Persisting.

Photo copyright Aji, 2023; all rights reserved.

Youngster is about to be a daddy (or maybe already is, but I think his girl is incubating, not hatching). These two little ones are all grown up, I guess. I caught him delivering food to her this morning in their nest — the same nest where he was born — and it was so beautiful to see them persisting despite all the horror around us all.

Even if humanity doesn't make it, it's good to know our beloved hawks will survive.

While the rest of this country is focused on its celebrating tomorrow, we'll be working, and also mourning. Too much loss, too much grief, too much torture and torment and pain and death. And the work needs us always, anyway.

Speaking of which, it's already a busy week, and already a fraught one. We're fast running out of holiday season in which to make sales, as every weeks-early "Black Friday sale" e-mail keeps reminding me. I have to change that, and I've been too ill and too crippled by pain to do that. Small residual storms, indeed. But all that has to change now, pain or no. And there's plenty of that, after two days of having to walk and stand for hours on hard surfaces, so this will be a matter of pushing through it as best I can. It may not be very good, but there's no choice.

So I'm going back to posting screenshots of Wings's work on Twitter. Temporarily, and only until the end of each day. Then I'll delete. But taking our images off both accounts has destroyed our site traffic, from hundreds of human hits a day to nothing but crawlers and bots. And we can't afford that. I'm also going to try to run short threads daily now, because that's what produces results.

Because despite our recent sales, this year has been so slow that we're way behind on everything, including prepaying next year's taxes [I've been able to prepay zero; a big fat zero]. Which means that I need to continue to bring in consistent sales to get that covered. Once that prepayment is handled, I can rest a little. But not now. I figure if I can bring in around $6K in sales between now and year's end, we'll be in halfway decent shape. But I have not been able to push sales like I need to be doing; my health has been too bad generally, but when I have only one partially-working hand with which to type, it becomes impossible. Because I'm a little better today, it means that I will by definition overdo it, but I need to bring in holiday sales now, enough to get the taxes off my desk once and for all. And while my illness worsens, I really need help. And, as always, all the links are listed below:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (liquid soaps are priority now [or Amazon cards, and I can order them myself]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site, and there will be much, much more in the weeks to come. The way this year has gone, things will still be grim for a good while and the holidays will be here before you know it, so please share all of the links. 

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