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Kingdom Hearts Fanfic Web Original
There are a couple Kingdom Hearts fanfics I’ve been looking for. I’ve tried searching different combinations of things I remember from the stories, but no luck so far.
The first one was a song fic where they’re all in highschool. Sora gets to school before everyone else and goes to the auditorium to play “Fireflies” by Owl City on the piano. The lyrics were all written out and everything. Then Roxas (I think) shows up with some other characters (who specifically I don’t remember) and they talk about something for a bit before Sora comes back crying and says “Kairi...she...she broke up with me!” And then Roxas sings a censored version of Greenday’s “American Idiot” to cheer him up. Like following him around the school singing.
The second fanfic is also a school au, probably not the same one since it seems to be more of a crack fic. I remember there was a running gag of Namine always wanting to burn things, until she creates a “Blade Key” in art class and accidentally drops it down a vent? A shaft? or something, where she yells for it to come back. Meanwhile, Adora is running a high fever and stumbling around the hallways looking for someone. Maybe it was her, but I can’t remember.
The last one is also a school au, where Roxas (I think) is autistic and gets bullied by a member of Organization XIII (which one I don’t remember, but he had two lackeys with him, one may have been Larxene?) who yells that “we just want to...have some FUN!” in Roxas’ face.
I think they were all on Fanfiction.net, but I could be wrong. I don’t remember them being particularly good. They could’ve been taken down for copyright reasons (especially the first one) but I don’t know. Has anyone heard of these fics?
Two teenagers and piggy bank Literature
In eighth grade, my class read a book about two teenagers who befriended a man after they prank call him. The man has a room in his house full of piggy banks, I think. The teenagers throw a party at his home and that results in the man having a heart attack.
Non-licensed GBA platformer? Videogame
So back when I was a teenager and playing gba games on the computer through less than legitimate means and coming across a not great platform game. I feel fairly certain it wasn't a movie or tv show tie-in, I think it had a fairly distinctive english title and it definitely featured a female protagonist. I also recall there being a level called Skyport or something similar, but memories are a bit hazy. So probably an original IP, could have been part of a series. EDIT: I also remember there being a very annoying Mammoth boss
Edited by FirstSnowtime-travelling children's show Western Animation
This is a cartoon rendered entirely in CGI, which aired sometime around the early 2010's, if I recall correctly. I watched it dubbed so I don't know the original language or country of production.
In it, a bunch of young teens - or maybe even pre-teens - meet a girl their age who came from the future in a time machine by accident. In that future, there's a new ice age, and the girl has been tasked with travelling even further to the future, in order to find a new time period on earth suitable for human habitation. Obviously, the teens tag along with her.
The show explores all the possible future environment and evolutions of the species of earth, while theorizing a bit about what such a distant society would look like. But obviously most of the focus is on the cast and their character development. There's also a bit if drama with the girl's father, who put her in charge of the mission.
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Does anyone here know the origin of this manga panel? https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/482166703853571108/
Song in video Music
Can anyone identify the song in this video at 21:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1AVNV42Av0&t=77s? Soundhound turned up nothing.
90s song that appeared on CMT (SOLVED!) Music
Hi, I am searching for a Country song, artist, and music video from the late 90s. All I can recall is a bit where a man is either arguing with his daughter, or physically beating her, then a brief moment later he does the same with his wife, at both parts his young son (might been eight to ten years of age) walks in on him, and his father (and mother and older sister respectively) all look at him in a sad way as it was unfortunate for him to experience that. I do not know if the artist was John Berry, George Strait, or Collin Raye, but somewhere in that ballpark. Can anyone please help me? Thanks.
The father has short brown hair, must be in his 40s-50s, his wife around the same age, I think she had blonde hair. The daughter has light brown hair if I remember correctly, maybe a teenager, both the mother and daughter have long hair. The son has short brown hair, must be no more than ten years of age. Both moments the daughter and mother look him sadly, as does the father (he looks at him feeling that he is not an inspirational father figure). I cannot remember for sure, but I think both times he hugs his son. Again, the singer might have been Collin Raye or John Berry, perhaps someone like them. This cannot be that obscure.
No one knows this at all?!
