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	2025-09-01
	Getting Back In Gear Hey there, peeps! I hope you’re all doing alright! Sorry for the late update! Last week was a bit rough since I was still recovering from everything but we did make some progress towards getting everything sorted out! The site graphics are getting slowly updated and I still need to update the disclaimer page, but we’re getting there. I’m also going to be updating the gallery pages as soon as I post things to make a more definitive Fox Saliant Studios gallery for all of you, so look forward to that. I’ve got the bookmarks ready to print, I’ve just been so distracted that I have yet to make any serious attempts, so wish me luck on that. I really want this to work out, so maybe we’ll get some test prints this week. Over on the discord we’ve also introduced forums, so we can organize things a little better and people can post on different art pieces and not derail things between topics! I hope it works out, though we’re still going to be seeing about using the on-site forum as a back-up! That has not changed and I’ll be cross posting there when I get the chance! I’ll be working on getting the commission forms up and running as well, and seeing about doing that in a more sustainable way. I’m excited, but it’s going to take a lot of work just to maintain things, as well as juggle my health with all the stuff going on. Still, it’s worth it and I’m trying to make positive changes to make things both easier and more entertaining for myself and everyone else. But hey! We also have a new The Adventures of Clara Cosmos this week, so check that out! This week’s going to be a little weird, since I was at the RenFest yesterday and I’m going to be going to a concert on Friday (woo!) but I’ll try to get as much done as I can! Summer’s not quite gone yet, but it’s not as beastly as it once was, at the very least! I hope you’re all holding up well, and I’ll see you all next week! ~Sali
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	2025-08-24
	A Shitty Week  Hey there everyone! So this week, to put it quite simply, has fucking sucked. Heavy rains on Monday night caused the storm drain to back up into our basement drainage, flooding the basement. Now, unfortunately, in my town, the storm drain routes to the sewer, so instead of just filling the basement with four inches of rainwater, we got four inches of rainwater mixed with raw sewage instead. Poop and detritus all over our basement! Lovely. We had to rush to salvage what we could (which, thankfully, most of our sentimental stuff was in boxes with trash bags that worked as waterproof linings, or in waterproof plastic bins that we got just for this reason) and have had to spend the rest of the week trucking things out and into the garage (or garbage) and cleaning up. Tigre and I both had to get Hepatitis A & B shots, because we haven’t had them (Dicy had to get one a couple years ago because of his work) so I had to do that on Tuesday morning as well. Unfortunately, compounding with (or possibly the cause of) my phobia of needles, whenever I get shots, my blood pressure drops and I have what I would consider an involuntary panic attack. I get shakey, pale, and just kind of light-headed for a bit, and it takes like five minutes to wear off. But, the fun part is, when I get two shots in row in short order, like I had to this time, I just… straight up pass out and go into convulsions. It’s great! :D So, not only did I do that this time, I pulled a few muscles in the process, and felt generally garbage while trying to clean up or throw out the shit covered items downstairs. So that’s why there haven't been any streams this week. Fortunately, we did get some guys in there courtesy of the landowners to clean up and repair stuff on Friday, so the situation, thankfully, by Sunday (today) is mostly resolved. But that’s been my week. (It also didn’t help that one of my best friends in the world ended up in the hospital at more or less the same time due to an overactive irregular heartbeat, so I was also worried about him, his husband, and his sister that entire Tuesday. Luckily, aside from getting defibbed and undergoing some routine surgery, he’s doing fine now and is recovering at home, so that’s good at least.) So that’s put things on pause a bit. A few financial things… Recently I’ve been doing “show up and get called on” style commissions in Stream, which is fine, and I might still do those occasionally, but I think I’m going to probably go back to an “on-call” system where I take submissions and go one at a time. The thing is, I don’t like the way “show up for stream” stuff feels when we’re not doing SotS, and it makes it harder to vet things. It also creates delays in the steam if someone’s info isn’t ready when their turn comes up; people get upset if they are close to the top of the list but getting sniped repeatedly over several weeks; and if I decide that I’m tired or would rather work on personal projects, people are disappointed, and I don’t like that. While it may work great for other people, I think being able to pick and choose, plan ahead, and schedule stream days properly is more conducive to my methods for larger work as a whole. I just need to not bite off more than I can chew and only take one or two jobs at a time. So over the next couple of weeks I’ll be once again whipping up a form for people to put their commission requests in, while also trying to work down the backlog that I’ve currently got. Sketch on the Spot will remain largely the same, though I’m going to try and make more use of requested and required themes so that I can just vibe and get things done quickly, as well as setting up timers once again so