Weekly Update! (2025-01-27) Under the Weather

Hey there, peeps.

I have, unfortunately, been rather sick the last few days so things have not quite been going as I'd like.  Though we are making progress on a number of things, it seems like our family's come down with not one, but two different bugs to accost us; a sinus and chest one, and a norovirus.  While I thought to have dodged the latter, the stomach issues hit me yesterday rather heavily and I've been dealing with that since, so that's no fun.

Still, I will schedule things as I'd planned to do, but if I have to sit out a stream or two, unfortunately, there's not a lot I can do about that.  It was hard enough to actually sit at the computer and type things, so even this announcement was a bit late.  Still, I'm going to try and make up for it, over the next couple of weeks, but I have to wait for this sickness to work itself out of my system first.  Hopefully it'll all be cleared up by this Friday's Sketch on the Spot.

Otherwise, we're just... progressing along the plan we've had for a bit.  I haven't gotten as much done as I'd like, but when is that ever the case?

Still, we're doing okay.  The 2024 pieces are almost all uploaded to my offsite galleries, and I'll collect everything and try and get it in a big archive for the Subscribers to download soon enough.
The weather is still cold, and I'm still sleepy, but we'll do our best!

Until next week!
~Spooky

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Weekly Update! (2025-01-19) Freezing Solid

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Hey there peebs!

Still chipping away at things, but slowly we're getting more organized!  We've almost caught up on our uploads from last year, and once that's done, that'll be another thing I won't have to be dumping so much time into!

The remainder of Chapter 6 of Various Happenings is being worked on as we speak, and then, once that's in upload mode, we'll get to working on Clara while the VH comics are running.  Hopefully, once we've gotten a little bit of a buffer, things will run a bit smoother, and I'll be able to keep up with the new and exciting things rather than chipping away at stuff I've had sitting in documents for over a year at this point.

Still, every day I get closer to being current and to catching up to my enthusiasm on things.  I've also got two of the bookmarks done, and the two extras that were voted on have been decided, so I hope you enjoy those when they come out, soon enough!

In other news, it's fucking cold out! > <;  Holy crap!
My feet are frozen half the time. @3@;  We're down below 0°F at night and I have to run my space heater constantly.  But that's okay.  Hopefully the next place we end up has better insulation than this one does so I can actually enjoy the wintertime like I want to!

Regardless, I'll see you all around!  I'm gonna keep updating the site and we'll see what happens from here!  Until next week!
~Spooky

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2025-01-12) Quiet and Snow
 
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Hey peeps! It is now well into the new year and I'm chipping away at things. Got some new buttons down and trying to get them to point to the right places. I haven't updated the Hall of Friends in a while (which I feel bad about) but I'll do my best to focus on maintaining my individual pages here more in the future and getting everything uploaded to this site.

Like I've said before, I kind of want to make this my home on the net now and my other gallery sites just... places where people can go see my art if they're already there.

Anyway, the support link is up and I've updated a few of the buttons to be more visible and not to blend in as much. Hopefully that'll make them easier to use. I'm still working on getting all my 2024 pieces uploaded, it's just very tedious, but I'll get there eventually!

Working on the bookmarks again, and trying to get things sorted out. It's all coming together a little at time!

Not much else to say currently. There's snow on the ground and it looks lovely out right now. A nice quiet winter. Me and the family went out and built snowpeoples. It was nice.
So, I'll see you all next week!

~Spooky

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2025-01-05)  New Year, Same Me

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Hey peeps!

Happy New Year to you and yours!

As you can see, there’s a bit of a difference on the front page of the site! I’d hoped to have this done by the new year, but the holidays, and sickness, and whatnot have precluded me from working on it as much as I’d like. Still, I hope this does a good job of centralizing my info in the future!

As you can see, there are the banners for Various Happenings and Clara Cosmos there on the left, and there will be more projects and old galleries available as time goes on. I just need to make buttons for everything and get started on updating the pages for everything, so that might take a bit. I wanted to kind of throw myself out there on the first update of the new year, because if I just let it sit behind the curtain, who knows when I might actually get around to doing it.

On the right are buttons for changing the news pane, so you can switch between the news, my schedule, my project goals, and my commission list. All of the links for my offsite galleries and social media are there as well.

I have to add in the commission page (yeah, I’ve been dragging my feet on it, sorry, it just hasn’t come up), the support button for SubscribeStar, as well as the Hall of Friends, which needs to be redone. New banner and new background. As well as a shop page. So there will be a lot to do, and I aim to get movin’ and groovin’ in this new year!

You can check out all the information on the other site panes as well, if you want to learn more!

This week will just be a normal one. I don’t really have any particularly unusual plans. We’ll see if we can get back to those bookmarks, and start building up money for taxes. I also want to finish Chapter 6 of Various Happenings this month, one way or another, and finish off the little project I’ve had on the back burner with Azure Dreamer; so we’ll see what happens!

