So, A-kon went pretty well.  I admit that it was nice being on the 3rd floor near the stairs.  The elevators were totally avoided and their horrid lines.  :)  And my Detective Conan related collection grew just the way I wanted.  With the acquisition of a large Kaitou Kid figure.  And the gift of a chibi!Kaitou Kid from my friend.  :D ( Read more... )

Ahhh, I just finished watching the Magic Kaito anime.  I enjoyed it.  Not that it concludes everything but it was satisfying enough with just enough of an open ending that is starting to restimulate my fanfic writing urge.  Especially since it seems to fall more in line with Detective Conan by literally showing a couple of their encounters but from ( Read more... )

So, anyone else enjoying Magic Kaito?  :D  I was thrilled to see an anime finally made for just it.  I started watching the first episode but was busy watching other things.  But I splurged on a paid account and am now plowing through the series.  Looks like just 24 episodes and that is fine by me.  What is very interesting is that some of the ( Read more... )

Sometimes you find old things and you still think they are a good idea.  That's what happened here.

Once upon a time (probably 2006), ickaimp  said something (I can't recall what now) that began to spawn an AU idea for Kaitou Kid.  Looking for my old sketchbook, I rediscovered the sketches that were the spawn of the comment I can't remember.

So, without ( Read more... )

These are a series of Detective Conan/Magic Kaito drabbles based around the idea of The Tradition in their world.  Stealing this from Wikipedia: "In the Five Hundred Kingdoms (almost certainly a literal name), the destiny of witches, knights, princesses and such are regulated by The Tradition, a magical force that is one of the primary sources of ( Read more... )

 These are rough directions to making a top hat.  I'm sure there are better ways out there.  But I said I post how I did it.  Shoot me before I do that again.

Materials:

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  Foam board. The kind that is sandwiched by poster board.
  
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  A yard and half (about a meter and half) of stretchy white fabric (or a different color if you are making some other color of ( Read more... )

Danny Phantom "Eye for an Eye" has aired... en español!  Gah!  I'm watching it online and I can say it isn't pretty watching Vlad sink to Danny's level of immaturity.  Not that it isn't funny, it just isn't pretty.

I wish my Spanish was up to the task of watching it but, alas!, it is not.  I think I might have understood more if it were in Japanese ( Read more... )