Introduction: Annariel

[annariel]

I Am: annariel (also purplecat) people refer to me variously as Annariel, PC, Cat, lsellers, and Louise depending mostly on context and how we met. I'm happy with all those labels. Female pronouns.

I Make: I write fanfic mostly though I've dabbled in original fiction. If backed into a corner and forced to write NC-17 rated stuff I often resort to comic verse. I also make icons and other graphics (and ever so occasionally actual hand drawn art). I try to rec a piece of online writing (mostly fanfic) once a week. I also code.

I Like: I'm a bit of a fan of long plotty stories of the case/mission fic style and AUs with imaginative worldbuilding (though, since I'll also back button out of long fic that isn't grabbing me I probably end up leaving more comments on kudos on shorter stories even if, when I like long fic, I like it more than short fic). I do also love a well written character vignette. I'm definitely mostly a genre fiction person. I've enjoyed material in all styles and of all ratings though there are some labels I'm more wary of (e.g., torture and non-con) than others. At the moment the fandoms I'm mostly reading are Avengers, Sherlock, Primeval, Dr Who and Firefly. I write a lot of Primeval fiction (partly because the fandom has a very active drabbling community) but there are several fandoms I'd like to write more of this year, including smaller ones such as Sapphire and Steel, Robin of Sherwood and The Queen's Thief series.

I Play: In the past I've played origfic_bingo and created my own bingo cards, mostly to help with the worldbuilding around my two original fiction settings. However, in both cases, I want to do some reworking of the settings and that has pretty much put everything on hiatus - it's probably a year since I wrote any original fiction.

I also run genprompt_bingo and help run ladiesbingo (wearing my purplecat hat) and over on LJ I run a quarterly bingo challenge for the primeval_denial community. I have a couple of online bingo card and prompt generators as well (though its a while since I did anything with them and the interfaces are pretty basic) - Prompt Me, Bingo Cards, All singing and dancing.

Find Me: On DreamWidth I'm annariel for anything to do with creative stuff and purplecat for everything else. On LiveJournal I'm lsellersfic (for creative stuff) and louisedennis (for everything else). I'm annariel on AO3.

About Me: I'm a computer scientist by day, working on autonomous robotics and the verification of agent based systems. I'm female, in my 40s, married with a little one and live in the North West of the UK.

Comments

Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I've just googled that and it looks like a US thing (maybe equivalent to Sole Trader over here?). <<

Sorry, my minimalist tax advice only applies to the United States.

>> I think initially it will be knowing at what point any income may have reached the level where the taxman may take an interest because, <<

You need to identify that threshold. Many countries have a "hobby" category where you're allowed to make a certain amount on something before it's expected to shift to business (and vice versa, businesses have to make a certain time or level of profit, else they're hobbies).

>> at the moment under the UK's Pay As You Earn scheme, I don't have to file a tax return. <<

Lucky you!

>> I did submit returns for a couple of years after I did a week's freelance work for a charity my mother was involved with but I really wouldn't want to get into it for something in the region of tens of dollars a year. <<

I have thought of a possible solution! Instead of accepting cash donations yourself, point the crowdfunding button somewhere else. Maybe pick a favorite charity or funnel the money into a website that uses crowdfunding, or whatever else you want to support. Some places will let you put up a button of theirs. Others you might have to say, "If you like this work, rather than sending money directly to me, please make a donation to Cause X (link) and send me your receipt to active Perk Y."

No tax hassle, and you get to support a favorite cause.

>> I know someone who works in tax so I may ask him next time I see him. I'm sure technically you're supposed to declare any income at all, but I don't suppose anyone wants to actually know that someone gave me $5 via paypal. <<

That makes sense.