been canceled, and I was able to register to vote in PR.
I’ll take that win for today.
I’ll take that win for today.
Relatable
“I hope that if I bang my head against the wall, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.
January 12, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Relatable
Reposted by TORO
By request, my #NoKings piece from October is now available in my shop 🖤 Arrives ready to hang.
"...features Taino-Arawak baira and birigua as well as the iconic machete to symbolize resistance, surrounded by the sacred plants axí and bixa as an offering."
❌👑
#BlueskyNightMarket #illustration
"...features Taino-Arawak baira and birigua as well as the iconic machete to symbolize resistance, surrounded by the sacred plants axí and bixa as an offering."
❌👑
#BlueskyNightMarket #illustration
NEW No Kings/Sin Reyes 2025 | Prints — TORO
Created for No Kings Day in October 2025, this print features Taino-Arawak baira and birigua (bow and arrow) as well as the iconic machete to symbolize resistance, surrounded by the sacred plants axí ...
www.destinytoro.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:08 PM
By request, my #NoKings piece from October is now available in my shop 🖤 Arrives ready to hang.
"...features Taino-Arawak baira and birigua as well as the iconic machete to symbolize resistance, surrounded by the sacred plants axí and bixa as an offering."
❌👑
#BlueskyNightMarket #illustration
"...features Taino-Arawak baira and birigua as well as the iconic machete to symbolize resistance, surrounded by the sacred plants axí and bixa as an offering."
❌👑
#BlueskyNightMarket #illustration
I am absolutely lovinnng Crystal’s Birbfest pieces, reimagining each bird as a kiddo. Such a creative use of the prompts and I really look forward to seeing them every day!
If you haven’t yet, go check them out 🖤
If you haven’t yet, go check them out 🖤
Birbfest BIRD #2 - Many-colored Rush Tyrant
Birds reimagined as children
🦜🐦🐦⬛🦆
#birbfest2026 - A bird drawing challenge for Jan!
#Birbfest #BirdArt #ArtSky #SciArt #Illustration #kidlitart #kidlit #cankidlit
January 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I am absolutely lovinnng Crystal’s Birbfest pieces, reimagining each bird as a kiddo. Such a creative use of the prompts and I really look forward to seeing them every day!
If you haven’t yet, go check them out 🖤
If you haven’t yet, go check them out 🖤
Are you looking for a meaningful way to spend $10/mo and support a disabled, indigenous artist?
BMC provides me an essential, stable, recurring monthly income while shop sales and commissions fluctuate throughout the year.
20 new members will help my most basic bills get met every month.
BMC provides me an essential, stable, recurring monthly income while shop sales and commissions fluctuate throughout the year.
20 new members will help my most basic bills get met every month.
Join: Borikén Mail Club — TORO
borikenmailclub.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Are you looking for a meaningful way to spend $10/mo and support a disabled, indigenous artist?
BMC provides me an essential, stable, recurring monthly income while shop sales and commissions fluctuate throughout the year.
20 new members will help my most basic bills get met every month.
BMC provides me an essential, stable, recurring monthly income while shop sales and commissions fluctuate throughout the year.
20 new members will help my most basic bills get met every month.
Reposted by TORO
Eve Sedgewick said "what I'm proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart" and I'm going to wear this like a locket
January 11, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Eve Sedgewick said "what I'm proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart" and I'm going to wear this like a locket
January 11, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Belly has the quietest, breathiest purr of any cat I've ever spent time with.
I'm used to drooly cats with very loud engines!
So it's really lovely when she wants to cuddle her face as close to my face as possible so I can hear her subtle lil purr, it's precious.
Happy belated #caturday 🖤
I'm used to drooly cats with very loud engines!
So it's really lovely when she wants to cuddle her face as close to my face as possible so I can hear her subtle lil purr, it's precious.
Happy belated #caturday 🖤
January 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Belly has the quietest, breathiest purr of any cat I've ever spent time with.
I'm used to drooly cats with very loud engines!
So it's really lovely when she wants to cuddle her face as close to my face as possible so I can hear her subtle lil purr, it's precious.
Happy belated #caturday 🖤
I'm used to drooly cats with very loud engines!
So it's really lovely when she wants to cuddle her face as close to my face as possible so I can hear her subtle lil purr, it's precious.
Happy belated #caturday 🖤
As a severely energy limited disabled person, I very much resent that sussing out AI slop requires me to use *any* of the precious little energy I have to do so.
“But AI will make your life easier as a disabled person!” stfu.
“But AI will make your life easier as a disabled person!” stfu.
Posting this because I *def* did not catch that this was an AI gen video, and I have been intentionally training myself to catch them. They're slipping (😉) past so easily now, takes so much energy to be so vigilant 😭
January 11, 2026 at 1:03 AM
As a severely energy limited disabled person, I very much resent that sussing out AI slop requires me to use *any* of the precious little energy I have to do so.
“But AI will make your life easier as a disabled person!” stfu.
“But AI will make your life easier as a disabled person!” stfu.
Look, I do not care if we align on a cause, if you add me to your newsletter without my consent, it's an immediate goodbye.
When you do it a second time?!! Blocked and reported as spam.
DO. NOT. DO. THIS.
Do not add people to lists or subscriptions without their consent. Jfc.
When you do it a second time?!! Blocked and reported as spam.
DO. NOT. DO. THIS.
Do not add people to lists or subscriptions without their consent. Jfc.
January 10, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Look, I do not care if we align on a cause, if you add me to your newsletter without my consent, it's an immediate goodbye.
