Weekly Update! (2025-05-18) It's All About Momentum

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Heya peoples!  

The last couple of weeks have been fairly intense, not going to lie.
(CW: Medical Issues/Descriptions below!)

Last week, one of my cats who has been having litter box issues (just peeing everywhere except the box) began peeing blood. So my roommate rushed her to an urgent care vet clinic, and she got some x-rays, which showed that she apparently had a bladder stone that was about the size of my thumbnail, and had gotten a serious urinary tract infection from it since it was too large to break down. 

While not an uncommon or untreatable situation, this cast her recent misbehavior in a new light, certainly.  Still, we had her set up for the next day for it to be removed and she went into surgery and spent the night at the vet before coming back home.  She’s doing well now, and much happier already, which is really good to see.  It’s been a bit, and I’d just assumed she’d gotten tired of her litter or the other cats were making it hard for her, but she is definitely a lot more affectionate and better behaved now, so I can only imagine the kind of discomfort and pain she was in.

The whole thing cost us about $3K, which isn’t great, but we were able to soak the cost.  Still, it sets us back a bit on the credit cards, so if you’d like to be a big big help, my tip jar is over here [ https://donate.stripe.com/fZe15wdjQfSn6Yg9AA ].  Every little bit is appreciated.  I’m just glad she’s feeling better.

So that was the week before last, and that ordeal was why I didn’t have a weekly update last week.  This last week, things actually went pretty well, though!  I can hardly remember it, to be honest, but things are moving along!  My new rotational means of organizing streams is actually working out, my backlog is almost worked down again (which I’m rather happy about,) and work on projects is going at pace!  I should be covered for this month, fairly soon, financially, and if I’m lucky, I can actually start to get ahead on things and save money.

Despite everything, I’m kicking butt, which I’m very happy about.

Now this coming week, I’m going to have to take a by-week to help Tigre watch the little one while Dicy goes out of town, because she’s been very harried by everything lately, and she needs a break, and he won’t be home until Friday.  So no streams for me, but I’ll do my best to keep up the project work in-between things.  

I’ve got some exciting stuff coming down the pipeline, so I hope everyone is going to enjoy it!  

All of the pages but one are in production for the end of Chapter 6 of Various Happenings, and I’m hoping to wrap that up towards the middle of June.  Chapter 7 is already outlined and I’m going to be trying some new stuff with it to really get the production moving and make it a more consistent experience in the future.  It’ll be different, but I’m hoping that everyone will enjoy just having more new Various Happenings.

I’m also currently hard at work on another project which is nearing its prototype phase, that I’m very eager to share once I’m able (it’s a resurrection of an old project that fell by the wayside, that I’ve been working on in fits and starts for the last six years or so and I’m super stoked to see it actually moving forward again.)  

ClaCos is absolutely still in the cards, of course, and I appreciate the patience of those of you who are eager to see Clara’s adventures really get going.  I can’t wait to focus that down, so I can really get that moving and out of its nascent phase; I’ve just been in a weird place with it, and I’ve got to find the groove again to really get the art to flow.  But we’ll get there.

Azure and I’s naughty comic collab is also moving again, and I’m going to try and get that knocked out fairly soon, as it’s one of the things that I can just put a pin in once it’s done.  I’ve also got other FSS site stuff with Azure and Nori that I want to get a move on with, as well; so look forward to that.

I stalled out with merch, but we’re gonna get that set up soon enough.  It’s in my docket, and there’s a bunch of other stuff that I’m juggling right now, so it’s a lot to manage, but the more that gets checked off, the easier it becomes to check off other things.  It’s all about momentum.

Still, as always, thank you for your patience and patronage.  I couldn’t do any of this without you.  That’s all for now, thank you for reading, take care of yourselves, and I’ll see you all next week!

~Sali

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space
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Weekly Update! (2025-05-04) All Of It Coming Together

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Hey everyone! Sorry for missing last week, I was just way too busy, but I hope you all had a wonderful Beltane and that spring has finally arrived for everyone at this point!

