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Okay, so no tag or image for this one, and it will be suprisingly brief.

The rules on tax have changed since the recession got serious, and these changes have been snuck under the radar due to the current "OMG EXPENSES" row and my personal favourite "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE OF PIGFLU".

You do not have to register as self employed until you turn your comic into a business, as opposed to a source of extra income as this guide suggests. I will deal with the whole business aspect of it here when it comes to it, I don't want to scare off my readers.

Basically you can apply to exempt yourself from paying National Insurance tax if your earnings are below five thousand pounds in a financial year. You may also get TAX RELIEF for earnings in the same bracket, and even though you will still have to send of a check every april to cover your income tax, you will get some if not all of it back. If this confuses you as much as it did me, then you need to go to your local Citizen's Advice Beaureu and ask for more information and some help on the matter. There should be a financial adviser there to talk you through it, primarily because they want to get their hands on your tax cash as fairly and as quickly as possible.

If you are on benefits, you definately need to go to Citizen's advice before earning a single goddess blasted penny. You can now go to jail for a very long time for benefit fraud and trust me: modern jails are just as bad as the old time ones, except now there is more to make a shiv from thanks to the Home Office.

I will update here as to my own personal adventures with the Inland Revenue and some tips learned the hard way.

Luff and stuff - Ree

PS: the credit you earn from advertisers cannot be taxed, but they do have limits on how much you can store on their system and how much you can buy out at a time. So my advice is: if you cant cash it, spend it on advertising campaigns so when you can cash it, you can cash more.

I posted this before I gave it a title.

ZOMG I drew blazes in a tag O_O Truly this is the intimacy that I have craved all my life. Anyway!

I am updating step-by-step pages over at My Thingie all week this week, also I may or may have not mentioned that said comic is also now on daily updates due to the fact that I need to push my traffic up just a smidgeon more.

It is actually working quite well.

Also I had to stop reading Heather's blog temporarily as the strength of her observational artwork is truly depressing. I will never be able to draw like that purely and simply because my concentration span is way too short.

My sex drive is so high that concentrating for more than an hour on anything other than sex is really taxing. Mah guys will know what I mean ^_~.

...

Okay maybe not.

O¬O

Anyway!

Have sum videoh:




At first he was saying "my Jescules" and I was like WOAH Frez, this is youtube. But I totally didn't stop watching.

Ree-Turn?

So its been about a century since I updated here, and thats mostly because I've been very unwell. (full saga avaliable over at My Thingie).

I delayed the launch of Felicity Jone until I know what I am doing, and I have procrastinated on sorting out my bank details for reasons unknown, and so far have earned a grand total of diddley squat from these comics. HOWEVER, there is light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, and I may have some good news soon.

Being featured really helped ^^ my hits shot up... but have since come back down, however I now have 44 confirmed favouriters and totally faithful readers at Drunk Duck, for which I am insanely greatful. I am not going to do the usual artist's plea for referrals to friends, but you know, it wouldn't hurt.

Anyway, next weeks' comics are going to be MMO themed, and I promise you that the quality will be much better than seen here >

In the meantime heres something funny:


If I was hetero I'd totally marry her. But she'd probably stab me in my sleep.

Buh?!

My Thingie just got Featured over at Drunk Duck.

Also, I have had some upthebutt exams today so I am not feeling so good. Some sort of abdominal stuff is happening on my insides, and whilst personally I am thinking that a good colonic will do the trick, my doctor wants to stick me full of pins.

I share this with you, only because I am forbidden from EVER talking to Blazes about poop. Ever.

So yeah...

I feel all recognised and stuff and kinda positive about things again!

Ossum.

Lush.

Et-cetera.

I am tired. I shall go and ingest more medicines then probably sleeps. Victory dance on my behalf, k?

- Ree

Mah Feather List

My feather list is getting bigger:

Nuffink doin: All unshaded pages, plus a some minor work on earlier pages.

Felicity Jone:
Pages 2, 3, 6, 7, 8

My new work schedule means I work only on weekdays, with any extra touch up work to be done at the weekends if I have time. Page 7 of FJ is so utterly hideous that I will definately be working on it this weekend.

As soon as I get back into the flow of this, I will not need a feather list at all.

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Okay so thats probably not true.

I am so lazy =_="

I need to do some life studies but lack motivation. If I did some rude ones would people flock to view them? Would you link them if'n I did?

Hrmmhrmmhrmm...

Wootwoot!

There is a very important symbol in this image>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

That feather means that a page will be redrawn in the future. This will mean that the FJ archive will be full of constant suprises and special stuff and wow and yeah.

It has nothing to do with the fact that I am not yet back into the habit of drawing in high detail.

So yeah.

Today I did everything I wanted to do, and later I think I might do a bit more work on some of it. Which is lush. But right now I am going to get a coffee.

Luffs it.

In the meantimes I suggest that you go and read London Underworld, which is a beautiful depiction of 19th Century London and the criminal world. Though not as dark as reality, its just dark enough to still be enjoyable.

- x0x0x- Ree

Super Crisis Ends!

I need to cut my hair. I have been curling it to keep it out of the way but now thats too much bother to do every single day (for no-one to see how amazing it looks) so I am just going to get some scissors and-

Snip.

My boyfriend wants to do it, but given that everytime he asks me if he can he gets a crazed look and starts to dribble from his mouth: that is not going to happen. Still it will give me something to blog about! AHA.

-_-!"

Anyway!!

Important news first!

My crisis is over, the FJ pages will be ready for next saturday and updates will be constant every monday wednesday friday for the next two weeks, then I am switching to monday-friday for four weeks so that I can get a buffer going, THEN it will be back to monday-wednesday-friday.

And because that probably didn't make any sense, here's a schedule:

FJ Updates:
Monday 13th April
Wednesday 15th April
Friday 17th April

Monday 20th April (Plus some extras)
Wednesday 22nd April
Friday 24th April

Monday 27th April
Friday 1st of May (Plus some extras)

Monday 4th May
Friday 8th May

Monday 11th May
Friday 15th May

Monday 18th May
Friday 22nd May

Then after this updates Monday-Wednesday-Friday.

After this I will not need to do any more schedule changes, because I will have like four weeks of buffer ahead of me at all times. Which will be nice. OH also, Viceroy came back from his haitus, there is a link to his blog here.

But its rude, so don't go there if you're in work.

- Ree