When you do it a second time?!! Blocked and reported as spam.
DO. NOT. DO. THIS.
Do not add people to lists or subscriptions without their consent. Jfc.
When you do it a second time?!! Blocked and reported as spam.
DO. NOT. DO. THIS.
Do not add people to lists or subscriptions without their consent. Jfc.
"I enjoy watching 'unwelcome out-of-towners' eat shit on the streets as much as you do, but I prefer to watch this real-life version."
ICE slipping on ICE #ai #minneapolis #funny #foryou
YouTube video by Jeremy Carrasco
youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:20 PM
"I enjoy watching 'unwelcome out-of-towners' eat shit on the streets as much as you do, but I prefer to watch this real-life version."
I was at a punk show manyyy years ago in my Louisiana hometown when cops showed up to search & harass us. They left after the venue agreed to stop people from dancing (not kidding).
All the "punks" aka bootlickers just stood there when the music started back up. Me & my bestie danced our asses off.
All the "punks" aka bootlickers just stood there when the music started back up. Me & my bestie danced our asses off.
January 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I was at a punk show manyyy years ago in my Louisiana hometown when cops showed up to search & harass us. They left after the venue agreed to stop people from dancing (not kidding).
All the "punks" aka bootlickers just stood there when the music started back up. Me & my bestie danced our asses off.
All the "punks" aka bootlickers just stood there when the music started back up. Me & my bestie danced our asses off.
Reposted by TORO
Reminder: We have a Protest Guide for those with ME or other energy-limiting chronic disease. The 1st half focuses on creating a more accessible protest & the 2nd half focuses on attending an in-person protest safely. https://ow.ly/K0Oo50XUg9L
#pwME #Disability #protest
#pwME #Disability #protest
January 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Reminder: We have a Protest Guide for those with ME or other energy-limiting chronic disease. The 1st half focuses on creating a more accessible protest & the 2nd half focuses on attending an in-person protest safely. https://ow.ly/K0Oo50XUg9L
#pwME #Disability #protest
#pwME #Disability #protest
Happy #Birbfest2026! 🐦⬛
Here is a Purple Gallinule (Gallareta Azul) and a Common Gallinule (Gallareta Común) from my sketchbook last year 🖤
#Birbfest #BirdArt #ArtSky #SciArt #illustration #PuertoRico
Here is a Purple Gallinule (Gallareta Azul) and a Common Gallinule (Gallareta Común) from my sketchbook last year 🖤
#Birbfest #BirdArt #ArtSky #SciArt #illustration #PuertoRico
January 10, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Happy #Birbfest2026! 🐦⬛
Here is a Purple Gallinule (Gallareta Azul) and a Common Gallinule (Gallareta Común) from my sketchbook last year 🖤
#Birbfest #BirdArt #ArtSky #SciArt #illustration #PuertoRico
Here is a Purple Gallinule (Gallareta Azul) and a Common Gallinule (Gallareta Común) from my sketchbook last year 🖤
#Birbfest #BirdArt #ArtSky #SciArt #illustration #PuertoRico
Reposted by TORO
"Never assume malice…" I'mma stop you right there: At this point in human history, when it comes to corporations in particular, any sufficiently advanced capitalist interest is indistinguishable from malice, so I'm gonna go riight on ahead and assume it.
January 9, 2026 at 10:41 PM
"Never assume malice…" I'mma stop you right there: At this point in human history, when it comes to corporations in particular, any sufficiently advanced capitalist interest is indistinguishable from malice, so I'm gonna go riight on ahead and assume it.
By request, my #NoKings piece from October is now available in my shop 🖤 Arrives ready to hang.
"...features Taino-Arawak baira and birigua as well as the iconic machete to symbolize resistance, surrounded by the sacred plants axí and bixa as an offering."
❌👑
#BlueskyNightMarket #illustration
"...features Taino-Arawak baira and birigua as well as the iconic machete to symbolize resistance, surrounded by the sacred plants axí and bixa as an offering."
❌👑
#BlueskyNightMarket #illustration
NEW No Kings/Sin Reyes 2025 | Prints — TORO
Created for No Kings Day in October 2025, this print features Taino-Arawak baira and birigua (bow and arrow) as well as the iconic machete to symbolize resistance, surrounded by the sacred plants axí ...
www.destinytoro.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:08 PM
By request, my #NoKings piece from October is now available in my shop 🖤 Arrives ready to hang.
"...features Taino-Arawak baira and birigua as well as the iconic machete to symbolize resistance, surrounded by the sacred plants axí and bixa as an offering."
❌👑
#BlueskyNightMarket #illustration
"...features Taino-Arawak baira and birigua as well as the iconic machete to symbolize resistance, surrounded by the sacred plants axí and bixa as an offering."
❌👑
#BlueskyNightMarket #illustration
Art train!! 🚂
Finally catching up on posts 😅🖤 Thank you for including me @newmoonrain.bsky.social!
I don't have the capacity to tag folks, so if you see this & would like to join, consider it your invitation!
Finally catching up on posts 😅🖤 Thank you for including me @newmoonrain.bsky.social!
I don't have the capacity to tag folks, so if you see this & would like to join, consider it your invitation!
January 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Art train!! 🚂
Finally catching up on posts 😅🖤 Thank you for including me @newmoonrain.bsky.social!
I don't have the capacity to tag folks, so if you see this & would like to join, consider it your invitation!
Finally catching up on posts 😅🖤 Thank you for including me @newmoonrain.bsky.social!
I don't have the capacity to tag folks, so if you see this & would like to join, consider it your invitation!