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Ashley Hankinstein Illustration 🌙
@ashleydoesartstuff.com
15K followers 1.2K following 5.5K posts
🌙Displaced Forest Witch
🌙 MLIS Student 📚
🌙Freelance Illustrator (Haunt Publishing, Ghostfire Gaming, Monte Cook)
🌙She/They
🌙 Inquiries: CURRENTLY CLOSED
🌙 Portfolio: www.ashleydoesartstuff.com
🚫 NO NFT/AI 🚫
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Behold, the smartest boi alive 🥰
My cat, a cream colored fellow with green eyes, chewing on some knife handles.
November 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I am just a giant nerd and get so excited about this kind of stuff lmaooo

Like yes, pls let me show u how to do the cool search thing!!!
The sickos "yes...HA HA HA... YES!" meme
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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One of my classes has us practicing mock reference interviews where we take the role of the librarian helping a patron.

My partner asked me to explain how to search with Booleans in a database.

I was pleased when they said I did well, but also ngl I felt like this:
Oh good I get to explain this to you. You will regret this
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I wasn't able to find those numbers, alas, but here's the only picture I ended up taking 😎
No Kings protest sign with a photo of Regina George on it saying "Stop trying to make FASH happen. It's NOT going to happen!"
October 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Art friends: Here's a tip for getting rid of *a lot* of the AI slop in your Pinterest feed.

⭐Go into your account settings.
⭐Click the "Refine your recommendations" tab.
⭐Click the GenAI Interests subtab.
⭐TURN OFF EVERYTHING.

So far, my feed is *significantly* cleaner.
Screenshot of the Pinterest settings menu. The option "Refine your recommendations" is circled. Screengrab of the Refine Your Recommendations tab in Pinterest's settings. The subtab GenAI Interests is circled. Below, all options have been turned off.
October 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Hey there, #PortfolioDay!

I'm Ashley, an artist who works on book covers, TTRPG's, and tarot cards. I thought today I'd show y'all two of my fav pieces that I just saw are in the wild~ 💚

Done for the @oldgodspod.bsky.social TTRPG with @montecookgames.com

#DigitalArt | #MyArt | #DarkArt
A tall young man leans forward on a countertop of a market stall, face close to the seated young woman who runs it. They are deep in conversation. We see a banner for her store, "Ruth's Apothecary", and note that she is surrounded by various witchy supplies including ceremonial knives and hallucinogenic dreamer's tea. A young woman with overalls stands yelling in the middle of a river, her arms outstretched to try and distract to shadowy monsters that have chased her and her friends to this point. Behind her, a man carries a woman in a yellow dress, who look is looking over his shoulder, terrified at what she sees. He is carrying her toward a house on top of a hill with lit windows, a beacon of hope.
October 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Not me finding out that the "All Under Heaven" expansion for CK3 comes out at the end of the month and knowing I won't be able to play until the semester ends because uhhhh well....
Screengrab of my play time stats for CK3 on Steam. I've played 712.9 hours.
October 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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That feeling when you've read this week's module's Recommended Reading already, partially for fun, in the course of doing research for a paper 😂

Anywayyyyy like I said last week, libraries are super interesting and full of drama!
Screengrab of the name of the paper I read just for kicks last week. Title is: Francoeur, S. (2011). Prudence and controversy: The New York Public Library response to post-war anti-communist pressures. Library & Information History, 27(3), 140-160
October 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I originally made this one as a birthday present for my mom 💚

With her permission, I've made posters of it that are in my shop.

She has a reeeaaalllllly big one that I commissioned a custom print of and had a friend gold-leaf for her though💚
A black and white painting of a skeleton with a Victorian-style updo and dress. She is holding a cup of tea, from which steam swirls back and around to frame the head. There are gold accents on the dress and teacup as well as gilded decorative framing elements. The text says: “Dying for a cup of tea.”
October 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Me logging on and scrolling the TL today like:
Paper Mario with googly eyes captioned "what the thousand-year fuck am I reading"
October 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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This is also your reminder that @thebiblionaut.bsky.social 's debut novel "The Darkest Glass" comes out in 8 DAYS!!!!!!

