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@emiko: OK, I never expected you to be the person who said that. Seriously. You are someone whom I honestly respect on AHS, and knowing that it was you saying those things just made everything worse.
If you are going to single a person out and bit-ch about him/her, I believe there is no excuse saying things like "I didn't know you will be so hurt by it". Flinging insults in general doesn't do much hurt, but when you attach an identity, it's a different story. Imagine me updating a status with "why is it that idiots always post on AHS?" vs "did you see emiko's post on AHS? what an idiot!!!" You may not feel insulted, but assuming that I will react in the same way is just silly. I'm not being a prude about this, but it does hurt to see people write the things which your friends wrote about me, even in jest/inside jokes/whatever.
And believe me, I have made every single effort to protect myself and my translations. You will not believe the number of sites I've actually searched out and contacted personally to make sure they credit. The reason why I posted the particular rant recently was because my photobucket account registered a blogspot site hotlinking my photos, and I have made every effort to search it out but have not succeeded even after a week of trying. So posting that rant was the only way I had left to try to stop them. Seeing that one rant and accusing me of doing nothing but complain is seriously unfair. Just because I don't advertise my efforts doesn't mean I don't put in any.
Oh well, I have made a decision already, and I'm standing by it. I may bring joy to AHS-ers with translations, but if what I get back is just thieves and being the butt of some group of friend's rants whenever they're in a bad mood, then I really don't see the point of putting myself in this position any longer.
And just for the record also, thieves aside, you and your friends' careless "jokes" have resulted in all this drama. I know you will say it's none of my business what you say in private to your friends, but at least know that things always have a way of getting out and hurting people.
ps: deleting people off Facebook just because some of them are actually my friends who cared because they saw me being called stupid by a bunch of people who do not even know me is just, well, silly. Please do not do that, they have done nothing wrong.
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