We have a new Various Happenings this week, so go check that out! It's been a bit, but things are finally straightening out to where I can absolutely start being a little more proactive in my projects and not get piled on as much as I have been in the past. It'll probably be a couple more months before things really start to iron out and I work at a good clip, but we'll see just how it goes. I have a project with Azure and some side things I want to do, as well as get back to Clara when I feel better connected to that story. It's been a bit rough trying to get situated with it, but it's definitely something I really want to do.

Still, all and all, now that I've recovered from doing my taxes, and I'm not as perpetually sick, I should be able to give myself the breathing room I need to really dig back in.

So wish me luck! Gonna try and beat down my backlog this week so I can do some new jobs next week and work on those comics.

I'll see you all then; don't forget your moms next Sunday (for those of you inclined. For those of you not, buy yourselves some nice candy!) See you all next week~!

~Sali

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
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Hey there peeps!  Well, I didn't get done as much as I'd like to, but I did still make a lot of progress and almost all the Q1 pieces are up on my online galleries now!  Once I'm done with that entirely and have uploaded everything for April, that'll be another task that's finally complete!

This week, I'll be focusing on making rent, and getting as many things completed as I can, as well as getting the next VH comic done.  It's a lot, but if I knuckle down and don't get distracted by random whims, I know I can do it.  My goal, in addition to the comic, is capping out three commissions this week, and getting the April clean-up votes taken care of.

I'm slowly getting organized, so as things continue to get cleaned up, hopefully it'll be easier to do everything in the future.  Thanks again to all of you for sticking with me and helping me be able to do what I need to do. n.n

Hope you're all having a good Easter, and I'll see you all next week!
~Sali

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2025-04-14) Doubling Back

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Hey everyone!  Sorry about crashing out this last week.  I was apparently a lot sicker than I realized and I ended up having to sleep most of the latter half of the week off.  I did take my sick days officially, so I am keeping track of that and did end up giving myself some time off.  That's also why this weekly is a tad late.  Still, thank you to everyone who checked in on me; I know I wasn't very responsive, but I do appreciate it all nonetheless.

To that end, instead of next week, I'm going to be taking my by-week this week so that I can keep recovering as I get better (which I have been over the weekend, thankfully) and get some of the admin stuff I've had laying around taken care of.  Hopefully this means I can finish my uploads up to the current month, as well get the last few fixes done on the commission page.

Once my financials are taken care of for the month, and most of my commission work has been caught up on, I'll be able to focus things down.  Fortunately, all of my commissions right now are in progress, and most of the linework is finished or just needs cleaned up, so things should get taken care of in fairly short order once I'm able to.  I'm looking forward to it, honestly, and while things have been lagging a bit for various reasons, I really feel like we're just about caught up.  It's almost surreal, honestly. 

I know I'm always hopeful and things rarely work out for me the way I hope, so my promises always get fudged somewhat... especially recently because times are tough and I'm only one pox, but even so, we're still slinking towards things being better, regardless of what the world has to say about it.

So, no streams this week, I'm going to try and get things tightened up on the site and get this pictures uploaded.  Also try and get my passport started at some point!  Paperwork, ho!

Comics are still on the docket, of course.  Some of them are ready for linework, so we'll see what I have time for this week.

It's finally starting to warm up a bit, too... this winter has had a long tail, and it's good to see spring finally getting started.
I'll see you all next week!  Take care of yourselves!

~Sali

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2025-04-06) Rough Handling

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Hey there mine fine friends!  This week has been a bit of a doozy.  I was rather out of it last weekend (well, the whole week, really) due to Dicy's new schedule, so I just didn't have it in me to finalize the update, and I didn't want to put up anything on April Fool's Day, so I decided to just skip the update for the week.  Sorry about that, but we're here now!

I also had to take Wednesday off due to both feeling rather ill and there were some rather aggrivating issues with the car as well, so that was a lot of fun.

But, thanks to my customers and the make-up stream on Thursday, I'll be able to file and pay my taxes this week, and with a few more jobs, I'll have this month's household contribution in hand... relatively early in the month!  Hopefully that'll give me time to get these commissions out of the way and to work down all of the FSS projects that I've been having to juggle.

Posting is getting there, and it'll only be a matter of time before we catch up finally!  I'm hoping to make a big dent in it this week!