Edited by thestormtrooperTwo kids with special 'alien' abilities (solved) Film
As much as the title may allude to Race to Witch Mountain, which I've watched, that's not what I'm referring to here. I can't remember when I saw it so give or take 5-10+ years ago.
A brother and sister (I highly assume they were anyway) found some strange objects one day, some of which were these black irregularly-shaped rocks which the girl later found that she could spin like tops. No one, not even her brother could get that to happen; only she had that ability.
The brother on the other hand had somehow harnessed an ability of portals, and there was this one scene where he went golfing with his father, who wasn't aware of this alien stuff happening. When it was the boy's turn to play, his ball got shot into a portal when he hit it, and as a result landed much further. The father either whoas or whistles, then replies "Looks like you found your sport!"
The objects were then returned in the end somehow, and the special abilities left with them. That's everything I remember.
Edited by BlackFaithStarVinesauce scene
I'm looking for a bit from Vinesauce, from Vinny's streams specifically, where he goes "What the fuck am I looking at...? What the fuck am I looking at??" in response to something very not normal. I think it was in one of the corruption stockpiles, but I'm not sure which one.
"Leave it to Beaver" meets "Men in Black." Live Action TV
I saw the first episode of this show on Netflix a long time ago, but I can't find any record of its existence. It's set in a small American town in the late 1950s or early 60s, and follows an ordinary kid who gets wrapped up in extraterrestrial happenings and government conspiracies. I seem to recall the word "Green" in the title, but I could be wrong.
It's a fairly recent series. I'd say it was probably made sometime between the late 2000s and mid 2010s.
Tabletop RPG - Lantern as weapon.
I remember reading a PDF for a Tabletop RPG a few years ago wherein one of the classes was some sort of city guardsman with the improbable weapon of a lantern. Apparently it was an elite position of some sort, and I think the lanterns were specially crafted, with properties besides being melee weapons, but that's all I can remember. I don't even know the franchise it was from or the system they used.
(still unsolved)Beat 'Em Up with Boss that Could Turn Players into Enemies Videogame
I remember seeing gameplay of an arcade(or at least arcade-style) beat 'em up game that had a boss that dropped objects(I think they were magician hats but they may have just been cups) onto the stage. If a player character got caught beneath one of them, they would be transformed into a random enemy, but they could still fight the boss. Anyone know what game this is from?
Edited by RadayamUnidentified Ninja Movie
Does anyone know what's the title of this movie?
Found this unidentified kickass ninja flick on youtube, the movie lacks a title card and the YT video claims it's called Latest Ninja Hunter, but Google/Imdb tells me no such thing exist
Edited by RobertTYLDoes this video have a reference to anything?
A character in Nightmare In Minecraft is turned into a L 4 D zombie after staring at a bright portal. Is the portal a reference to anything else?
Cooking Show with Animated Host (SOLVED) Western Animation
Does anyone know about a certain cooking show with an animated host that aired on CBC on Sunday mornings in the mid-2000’s? It would show live-action footage of a guy making the food, and there was a whistling tune that played in the background throughout the show.
Edited by MisterToodleoosome obscure scene from an american show Live Action TV
i have no idea what it's from but i can picture this one scene where these gay guys want a hotel room and the person setting up the reservation says "2 queens?" and one of the guys has a semi-confused, semi-somewhat offended sort of look the other dude holds his hand in front of his partner as to stop him or get his attention and says "he's talking about the beds" and the other guy chills
idk what it's from but all i know is that it's american and live action
Breadcrumbs quote? Film
I watched a movie a couple years ago, it talked about following breadcrumbs, and how breadcrumbs are left on purpose, and are made very obvious so that one could easily follow them. I don't recall the exact quote, nor the movie for that matter. Any help is appreciated! Tia...
reincarnation movie? Film
I watched a movie while back and have been going crazy trying to remember enough to place it and/or remember the name and/or actors/actresses. It was about this guy who meets a woman (on a boat or train, I think), and I might be fuzzy on details, but...he takes her back to this place his father runs, like a home for troubled persons(?). People there are dying, and the woman is the last one shown killed (I think). Near the end, the pair meet again, and the woman reveals that they have been repeating the same cycle over and over again, with the man trying to figure out how to save the woman's life. This is about as much as I can recall, not even sure if entirely accurate...Tia...
