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There's SF series of stories or novels or whatever, where there are loads of other worlds accessible via some sort of a portal planet, and by entering each world you are being changer into one of the inhabitants.
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Trying to recall a novel wherein the hero would put on a helmet and become a berserker, and he had to gain mastery over the helmet in order to use its strength effectively.
This is for my dad, actually - he thinks it was called "Deathstalker," but that's not turning up what he's looking for.
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I seem to recall a very obscure Fairy tale (I think). It was about a young girl who was kidnapped by an old witch, and Every day the witch would test the girl by sending her to a stream. She told her that if she could fill a bucket with water using only a fork, that she would release her back to her parents.
Any ideas.
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Here's an odd one: I'm looking for an article. The article talked about how fictional characters may compensate for one's lack of real-life friends or social life, and went into how viewers/readers bond with characters and resulting emotional effects. It's not just identifying with them, but that people think of them as friends.
And I'm pretty sure this effect has been featured on a Cracked countdown before, but I can't seem to remember which article. I also think it might have had a page on The Other Wiki (or at least was mentioned as a subtopic).
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Okay this was actually a board game but I figure asking here isn't too taboo. I was a horror themed board game, your pieces were gravestones, and you had to watch a tape that came with it to play. The guy on the tape was kinda like a dungeon master. I remember there was something about black holes which I think worked like jail in monopoly. You also had a coin to flip with a demon/gargoyle head and tail for...well heads and tails.
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I think I remember this show (I'm pretty sure it was an animated short film) that had no talking in it, just music. It seemed pretty old when I saw it seven years ago. The characters were a female violin and a male...other musical instrument (maybe a percussion?). The violin was somewhat coquettish and the male was in love with her (I'm not sure if it was returned. He was a Dogged Nice Guy). Their own "families" of instruments were at war with each other, so their own pieces conflicted. When the male's father (who might have been a tuba) discovered his son's feelings, he got very angry. I think he tried to lock him away somewhere.
That's all I remember. If anyone can help out, I'd be very appreciative.
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A Harry Potter Sailor Moon crossover fanfic that had Rei raised with Harry at the Dursley's. This Troper doesn't remember it as particularly good, but it's been bugging her for awhile.
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This was a fairly recent novel, last ten years or so. The cover was marked with the "Sci Fi Essential Books" logo, but I can't seem to find it using that. The main character was one of a set of brothers (probably seven, I forget) whose father was a mountain and mother was a washing machine. He befriended a group of young people living in a boarding house or some such, but mostly one girl who had wings constantly trying to grow from her back. I seem to remember this led to a But Your Wings Are Beautiful situation between them. One or more of the main character's brothers were evil, and I think he was the only one remotely "normal" in his family. This ringing a bell for anyone?
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Does anyone know what he says at 4:17? (now it does not have -word I do not know- or masking)
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I'm trying to remember a fantasy novel. I think the title begin with an A or E. It opens with a guy assassinating a woman, most likely a queen or other powerful figure, by throwing her off a dragon. Their is royalty invovled. A white dragon is supposed to be a royal wedding gift, but the party taking the dragon to the castle is attacked and the dragon escapes into the wild with its handler. It is revealed that dragons are not dumb, but are highly intelligent with a racial memory. Long ago, Humans and dragons were at war and humans were losing badly until they discovered the drug which is a closely guarded secert. Now, the white dragon is free she remembers all of this plus a couple hundred years of enslavement. The white dragon frees another dragon who dies killing humans or attempting to kill humans. People who raise dragons from eggs are peasants and die of a horrible disease that comes from the baby dragons.I think their skin slowly becomes solid. However, their riders are rich, because the dragons are controlled by the royalty and are really expensive to purchase and maintain. The human characters are mainly bastards with lots of backstabbing and murdering. I think their are three sisters, all princesses, one married, one to be married off, and the other independent minded and loves to ride dragons.
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Swedish novel, which I believe I read for school. The characters were school children, probably early teenagers. The main character was named Erik, he was in love with a girl named Pia but she didn't like him at all. He admired some Swedish athlete, might have been a skier but unsure about that, who had a famous catchprase I cannot recall (wasn't Stenmark, though). He once got said athlete's autograph with a dedication to Pia, who in response took it and burned it to show she wasn't interested. Took place not quite in the modern day, but at least in the later half of the 1900's, probably 70's-80's.
Not that I especially want to read it again, but not being able to remember the name of the book or said athlete and his catchphrase is driving me absolute nuts...
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I am looking for a Justice Friends YouTube Poop (the Dexter's lab series) with this quote "Val Halen Fucking god of cocks!"
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I am looking for a YouTube Poop based on the Rockos Modern Life epsiode "Fortune Cookie" (it wasn't this one)
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I am looking for an American Dad Youtube Poop with the song "Weird Science" in it
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Star Wars related. I have very clear memories of two scenes. 1, a stormtrooper on tattooine who befriends the hero, and the millenium falcons radar dish spinning and looking like it's being struck by lightning.
I remember it so clearly, that I'm not sure if I read it in a book and just imagine it or if I saw something animated that fits it. Arrgh!
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I'm pretty sure what I'm looking for was a episode from one of those twilight zone / masters of science fiction shows with new sci-fi stories each week, probably from the 90s. The US army is camped out in the desert in the night observing a giant cube about 100 ft in length. The cube is a window into another universe where people live near a house in a beautiful lush meadow. The army can't hear but can see and the other side seems unaware of the army. They use a golf-ball launcher to shoot at it constantly to detect an opening in the barrier preventing them from passing.
One of the scientists becomes obsessed and when he sees an opening he goes through. He is then promptly eaten by the women and children who have giant fangs. The father pulls out a book, casts a spell and reverses the window so that they can see us.
It was so cool, I'd love to watch it again.
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I remember watching an English dub of an anime sometime in the late 90s to the early 2000s. It featured a scientist's daughter (no, not a Mad Scientist's Daughter, a sane one) who was sent to the future for some reason (ill with no cure or was it a war..?). She had this bird like machine thing which she'd lie in often, I think it talked. The girl collected a bunch of companions who could transform into some kind of insectoid-like armour, and one of them had fire powers. Eventually she died, and then a new girl (also from the past?) showed up. She cooked, had orange hair(?) and her name may have been Tofu. Someone had an answered query of this show before, but it's gone, and I've forgotten the show's name, again. It took me seven years to find it's name the last time, so any help is VERY much appreciated!
There was a film I watched a while ago with a plot similar to Bedtime Stories. There was a father and an estranged son (who I believe were both black), and the father was competing with a guy who claims to be a Native American. He gets the upper hand by interpreting his son's drawings, whose results actually carry out into real life. Near the end, the Native guy figures it out and hypes his son on Red Bull to level the playing field.
Anyone remember this? The actor portraying the "Native American"'s name was Thomas [something].