Deviantart amazes me.

Current status: Very angry.
Currently listening to: "Daybreak's Bell", the opening theme to Gundam 00.
Quote of the day: "i don't know if you mis interpreted this site or not

scanning art in a book, magazine, or other media is not allowed, unless it is your own art.
please remove those images.

this site is for displaying works of art that you, yourself, have put time into and created, not a website to display someone elses art." - azahlia, member of deviantart, an American who is unable to spell "misinterpret", about my Super Robot Encyclopedia scanlations.

Well, where to start. Let's see...

Three or four years ago, I started an almost impossible project, which was translating a Japanese book about mecha anime from 1972 until 2004. This was one of the reasons for which I tried to learn the language better. In the last year, I've managed to translate some 30-40 pages, editing and everything. Usually, I'd use imageshack, but as of late, these images were too large and had to be resized. As such, I made a deviantart account to host my work (which I would then post on SRWG-W.org, a forum I visit a lot). All went fine until some files started vanishing. I thought it was because I had forgotten to upload them, and then I saw, to my horror, that some of my older files had been deleted. Today, as I was going to upload a new page, I noticed that I had some new messages. The majority of them was from deviantart, telling me about copyright infringement. It was bizarre out of several reasons:
1. They had deleted only some images, and they weren't even licensed series. Heck, one was almost obscure.
2. I had clearly specified that all I did was translate them.
3. They mentioned that they were reported by someone.

So I scrolled down, and found this idiot. This sad excuse of a human being sent me the above message, which revolted me far more than the neutral and automatic message from the host. It's the feeling of being reported by a goodie-goodie. The kind of goodie-goodies that deleted Gundam articles on Wikipedia. The kind of goodie-goodies that ban fan-videos using anime footage from video sites. This was most unfortunate, as there were users who appreciated my work. Of course, nobody gives a damn. It's better to be a man who respects every rule and never hesitates to meddle and tell a higher authority of some "crime". What was this called? Theft?

Yes, according to this moron, I was just posting scans that I had never contributed to. Probably that his brain failed to notice the fact that every page was edited. That in the corner, there were clear Japanese characters, which, amazingly, did not look like the rest of the text. I have spent hours of my life translating this book, for the sake of some anime fans out there. Maybe this "wannabe novelist" fails to understand how hard it is for a Romanian to translate from Japanese to English for the sake of others. Wouldn't it have been easier if I had just kept it to myself? Yes, but I wanted to contribute to this community I am trying to enter in. It was too much to ask. I suppose this is how things will work from now on. It's a terrible world.

At any rate, I'll probably start another blog to host the images. Expect some updates.

Signing off, yours truly.