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

Welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm happy to see you here. Thanks for joining this community.

>> I also make icons and other graphics (and ever so occasionally actual hand drawn art). <<

allbingo does not yet have any icons, badges, banners or anything like that for promoting the community or rewarding people for making a bingo or achievement. If you'd like to make anything along those lines, that would be awesome.

>>mostly to help with the worldbuilding around my two original fiction settings.<<

I have listed worldbuilding as a good application of creative bingo. Hm, I should make a list of worldbuilding prompts.

>> 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) <<

Thank you for all your hard work in the bingo fests and for the coding. I have updated the "Get a Card" post to include your tools.

It occurs to me that if you add a list of actions or plot twists, you could create a three-part prompt "X does Y at Z." I also think the three-part prompts (both this one and the character pairings) would work great in a bingo card format if that's feasible.

[annariel]

Sole proprietor with a Schedule C

I've just googled that and it looks like a US thing (maybe equivalent to Sole Trader over here?). 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, at the moment under the UK's Pay As You Earn scheme, I don't have to file a tax return. 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 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.

I doubt I'd ever have enough time to make serious money at this (realistically we're talking a handful of hours a week for all fandom related activity though that isn't necessarily evenly spread) - there are some complications about my current work contract which might mean it could all vanish in a few years time, and then I might be looking at freelance programming as a separate career (assuming I couldn't get another research or lecturing post) but setting that up would be a much more serious proposition and, yes, financial advice would be needed since I know the tax rules around contracting as done by freelancers keep changing.