Consider pre-ordering your copy here:
books2read.com/u/mvEqd2
It's me, a white person with wavy brown hair and red framed glasses holding a copy of Olivia Danson's "The Darkest Glass".
October 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Art vs Artist 💚
A young woman with reddish blond hair in a Victorian updo sits in an intricately carved stone throne. She looks with a mocking smirk at the viewer, and an elegant silver crown dangles from one hand. Monstrous hands with long black nails reach from behind the throne, and are scoring deep gouges into the stone. It's me, a white person with shoulder length wavy brown hair, red framed glasses, and orange lipstick.
October 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Very much inspired by this comic a friend sent me when I was having an extended Bad Brain time lol 😆
Four panel comic featuring a conversation between two men. Panel 1: left-hand character says "I'm sick of feeling low! I have a good life, it's not logical for me to be sad!!" Panel 2: right-hand character says: "no no no! It's okay to be sad and forget about logic!" Panel 3, right hand character: 'remember, our brains are just meat with electricity inside. And what do I always say?" Panel four, left, rolling his eyes: "you wouldn't electrocute a steak and expect logic." Right: "exactly!!"
October 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Like I think you're so much better at expressions than me. Sorry to just rip this off your page but this is one of the ones I mean!!! Stunning, dude!!!!
September 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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If you see this, show off them mouths~👄
Profile view of a young man's face focusing on the mouth. We see an indication that a large hand is wrapped around his neck. Face of a purple-skinned tiefling looking down at the viewer, focus on her mouth. Smirking mouth of a young woman wearing a fancy dress with a high neck, focus on the mouth. 3/4 view portrait of a knight looking over their shoulder, focus on the mouth.
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?
September 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Hi Jameela, congrats on 9k!!! 💚💚

I'm a few days late to this but I did wanna join in!!

I'm proud of all of these pieces because they mark my slow return to traditional media for personal work, which is something I've been wanting to do for ages now 💚💚
Pencil drawing inspired by The Hermit tarot card. We see, from behind and below, a nude woman who has passed underneath an arch formed by a fallen tree. She has come from a "dark" place in the forest and up into a brilliantly bright glade, with almost blinding sunlight lighting the area. Oil painting of a portrait of a woman with a literal third eye on her forehead. Her two "normal" eyes are greyed out, perhaps indicating blindness. There are "sun rays" in gold leaf behind her head, like a stylized sunburst. A pencil drawing of a woman with long, wild hair wearing a flower crown full of spring and early summertime flowers. She is looking up and over her shoulder. She is superimposed over a giant stylized sun, which is done in gold leaf. The words "daughter of the sun" are around her in Gothic text. An embroidery hoop with stylized mirrored mountain landscapes and sunrises at the top and bottom. The words "sunrise, parabellum" are in the center of the composition in a Gothic font. Stylized red flowers decorate the text on either side and frame it against the landscapes.
September 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Decided to harvest all of our carrots today~ 🥕🥕

Behold.....the whole haul, the largest bois, and the most amusingly shaped!

#Gardening
Photo of a bunch of carrots in various shades-- orange, yellow, and purple. Photo of four carrots in comparison to my hand. Two are orange, one is yellow, and one is purple. Orange carrot shaped like a rabbit vibrator Orange carrot that is curly from growing around another carrot.
September 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I got my contributor copy today!!!!!!! I'm so freaking hyped!!!!!

Thank you @thebiblionaut.bsky.social for trusting me with your cover, and for being an absolute treat to work with!!!!

The Darkest Glass officially drops on October 10th.

You can pre-order at: books2read.com/u/mvEqd2
It's me, a white person with red glasses and brown hair holding a copy of Olivia Danson's debut novel "The Darkest Glass", which I did the cover for!!!!
September 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The fit to see @wardruna.music-social.com !!! 😎🤘🏻

Also happy Bi Visibility Day ❤️💜💙
It's me, a white person with shoulder length brown hair, red glasses, and orange lipstick. I'm wearing a dress with sheer black sleeves and a bone necklace carved into a moth shape.
September 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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🐍 Drop some SNAKES 🐍

This is an older one, but there's still a lot going on that I enjoy anyway. Plus, well, SNAKES!!! <33

[ #MyArt | #FanArt | #Bakemonogatari ]
Some old fan art of Sengoku Nadeko from Bakemonogatari. She is floating in front of some white stylized designs on a red background. Her hair is a mass of small white snakes. She is playing Cat's Cradle, and has created a heart shape with red thread, and her white dress is splattered in blood near the bottom.
September 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Ah this time they gave me a "sexually suggestive--does not contain nudity" auto tag.

Which is better than previous auto tags but also still incorrect.

Hence my own self applied actually accurate tag!!!!!!
Screengrab of the labels applied to the process video I posted. One was auto applied as sexually suggestive without nudity. The other, non sexual nudity (eg artistic nudes) was applies by me.
September 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Example: This progress video of a study I did over the summer was repeatedly tagged as explicit sexual nudity even though a) it's obviously not and b) I had ALREADY applied an artistic nudity tag before posting.

(I reapplied the tag this time too, let's see what happens....)
September 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I don't want to show the whole thing in case it somehow gets around to them, but I'm really hyped and having a lot of fun so here's a snippet of a project I am working on as a gift to a friend 😁

Anyway I'm having a great time learning to embroider lol 😂

#Embroidery #TraditionalArt #MyArt
Photo with the words "bad bitch" embroidered in black thread in a cursive font
September 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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i am so excited to announce that @thebiblionaut.bsky.social 's debut novel "The Darkest Glass" is coming out on October 10, 2025!!!!

I am so thrilled to have worked together on this cover with her, and y'all....I've read the first few chapters. when I tell you you're in for a treat.... 👀👀👀👀
September 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM