I knew it was time to admit defeat. For months I’ve been doing most of the proofreading for Aerandria, along with scanning, QC, editing, managing staffers, and everything else that goes with scanlating. Being the crazy OC person that I am, I am too particular with how the translations scripts were formatted, leaving me with less time for everything else on the site.

In short, it was time to hire a new English Proofreader.

Oh, I knew I was going to be swamped with applications, seeing as it’s the easiest job in the scanlation world. You don’t have to know japanese, Photoshop, and you don’t have to scan to be a proofreader. It’s the easiest thing, right? So I put my Proofreader requirements on the site, warned them that I will probably work them to the ground, and waited for the applications. Well, I was prepared for the onslaught of applications; what I wasn’t prepared for was the content of the applications. Want some samples?

I’m not so careless with my punctuation, grammer or spelling…

Right…. *scratches head*

I love manga and I am crazy about proper grammer.

O__O I have several more where that came from, but you guys get the general idea, right? I’m not sure when the law legalizing ‘grammer’ as another variation of the word ‘grammar’ came into effect. And the biggest joke was that I even wrote the correct spelling of grammar on the application page itself!

yes i was also wandering if…

*sighs* Those kinds of mistakes can be common. They can even be ignored if someone is applying for translator, manga scanner or editor. But never for an English Proofreader. Your application email already speaks of your ability so if you foul it up then you really can’t expect me to email you back, much less get the job, right?

Spellings were the least of my problems. There were also a lot of applications who used wrong grammar (Yes, people. Believe it or not, that’s the correct spelling!), wrong punctuations, wrong capitalizations, and some just didn’t really make any sense.

I appreciate all those people who applied… but… since you actually took the time to apply, couldn’t you also have taken the time to make sure your application was correct and foolproof?

And just because you’ve lived in America for how long doesn’t mean you have perfect English. That reason doesn’t justify your application. It won’t make us hire you because of it.

Is the blog dead? Maybe. Hea don over to Aerandria where I can actually manage to post an update every single day. Oh my poor, poor blog.

A new layout. As if you didn’t notice. ^^ I’m still figuring out the kinks of it in terms of integrating it with Wordpress, including the annoying the_excerpt function that automatically adds tags to it that screws up the layout. Yes, real pretty. >.>

Why did I suddenly change the layout after months of letting it rot? Hey, the New Year is almost here and I didn’t want my blog to have a molding layout to welcome it with. Plus the whiteness was getting…. white… oO … Notice I’m very eloquent these days. *burning sarcasm*

I tried to make the layout very simple yet professional yet artistic. Yes, I love contradiction. The lines are definitely much cleaner than the Pochoco Playground layout from before. I wanted something blue and white but the other colors seemed to want to stick themselves in so I let them.

Enjoy the new look of the blog and ignore the layout errors until I get to squash the little buggers with a handy mallet.

Before I forget, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!