Still feeling a little under the weather, but I'm starting to adjust and I'm doing my best to try and take care of myself.  Spring will happen... eventually?  We'll see.  But anyway, I'll see you all next week!

Until next time!  Take care of yourselves!

~Sali

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2025-03-23)  Business is Business

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Hey there meeps, beeps, peeps and bleeps.  Got a new Various Happenings up this week, as promised!  I'm going to be trucking along on that and Clara as hard as I can in between paid jobs, so keep a lookout!  Things are going well on the financial side for the moment, commissions have been very lucrative and we're getting them done at a good clip, so I'm rather happy about that.  I've got to put in my passport forms and do my taxes this week so that's going to cost a bit, but that's okay, finances are actually pretty solid thanks to you guys.  Also, I've actually got my forms this year, so it should take a lot less time than usual!

If you're interested in Commissions, you can head over to that page and check out the process and what's available.  You generally have to be a member of the discord to get on the list and check-in, but there's the process for that on the page.  I know some people don't necessarily want to come into the discord or can't, for whatever reason, so I might put up a form page in case people want to submit things.  I can't guarentee when I'll get around to them, but if I see something fun, I might pull it and contact you, so just keep a lookout for that sometime in the future if that interests you.

Dicy's going back to the office full time next week, unfortunately, so I'm going to be getting up and going to bed a little earlier, so we'll try and have the streams reflect that.  We'll be working more on projects and wrapping up in progress commissions to keep things from getting too out of hand.  I've got a Various Happenings and a Clara Cosmos comic both in-progress, so we'll see about getting at least one of those done.

Posting is going well, too, and we'll keep on at it so that I don't get behind again.  Once that's done, that'll free up more time for other things, which is the general goal!

Anyway, still cold.  I'm sure I probably forgot to mention something here, but what can you do?  I'll tell y'all next week.
See you all then!  Take care of yourselves!

~Sali

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2025-03-16) Brick By Brick

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Hey peeps!  This week has been productive, I must say, but there's always more to do.  Commissions are starting and I've already got a nice group that I'm working on!  We're going to keep at it, though, and I'm going to be doing my best to juggle things without getting too overwhelmed.

The forum has, unfortunately, been latched onto by spambots already, so if you've signed up lately and haven't been approved, it's probably because you accidentally got caught in with the hundred or so spambots I nuked.  Sorry about that!  You can reregister and send me a message to me at sali(at)foxsaliant.com so I'll know you're trying to sign up if you don't get approved in a couple of days!

This last Friday was the 10th Anniversary for Various Happenings, and it's gotten me feeling a kind of way, I suppose.  I'm not as far along by now as I'd hoped I'd be (only about half of what I'd estimated, much less where I want to be) but on the other hand, I'm still doing it, so there's something to be said about that.  I appreciate everyone who's stuck with me this long and I hope that, going forward (barring the world devolving into complete insanity) I'll be able to work on things more consistently and bring the story to life.  I know it's things I've said before, and I trot out the same hopes and dreams each time I'm feeling nostalgic or a little down about it, but there's something to be said for persistence.  Brick by brick, piece by piece, we'll build it.

Got a building inspection on Monday, so I won't be streaming then, but I'll stream on Tuesday & Wednesday instead.

The bookmarks are still in the works, and I have Clara stuff and a few other projects I want to get up on the site, so we'll see how those go.  I have taxes to do soon, but it looks like money will, at least for the moment, not be an issue.  I can only hope that the little bit of stability I've managed to claw out of the situation will stick around.

Thanks again so much for sticking with me, everyone. 
Now, let's welcome spring together, have a blessed Ostara, and I'll see you all next week!

~Sali

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The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2025-03-09) Back in the Driver's Seat

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Hey peeps!  Sorry about missing the update last week!  There was a lot going on and I'd spent the entire by-week working on the Commissions page, so I was a bit out of it by the end of the week!

It's not done yet, but it's functional and I'll just be spiffying it up a little bit at a time as I go along.  All the information is there, though, in readable format, so go check it out if you're interested!

Some of you may have noticed that on my various galleries and such, I'm not going by Spooky anymore, but my old handle of Saliant!  There's a lot of reasons for that, but I just felt I needed to recenter myself and that the persona of Spooky was kind of chafing me at this point. 

