Doverspike Art

◧◧◧ EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS OPEN ◨◨◨

It's difficult for me to ask for help like this because I know so many of us are really going through it these days in some way shape or form, but unfortunately I have to. To keep a long story short, back in January I was dealing with some pretty acute pain and difficulty sleeping. I was diagnosed with a few different chronic pain issues related to my jaw, neck and shoulders and the looming cost of treatment for these things (including the initial visit back in January) is going to put me in a difficult position financially even with me having a proper day job. We're talking both night guards and day guards, nerve blockers and eventual physical therapy and such.

SO that means one of my rare commission openings! Not sure how much interest I'll get so I'm going to keep slots open for an indefinite amount of time unless I get swamped early.

Last video before its paintined, added onto the mane for better fur texture/better hiding of the head band etc.

tomorrow it gets painted and eyes added finally before being completely done.

The Ketamine King Musk has shutdown the IRS's Free Tax Filing system.

Of all the things a government could off, a way to Freely calculate and file your taxes seems like a good one. But the richest man in the world thinks we shouldn't have that.

File your taxes by hand. Fill out the forms with a pen. Overpay by about $50. (You will eventually get that back. It is likely to take several months.)

It will take longer to get any refund you're due. But I promise you the entire federal bureaucracy has been cutting as many corners as they can for as many years as they can, and the current set is going to cut even more corners, and...

they don't have the staff on hand to process a huge number of paper claims anymore. They expect everything that came in digitally last year, to continue to be filed digitally. And they expect more digital filings every year. They've planned for that. They've staffed for that.

One of the only acts of protest we have available is "comply, but slowly."

File on paper if you can.

If you have the software to file digitally because doing the math & forms is such a nightmare for you?

If you're up for it: Print the final form, and then fill out a new blank form by hand. With your lousy handwriting. Send it in the post, by mail.

While Direct File is an IRS-hosted program, there is also Free File, which is government-subsidized and hosted by third parties:

You need to use THESE SPECIFIC LINKS in order to access the Free File programs, fyi - they are hosted by tax preparers who also often order paid services which may have deceptive names like "TurboTax Free" that make them sound like they don't cost anything, so be sure to only use the IRS links. Don't just Google them, you will not find what you're looking for.

Here's an archive link in case they take down the Free File page. (You may have to manually cut out the web.archive.org part of the URL to use the links.)

It is not possible for Elon Musk to access these programs directly because they are not hosted on government servers. You are eligible for Free File for your federal taxes if you make less than $84k, as well as for your state taxes if you make less than $48k, as well as some other situations such as if you are active-duty military or if you live in certain states (for your state return).

If you want to throw sand into the works and file these as paper forms instead of e-filing, you absolutely can do that by printing them out after completing the program, but PLEASE do not pay a tax preparer if you are eligible for Free File!!! It's a ripoff!!!!!!!!

Another weekend ends, and another dragon emerges…

Thank you @arctic--storm and everyone who got me to 5 reblogs!