#contracts and business

[scarlettohairdye]

PSA to printed zine makers

As a 37 year old who's been running a sole proprietorship for the last 10+ years, I just want everyone who is planning to run a fandom project that involves accepting money for printing & shipping costs to know that you're actually running a small business and you need to plan for taxes. It doesn't matter if you don't make any profit: that is business income and the IRS will see it as such if you get audited.

If you only take enough money in to cover the cost of printing & shipping then you can write that off as a business expense and probably not pay taxes on it, But in order for that to fly you actually have to do business accounting, especially if you're doing it at scale. Like, you can probably skate by without reporting a $500 project; I absolutely would not fucking risk it with a $5000 project.

Back when I was producing shows there were years when I was where I made $20k in ticket sales only to turn around and immediately pay $18k to my performers. I only made $2k for myself, but I had to report the entire $20k, because it was ALL INCOME. (I only paid taxes on the $2000, because that's how writing off expenses works!)

Yeah this is boring grownup shit and I'm getting my boring grownup fingers all over your fun fandom, but boring grownups doing boring grownup things are the reason fandom spaces exist at all (paying for servers is deeply boring), and I'm way more fun than an audit

#don't find this out the hard way #get a small business license if you want to do it more than once #small business taxes are annoying #but getting audited is way worse #this advice is US-centric but the gist applies in other countries too #fandom #zines #also have contracts #if money is changing hands you gotta make that shit official

[rottmnt-residuum]

Part 9 of Arc II (Part 35)

thats how they getcha in real life, free college (￢︿̫̿￢☆)

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#rottmnt #rottmnt michelangelo #residuum #rottmnt residuum comic #c #g #posting this early because i'm busy later and wouldn't have been able to update the links #look my in the eyes and tell me mikey wouldn't do this #and heyyyy you guys get to finally kinda know whats in the contract!!

[kdramaspace]

POTW: CONTRACT MARRIAGE vs. FAKE DATING (as voted by our members and followers)

A Business Proposal (2022), Doom at Your Service (2021), Her Private Life (2019), Crash Landing on You (2019), Love in Contract (2022), Something About 1% (2016), Hwayugi (2017)

#kdramaedit #userdramas #kdramadaily #kdramasource #dailyasiandramas #a business proposal #doom at your service #her private life #hwayugi #crash landing on you #love in contract #something about 1% #potw #potw: edit #potw: 231016 #gifs #various #maker: sam

[ruporas]

soft (and some bittersweet)

#trigun stampede #trigun #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #i think they both spent majority of their lives in solitude and ofc vash went town to town and made friendships promises and etc along the w #way + he had his home and whatnot in the long years he's been alive but he still just seemed so lonely. #in prior versions of trimax he had friends at home at least and maybe he mightv made some but luida and brad are basically just his #guardians in this adaption. like brad used to be a homie.... vash watched that little dude grow up.... and jessica too.... but he doesn't #have that in this adaption. nor a town like july where he had grown close to the townspeople and shaped that tragedy to be closer to his #heart. and wolfwood spent years fighting under the eom and doing shit under their jurisdiction when we saw him so adamantly try to reject #and fight back against that fate. i dont think he had a second at all to get familiar with townspeople or even care to #so its just these two lonely ass souls and vash immediately seeing the good in ww and points it out #ww who is under orders again to be involved in vash's business but he's also SO touchy about it bc vash is so careless and lack that self #regard and also just is not seeing the world that ww is seeing. but then vash helps him and saves him by sharing a piece of what /he/ sees #and it fucking. rescrambled ww's brain for a sec. HE GAVE HIM HOPE!!! he gave him hope!!!! and in turn ww gave vash hope too and its #all done in like 3-4 eps. there's so much fervent attachment in what they managed to give each other in such a short time #but theyre limited to the contract to the inevitable confrontation with knives - so while theyd want to give into that chance to love this #person who managed to give them smth special they just can't at all #ruporas art

[cyanide-latte]