that the turnaround is worth what I’m getting paid for it. It’s no secret that SotS is meant to be cheap and quick for the customer, and I do my best to make something cool in those restrictions, but often times it’s simply not worth what I get for it, so I’m going to have to really hold myself to the restrictions and save my enthusiasm and going overboard for stuff that I think is really special or the clean-ups afterwards. The situation with Stripe has also derailed things a little, but I’ve already gotten alternatives in play so we’ll see how that goes in the future. I just have to set up all the available payment options and links and invoices as I’ve done in the past. Hopefully having a number of options will help people be able to do things easily, and make it harder for the prudes to whack me if it comes to attention. I had considered using some form of monopoly money (poxbux) to let people just pay in when they can and then get what they want later, but people were a bit skittish on that, and though I would be absolutely fair and generous with it, it adds another layer of accounting on top of things and that’s just a pain in my ass, so… nah. I would rather people have no worry about that, and not have payments hanging over my head, anyway. (Also people started saying it sounded kinda crypto-ish, and like… ew. No thanks. Though, I might do poxbux emoji or stickers for the discord. I think that would still be fun.) The coming weeks are going to be busy, and I don’t know how much time I’m going to have to work on things, but I’m going to be working as much as I can. There are a few events I’ll be going to, and Dicy will be going out of town for work a few days here and there, as well as a bunch of things happening on the weekends. So it’s going to be a lot, but compared to this week, it should all be pleasantly normal or interesting at the very least. So we’ll do what we can. We’re going to work towards finishing Various Happenings Ch.6, updating the disclaimer on the site (I have the graphics now, I just need to set up the redirect again), put more time into the forums, work on the Sophie comic, get back to Clara, and get that backlog down. Once all of that’s done… who the fuck knows? I have a bunch of things I want to work on, so we’ll just see what happens. It’s starting to cool off a bit, and hopefully summer is sliding off into autumn. Things in the world are crazy, but you’ve got to live life on the ground, so that’s what we’re doing. Me and the family went to the beach today for a bit, and I got to actually sit down and read a book for the first time in a long time, so… that was nice. Hopefully there will be more of that in the future. Anyway, take care, and I’ll see you all next week. ~Sali
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	2025-08-17
	Continuing Onward Hey there, peeps! The by-week has actually been a success for the most part! I got most of what I wanted to do done, and now it’s back to the drawing. I’m keeping track of the things I want and need to do, so hopefully we’ll get some of those checkmarks down and push further ahead. Right now I’m just trying to mind my health and mind my workload. I’ve missed a lot of goals in the last few months, sadly, but that’s okay. I’m just trying to avoid piling more work on so that I can pace myself. I’ve gotten the printer working again (it needed a little cleaning to get the old ink out of the nozzles) and we should have the test prints of the Salipox bookmarks worked up this week! I don’t know if any of them will be usable but we’ll see! Aside from that, there’s really not much more to say about things. It’s been extremely warm lately, and I hope that the end of the month coming up will usher in some cooler weather! Until next week, my friends! ~Sali
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	2025-08-10
	Run Down But Not Run Out Hallo, foxfriends! By-week this week! Taking a bit of a break after my birthday to try and get uploads and such caught up and other behind the scenes stuff in order. Might do some project stuff, and I’m definitely going to do those bookmark test prints to see how they look. We’ll see how it goes! Nothing much going on, still running on the treadmill, trying to catch up to my obligations! I hope you’re all having a great summer! It’s… extremely warm the last few days, but that’s expected for August, honestly. Until next week! ~Sali
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	2025-08-03
	Stop and Go Heya peeps! Phew! Things have been a bit rough, but we’re getting there. Just trying to keep everything together and not burn out, which unfortunately means taking sudden mental health days sometimes. Sorry about missing the Sketch on the Spot on Friday. We’ll go ahead and do one on Tuesday to make up for it, though, so I’ll see you all then! My birthday is coming up this week (I’ll be 39, yaaaay…), so I’ll be taking Thursday and Friday off! Next week, however, is going to be a by-week. I want to get a bunch of uploads I’ve been neglecting finished, and also start test printing some bookmarks to see how they look and see if any changes need to be made to the printing before I start putting them up for sale! Hopefully I can get things worked out, and get a few more of the smaller tasks off the docket. I’ve also turned the registrations back on for the forums. Sadly I was not able to get the manual user addition working, so I will just have to approve people myself, again. So if you’re on the Discord, post the username you registered as in the appropriate channel (no other info is needed) and I will approve you. If you’re not on the Discord, then feel free to e-mail me at my business email at sali(at)foxsaliant[dot]com with the subject line “FORUM REGISTRATION”, and I’ll go ahead and approve you. I’ll see about checking/purging these once a week or so from now on, since I want to have somewhere people can go with the more common channels starting to become untenable, especially for people in the UK and Australia. I also plan to refurbish and add the Links page to the site, so we can start up the old internet phonebook again. Things are a bit overwhelming at the moment, but we’re still trucking along and my vigor to build my own place on the web, after all this time, is still present. Thanks for your continued support, patronage, and attention. Until next week! ~Sali