Otherwise, hopefully things will be alright, regardless of how wild the world is. Stay warm, for everyone getting hit with polar vortices, and the rest of you continue to enjoy your winter.

I’ll see you all next week!

~Spooky

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Hey there, folks! Not much to say this week! Just doing holiday stuff, so I hope you're all doing well!

Check out the schedule on the site!

Yeah, my roommates are down in Atlanta this week, so it's just me at home with the cats. I'm going to be taking things easy this week and trying to relax for the holidays. Gonna be working on getting the site reworked and getting everything I want on there, and we'll see how things are heading into the new year!

I hope you're all doing well, and I'll see you all next week~!

~Spooky

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/

The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/

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Weekly Update! (2024-12-15) Yuletide Cheer

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Hey there, beeps!

This week we've got an update to The Adventures of Clara Cosmos, if you want to go check that out! Comics might be a bit slow around the end/beginning of the year, but I'll do my best to keep going. My main goal, however, is to secure funds for the end of the year, since I have a lot of expenses around the beginning of the year (including my portion of the rent, the payments for the server hosting, my 3-month phone bill, and tax prep.) The money I've got built up in my SubscribeStar currently should cover the hosting and domain expenses, but I still need to make sure I have what I need for the rest of it. I'm right on the edge, and couple more SotS will probably do, but I always fret and watch these things hawkishly.

So if a few weeks get skipped I apologize, but I'll still be working on things; just chalk it up to the holidays. (I'm also going to be taking the holidays themselves and a few days here and there out to just relax and enjoy myself, because I should, frankly.)

In the meantime, check out the schedule on the site!

As I've stated before, I have already settled on commission prices for the new year, I'm just doing a little revamp in the way info is displayed here. I want to clean up the site a little bit, along with trying something new for the front page, so we'll see how that goes and I'll have all of that hopefully done in the first week or two of January.

I've been putting off some projects (like the bookmarks, and the sequence I'm doing with Azzy) for a while, and I want to prioritize those, as well as getting the comics out faster. I'm still learning how to juggle everything, with moderate success, but there's still things that need to be done, that once I get them out of the way, I can put more time towards other more on-going things.

I'm getting close to the end of Chapter 6 of Various Happenings, so once we get that done, I'll probably take a little time to get the buffer for Chapter 7 up and do some preparation ahead of time as well as focus down the bookmarks.

I'm also trying to get all my uploads done, it's just very tedious and catching up from as far behind as I was is quite the challenge. Still, we're getting there! Rather than being as far behind as I was, we're working to stay caught up, which is somewhat of an improvement. Still, as I said, these next few weeks will be spotty as I'm going to be doing holiday things in addition to preparing for the new year, so I apologize. I hope all of you are having a good holiday season, and if not, I hope next year is better. I know I'm looking on next year with trepidation, but we can make good things out of a bad situation. We've done it before.

Take care of yourselves, everyone! A glorious Yuletide to you all, and until next week!
~Spooky

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2024-12-08) Winter Crud

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Hey there, peeps!

Well, last week wasn't as productive as I'd hoped. While I did manage to upload more than I'd hoped as far as my 2024 pieces go, my drawing ground to a halt due to an infection in my throat and I wasn't really able to work on comics at all, which is something I had hoped to do. I apparently had an infection in my lymph node which stiffened my neck up and gave me a headache that basically lasted from Monday to Wednesday. That sickness was probably a factor in me taking a by-week in the first place (along with Dicy being out of town) but it still gets me down a little bit because I really wanted to start getting ahead. Still, there's no point in getting upset about it!

In the meantime, you can check out the schedule on the site!

So no comics this week, sorry about that. I'll try to have something done by the end of the week, like I said, I was just very sick last week, and in addition to having to watch the little one, so I simply didn't have much energy at all in the way of doing artistic work. Most of my accomplishment last week was figuring out the prices for commissions (which I will be working on getting the commission page done and up, so that it's ready for the new year) and uploading art from this year (which I will continue to do since I have a fair few pieces left to go.) However, I'll try and have a Clara comic up by the end of the week, and see if I can't at least get the next few comics blocked out and ready to be worked on.

Either way, I'll continue trucking along! This is the holiday season, which is always kind of rough and it's been rather cold lately (except for today, for some odd reason), so I just have to keep chipping away at things!

Take care of yourselves, everyone! Until next week!
~Spooky

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2024-12-01) The Twelfth Month
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Hey there, peeps! It's December now!
The year is winding down and we're heading into an uncertain 2025, but that's not going to stop us from doing what we do! We've got a new Various Happenings update, so go and check that out! This week we're going to be taking a by-week from streaming, because Dicy is going to be out of town for a couple of days this week, and I really want to see if I can catch up on these uploads!

In the meantime, you can check out the schedule on the site!