Forgive the terrible shot and lighting but

LOOK AT THE FINE GENTS WHO ARRIVED TODAY

#Riddle Rosehearts #Azul Ashengrotto #TWST Aniplex 1/8th scale figures #Disney TWST #Twisted Wonderland #the motion and detailing on Azul's sculpt is phenomenal like holy shit #also Riddle honey i love you you're my son but the entire base there is so busy there are too many parts #assembling the entire base for Riddle's figure took a second and it was a PAIN #those rose bushes do not like to slot into place unless the base is held absolutely still and firm #you also have to be careful getting his sceptre into place because the work on his fingers is very delicate. same with Azul and the contract #Cyanide speaks

[oozeandgoo-art]

Stubbornness.

#oc #haven #i worked genuinely hard as fuck on this one #tfw you follow someone to their home to demand they speak with you face to face because you want to commit extreme violence on them #over a business dispute. and because they do not want you to do this they simply do not come outside. and you eventually make it clear you #will not be leaving until they come outside so you can discuss (read: harm them over) said business dispute. so they turn on their #sprinkler system and go to sleep. and you decide on the spot that this isn't that big a deal and if you leave now you'll lose ALL #credibility FOR EVER. so you decide to stand around and wait until they come out and . by the time the morning arrives you have #contracted Hypothermia and The Beginnings Of Pneumonia and also Did Not Maul That Guy #started this as a proof of concept test of doing an overpainting on super vivid red #expecting to spend like #maybe forty minutes on it #and then about uh.... like... at least seven hours later i was like okaayyyyy now im done #stay tuned i have two variants that didnt make the cut also #also the picture is big as fuck so i recommend straight up opening it into a different tab to look at details #not that there are that many #i painted it 80% at zoom-out scale

[brain-rot-central]

I don't wanna go to work. I just want to write vampire smut, cook good food, and bake bread.

#i seem to only be able to write when I know i don't have the time to write #what the fuck is that about #neech's speeches #i did voice lines with my fiancé last night for his latest yt vid #maybe i should explore cooking on yt #good news is i finally started the actual sex scene this morning #just word vomitted 300+ words worth of smutty tension #jdkanskdk #sorry this is taking me so long #my mind has been a battlefield for the last month #also my work contract is up as of thursday so i have to find another site #i have enough saved to chill for a bit #i probably will #but still #that's stress #plus personal life bs happening ugh #I'm ok just really busy sorry

[rickybaby]

Daniel on Ted’s Notebook | Testing Day 3 | pt.2

“[Lando] is normally pretty honest. So if he’s feeling a little down, maybe they expected to be a little quicker […] but for now, we’re hopefully a Q3 or top 10 car but to be much more than that, I think that’s probably getting too excited 😁😁😁”

#sorry to the dando or landan girlies you guys may need to block me #but the way this guy in 2022 was still recovering from Covid was fighting that orange bag of dicks car #all while his boss was busy talking about an exit clause in his contract in the press #and yet he still showed up being positive about the car while the other was being petulant to everybody who dared to ask him about the car #anyway the more I watch the different interviews of him talking about how they’re not at where people keep hyping them to be #with the biggest sneakiest smile every single time #the more I’m convinced he’s been asked to shut up and he’s acting like a kid who can’t lie to save his life #which truly makes you realise why Zak brown is shaking and convulsing so much #daniel ricciardo #testing 2024

[keluturtle]

Quick doodle

#spooky month #spooky month kevin #kel art #alter christophe #we’ve been really busy with contract work and grad school lately #hopefully we can share some of that stuff soon

[skepticalarrie]

https://twitter.com/kmmwkindness_/status/1667275456859582466?t=w95F84QrZadzJ1CDeQJD4w&s=19

what do you think of this?