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	2025-07-27
	Still At It! Heya fox friends! Things are coming along well! Not much to say this week, no big events or anything, just an extra SotS to make up for the dropped one last week. We’re just going to be working at wearing things down as we go, trying to catch up to my backlog, chipping away and keeping up with financial obligations, and getting those boxes checked off to clear out some of the docket. Things have been piling up and it’s getting to be a lot, so we’re going to pump the breaks as best as we can and clear everything out. I’ve been trying to do that for a few months now, but just maintaining things while also putting out a bit of original stuff or a comic page here and there has been… hard. But we’ll get there. I’m already saving up for next year’s server costs and taxes, so maybe we’ll end up getting ahead anyway. For now, though, everything’s on the planner and queue, so let’s keep at it! Until next time, friends! ~Sali
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	2025-07-20
	Workin' It Down Heyo peeps! So, the last couple of weeks have been a lot, but we’re doing really well! We’ve been hitting the commissions hard and trying to catch up on our financial obligations, which has been, for the most part, actually been working out! This next week we’re going to be running a week of Sketch on the Spot MWF to try and get some stuff on the lower end for people, and then the following week we’ll be seeing about finishing out the backlog and trying to get a fresh batch going. We got a new Various Happenings this week, and we’re almost at the end of the chapter. Just one more page and a carpet page to wrap it up, then we’ll be focusing on getting the prep work for the next chapter going, as well as finishing up some side projects and leaning in on The Adventures of Clara Cosmos. Next week we’ll see about starting the work to print up the bookmarks and see how that goes. There will obviously be some trial and error, and I don’t know when physical items will be available just yet, but I’m hoping by the end of the summer at least. Slowly but surely, all the things on the list are being worn down, and if I’m able to get ahead enough, I might even be able to afford a vacation before the end of the summer. While last month hurt, it didn’t knock me back as far as I might have worried that it would, so if we keep pushing forward, we can make up for lost ground and actually make progress. That’s what I’m hoping anyway. I know these updates can get kind of monotonous because it’s the same facegrinding week after week, but hopefully things will start to give way, and we’ll take off like a rocket with all the momentum we’ve built up! Anyway, thank you for listening. I’ll see you all next week! ~Sali
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	2025-07-13
	Everything Coming Along Hey peeps! Well, things are a little tough right now but we’ll make due. Last month, frankly, sucked quite badly, and the first week of the month was rather rough. We’re a bit low on funds overall and things are kind of tight, especially with a lot of medical upkeep and other such expenses happening all at once. But regardless, we’ll be doing our best to make good on things. I’m going to be taking more commissions over the coming week and be trying to work down the ones I’ve got, as hard as I can, even on non-stream days. In addition, next week I’ll be running SotS all week, so people who haven’t had a chance to get anything, and can’t afford anything big, can get in on things. Hopefully everyone will enjoy that. In addition, I went ahead and updated the forum’s software to the latest version, and I closed registrations to stem the flow of bots like I said I would. By the Moon, there were so many freakin’ bots, let me tell you! So, if you tried to register sometime in the last few months and it never took, that’s why; because you got lost in a sea of spambots. I’ll be making a form for that in the future so that I can add people manually. If you have me on Discord, or if you fill out the form (or e-mail me at my contact e-mail) then I’ll go ahead and make an account for you. I’m going to try and be more present on the forum and start to cultivate that. I know there have been some posts recently, and I’ll reply to them as soon as my social batteries are charged up enough to do so. I need to get back to updating the gallery on the site and such as well. There’s just always so much to do and not enough me to do it. I’ve almost got another page of Various Happenings done, I’ve just been so fried this weekend that I haven’t finished the last few things on it that I need to, but I’ll try and have that up on Tuesday. I’m also going to start print testing bookmarks and see how those come out. Wish me luck, and I’ll keep you guys posted on those. Other than that, it’s just the same work as always. What can you do, yanno? Weather’s been getting a little nicer at least. If anything new happens, I’ll let you all know. Until next week! ~Sali
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