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Elyce Phillips

@elycep.bsky.social
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Writer/illustrator/premium ding-dong Writes for #hardquiz and other tv quizzy things She/her, AuDHD, 🏳️‍🌈 Naarm/Melbourne, Australia www.elycephillips.com

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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Here’s a bit before they even get to the craft stuff, to give you a sense of the energy.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It’s almost time for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, so for the ninth year running, I have made a bingo card for it.
A bingo card titled “MICF BINGO 2026”.
The card is a five by five grid, and each box contains a different item to check off. From top to bottom, left to right, the items are:
- gratuitous musical number to showcase range
- see a cooked late night show
- crepe!
- go to three shows in one night
- fake text exchange as visual prop
- joke about dating an AI
- stand-up has a special lil outfit to perform in
- “so I’m single…”
- too many props?
- see a solo debut
- tech whoopsie
- clown nudity
- see Local Laws
- buy some merch
- joke that’s a thinly-veiled ask for coke
- “the algorithm” mentioned
- comedian clearly farming crowdwork for reels
- beef between comedian and reviewer 
- see some sketch
- full meal from 7-Eleven
- see an act you’ve never seen 
- fee the vibe turn at 3am at the artist bar
- “I’m (insert age here)” as a punchline
- this live podcast is just two comedians turning their friendship into a job
- whoops! Horny for some goofball!
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
MITYMI operates as a barter economy, and it works very well.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It’s a craft show! Enjoy our craft show!
Screenshot of a YouTube comment on episode two of Make It Till You Make It, from user @Smapdi_Flaffermann, saying “I liked the part where the bird lady was in distress because her babies were murdered so that instructions could be placed inside their little homes.”
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Let’s go, lesbians
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Once again, this tiny rat is making me late for work, this time by having the audacity to crawl into the crook of my arm and fall asleep like a tiny fucken baby
Tilly, a small rat terrier/Jack Russell, gently snoozing in the crook of my arm. You can see a couple of her lil teeth and everything.Another angle of the tiny rat bastard falling asleep in my goddamn arms
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We put lots of art facts in it, so it’s also an educational experience
Comedian Ella Lawry puts on a poncho on the set of ‘Make It ‘Til You Make It’. A graphic is on the lower bottom left of the screen that says “Art Fact! Sometimes when I go to Spotlight I need to have a lie down”.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Me and my mates are making a mucky lil competitive craft game show, and the pilot’s coming out on Humdinger’s YouTube tomorrow and then we’re gonna make some more later this month, but here’s a trailer for now.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Thank you, me from November last year, for reminding myself that I wanted to do Gandalf Big Naturals for Halloween this year.
An Apple Watch on my wrist, displaying the reminder “Gandalf big naturals Hallow…”
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Sickos.jpg
The software for Hollow Knight: Silksong downloading on the Home Screen of a Nintendo Switch 2
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Notice how no-one, not a single soul, has ever complained about the female gaze in entertainment
Remy, the rat from Ratatouille, standing on Linguini’s head and tugging on two tufts of his hairA screenshot from ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in which a chest of drawers hides behind a statue, holding a baseball bat, waiting to beat up a villager
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A very happy Buy ‘Nock Loose’ by @cormacmccafe.bsky.social Day to all who celebrate (It came out on Monday, but my local bookshop didn’t have it in yet, BACK OFF!!!!!!)
The book ‘Nock Loose’ by Patrick Marlborough - available in you local bookstore now, I reckon
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It’s just nice to be able to switch up the routine a bit
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I love cow
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Sorry I’m late for work - my dog fell asleep on my arm again
Elyce, lying in bed, stares directly into the camera as Tilly, a small Jack Russell, is conked out asleep on her arm, emotionally trapping her
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Small rat enjoys beach
Tilly, a tiny lil Jack Russell/rat terrier kinda dog, stands in the water at the beachTilly, a tiny lil Jack Russell/rat terrier kinda dog, stands on the sand at the beach, panting
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Definitely go watch this week’s #HardQuiz - partly ‘cause I’m very proud of my coral and beef questions, but also, because we had to teach Tom how to pronounce “UNHhhh”
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
#MICF officially kicks off today, so for the eighth year running, I’m bringing back my MICF bingo. First person to get a row gets a 7-Eleven treat of their choice, first person to fill the grid gets TWO 7-Eleven treats of their choice.
A bingo card titled “the 8th annual unofficial but very legit MICF bingo”. It has a hot pink background and a pale green square in the middle. The text is handwritten in black and there’s a grid with 25 squares. Written in the squares, from top to bottom, left to right:
- see a solo debut
- hear a venue horror story
- big tired cry
- undignified “shower” in the toilets between shows
- is this a character or just a wig?
- tech whoopsie
- today’s meals presented by 7-Eleven
- go to a venue more than 10 min from town hall
- see a clown show where no-one takes any clothes off
- feeld joke
- “so, I’m single…”
- TikTok comedian tries to do crowdwork
- see a new act
- witness niche MICF beef
- audience member forgets they’re not at home
- AI joke
- chat at artist bar WITHOUT spiralling after
- CREPE!
- is this satire or are they a cooker?
- see three shows in one night
- FULL. CHOREO.
- see some sketch
- thinly-veiled request for ket
- big mess
- fucken hell, ANOTHER crush on some clown?
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
An artist mate tried using the “suggest some up-and-coming acts” prompt and got this:
MICF’s AI concierge responding to a prompt asking to suggest sone exciting up-and-coming acts by saying “I wasn’t able to find any specific up-and-coming acts for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival during the opening week (26th March - 1st April 2025). However, new shows are being added regularly, so I recommend checking the Melbourne Comedy Festival website for the latest updates and exciting new talent!”
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Oi, #MICF, I fucken haaaaaaate this
AI Assistant on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival website
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Paramount+ has got your night sorted
Photo of a tv screen with the Paramount+ app open. It’s on a list of “Movies new to Paramount+. From left to right, the first five movies on the list are ‘Despicable Me 2’, ‘Despicable Me’, ‘9/11: The Heartland Tapes’, ‘Minions’, ‘Despicable Me 3’.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My bones are gonna make me pay tomorrow for standing up the front for hours, but damn Fontaines D.C. put on a good show
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
He’s so angry
A forearm with a tattoo of David Lynch’s Angriest Dog in the World. It’s a very pointy, black, tadpole-looking dog, straining against its leash, baring lots of tiny teeth and saying “Grrrrrrrrr”
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Gonna need someone at the aquarium to explain to me what is going on with this seahorse. Someone needs to answer for this.
A cartoon seahorse on signage at Melbourne Aquarium. It’s an orange seahorse, side on to the viewer, looking over its shoulder at you. It has long lashes and black eyeliner for some reason, and has a slightly raised eyebrow and a small, restrained smile. It’s wearing a flowing blue scarf. 

