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Weekly Update! (2025-09-21) - Harvesting Our Efforts
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Weekly Update! (2025-09-21) Harvesting Our Efforts
https://www.foxsaliant.com/
Hey there peeps!
So as you can see, I’ve kind of… stripped things back a bit on the site for the moment. This is temporary, of course. It was getting to the point where the whole thing was becoming a bit of a nest and generally hard to keep up with.
You see, while I’m always making plans and charts and whatnot, after a while it just becomes this mass of two-hundred separate documents, a pile of post-it notes, and a bunch of web pages that are just hard to organize and navigate in general.
I’m writing things down on personal programs, in notepad, on my website, in GDocs, and other places and none of it says the same information!
It also doesn’t help that while my commissions page and other things look lovely, they also easily get out of date or have to have things altered or adjusted due to errors or me changing my mind, which means that all of the work that I poured into making things look good just becomes a huge hassle if I EVER have to change anything.
While I am happy with the aesthetics I’d developed; the site layout was just becoming a problem and things were all over the place and hard to find. On top of that, the site was getting progressively more difficult to navigate on mobile, which while I don’t care to browse the web on mobile myself, as a general rule, I know a lot of people do it as their primary experience nowadays.
So, my plan is to start from square one and expand out from the main page, making sure that things work before they look good. I figure it’s a good time to do it, too, since I’m going to be creating forms for taking commissions again and reorganizing how things are done.
It pains me to tear out all of my work, but since I will be keeping all of the assets, I can repurpose things and try once more to get things looking the way I want them once they’re a bit better organized. It’s also a good chance to archive and clear out a lot of the dummied out graphics and pages from the site itself that have collected over the years.
So, you might have also noticed that I missed last week’s update. The reason for that was… just because I was very tired. That week we got a good chunk of work done over the week, and then on Saturday we were going to go to an apple orchard for some apple picking. Those plans got derailed due to heavy rains, and nothing that we planned to do that day worked out, so we ended up changing things around and going on Sunday instead. That, of course, meant I was simply too tired to do the update on Sunday evening.
Then, when I woke up Monday, I had a sore throat, which developed into drainage and head congestion over the day, and that lasted more or less for the entirety of the week.
I still managed to get a lot of work done, but it wasn’t really as much as I had hoped for because it was very hard to focus on things.
It didn’t help that I had to get a booster shot from the vaccinations I’d gotten during the whole basement flooding incident a month back, so I felt pretty ratty. Still, we managed to muscle through somewhat, but I can tell you that I’m happy to leave this summer behind.
I came into the summer ahead of things, and now I’m about two grand behind where I had hoped to be. I’m not at the point where I’m broke or anything, but I have back contributions to pay and other things I need to save for if I’m going to keep my health decent and projects moving.
So, yanno, don’t forget about the SubscribeStar if you aren’t already a member, and if you have anything that you’d like to toss my way, we also have a tip jar. I’d greatly appreciate it. I don’t like to ask, but at this point I just need to avoid burning myself out and try and recover from all this, so every little bit helps.
I spent a lot of the last week rather depressed and despondent about the way things have been going, so I need a big rally one way or another and that means getting things that are on my plate done and out of the way.
Fortunately, we’re going to be going to look at a new rental place tomorrow, which might be a good bit cheaper than this one and better insulated, besides, so that would be a boon to us.
Tomorrow is also the equinox, so a blessed Mabon to all of you. Beyond is the season of dying light; the days getting shorter and the nights getting colder. It is a time of turning, as we put away the heat and action of the Summer and begin to focus inward.
Hopefully we can harvest what we’ve been tending for the Summer, and begin to store for the long Winter ahead.
Until next week! Take care!
~Sali
Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
SubscribeStar: https://subscribestar.adult/foxsaliant
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https://www.foxsaliant.com/
Hey there peeps!
So as you can see, I’ve kind of… stripped things back a bit on the site for the moment. This is temporary, of course. It was getting to the point where the whole thing was becoming a bit of a nest and generally hard to keep up with.
You see, while I’m always making plans and charts and whatnot, after a while it just becomes this mass of two-hundred separate documents, a pile of post-it notes, and a bunch of web pages that are just hard to organize and navigate in general.
I’m writing things down on personal programs, in notepad, on my website, in GDocs, and other places and none of it says the same information!
It also doesn’t help that while my commissions page and other things look lovely, they also easily get out of date or have to have things altered or adjusted due to errors or me changing my mind, which means that all of the work that I poured into making things look good just becomes a huge hassle if I EVER have to change anything.
While I am happy with the aesthetics I’d developed; the site layout was just becoming a problem and things were all over the place and hard to find. On top of that, the site was getting progressively more difficult to navigate on mobile, which while I don’t care to browse the web on mobile myself, as a general rule, I know a lot of people do it as their primary experience nowadays.
So, my plan is to start from square one and expand out from the main page, making sure that things work before they look good. I figure it’s a good time to do it, too, since I’m going to be creating forms for taking commissions again and reorganizing how things are done.
It pains me to tear out all of my work, but since I will be keeping all of the assets, I can repurpose things and try once more to get things looking the way I want them once they’re a bit better organized. It’s also a good chance to archive and clear out a lot of the dummied out graphics and pages from the site itself that have collected over the years.
So, you might have also noticed that I missed last week’s update. The reason for that was… just because I was very tired. That week we got a good chunk of work done over the week, and then on Saturday we were going to go to an apple orchard for some apple picking. Those plans got derailed due to heavy rains, and nothing that we planned to do that day worked out, so we ended up changing things around and going on Sunday instead. That, of course, meant I was simply too tired to do the update on Sunday evening.
Then, when I woke up Monday, I had a sore throat, which developed into drainage and head congestion over the day, and that lasted more or less for the entirety of the week.
I still managed to get a lot of work done, but it wasn’t really as much as I had hoped for because it was very hard to focus on things.
It didn’t help that I had to get a booster shot from the vaccinations I’d gotten during the whole basement flooding incident a month back, so I felt pretty ratty. Still, we managed to muscle through somewhat, but I can tell you that I’m happy to leave this summer behind.
I came into the summer ahead of things, and now I’m about two grand behind where I had hoped to be. I’m not at the point where I’m broke or anything, but I have back contributions to pay and other things I need to save for if I’m going to keep my health decent and projects moving.
So, yanno, don’t forget about the SubscribeStar if you aren’t already a member, and if you have anything that you’d like to toss my way, we also have a tip jar. I’d greatly appreciate it. I don’t like to ask, but at this point I just need to avoid burning myself out and try and recover from all this, so every little bit helps.
I spent a lot of the last week rather depressed and despondent about the way things have been going, so I need a big rally one way or another and that means getting things that are on my plate done and out of the way.
Fortunately, we’re going to be going to look at a new rental place tomorrow, which might be a good bit cheaper than this one and better insulated, besides, so that would be a boon to us.
Tomorrow is also the equinox, so a blessed Mabon to all of you. Beyond is the season of dying light; the days getting shorter and the nights getting colder. It is a time of turning, as we put away the heat and action of the Summer and begin to focus inward.
Hopefully we can harvest what we’ve been tending for the Summer, and begin to store for the long Winter ahead.
Until next week! Take care!
~Sali
Various Happenings: https://www.varioushappenings.com/
The Adventures of Clara Cosmos: https://www.claracosmos.space/
SubscribeStar: https://subscribestar.adult/foxsaliant
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