User blog:Terracannon876/Hello world.

I'm surprised that wikia has you make one account, yet every wikia has you keep a separate blog page. I mean, it makes sense from a common interests standpoint, but ... what if it's two similar wikias? Am I just going to neglect one of the blog pages, or am I going to have to constantly copy/paste entries over to keep the two up to date?

...Whoops ^^  Ranting aside, hello, whoever may be reading this. I'm new to wikias, but since a small but slightly growing number of the visitors to my blog are coming from the Vocaloid wikias, I decided to set up an account here. I know that my site isn't very ... friendly for Vocaloid translation seekers, so I hope this will be a more direct portal to the translations and the new updates.

A little about me, I guess... I've translated for maybe 10 years now, but I primarily work on manga, light novels, and video games (or, one in particular). I'm a student, but not in Japanese or language. I'm from the US, but I don't reside there at the moment. I got into translating because I was annoyed at the shoddy work anime dubs were doing back in the day (they've since picked up their act), and I love translating because I see it as putting puzzle pieces together. It's also fairly relaxing for me (though there are some frustrations that come to it), and I suppose there is fun to doing something that I'm (somewhat) good at, for a change.

I also never formally studied Japanese, nor will I probably have time in the near future to do so. I have been told I'm very good in my translations, and I am fairly confident that I am (if I weren't, I wouldn't be translating books and visual novels), but I will probably eternally be in the learning process because of this. In addition, this also means that my reading and aural comprehension is much better than my writing and oral skills, so ... uhm, me writing in Japanese is a bit of an embarrassment for me.

OK, I've poured out enough of my personal info now. I hope people enjoy my translations, and I look forward to talking to you, if you're so inclined :)