It honestly looks like this seahorse is saying goodbye to you at the airport after you’ve had a fleeting, yet torrid affair.A cartoon seahorse on signage at Melbourne Aquarium. It’s an orange seahorse, side on to the viewer, looking over its shoulder at you. It has long lashes and black eyeliner for some reason and is wearing a blue flowing scarf. 

On this sign, there’s a heading that says “help us”, and below that, text that says “100 million seahorses are killed for use in traditional medicines every year!”

The seahorse has raised eyebrows again, but this time, it is pouting. Close-up of the pouting seahorse.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Me: Man, I downloaded this app weeks ago and I haven’t gone on any dates yet, what gives?? Also me:
Screenshot of the chat screen in the Feeld dating app. Up the top it says “today” “you and D connected” and then a message bubble that I have sent as the first message in the interaction that says “Fuck/marry/kill: strawberry, raspberry, blueberry”.

It is 10:54am.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The extremely low-stakes, uncool, new material only comedy night I run returns for 2025 TONIGHT! www.improvconspiracy.com
A square poster for a comedy night called “Script Jam”. The text on it reads “Sunday February 16th, 7:15, The Improv Conspiracy. Brand new material from Han Arbuthnott, Rudy Jean Rigg, Freddie Arthur, Jacob Henegan, Donna Collins, Lukas Meintjes”.
It’s on a black background and in the bottom right corner, there’s a cartoon of a yellow animal on a blue wig, ready to perform.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Got a real silly new tattoo today (tagged as graphic ‘cause it’s fresh and a little bit red)
An upper arm tattoo. It’s a fine line cartoon rabbit with angel wings and a halo, looking upward and ascending into the clouds. There’s text above and below the rabbit which reads “ME MAKiNG iT iNTO HEAVEN BECAUSE i LAUGH GENEROUSLY TO SET PPL AT EASE”
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Dark day for bisexual comedy nerds (me)
Text message from Melbourne Recital Centre that says “Hello - we regret to advise that Kate Berlant’s live show on Friday 7 March has been cancelled. See your email for more details.”
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Huge turnout at the national day of action to protect trans youth.
Huge crowd of people sitting on the lawn of the State Library of Victoria
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
If you need a rally buddy, I’ll be the one in these crocs that made a woman in her 50s lose her goddamn mind
Hot pink Crocs clogs covered in several pink bows, a big pink pom-pom, a star filled with squishy green glitter, a pink chain and a little friendship charm bracelet-style chain.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Last lot of #hourlycomicday comics
9-10pm: “There’s some deep cuts in their second set”
Wayne Coyne sings ‘Christmas At The Zoo’

“I have an extremely good time”
Three scribbly drawings of Elyce dancing 10-11pm: “the show finishes. There’s so much confetti down my damn dress.”
Elyce is covered in confetti, most of it collecting on her boob shelf.11-12am: “Have a nice chat with strangers about how good the gig was while we all wait for the bus”
Elyce stands with a stranger at the bus stop, chatting happily.

“Airfry some spring rolls when I get home”
A small bowl of spring rolls and an even small bowl of sweet chilli sauce12-1 am: “Listen to ‘If Books Could Kill’ until I fall asleep.
Elyce is in bed with her CPAP mask on. Tilly is snoozing next to her. Her phone is next to her pillow, playing a podcast. The speech bubble says “Michael! Peter.”
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
And even more #hourlycomicday comics, in which I Go Out
5-6pm: “get ready to go out”
Scribbly drawings of Elyce putting on a dress.

Elyce wears a short sundress with oranges in it that is pretty low cut, and she wonders “Is this too booby??”

Elyce skips out of the house wearing the very booby sundress thinking “ahhhh, fuck it”6-7pm: “on the bus again…”
Elyce looks out the window of the bus

“..and into Festy Hall”
Elyce lines up at door 4/5 of Festival Hall in a long queue of people waiting to get in.7-8pm: “get a t-shirt”
Elyce stands at a merch stand with a bunch of shirts up on the wall. She’s pointing to the one she’d like to buy.

“Then wait in the crowd. It’s already so fucken hot in here”
Elyce stands amongst a bunch of hastily scribbled faces. She is very sweaty.8-9pm: “ I watch The Flaming Lips play ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ from start to finish.”
Wayne Coyne, lead singer of the Flaming Lips is singling on stage with some huge inflatable pink robots. There’s lasers and confetti - it’s a lot.

“I have a lil cry during ‘Do You Realize??’l
Elyce is wide-eyed and teary, singing along to ‘Do You Realize??’
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
More #hourlycomicday comics, in which you can really tell it was the day I ran out of my vyvanse
12-1pm: “go buy some essentials”
Scribbly drawings of a bottle of Vyvanse, a pack of chips that says “weird new chip flavour” on it and an icypole that’s a bunch of sorbet fruits on a stick.

“Try on dresses I do not need at Savers because it’s on my way and no-one can stop meeeeeee”
Elyce with an armful of clothing, looking devious.1-2pm: “hang out with Tilly and have a scroll through a bunch of dudes that are in the app I downloaded yesterday”
Elyce sits cross legged, scrolling on a phone. Tilly, a Jack Russell has her head on Elyce’s knee and is getting pats.

“It’s bad out there”
Scribbly drawings of screenshots from the app. A photo of just abs with the text “T, 37, I like gym”. A stick figure with a smily face with the text “M, 20, I’m a baby and I like you???”. A wizard with dreads with the text “Kink Wizard, 57, hello darling”3-4pm: “give up on the apps, fire up Quinn and listen to horny audios and play Picross instead”
Elyce sits like a toddler, playing a Nintendo switch. She has big over-ear headphones on. The sounds coming from the headphones are “extremely redacted”4-5pm: “Make dinner/lunch”
Elyce stands at a stove with a frypan. She’s flinching as oil spits everywhere.

“Black pepper tofu with soba noodle salad with that real good kewpie spicy sesame dressing”
Scribbly drawings of noodles and tofu
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Catching up and drawing my #hourlycomicday comics for what I got up to on Saturday
8-9am: “scrolling through nothin’ good”
A Scribbly figure is in bed, with a CPAP mask on, scrolling on a phone. A small dog snoozes next to them.

“Like some posts that I would love to hear read out at estimates one day”
A thumb hitting the like heart on a post on a phone. The post is redacted, but you can see “shame if (REDACTED) were to (REDACTED)”9-10am: “make brekkie for me and Tilly”
Scribbly drawings of two breakfasts - an up and go and some bagels with gherkin dip for me, and a meat square and some crunchy bits for Tilly.

