Saturday, February 26, 2005

   Hell hath no fury like a Panda scorned.

Ok, so it is not in the matters of love but I have a major rant ahead. Skip to the actual post for today with all the cute Wufei pictures if you don't want to read about a Panda who is angry...like someone stole my bamboo angry. Read at your own risk. As you guys know I submitted a bunch of wallpapers. WHICH I MADE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM. I just got a PM telling me that one of them was deleted because of PLAGIARISM!!!! I am so mad about this. I can't believe my work was deleted without even checking with me first to explain my work! I know if someone is low enough to steal someone else's work they will probably lie about it. I am not one of those people. I hate it when people steal other people's work and try to get credit for it. Heck, I wrote up a submission guidelines for the front page of theO a while back! What pisses me off is that it was just deleted like I did steal it! It pretty much means the decision has already been made that I am a thief! I have give hours and hours of my time to help this site grow. I treat my time here on the site as my job. I get my articles and interview posted on the site and want only the best for the site. I am aiming for a career in writing, if people can't believe the work I am doing is my own then I have nothing. There is no way in Hell I would steal someone else's work and ruin my reputation, go against my ethics and belittle someone else's hard work. In my defense, since it WASN'T EVEN ASKED FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE: Click here to see the wallpaper that was deleted. It isn't a fancy one but it is one that I made myself. The original image came from the Backgammon 2 Art Book. This book I own and have many scanned images from. As many of you know scanning takes a long time. So when I do my scanning I scan a bunch of stuff to save for future use. Below is a photo of the image in the art book that was scanned along side a picture of me and John to prove that it is my book. If that isn't good enough I can wait until John comes home from work and I can have him take a picture of me holding the book! Here is the image as it appears in my computer. I wanted everyone to see the actual size of the images so that is why I posted the links versus just posting them in my blog. The background is original. I made it, as I do all my editing as well, in Photoshop. I cut the image out and put it on a layer, the background was on a separate layer and I used "Apple Chancery" for my signature like I always do and I used "Caeldera" for the other text. If someone needs me to explain which tools I used...lasso, paintbrush, paint bucket, etc...in Photoshop I can do that. I am sure all of you who have a hobby...drawing, models, whatever...when you are on a roll you just go with it. I stayed up last night til 5:12am working on more wallpapers since I was having so much fun doing putting together the images. I have another 15 more to put up on the site but now I wonder if it's even worth it. Being accused of stealing that hard work is nothing but a bold face lie! I take this as a personal insult. I have a very strong work ethic and I would never try to steal someone's work and claim it to be my own. I know I did all my work, I can prove all my wallpapers, greetings and fan art are my own. If anyone thinks I have stolen work I can prove you wrong. I keep all my scans and sketches. I take pride in my work and enjoy doing it. This is what I hope happens when you lie about a Panda.... Did YOU lie about my work being stolen?! I can't believe someone actually accused me of stealing. That really pisses me off. Whoever did it should come forward and show me the piece they think I stole this from. I know they won't since this is my original design. Fricken' lier. Just because I am a nice person doesn't mean I am going to take bold faced lies like this. If someone still doubts this is my own work I ask you to ask me questions about how it was made and I will answer them. I have nothing to hide since I am not a plagiarist! Edit: I did send a formal complaint to Adam and he did respond. There will be changes made in the system. I think I am still going to take a break for a bit. I am still too mad to be on the site right now.

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