#taxid

[thestralces]

spent three days drawing my own card because i'm insane. i don't like it but anyway

[krihmbo]

real mummified baby bird in glass dome. available

[dearartdirector]

Thank you so much for this wonderful blog, it's a true asset! I'm an illustrator that is just starting to get bigger contract work and I'm at a bit of a loss for what sort of financial information they will expect of me. Is and EIN number preferred over SSN? I understand Bank Wire Transfers are a preferred method of payment, and 1009s are to be expected, but are there any other bits of info they might expect?

You’re welcome! Glad you are finding the answers here helpful, and extra credit for reading thru already-answered questions before you post your own. WE LOVE THAT.

I’m US-based, so I’ll be answering US-centric. Since you are asking about SSN (Social Security Numbers) then I assume you are also US-based. I am sure there are different standards for different countries (so feel free to send us notes you Int’l artists and I’ll add them here). Now onward!

Generally people in the US will want to send checks unless they have a dance direct-deposit system (Like the NYTimes) or are an international company (which generally will do bank transfers). Smaller clients might do paypal if you ask, but big ones generally won’t.

To get paid you will need:

(US Citizens working for a US company)

—A Tax ID Number: Used to be a SSN, but these days many companies require (and all companies accept) EIN numbers. And EIN number is only for your own security. It’s a code number you use instead of your SSN, that is only used for getting paid. No one can open a bank account or steal your identity using an EIN. An EIN does not change your tax status in any way, and you do not have to be a business to have an EIN, you can get one as an individual too. So you should go get one, whether you are being forced to or not. It’s free, and takes 5min at the IRS Website. (NOTE: Do not use any other site but IRS - other sites charge you for it, and it’s a scam.)

—A W9 Form: A form that gives your real name (not your fancy art nickname – unless you’ve registered it as a business), your address, & your Tax ID number. Get one here from the IRS.

—An Invoice: It has to be a separate page you can print out — please god, do not just put the info in the body of an email, because your AD will either reject it or just give up in despair and have to make one for you so their accounting dept. will accept it. This invoice needs to have:—Your real name (must match your W9)—Your address, phone, & email—The client address, phone, email, and contact person—A unique job number (either the client gives you one or you make it up)—The date—A short description of the work—The price with the currency noted (dollars, pounds, euros, etc) and with decimal points. (No really, accounting septs will reject an invoice if you don’t add .00 at the end of the price)—Payment instructions, such as “Make Check payable to X” or “Please send payment via Bank Transfer” and include the Bank Transfer info, which needs all of the following: Bank Account Owner Name, Bank Account #, Bank Name, Swift code (your bank knows what that is if you don’t ask them). All this info is IMPORTANT because if you miss any it will get shunted around the accounting dept of a big company forever and add a ton of needless delays to your pay. And no, you can’t blame them if you’re the one that screwed up your info. They’ll try to get back to the AD or to you directly to fix it, but that becomes lower priority than processing correct invoices.

(Non-US Citizens working for a US company)

—W8 or W8-BEN Form: W9′s are for US citizens, W8′s are for foreign citizens. You use a W8 if you are charging as an individual person, and a W8-BEN if you are a registered business, Llc, etc, not an individual. Also, that W8-BEN is a nightmare form and you’ll probably need your lawyer or accountant to help. But you had to have used an accountant or lawyer at some point if you’re a registered business, so go ask them.

—An Invoice (see above)

(Non-US Citizens working for a Non-US company)

Ask questions, because I don’t know the standards.

—Agent Moneypenny

[thestralces]

Minecraftsona and yet another secretary bird has hit the towers. Call 911

I got java edition a week ago so ive just been wasting my life frolicking with my 60 mods instead of preparing for artfight and i was like. Why not make a guy about it. Yap under cut (long)

Taxid is in the ATO universe (where all my other minecraft-related stuff has taken place) still even if it doesnt seem like it, they're a Conduit, which is a flesh-and-blood but magical and not quite mortal incarnation of either heads of the Universe (basically, players). They are mostly distinguished by their most glaring visual quality: the head of any existent or non-existent animal, kind of like an egyptian god. They also have near boundless magic, summoning matter and creatures out of thin air, changing the time and weather, to cause anything to drop dead within a second even; Conduits in general aren't very populous, for good reason (commands lol). They're sent down by their respective patron (Skein or Esse) manually, usually nearby a village/colony/other sophont settlement to be raised by such, kind of like some divine cuckoo.

Taxid is a Conduit of Skein (blue) and was mostly just Yer Average Avatar Of God until they decide to try and sail all the way to the Farlands.

Basically in ATO the closer you get to the world border (are the worlds flat,,,,) the more potent the overall magic gets and it starts to warp and distort everything to the point of entirely new shoddy animals and terrain that barely obeys physics. the Borderline is the spot between the normal Overworld and the Farlands where there's still stable terrain but it. gets reeaaal weird.

Heading to the end of the world was, ofcourse, a daunting task, entailing several trials including (in order):

-Being fried over open water by a fire dragon and saved by hippocampi

-Slaying a mighty sea serpent with only a crowbar and an even mightier fed up mental state

-Minor whirlpool... In a river?...

-Yet another fire dragon encounter they won this time

-The increasing passive magic potency influenced their anatomy aswell, their human features slowly being lost for avian ones. Their useless stubby sickly wings and tail will never continue to grow as sprouting entirely developed new limbs failed

Eventually as they pulled up to dry land on the Borderline they stopped to take in these surrealist territories where giant flying lizard turkey things puked flames and ice (occasionally lightning) and the mountains themselves held levitating chunks and twisted themselves into impossible shapes, and Taxid eventually decided they will not continue on to the Farlands.

Does that mean they sailed back to where the fabric of reality actually functions properly? No.

They settled down on a plains shore somewhere amidst this Borderline, now dedicating themselves to finding out how all this works, how to adapt to it. And also to doing a bit of trolling

Lord knows how long it's been now. Apparently long enough for them to amass a great deal of skills and hobbies; construction, mechanics, magic-biology, genetic engineering, beastslaying/poaching, animal husbandry, agriculture, blacksmithing... Taxid is an aspiring inventor, and the Overworld would be quite a few eras ahead if any of their self-assembled labstuffs leaked out inland. They spend most of their time tampering with trying to influence the developmental changes of magic-influenced animals, trying to fine-tune them into more longer-lived functional looking organisms than six legged abominations fresh out of Chernobyl. And it seems to be working! But mostly in avians. They have a grand flock of horse-sized flightless birds of their own craft, they refer to this derived species mostly as korania (titanis walleri ingame).

Alongside their life-creating endeavors they enjoy hunting dragons and other high-mutants, their viscera contributing to their research in some way anyway.. they have quite a few skulls strung up in their house, priding themselves as a bone collector. When they aren't killing the supernatural beings, they're wrangling them into pethood. They also might've semi kidnapped an enderman...

[krihmbo]

creobroter gemmatus specimens I set and framed earlier this week.

(sold)

[krihmbo]

another creobroter gemmatus...

(sold)

[krihmbo]

green saw stag framed specimen - (sold)

[krihmbo]

chrysochroa fulminans (sold)