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The drawings are in the attachments x.x I dont know how to use a spolier box yet I hope i did this right I drew this because i was listening to the DCW podcast and CarpetCrawler said that Gin love salsa music so I drew him chibi style and a sad conan i just drew. More to come The drawings are in the attachments x.x I dont know how to use a spolier box yet I hope i did this right I drew this because i was listening to the DCW podcast and CarpetCrawler said that Gin love salsa music so I drew him chibi style and a sad conan i just drew. More to come Ran Chibi sailor moon

^no, it's okay, I think I got that. Arigato gozaimasu!!! ... Explains why the "death gods" in DN were called shiniGAmi...

Saber ftw!!! I gotta admit, I did cry at the end... :') But I recommend Fate/Zero, too. The action is absolutely thrilling! And of course, more Saber action.

'Ello Snowflake The whole matter can be very complicated to explain fully, but the usual gist can be found in the following explanation (approximately!) It might not be absolute, but it does give a general idea. I'll try to put it as simply as I can ^^' : (1) In some cases when you combine two or more kanji to make another word, the 'dots' are added to the suffix. 手紙 (てがみ　teGAmi - letter) --- 手　(て　te - hand) and 紙　(かみ　KAmi - paper) 立花 (たちばな tachiBAna - [a surname]) --- 立　(たち tachi)　and 花　(はな HAna) Similarly, ぢ (dji/di) is normally seen in words that were originally pronounced as ち (chi/ti). Examples include: 鼻血 (はなぢ hanaDJI - nosebleed) --- 鼻 (はな hana - nose) and 血 (ち CHI - blood) 身近 (みぢか miDJIka - familiar [to oneself]) --- 身 (み mi - body) and 近 (ちか CHIka - close) Similarly for づ (dzu/du) and つ (tsu/tu): 手作り (てづくり teDZUkuri - handmade) --- 手 (て te - hand) and 作り (つくり TSUkuri - to make) 三日月 (みかづき mikaDZUki - crescent moon) --- 三 (み mi - three), 日 (か ka - day) and 月　(つき TSUki - moon) Also: 詰め合い uses つ　tsumeai; 理詰め uses づ　ridzume 付け上がる uses つ　tsukeagaru; 気付ける uses づ　kidzukeru 地下 uses ち　chika; 有漏地 uses ぢ urodji As far as I know, づ　dzu and ぢ　dji are definitely used as suffixes. (2) Syllable preceded by its 'dotless' form: 縮む (ちぢむ chidjimu - to shrink) --- not ちじむ (chijimu)! 鈴　（すず suzu - bell) --- not すづ (sudzu)! 続き (つづき tsudzuki - continuation) --- not つずき (tsuzuki)! (3) Stand alone words in the ji/dji case are, to my knowledge, generally written as ji じ. The following are all pronounced ji, with a kana form ji じ: 字、地、痔、辞 etc. As for zu/dzu, they are generally zu ず: 図 (I can only think of this one as far as common words, taking into account of usage, are concerned) (4) Finally, words that have a different reading on its own than being in a compound word would usually take じ and ず instead of ぢ and づ: 寺 (てら tera - temple) / 龍門寺 (りゅうもんじ ryuumonji - [a temple name]) 時 (とき toki - moment) / 時間 (じかん jikan - time) 豆 (まめ mame - bean) / 伊豆 (いず izu - [a place name]) 頭 (あたま atama - head) / 頭巾 (ずきん zukin - hood) In general, it will come with experience which one to use. It's not difficult actually, it's one of those things you'll remember for life once you learn it :3 Sorry for so much information, but the whole topic is very wide. Even native speakers would mix up the uncommon words. If I have not explained it clearly enough please feel free to ask!

New Drawings. Too lazy to put them in the thread and fix the first post. *sigh* It's for Mortal Instruments, which, BTW, is the greatest series on earth. :3 For sake of not spoiling anything, I will not label the characters. Burn Down the World: Team Evil!: Plotting: Two Sides of Me:

Quite a bit actually... I know I'm better at fighting and martial arts than he is. I know I'm better at the biological sciences than he is, especially on the molecular level. I know I'm better at music. I know I'm better at fingerprint analysis. (never shown competency, and not something that is easily learned from a book) I'm better than him at biochemistry (he seems pretty inept at it, though that may be due to Haibara making him look bad) Things I'm possibly better than him at: Physics Toxicology Things that I'm likely better than him at but were never explicitly shown in series: Chemistry Calculus

Hiya Detective-db, In modern Japanese, there is absolutely no difference in pronunciation between じ and ぢ (ji). This is also the case between ず and づ (zu). However, words that consist of these syllables should still use their respective characters.