I was feeling nostalgic, too, and I wanted to kind of bring in parts of myself that I haven't been really paying attention to or giving enough air to for a while. 

Plus, "Saliant" is just a more unique and recognizable art handle.  So yeah, I'm Sali again, and that's okay!  I'm having fun with it!

Spooky won't be going away or anything, so I'm sure we'll see more stuff with her every now and again.

I'm sorry about the lack of comics lately, there's just been a lot going on, and being sick during all of January and then having to make up for it in February really took a toll on my ability to work on things that weren't immediately gratifying.  I am chipping away at the current Various Happenings update and I have some collab comics that are in the work as well, so that should be fun.  Then once Chapter 6 is done and those comics are wrapped up, I can focus on Clara and some other things I want to work on before throwing myself into VH Chapter 7.

There's a lot to do, and I'm trying to juggle it, while also making sure that my monetary needs are covered, but we'll see how it goes and with things finally getting done a little at a time I'm sure we'll finally get everything where it needs to be sooner than later.

I hope everyone's doing okay.  I know things are wild now, but help those around you where you can, and most of all, take care of yourself first and foremost.  You can't help anyone else if you're down and out.

I'll see you all next week!  Thanks for stopping by! 

~Sali

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2025-02-23) Spinning Plates

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Hey peeps! This week I'll be taking a by-week in order to take care of all the posting and administrative stuff I've been falling behind on lately. I've still got the uploads from last year to wrap up, and I'm going to try my best to get the commissions page up this week so I can start taking those in the near future. I want to better manage my juggling of projects, so I'm going to be taking things in small chunks during streams so I can maintain my enthusiasm for whatever I'm working on, rather than dedicating eight-hour streams to a single thing. Hopefully that'll get things out faster and decrease my rate of burnout. That means there won't be as many solid SotS streams, but I'll be offering them as an option that people can do in addition to their regular commissions should they so desire (that is, something extra they can tack onto the order.) This will apply to the Sketch on the Spot Clean-Ups as well! Hopefully that'll allow people to get things cheap if they want, as well as allowing those that want to get something a bit bigger a chance to.

I've got a few expenditures that I'm going to prioritize in the next few months (passport, taxes) which is why I want to get commissions back up and running. That way, I have a constant influx of cash in order to invest in these things, just in case, as well as paying off credit and other useful things. While SotS has been great, I'm starting to feel the burn, so it's time to shake things up a bit.

I also haven't been able to work on comics, and if I'm going to maintain commission work, as well as do fun stuff, and work on the comics, I've got to do a bit better at juggling and be able to vary the kind of things I'm working on in order to not overtax myself in any specific way. Composition, clean-up, writing, adminstrative work, and all these other skills function differently and tax me in different ways, so limiting the amount of time spent on any one of them will hopefully allow me to work more consistently.

Still, things are going, and we're making progress on things, even if it's slow at times. So we'll just have to see what happens with it!

Thanks for standing by me, and I hope you all have a great week! I'll see you then!
~Spooky

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The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2025-02-16) Shuffling It All Around
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Heyo peeps!

So the Valentine's Day streams were rather successful, but I've got a lot of leftovers from those streams to finish up, so I'll be doing an extra stream or few this week in order to wrap all of that up. I've got about fourteen (14) at count left to do, or a little over half, so I'll be taking care of as many of those as I can over the week. If I have to do more by the stream on Friday, as well, I will, but hopefully things will be done by then so I can proceed onto normal work. Making sure the credit cards are paid and also saving up for a passport (just in case) are things that take precedence over projects and comics unfortunately, though I really do want to get back to everything and I'm trying as hard as I can to get things back to where they need to be.

We're almost there!

Not this coming week, but soon, however, I want to take a by-week in order to finish off a bunch of paperwork and postings that I need to do, as well as a few site updates and other things. It's been a while since the last one and I need to get a few things in order as well as knuckle down on those site updates.

Time goes way too slow and way too fast all at once it seems. I hope you are all doing well. It's going to be cold tomorrow, apparently.
Until next week!
~Spooky

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