Vacuum (and a little life update)

I'm so sorry. It's true; it was easy to feel like I knew Ellie because you gave her so much personality when you brought her into your work. This comic made me laugh, though—I lost my first dog last year, who was a HUGE fluffy Great Pyrenees named Delilah. We still find her fur on our stuff all the time, and then joke that "Delilah is always with us." 😂

Sarah Manx

I'm in Florida, and had no taxes taken out/added on for any of my patrons. (I get webcomics, videos, and music, some public, some private/Patreon-only, and no physical goods unless I order them specifically.)

Theadora

More hugs to you, and yeah, finding that fur on an old thing is ROUGH! (We're lucky, the cat who passed away 5 years ago was a marmalade-and-white boy 😭 and we also had a calico at the same time, so it's hard to tell whose fur was whose. And now we have the calico, a gray/black tabby and an orange tabby, so the fur is VERY confusing. 😊

Theadora

Aww, I'm glad you got to see them! <3

Danielle Corsetto

i just loved stuck at 32 - thanks for sharing the link! kisses!!

Awwww he sounds like such a good one! I love it when vets remember the good pets. :.) The yearly thing doesn't benefit me in any way (none that I can think of, at least!), but I wanted to make it available for those who might like it! Thanks for asking, and for being sweet about the sales tax. :)

Danielle Corsetto

I'm having a little chuckle over the vacuum comic, but truthfully, you're going to pull an old sweater out of a drawer and find Ellie's hair on it and it's going to hit you like a sledgehammer. Just be ready for it. {{{Danielle}}} Our boy Barnacle Bill has been gone for 5 years and we still cry over him. Our vet and the vet techs still talk about him every time we go in. We have a 1st time appt with the 2 new kittens in another 3 weeks (had to wait for our favorite vet to be available) and I just know they're going to bring up Bill's name again. He truly was the Best Boi Ever. So I have no idea how long I've been a patron and I really don't give a rat's patootie about paying sales tax if that's what it takes to stay here. As far as the yearly thing goes, does that benefit YOU in any way?

Ruth Merriam

(Haha I get you with the paragraph breaks!) Thanks so much for all the feedback, Nancie! I didn't realize subbing annually would be that easy, that's super cool. :) Also thanks for reminding me that I'll need to update the thank-you page at some point! Ahh, Ellie. I'll just leave it up there until I get Pip a playmate and integrate 'em into the household. <3

Danielle Corsetto

Geez, I'm confused now too! I believe it has to do with what kind of goods/services you say you're offering. I'll look into it, thanks for the feedback!

Danielle Corsetto

(Sorry for all the replies — hitting enter on my tablet submits the comment and I can’t stand not having paragraph breaks!) Subbing annually was easy — my current tier had a link asking if I wanted to sub annually. I clicked it and went straight to the billing page. Easy peasy. Then I saw a cute thank you banner from you that I don’t remember seeing before, featuring you, Ellie, and Pip.

Nancie

I got a .22 tax on my $3 pledge. The taxes seem pretty random. Only one person I pledge to sends me merch, but I was taxed on about 2/3 of them.

Nancie

I’m so sorry about Ellie. Losing a pet always sucks.

Nancie

Oh, dear - I'm so sorry to hear about Ellie! She was definitely a fixture for those of us that follow you. My old CKD lap cat (Sergey) passed away a couple of years ago from cancer, just before I started treatment for my own cancer. I'm still occasionally waking up in the middle of the night wondering why he's not on his blanket next to my pillow. I'm in WA, and of the 13 pledges I have, 8 of them collect tax. But they don't seem to be collecting the same tax. I'd expect that as a WA resident, I'd be paying WA tax, but I pay $0.27 on your $3, but only $0.09 for Monica's. I'm not sure how they're figuring it. It's not based on the artist's location, because I'm paying tax on Erika's, too, and they don't have sales tax in OR... but it's a negligible amount, so I'm not really concerned, just confused.

Bruce Shipman

Oh what a wonderful win-win for you, getting commissions of your buddy! That's really sweet. :) Thanks for checking the tax thing, even if we both have about the same level of understanding of it all!

Danielle Corsetto

or, it's not letting me see bc it's chugging trying to load the details everything looks like an even number, though, so maybe I didn't get charged

Minzoku Bokumetsu

It's been 11 years since my Gabriel passed away (like we found him: by the side of the road), and it's so hard not having him anymore. So I've been getting lots of commissions of him, and that makes me smile PLUS gets money to great artists! I only see "plus applicable taxes" in my receipt, and that's for everyone I've pledged. I don't get to see whether any taxes have actually been applied.

Minzoku Bokumetsu

Sorry for your loss. Ellie looks like a beautiful girl. I lost Ember ten years ago and I miss her almost every day. Mal and Val are great cats, though, and are a blessing during this pandemic.

Joseph

Mine, too. :)

Andy Ihnatko

Oh damn that's a really good question! (And also THANK YOU, you guys are the nicest.) I should probably make a $10 option that's just a "you're generous" tier... but aside from that, yeah, I'm not sure! (You were right about me probably not knowing the answer, imagine that. ;)

Danielle Corsetto

It's funny that Ellie was lovey and Smudge fucked off! Then again, Smudge was *my* baby, and Ellie was only terrible when she wanted to be... in between, she was a lover. :)

Danielle Corsetto

Ooohhh!! <3

Danielle Corsetto

Hahaha clearly it went to the right person! Oh I'm so glad you have that one. :)

Danielle Corsetto

I'm so sorry to hear about Ellie. I know how much it hurts. For what it's worth, I framed the drawing of Ellie you did for Inktober 2017 and it's hanging on the wall in my kitchen =)

That drawing still gets me. I feel like we got to know your furbabies through Stuck....I have one of the comics you sold hanging on my wall - the one where you sent Ellie a postcard and so did Pip which she casually shredded on the scratching post...I'll treasure it always.

Christian Brown

Weird question that you probably don't know the answer to, but we support at $10/month. Would we be able to pay for the year-long tier of $5/month, but still also GIVE $5 a month extra? So a yearly with additional monthly?

NJGR