#tomanynames

[eah-exchange]

To: @coolhiroaki

From: @tomanynames

I hope you like the picture I've done :) Damon is a charming lad and I liked drawing him a lot!! I hope you don't mind the tweaks to his design,,, and also that I couldn't resist drawing him with my design for Alister :) They are, for the record, discussing Meteorology.

[ninthfeather]

Can we hear about the Blush Mermaid Heist please!!

I’m tagging @mirrorfalls because they asked about this too! I have...feelings about this heist, which is to say I disliked it. Detailed spoilers for the trick follow, so I’m putting this under a cut.

Look, I’m not a real hardcore animal rights type most of the time, but honestly? The real victim of the Blush Mermaid Heist was the turtle.

It’s not safe to glue something to a turtle’s shell, especially for an extended period of time. If the glue is something toxic and goes through the cracks, it can make the turtle sick. If the turtle is still growing, you run the risk of stunting its growth.

Then KID put iron dust in the poor little guy’s food and stuck him to a magnetic plate.  Again, we are not seeing a lot of concern for the turtle here.  On a meta level, I think Gosho researched synthetic diamonds more than he did aquatic turtles, which are fussy, easy-to-injure animals when kept in captivity. I don’t know if giving a turtle enough iron fillings to supplement the magnetic properties of the fake diamond on its back and make it stick to a metal plate is safe. This isn’t something you can easily research on the internet, and I’m sorry, but I don’t have enough invested in this to ask someone outright. But Gosho did, and he could have easily called a pet store about the matter. The way the scenario is written suggests he did not bother doing this, especially as there is no effort to reassure the audience that KID’s trick didn’t hurt the turtle.

Gosho is usually nicer to animals than this–puppies and kitties get to be cute and remain unhurt, and the doves get looked after too. But apparently turtles aren’t special?

Also, okay, everything about the Masumi disguise situation was stupid. KID crossdresses almost constantly. Assuming gender based on clothing is a complete rookie mistake that Gosho had him make because it was funny. Except the gag regarding Masumi’s chest was off-color when he introduced it and it’s only gotten worse.  Masumi kicking KID was funny, but it would have been just as funny if she’d gotten to do it for him trying to steal her clothes. Also, it felt like a cheap way of making sure that Conan, not Masumi, took the lead in the heist investigation. I’d like to see a proper face-off between Masumi and KID.

(Frankly, speaking as a woman, you can tell that a man is writing something when a teenage girl is restrained and unconscious in a men’s bathroom for an extended period of time and this is basically handwaved as “no big deal.”)

Basically, this was the kind of heist I’d expect to see in MK, where Kaito doing poor heist prep and making mistakes has a payoff--it increases suspense and makes the readers worry about the protagonist.  For all that I personally am a big KID fan, when I read DC, I generally try to read the chapter from the perspective of the narration, so I was trying to read from Conan’s point of view. From Conan’s point of view, this was just a particularly ill-thought-out scenario and the humor/Kaito’s mistakes felt distracting, rather than like something that added to the tension.

In short, I’m not a big fan of the Blush Mermaid heist, and I hope to goodness the upcoming heist is a bit better.

[batkingsalem]

Sketch commission for @tomanynames of their EAH OC, Padma Pillar! I love her so much, thank you for commissioning me!!

[joleen-the-jackalope]

Commission for @tomanynames 

These two are so cute! I had so much fun drawing them :)

♥Like my art? I’d love a KoFi!♥

[systlin]

It's furby customizing? that's why the shins are off- people make customs ones, or care for the fur better when it's not on the electronics.

Oooooooh. That makes sense. I didn’t even know furby customizing was a thing. 

[ask-applewhite]

[thebibliosphere]

mom, I'm really interested in the limited hardbacks but can't afford to do 75$ every month; to get the hard back can I just do 75$ for one month?

Oh yea absolutely! The higher tier ones are a one time thing and that’s your copy bought and I add your name to my spreadsheet and then the following month you can drop down to one of the lower tier ones or unsub entirely if you want or have to. 

Some people who are able to do so have stayed subbed longer at those levels (and have been offered more than one copy and in some instances have politely declined and assured me one copy is fine), but I totally do not expect that of anyone. Frankly I never thought anyone would ever click the hardback option, but then again I never thought someone would click the $300 dollar one either but sometimes people surprise you in immensely humbling and pleasant ways. And force you to look up how to make 5ft tall cakes.

So yea, no, that is totally a thing. You do it once and I take a note of the name and you are added into the group. Then you change your pledge via your own profile so as to avoid being charged again the following month. You can also set limits so that transactions only happen for X amount of months, so you could set it up as a one month sub too. If you mess it up and it doesn’t work out just let me know, I’ve refunded a few people instantly via paypal when patreon has auto charged them again :)

[wormwoodandhoney]

(for the sleep over) Any advice on getting over someone?

Time and patience. Allow yourself a reasonable mourning period of comfort movies + bed + treats, and then force yourself to do something- anything. Try to keep busy with friends you trust. Work on personal projects to keep your mind busy. 

And then, keep your heart open as the future continues. 

Good luck, darling!