ainsley (but spooky 🧛)

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quest designer @ bethesda ✧ prev @ ZOS ✧ she/they 📌 linktr.ee/addersmire

New art ✨ Cover illustration for Gothic Tales by Mary Shelley, released this month! The cover illustrates the short story 'Transformation', in which the main character makes a Faustian bargain to switch places with a strange misshapen creature. Thanks to AD Elizabeth Yaffe for the assignment!

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I died in the shipwreck of a whaling vessel in 1798, but a few days later, clinging to an old rum barrel. Now I can only haunt this one specific patch of desolate ocean. I thought I saw a cruise liner once, in the distance. Had a scare ready to go and everything. Not much going on outside of that

“I collected bones from charnel houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame. In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation." 🧪🫀⚗️

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the crazy thing about making time for any creative pursuit is that you literally have to do what you have a gut-deep yearning to do or else you'll see other people doing it, and it WILL make you insane.