“Watch Bald and the Beautiful, as is Saturday tradition”
A tv playing the podcast ‘The Bald and the Beautiful’ on YouTube10-11am: “Have a shower. Milk is staring at me over on the bench”
Head and shoulders of Elyce in the shower, scrubbing her hair. She opens her eyes and looks perturbed.
A white cat named Milk is staring, wide-eyed.11-12am (sic - that should be pm)
“Get ready to get on the bus”
Scribbly drawings of Elyce, ready to get on the bus. She’s wearing a dress that has some kinda gunk on it, Patrick Star crocs, a Trixie and Katya tote, and earbuds, because it’s too hot to wear over the ear headphones.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Truly disgusting suggested seating from the cinema
Seating chart for a session of Babygirl at the cinema. Most of the seats are green, which means they are available. The suggested seat is in yellow - it’s in the second row from the back, nestled in the one single between two sets of two seats that have been sold.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Gettin’ this guy on me
David Lynch’s comic character The Angriest Dog in the World. It’s a stylised black terrier-like dog with lots of pointy little teeth. The dog is tied up in the backyard and straining so hard against the lead, it’s become a tiny angry triangle. There’s a speech bubble coming from the dog that says “Grrrrrrrrr”.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Early frontrunner for my Halloween costume this year #dragrace
Joella strutting down the catwalk on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 17 for the quilt-themed runway. She’s a large rectangle of pink quilted satin, with a small hole in the middle where her exquisitely made-up face is poking out. A pair of feet in high heels stick out the bottom of the rectangle. She’s like a hot mattress. She’s like if a mattress were horny.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
God, FINALLY!
Email subject line in my inbox that reads “Coming next week: An Evening Without Kate Bush”
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
We did it
Apple Watch on my wrist showing on the display that I tripled my daily Move goal
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Yeaaaaaaah buddyyyyyy
Photo of the gold curtain in front of the screen at the Astor Theatre. The words “Stop Making Sense” are projected into it in red in the middle, along with an image of David Byrne in the big suit. There’s a floor lamp on the stage in front of the screen, switched on.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Found my new favourite t-shirt at Savers the other day
Elyce, a chubby white woman in her late 30s with glasses and short blonde hair, is wearing a red t-shirt which has a small “Supercheap auto” logo on it and then big white text that reads “COURTESY DAD”.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
3/3
“Clean hands were a tiny piece of theatre to keep the player at ease while we scooped up their cash”
Two white hands, palms out, finger walk across a stage.“Part of me is glad when rotten things show unclean hands”
Caricature of Elon Musk doing a nazi salute at the US presidential inauguration.“‘Cause then at least you KNOW what you’re dealing with”
Five white hands reach across the angel, mimicking Elon’s salute“And you can easily spot the dirty players”
Caricature of Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos at the inauguration.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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“A little gesture to show you were playing an honest game”
A white woman with pigtails, wearing a casino uniform, holds her hands palms up over a roulette table.“It was Complete Bullshit, of course”
The words “complete bullshit” are written In extravagant and curly gold letters.“Casinos operate from a root of unfairness”
Red hands reach into brown soil, stretching and curling like roots.“They only work if they take more money than they give away”
Two white hands scoop piles of red casino chips across a green table.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Lil comic about hands 1/3
“When I was in my 20s, I worked as a croupier for a couple months”
A white woman with pigtails, wearing a casino uniform, stands behind a roulette table.“And they taught us to do this thing called CLEAN HANDS”“Any time you touched something on the table, you had to show your hands, palms up”
A pair of hands, palms up, reach across a roulette table.“And your sleeves had to be pulled up above your wrists to show you weren’t hiding any chips or game pieces”
An arm dangles at the side on the panel, white shirt sleeve pulled up above the wrist.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Gettin’ a gobbo in for #goblinweek
Illustration of a green goblin on a rock, hunched over playing Nintendo Switch
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Quick draw what you’re wearing, 5 minutes max
Illustration of Elyce, a chubby white woman with short blonde hair and glasses. She’s got a dog tattoo on one arm, a bird and a snail tattoo on the other. She’s wearing a black IDLES t-shirt with a tiger on it, purple tartan pants and grey/black boots with pale blue laces.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
TFW we’re about to fuuuuuuuuck
Close up on the face of Lapras, a blue Pokémon with a face that’s a bit like a turtle. It’s looking back at the viewer, with slightly closed eye and a knowing smile. I hate it. Why is it doing that.
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Elyce Phillips @elycep.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Not gonna lie - pretty upset by how horny that Lapras looks
Libra Sun - picture of Eevee, a fluffy brown Pokémon with rabbit-like ears, wearing a small flower arrangement on its headAries rising - picture of Moltres, a yellow Pokémon that looks like a large bird with fire on it’s wings, tail and head crestVirgo moon - picture of Sandslash, a tan and brown Pokémon that looks like a pangolin but with longer claws at the frontScorpio Venus - a picture of Lapras, a blue Pokémon with flippers, a long neck and a turtle-like face. It has a grey shell on its back. The Lapras has its butt towards the viewer and is looking coyly over its shoulder. It’s unnecessarily horny.
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