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

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

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

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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Weekly Update! (2025-02-09) Working It Out

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Slowly getting these things checked off!  I'm hoping to have the Hall of Friends up this week, at least in some form, and hopefully the commission page soon.  I know I've been promising that for a couple of months now, but Sketch on the Spot has been keeping things decently full up in the meantime, and I haven't really wanted to open up more intense commissions recently, just for stress reasons.  But eventually I just gotta do it, because having the cash outweighs the stress of doing them, as long as I don't take a bunch in advance and keep on top of them by doing them one at a time.  I know a lot of people have PMed me or e-mailed me about commissions recently, and I've just not had the social battery charge to respond to everyone just yet, because I would have just basically been telling people "no" over and over.  Which, that's on me, and I apologize to anyone who's been waiting to see what I say.  I will get to all of your messages when I'm not too tired to talk to people.

Also, on Thursday and Friday of this week, I am doing a Sketch on the Spot special for Valentine's Day.  It will be simple two-character sketches for $30 USD.  Nothing fancy or super involved, very quick and messy, but I thought it would be nice, so if you're a member of the discord, be sure to be there if you want to grab something.  It'll be one sketch per person, so I'll try and get everyone who asks for one, though I can't guarentee that.  I'll try though.

While it may be a tad late for this event, if you aren't a member of the discord, and you want to be, you can join my SubscribeStar for the low low price of $1.  That will get you into the discord member area where you can vote on future things and see how I'm doing with various current projects.

Still got the comics on the docket, of course.  It's been hard to work on them lately, because of financial stuff and sickness.  I'm going to be trying to get this comic sequence I'm working on with Azure done, because it's been sitting for almost two years now (it doesn't seem like it, but it has) and I want to get it taken care of so we can reference it and work on other things together in the future.  Then I want to finish the current chapter of Various Happenings and the current Episode of Clara Cosmos, which are both sitting in production right now.  There just never seems to be enough time or energy, but we'll make it work.

I'm almost done uploading my 2024 pictures to the off-site galleries, and doing the ones for January 2025 shouldn't take that long.  It's tedious and tiresome, but once I've caught up it should become much easier.

I do have the forum link on the front page now, if you want to sign up for that, and the stream link itself, if you're curious about that or need an easy place to access it.  We're also going to be adding landing pages for my various projects on the front page as well, including some other work by friends of mine, which I hope you will all enjoy.  So look to see those expanding in the future.

And that's really all that's going on right now.  Things are still a bit stressful, and the future is uncertain in a lot of ways, but I'm just going to keep pressing forward.  I still intend to make this a productive year.

It's still cold, but I hope you had a blessed Imbolc, and hopefully things will start to warm up (after this newest cold snap, I guess!)

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! (2025-02-02) Getting Back Up To Speed

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Okay, so the last couple of weeks have been a bit rough. We managed to work up our monthly household contribution, but missing a few SotS has put more pressure on me than I'd like, so while we're not in danger financially or anything, I only managed the bare minimum, which isn't what I want.

The worst of the sickness seems to have passed, so right now I'm just trying to readjust my sleep schedule and get back to going to bed at a reasonable time. Trying to do so, along with some minor congestion and dehydration, has left me more or less exhausted and tired all the time, however. This has impacted my self-care and household chores somewhat (though this isn't specific to me, we've pretty much all been zonked out), so a lot of this week is going to be me trying to catch up on that.

Speaking of catching up, January didn't go at all how I'd hoped, so we're still stuck on all the things that I wanted to get done.

Various Happenings Ch.6 is still in progress. I've done the composition for most of the remaining pages, I just have a couple left. I'll start trying to chip away a little bit (from half-an-hour to four hours, depending) every day so I can push through it to the new material. Once that's done, I'm going to finish scripting and composing the current section of Clara Cosmos (perhaps even up to the end of Episode 1 Part 1) and see if I can't get a running buffer for both of those. The collab that I'm working on with Azure will be happening on stream, and should end up being a lot less daunting than it seemed at first. I've done a lot of that sort of work in the last couple of years at this point, so I'm not as intimidated as I was when I started it.

As for general Fox Saliant work, I also want to get to regularly working on the bookmarks; there are six left and I know they're not as difficult as they could be, I just need to relax and do them. I spent a lot on the printing equipment, and I don't want it to sit until it seizes up, so I need to start working on that. I'm almost done with posting all of my 2024 items on the external galleries, too. I've got about 30 pieces left, so we're right there, I just literally have not had any energy.

Things are kind of scary right now, and even as I'm trying to get everything in a row, there are things that threaten to smash everything to bits. I always feel like I'm running behind, and it's hard to make enough money these days and still work on things I want to work on. But I'm doing my best to organize and get ahead of the game for once.

I've been posting votings and such over on my Discord channel, which you can be a part of if you're a member of the SubscribeStar! If you're not, go check it out, it's only a buck for Discord access, and I post polls, art packs, and other member exclusive things there, as well as early access to all of my work if you're in the $5 tier. If that interests you, I hope to see you there.

And for those of you reading, regardless of whether you're members or not, thank you for sticking with us. I know things have been very drawn out over a the last who-knows-how-long, but we're always doing our best to make cool stuff and that's never going to change. Hopefully, things will get better and I'm going to make it my mission to keep making cool junk as long as I'm physically able to, no matter what the social or political climate.

Have a blessed Imbolc, everyone, and may the cold of winter gently dull to the warmth of spring.

Until next time!
~Spooky

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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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

Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
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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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