A movie about immortals Film
I once saw part of a movie about immortal people who live through the ages as warriors. They can be "killed" but moments later they revive and their injuries heal rapidly.
In a flashback scene, one of these immortals was sentenced to death for witchcraft during the middle ages. They tried hanging her, but she lived through it. They tried burning her at the stake, but she survived that as well. Finally, they had a metal coffin constructed (it resembled an iron maiden made of bronze), locked her inside it, and threw it off a ship into the sea. That probably didn't kill her either, but she couldn't escape and would suffer the horrible fate of drowning repeatedly, forever.
I'm not sure whether the movie was being played off a DVD, or being streamed. I'm pretty sure it was not a mainstream cinema production, it was probably a direct-to-video flick.
Edited by pewiegleNo Title Western Animation
Okay, so i have fragments
(The show isn't old, I'm 99% sure it was made in the 2010's)
In the first episode, a kid and his friend bought packs of some kind of card game. They were driving home, and the kid's older sister threw out the card decks out of the car window. The cards then turned into the characters who were on them. The main character's friend called him, and he showed him that one of the girls from the trading card game was in his room. At some point a wolf(?) guy showed up who claimed himself to be the protector/friend/guard of the main character and the main character's parents were fine with it, so the wolf guy moved in Also there was some kind of school event at one point, and one of the teachers or the principal was secretly evil
I think the characters on the cards were from another dimension or planet or something
episode about taking a sex tape to parents house by mistake
I was not really watching tv but a few minutes of it caught my attention. I have no idea what the show was, who the character was etc, but I want to say the female character was a reporter or something and the parents wanted to see her first big interview or something but they accidentally took a video of her having sex with her boyfriend/husband and somehow the father figured it out and got it back to them before the mother could see it. It has been suggested elsewhere that this is the movie sex tape but I looked up the plot for that and it involved like Ipads or something. This was an actual VHS tape. This could be a movie but I got the sense that it was a tv show. I didn't really care one way or the other when I first saw it or I would have looked it up then and there, but now I really want to find it. Was probably 6 months or less ago when it aired but it could have been a rerun of an older show.
trying to find this show for quite some time
Me and my sister watched this show back when we were kids, maybe back in 2000~2010
about the show, i only remember 3 kids (10~14 yo i think) trying to solve a mystery they worked in a laboratory, i remember them comparing some fingerprints and stuff like that
i can only think about two episodes in one of them the kids were trying to find a missing painting and who stole it
the other one i remember something being stolen and the person left a letter made by magazine letters behind
thats all i know, ive been trying to find this show for so long.
Edited by deandonnaAnnouncement featuring South Park knockoff character on Christian TV station?
So one day I was watching some programs on TCT, a Christian TV station, when some sort of animated announcement appeared during a program break.
I don't remember what the announcement was for, but one detail stands out in my mind: The character in this announcement used a stolen South Park character base. He/she also had a high-pitched voice, vaguely Animesque eyes, and a very crappily animated mouth (read: it's literally a black oval when it's opened). As for other details, all I can remember is that the announcement took place in a room in a house, possibly a living room. The only features of the room I can remember are a window and possibly a bookshelf. Oh, and the camera zooms into part of the room at least once, to allow room for on-screen text to appear, before zooming back out to the South Park knockoff character.
Sorry if this isn't much to go by, the only detail I can remember with certainty is the South Park knockoff. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!
(And yes, I'm aware of the hilarious irony of a Christian channel stealing an asset from an extremely kid-unfriendly show.)
Edited by SparkPlugTheTroper
horror web browser game series Videogame
I remember the games but not the name, it was heavily centered around darkness and the antagonist was something like an onryo, the first game was about escaping a house much like the "you are trapped on a room" and was first person perspective, the second was on an abandoned hospital and picked up directly from the end of the first game this time from a sidescrolling visual like an adventure game, I was told that there were other 2 games but i didnt play them and is one of the reasons I want to find the series before flash stops being supported. I also remember that it was on english but it seemed translated, so it could have be made from a non english speaking country.