Decided I'd post a few treats for everyone at the end of the year, so please welcome the 12 Days of Giving!
For Day 1, I'm sharing 2024 Monthly Printable Calendars! I've loved posting these for the last several years and am back with next years version. This time, I've added an extra 3 colours to pick from.
As always, they're available in Monday & Sunday starts, A4 & letter, with landscape or vertical designs for all.
Download Free Here
Check back in each day for a new free item! Hopefully they're all useful and a fun way to end the year 🥰🎁
Between 2018-2021 I worked with archaeologist Dr Sophie Hay, Ancient Historian Prof. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Director of the Cambridge Schools Classics Project (who make the CLC Latin course!) Caroline Bristow and her gorgeous team, and legendary historical children’s fiction author Caroline Lawrence, to illustrate a novel and ancient history course about the life of Pompeiian freedman Amarantus and his neighbours in Insula 1.9
The story is a year in the life of Amarantus, following the events he experiences, including the devastating earthquake of 63BCE and his manumission (by a certain local natural-history-loving magistrate), the traditions of a Roman life, and the likely inhabitants of the rest of his block, based on the buildings and finds in Insula 1.9.
It acts as an Ancient History/Classical Civilisation (non-language) prequel to the Latin Caecilius stories (CLC Book 1) and there are some Caecilius-themed visual easter eggs 😁
The course has been designed for even non-specialists to be able to pick up and teach, entirely for free, to help bring Ancient History/Classics into schools.
We made the images in grayscale so they could be cheaply printed and reproduced in PoD books/PDFs for schools, but made some images in full colour for the website and book cover to show the diversity of the Pompeiian world. They’re all based on archaeological evidence and research and each one took hours of discussion and argument (and occasional paper models) to get right. (And I’m proud to say my rebuilding of some ruined structures like the Herculaneum Gate has been approved by other Pompeii experts, like the Cooleys 😁)
The entire book and course is massively researched and based on archaeological findings, and is FREE on the CSCP website: https://CambridgeAmarantus.com/home
Or you can buy the book PoD via these links: https://www.cambridgescp.com/array/buy-book
Bonus Roman Chickens (the precursors to my Roman History Chickens series!): the cockfighters Odysseus and Polyphemus! (And yes cockfighting is terrible and I’m glad we don’t have it any more)
here's some xingyun x sanrio cuz I'm gonna be giving these out in like comifuro hahwahahsfafhawhfahwhsfwahsfha (i spent like 5 hrs EACH on these and I can't even sell them so I'm just giving it out as a freebie)
All 9 designs have been unlocked within just about 24 hours! Thank you all so much again for sharing and/or backing my project. It definitely wouldn’t be doable without you!
Since we unlocked everything so quickly, I decided to start working on super stretch goals, which will include freebie goals and maybe more pins to back. Our first extra goal is for a 4 pack of stickers that have my mini pin designs!
The requirement for unlocking this freebie is to have at least 75 backers by the end of the campaign.
To head over to the campaign, feel free to click the link here
Today I'm bringing another challenge! Since August is arriving in a couple of days, I thought of planning an incredible challenge with lots of daily prompts to keep the habit of writing every day.
You're invited to join me and over 70 people (so far) in August's challenge and have the opportunity to make friends along the way.
So, how will the challenge work?
After enrolling (link at the end of the post), you'll immediately receive an Excel sheet to track your words through the challenge and a link to my new discord community, counting with over 20 members already.
Then, on August 1st, you'll receive your first daily prompt in your inbox and develop it into a short story with no word limit! Every day of the month will be like this until August 31st (and you'll receive something special if you get to the end of the challenge!)
Is there something else?
Well, yeah!
If you join the Discord community, when the challenge is over I will open a thread to submit your favorite prompt and people will vote on their favorite!
Hmm, cool... can you tell me a bit more about the community?
Sure! Recently I've decided to create a server on Discord called Souls Collide Community, counting with lots of chat rooms with different purposes, rooms with lo-fi and classical music to get work done, and cool bots such as cats and a tree to have fun!
This community is a safe place for all writers, no matter their skill level. You're more than welcome to join us, introduce yourself, make friends, ask for advice or feedback, and to set your goals and tasks!
If you don't like it for some reason, you are free to leave, so why not try it? I promise it's fun and safe over there!
Well, that's everything for now! Before ending this post, here's the link to enroll in August's challenge (and to join the community hehe)
Enroll now for free
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Thank you for reading! Feel free to reblog or send this to your writing buddies who might be interested in joining the challenge <3
HII HII HIII HELLOO MY FAVORITE COMMUNITY :]
That's right, I'm doing freebies!
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12 yr me back in the Amino days made plenty of wise decisions to adopt whatever I saw on my page that I found appealing. This has lead to me adopting TOO MANY characters.
So that's why I decided to redesign the characters I don't want, and give them away to others that'll take better care of them.
Important ------------------------------------------------------------------Because I and the creators of these adopts left Amino long ago, I have been unsuccessful in finding them and giving proper credit.
Past the main image is a list of the characters next to their original artwork. If you recognize the art and have an idea of where the original creators' socials are, PLEASE TELL ME!!11!1
I need to give credit to at least SOME or else I will explode-
First Come First Serve, these are Freebies meaning you only need to ask to get one.
Ask for one by commenting, not reposting. DM'ing me is also a no because others wont be aware that someone asked first. ( Also I get scared :[ )
You can only ask for 2!!
All of the freebies shown are also on Toyhouse, so when you're the first to ask, comment with your Toyhouse username. Not having Toyhouse is 100% fine too :]
When you get the freebie(s) I will transfer them to you through Toyhouse along with their original images. If you don't have Toyhouse then I will send the images to you privately however you'd like. (My discord is gracious_gg)
Once you have them, do whatever you want with them! Also please don't start a fight over who gets what for the love of god I will bite you. Besides, there are another 7 that I have yet to sell.
a free sampler version of eXpressure 2, a tilt-oriented expressive brush pack by Zhillustrator
eXpressure 2 FREE is a set of 8 free brushes from my latest pack. I hope you will try them and maybe like some! If you like these free brushes, you can support further development by buying the FULL set. Buying at Ko-Fi is recommended, because the platform does not take commission! Thank you!
Get it at: My Website - Ko-Fi - Gumroad - Cubebrush
READ BEFORE BUYING:
Requirements:
This brush set REQUIRES TILT/ANGLE functionality and most of the presets largely depend on this functionality of your tablet, pen display or graphic tablet. If you're not sure whether your device supports Tilt and Pressure, make sure to check online or in your device documentation and spec sheets.
More info in the product descriptions on sales pages!
A new update is out for my photo editing app, Photoaster! : )
Try 5 new filters including Windows 95, GameBoy, and a wes anderson-ish pastel filter. You can also pixellate your photos! Combine pixellate with the CRT filter to make your pics look like an old PC game.