Hi, anon. So, this is not my area of expertise to talk confidently about it. Lee & Thompson LLP is definitely familiar, they've been around since 1D (I don't know if since the beginning though) and I think the fact HL had the same lawyers was a point of discussion before. Maybe it's just an industry thing and it's easier to work with the same people?! Because to be perfectly honest with you, I don't know what that means in a practical way. Lawyers are not single-handedly putting them under contracts or telling them what they should do with their careers, they are just working in favour of their clients. So in this case, what is being implied is that they would be working in favour of Sony. Which... I don't know if makes sense. And I have no idea about the other people. There's no doubt they signed incredibly abusive contracts in the past, and that some of those will last indefinitely and they will always have certain obligations attached to that. That's 100% a fact, regardless of what corner of this fandom you're coming from and what you believe. But IMO it's impossible to tell what are these obligations and how this affects them in their solo careers, it's the kind of discussion that is endless and we will never know.

Plus, Louis had other lawyers before, I remember that when he was arrested there was a big "lawyer of the celebrities" working for him, because it was a different situation so he had other people to handle it, and he was still under Syco during that.

To be honest, the name that caught my attention here was Jessie Martin, her name rang a bell and I did a little research and it's interesting that she is still working for Louis. She used to work for Sony (I don't know if still do, couldn't find her linkedin profile), she was some sort of marketing person and "artist relations". A stunt handler, basically. She was always with Eleanor and Louis, and then with Danielle. I don't know her involvement in Louis' current situation, even because his documentary had a lot of old footage as well, so maybe we can't categorically state any of it has something to do with Sony or old contracts.

#lawyer larries please feel free to add #ask #contracts and business #Lee & Thompson LLP #Jessie Martin

[petit-papillion]

The journey so far 😍 flip through Charles Leclerc's special moments with us ❤️

🎥 Scuderia Ferrari

#this had me so emo #well let's face it I've been emo all day #to get a multi-year extension on a 5-year contract with ferrari #without even being a wdc #yeah i think people are too busy making fun of charles #to realize how people would give their right arm to just drive for ferrari #charles leclerc #contract extension #scuderia ferrari

[moffiiiiaaaa]

ultrakill sketch dump

#my art #ultrakill #v1 ultrakill #gabriel ultrakill #minos ultrakill #minos prime #i really went from one robot game to another huh #sorry about not posting i’ve been busy contracting carpal tunnel #happy pride

[theelast-straw]

the Alan's Boy™ lifetime subscription - now with the limited time offer Alan's Boy™ privileges, for select customers only

#they're really negotiating their relationship like it's a goddamn business contract lmao #pit babe #pit babe the series #straw watches things #pit babe liveblog

[childrenofthesun77]

...okay, so I'm probably not the first person to notice this.

But gear's earing that he points towards when he says that he did the same ritual he wanted to help kuro with already on himself before:

actually looks pretty similar to the pieces of the necklace the count used to create the servamps:

The different pieces of the necklace seem to contain one demon each and the count used them to create the servamps.

So...did the count either learn this technique from the werewolves or is he possible even originally a werewolf himself? It would explain why he's immortal, that's why I'm wondering about this.

Gear says that the ritual is used to remove spirits, could it be that the count removed his own sins using the werewolf ritual and created the demons this way? But he went too far and removed too much unlike gear who only removed one part of himself? Him removing the sins from himself would also explain why he's so weird and doesn't understand other beings. As the sin demons say, they are a natural part of being a human and we have seen multiple times that denying their existence is harmful, removing them all from you would probably lead to you not being able to relate to other people anymore.

Maybe removing all these parts of himself is also why he has no appearance. Without his demons he's not a person anymore.

The count originally being a werewolf would also explain why he has magical abilities (gear can also use magic) before other magicians existed and why he's so anxious about certain people dying. Gear talks about how his immortality makes him sad because human friends do die, but unlike the count gear seems to accept death, grieves in a heathier way than the count and is able to move on and make new friends. Could also explain why his magic and creations are all strongly tied to the (full) moon.

