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Ilya

@ilyarabbit.bsky.social
126 followers 58 following 74 posts

artist, researcher. originally from the UK, currently living in Narrm

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Ilya @ilyarabbit.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
low res wikihow phone call meme template, with 'donna haraway' clumsily edited in as the name being called
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Ilya @ilyarabbit.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
just went to the library and got out My Alcoholic Escape From Reality by Nagata Kabi and Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Arthur, from the tv show Arthur, holding up his library card
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Ilya @ilyarabbit.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A colour-pencil comic page. At the top there's a box containing a close-up of mould on a cut slice of pumpkin. Inside that box is a line of writing that says 'I wanted to fill this box with intracommunity twitter discourse. In the end I couldn't bring myself to'. Below is a portrait of Johnnie Frierson, and a zoomed out drawing of a cut mouldy pumpkin, a rotting cucumber in plastic, and a tupperware box of food. Speechbubble 1: 'It looks like shared care is over'. Speechbubble 2: 'More or less.' Speechbubble 3: 'Transition is getting more expensive'. Text: 'There's this song I chanced on, called 'have you been good to yourself', by Johnnie Frierson. A lot of people, they work too hard. A lot of people depend on drugs. A lot of people, they go too far. A lot of people don't rest enough. A lot of people not eating right. A lot of people not eating right. If you're not gonna be good to yourself. Then you're not gonna be good to others.' Speechbubble 4: 'I clean out the fridge'.A colour-pencil comic page. Just one large image, of the rocks and the sea and the clouds. Speechbubble 1: 'There's no catharsis'.The six pages of the comic laid out on a picnic table in a sharehouse garden. behind is a bowl of succulents, and a couple of trees - behind that is a garden fence.
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Ilya @ilyarabbit.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I started making this a few weeks after the supreme court judgement
A comic, drawn in coloured pencil. An image of a plane flying overhead, and some flowers. Speechbubble 1: 'There's no amount of bad life can get that will suddenly make things better.' Speechbubble 2: 'Ole Ivar Lovaas was a behaviourist, and the father of ABA. In 1974, he co-founded the UCLA feminine boy project. His goal was to prevent children from growing up to be trans women. His first subject was four. She died by suicide at thirty-three.' Speechbubble 3: 'These flowers are for her'.A colour-pencil comic. A hand holds out a plane ticket. Speechbubble 1: 'I left the UK in late 2024'. Speechbubble 2: 'Lovaas noticed that it can be very difficult to stop autistic children self-harming, but that threats of murder, and agonising electric shocks did the trick.' Speechbubble 3: 'They would freeze'. Speechbubble 4: 'I knew things were going to get worse'. Speechbubble 5: 'I had been researching the recent history of NHS conversion therapy'. Speechbubble 6: 'I hadn't noticed myself go numb.'A colour-pencil comic. At the top, an image of the building that hosts the UK supreme court, which shades into an image of someone's feet, in socks and slippers, clearly seated. Speechbubble 1: 'I wasn't prepared for the future I had seen coming'. Speechbubble 2: 'I want to go home'. Speechbubble 3: 'All these small battles I've been fighting.' Speechbubble 4: 'These tiny pockets of safety.' Speechbubble 5: 'wiped away'. Speechbubble 6: 'I go snorkelling'.A colour pencil comic. The sea from underwater. A fiddler ray, swimming.  The author's head breaching the waves. Speechbubble 1: 'Can I go home?' Speechbubble 2: 'Is it survivors guilt?' Speechbubble 3: 'I haven't survived yet'. Speechbubble 4: 'underwater, I stop'. Speechbubble 5: 'There's nothing realer than a fiddler ray'. Speechbubble 6: 'The swim back in is slow and tiring. Scary'. Speechbubble 7: 'At least I'm not thinking about Wes Streeting, I think.'
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Ilya @ilyarabbit.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
i don’t have a narrative i like for why I’ve done hundreds of self portraits - I just feel compelled!
a simple pencil self-portrait with expressive, non-literal linework - a young man stares at the viewer with his head tilted back
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Ilya @ilyarabbit.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
I’m working on my throwing but hello I make animal bowls that are a little more strange than they are sweet :))
a small cream-coloured bowl underglazed with an image of a curled up sleeping fox a small cream-coloured bowl underglazed with three crows shown from aboveA small, not-yet-fired white bowl, with a painted image in underglaze of an owl and a mouse - behind the bow is an open sketchbook showing the same owl as a sketch
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Ilya @ilyarabbit.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
after months of only using twitter on priv I’m hyped to start Posting
a pen and ink self portrait - in the drawing, a man with curly short hair looks to the left - his clothes and hair are only suggested at
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