December will be a pretty sparse month. I'm going to be trying to secure my work mostly; seeing about getting back to working on the bookmarks and making those a reality, trying to get ahead in both comics, and trying to get all of my 2024 work uploaded so that I'm finally caught up and can get to working on the site in earnest. Dicy & Tigre are heading down with their child to family's over Christmas, so I'll be taking it easy that week as well. Most of this month will be positioning myself better to move forward. There's not a lot else to go into right now! This week I'll be making sure there's a Clara comic on the weekend and beyond that, I'm just trying to get a bunch of stuff wrapped up! But then again, it is that time of year, isn't it?

Hope you're keeping warm (unless you're below the Equator, in which case, I hope you're keeping cool!)

Take care of yourselves, everyone!
Until next week!
~Spooky

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2024-11-24) Thanks Again!

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Hello peeps!

Working along. I needed to make sure funds were where they needed to be last week, so that cut into working on Various Happenings a bit. Fortunately that worked out, and I'm almost done with the lineart on the current comic, I just didn't have time on my non-stream days to do too much this week, especially with us preparing for Thanksgiving on Thursday and that. Between that and my sleep not being all that great lately, I've been a bit tired in general, but I will have something new up this week!

I've got the remainder of the current Various Happenings chapter to block out (about a half-dozen pages at this point,) and some Clara comics to block out as well, so it'll be a lot of prepping for the next set of things coming up!

Check out the site for the schedule!

Not a lot to say this time! Just keeping on!

Sorry that I haven't approved any Discord accounts lately (though there are a few I'll look at this week) but I'm mostly going back to word of mouth and having it be a semi-private sort of thing considering the current climate. I also have a really bad habit of forgetting the form exists, and that's on me, but I'll get it done. Still, I apologize for anyone who's been waiting. If you want, you're welcome to join the SubscribeStar, which gives you automatic access to the Discord (if the bots are working, though I post the join link in there every once in a while) for as little as $1 a month (just the first time, too! You don't get autokicked or anything like that) or you can just ask me directly at Fur Affinity or Inkbunny! (I realize that's what the form is for... but, remembering to check it aside, Discord doesn't make it easy to add people with just their username.)

I also need to check on the forums as well, since it's been a bit and I want to start adding more stuff there. That's going to be included in the whole website update plan. Right now I'm just trying to get everything uploaded to the galleries! (It takes a lot longer than you'd think, and I'm not sure how I manage to draw more than I can upload in a week! Oh well.)

Enjoy your food, everyone! I'll see you all next week!

~Spooky

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/

The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/

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Weekly Update! (2024-11-17) Work Stability

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Hello everyone!

Sorry about the lack of update last week, I was just... extremely checked out and kind of tired overall, to the point I just needed to take some "me-time" for a bit. I'm sure you all understand. But, regardless, we're still rolling on! Things are going well in spite of everything, and the comic work is coming along nicely!

This last week, we had a new Various Happenings update, and today we have a new update for The Adventures of Clara Cosmos, so I hope you all enjoy those! I haven't gotten ahead yet, but I can feel myself getting faster, so hopefully it's only a matter of time before I really begin to hit my stride with it!

Check out the site for the schedule!

There won't be any survey this quarter, simply because I couldn't think of what to ask. Things are pretty cut and dry right now and I don't have any really fun or funny questions to ask currently, so we'll just not do that this time. I haven't really been cataloguing the results since most of them were for my own curiosity, so a gap in the data shouldn't be a big deal if I do it again in the future. I might change my mind next month, but for now, I just don't see a reason to do it.

Also, I have a Bluesky account now, if you all want to follow me over there! ( https://bsky.app/profile/grayscalerain.bsky.social ) I don't like social media, so don't expect a lot of interaction, and frankly, the posting kind of sucks? Like it jpegs the shit out of it, but that's where the people are going, so it's better to have some presence than not! I'm not going to take it too seriously, though. It'll mostly be for promotion. 

I'm also probably going to stop posting (or attempting to post) on my DeviantArt and Pillowfort accounts. Both have been broken via PostyBirb for a while now, and while Pillowfort is simply... empty, dA is populated by bots, people bugging me about NFTs and its UI has been a mess since 2019. Those of you who follow me on those sites will have noticed that I haven't posted in a while, and that's generally why. Furthermore, I just want to start condensing my experience, and trying to connect with the people on the sites that I actually frequent and the communities I'm actually involved in. If you follow me on either of those sites, keep a look out on my home site, as well as my other galleries, and my comic pages. I am still active, always, I'm just trying to pear things down to a manageable place. I will not be deleting my content or accounts on those sites, however, so don't worry about that if you want to archive anything from them. You're more than welcome to do so, but it's not going anywhere.

The weather's getting pretty chilly now! It was dark at 4:30 PM yesterday, but I honestly don't mind all that much. My roommates are still trying to get used to it, of course, but we will get acclimatized eventually.

See you next week!

~Spooky

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The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/

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