Another similarity is that while werewolves apparently can't reproduce gear was able to have descendants by sharing his life force (it's mentioned in chapter 135 which isn't translated yet) with a woman and through her human children tsurugi is related to gear. Sigurd explained to nicco that the magicians came to be because the count let humans drink his blood, three survived, got magical ablities and became the ancestors of all human magicians:

Maybe the count is more of a werecat though. He and the sloth demon do seem to have a closer connection, even though the count's appearance changes depending on the person looking at him he does usually keep his tail and the tip looks exactly like the one of kuro's cat/lion form and similar to the the one of inner sloth's non-human form.

It was also stated multiple times that the sloth demon is the strongest. I wonder why that is. Servamp comments on the fact that being lazy is often actually a sign of depression/anxiety through kuro's arc, so maybe the count was depressed and that's why the sloth demon is the strongest? Basically the demons strength depends on how much the count suffered from the different sins? It would also explain why melancholy is so strong, I assume kuro refusing to see him no matter how many siblings he sent his way to tell him to come looking for the count made him extremely sad and probably even made him come up with the plan to have himself be killed and then put in the same body as kuro through the ritual.

I assume he was behind C3 ordering the servamps to kill him because he's the one who created the magicians and thus C3 and lily who is kind of working for him was probably the one who put the idea that the count needed to be killed into the head of his eve (aka a member of the alicein family who hold a lot of power in C3 basically since the beginning. I explained this in more detail in another post). The people from C3 even said that the count can only be killed if he wants to and yeah, kuro didn't truly kill him, but he did destroy his body and kuro seems to have met little resistance when he attacked the count. Which probably means the count wanted this to happen.

#servamp #...if the servamps/demons all came from the count and the magicians are all basically the descendants of the count #does that mean this truly is all just a huge family conflict #since basically everyone involved is somewhat related to the count?😅 #Sigurd says he's related to one of the three people who drank the counts blood #I'm still wondering if mahiru is special because he might have the blood of all three bloodlines #and C3 has a rule in place that forbids all three bloodlines from crossing #probably put in place by the count or lily #and that's why akira told nobody who the father of her child was #I still like my absolute crack theory that because mahiru might have “more” of the counts blood in him that he has no fixed appearance eith #But because he's so normal everyone perceives him as normal so nobody noticed until now that mahiru looks slightly different to all of them #honestly it would explain/excuse some questionable choices made by characters who as far as we know should be good people #Like why akira didn't tell anybody who the father was #why tooru tried to avoid being seen with mahiru in school by always saying he's to busy #Why tooru told mahiru not to tell the secret to anyone else #and why mahiru was raised as mundane as possible and as far away from C3 as possible #even why tooru kept his work for C3 secret from mahiru even after mahiru made the contract #and why he still didn't tell him the name of his father #If people know your relatives they start comparing you to them #If people knew that touma was mahiru's father they might expect mahiru to look like him #If people only knew mahiru was related to akira and tooru they would expect him to look like them #If people at school only knew mahiru but never met tooru before mahiru's appearance to them might be too different from tooru #Touma saying mahiru looks exactly like tooru doesn't disprove this crack theory either btw #Touma sees mahiru as tooru 2.0 and he's not 100% convinced he's actually mahiru's father so mahiru appearing as a copy of tooru makes sense #Just like mahiru would perceive himself as looking like akira and tooru because those are the only close relatives of his he knows #Sorry but I'm having too much fun with this crack theory #the twist that raising mahiru as the “ordinary high school student” was all a plot by his family #to keep people from noticing that they don't actually agree on what he looks like is too funny to me

[qourmet]

i was sold on @rmoonberry 's yin hufu twins the minute i saw them

#mdzs #so i got Contracted for labor purposes #i've been busy with that #sorree for inactivity #lan sizhui #trying to strike a proper balance between That and indulging more in This #hard #yin hufu twins

[amalgamezz]

maybe im too much of a loveless aromantic but sometimes i think marriages should actually be heavily built on trust, respect, shared goals and responsibilities while love mayhaps could just be the icing on the cake and entirely optional.

#aromantic #actually aromantic #loveless aro #i thiiiiiiink marriages functioning like a business contract is good actually #also love here includes romantic platonic queerplatonic etc. #/m