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openStory about a man trapped in a casket/cast Literature
Okay so this is my first time trying this feature, hope I get it right
I remember this Italian old story from the 1800s (maybe before that) about a man who was jealous of his friend. So, one day he invites his friend over, leads him to his basement, and traps him in a casket. I don't remember the name, I could have sworn it was trending on Tumblr a while back and also had a page on This Very Wiki. The name was "Casket of Antamillardo" or something. Please help.
EDIT: The Cask of Amontillado
Edited by deerhornsaresoprettyresolved 2 series mashed together or 1 Literature
I apologise for how all over the place this is going to be as I remember details.
I think this was a single series, but I could be mashing 2 together. I know for sure it was a series with different books though.
I think the title was something like "the grimorie ofthe dark woods" but that doesnt sound right, at all.
What I can remember plotwise:
A girl (13-16) finds a grimoire, and discovers she's a witch that can control animals, shortly after her mother is hung for being a witch.
She got out of this fate by subconsciously commanding the magic hounds to ignore her.
Theres these woods near her village that like no one is allowed in. Big bad lives there.
Except hes not really bad? He was cursed by his friend, I think. But the woods are sworn to protect him so it attacks outsiders.
I think she tries to avenge him and starts fighting a monster?
He explains that to use magic, all witches must give up something. Emotions, looks, humanity. She chose memories and slowly forgets everything.
Her best friend joins the witch hunt, and she helps, cause now the witch hunt only looks for bad witches.
The hunt collectively skips over one girl and shes like "well that's weird, why do they all blindly trust her" come to find out that girl is a witch and enchanted them
I think theres a part where her and her brother (?) Takr a train, and shit is HAPPENING on this train. When they stop they go to some like hourglass place where time stops. And brother person signs his name on the door and some creep comes out from the shadows and is all like "well, the demons behind this door wants you now" and she says no take me, I'll come back later.
The dude finds her years later and says "the demons demand a soul." And she says "yes, but it will not be me" and uses her powers over creatures to lure the demons to take the man.
Aaaaalllll over the place.
EDIT: Found it! The series is "The Thickery" by J.A. White
Edited by Zee-TrayhorneopenBook were girl runs away from her abusive family dresses as a boy, and teams up with a young outlaw Literature
Does anyone remember a book where a young girl runs away from her abusive stepfamily and dresses like a boy to find her father who is the sheriff of one town. Along the way she teams up with a young male outlaw, while disguising herself as a boy.
The heroine was named Eliza Bakes and her name while disguised was Elijah Bates, I think.
resolved Mario Party video that's eluded me for years. Web Original
I have done a lot of my own digging to find this one specific video which (despite remembering so much from) I cannot find the video or it’s creator.
The main things that the video had was (given the title) reviews of games that were “knockoffs” of Mario Party (one of these games was Fuzion Frenzy), and an opening sketch where two of the reviewer’s friends were fighting to the death over a Mario Party gone wrong.
I also know that this creator made a sequel video, and also during that time covered Grabbed by the Ghoulies. I’d estimate the video was made around 2013-17.
Also, the creator was not Connor The Waffle or Austin Eruption.
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1openA recent webcomic Webcomic
A few weeks ago I started reading a new webcomic. It's fairly new, and only had about four pages or so, but was made by somebody who's made webcomics before. It's in full color. Think it's updated once a week. I don't remember much, but it's about a woman who's a goddess in diguise or something and is a huge celebrity. I think the plot so far is that she runs into some old acquaintances of hers in public.
(But PLEASE mention anything that sounds remotely close to it!)
openA British narrated rhyming stop-motion fairytale series where the figures had monkey-like faces Western Animation
Back in the 80s, there were these shorts on TV Ontario's children's programming lineup that were from the UK (they were narrated in a British voice) and were short, rhymed interpretations of fair tales. That were stop-motion, but actually as I recall not much movement happened, they were mostly just screenshots of the characters. The funny thing was that all the figures had grotesque, somewhat monkey-like faces. I only clearly remember one of the fairytales, it was called "The Barber of Hairina (?)" and was a different take on the story about King Midas' donkey's ears. On the whole a rather odd series. What could this have been?
openStop-motion animation about girl whose watercolors took away all the color from the world around her Western Animation
Circa 1986 at a Christmas party, I saw a short stop-motion animated film that looked like it could have been made in Eastern Europe (similar in style to the work of the Polish Se-ma-for studio). It was about a little girl who had a set of watercolors, but was very messy in using them. So to teach her a lesson, each cake from the watercolor set absorbed its respective color from the world around and then they ran away. When the girl came out, she found that the entire world had turned black and white. She eventually found the watercolors dancing around a rainbow, and they restored color to the world. What was this?
openSuper obscure anime with monsters from the 2000s (possible lost media) Anime
This is... something, alright. Nobody I ever talked to it about knew what I was talking about, nor it seems that it was already documented here. Did I have hallucinated this? I don't know.
I remember in the year 2009 in Italy they broadcasted a Mon anime series, which unfortunately, I never memorized the name. I'm pretty sure it was an anime and not just an Animesque cartoon, because it had that style typical of the Turn Of The Millenium animes. It had at least an Italian dub.
This Mon show was very notable in that it looks like it lacked any semblance of mon-related collectibles, which implies it was NOT Merchandise-Driven, nor it seemed to have evolutions for the mons; this also means that I couldn't possibly have seen Bakugan or a Digimon or Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
Other details I can give to better help identify it: The setting was mostly like our world except critters live alongside humans.
The protagonists were a quartet of kids plus the mascot mon, and pretty cliched; the protagonist was a red-headed Hot-Blooded Idiot Hero and probably an Extreme Omnivore as well; the deuteragonist was much more stoic and probaboy wore either blue or black, but also had some un-boyish hobbies; then there's the girl who was a pink-wearing tomboy; and finally the timid yellow-wearing smart guy; plus the mascot Mon who was a white-colored Cartoon Creature. I remember the five main characters bickering a lot with each other.
The main antagonists were a Terrible Trio of Green and Mean devils who were revealed to be brainwashed, but there also were a couple of GreaterScopeVillain.
I also don't remember any of the characters' names.
Some episodes I somewhat remember:
- An episode where the aloof lancer is revealed to like collecting plush toys, but his parents scold him for having such hobbies, but it's also revealed that the big guy from the Terrible Trio also collects plush toys and attempts to steal a rare plushie from the good guys;
- An episode where there's a huge monster on a rampage, and also a Mon that looked like a fire-breathing Jack-o'-lantern (one of the few "generic" Mons I remember from it);
- An episode where The Smart Guy saves the day but mistakes a boy for a girl;
- The Myth Arc and possibly the "finale arc", where the masco Mon flees, the kids try to find him with the protagonist trying to bait him out with EXPIRED snacks (that's very dumb, but one of the only scenes I remember clearly...), all the four kids touch a magic stick and get transported to a special place, where a "butler-like" Mon reveals to them that the mascot had an older brother who did an Heroic Sacrifice, using carvings in a wall to illustrate the story.
I've tried giving the most detailed account I could give at this point, and so far nobody else even had the faintest idea of what I was talking about. It could be lost forever..
openZombie fiction
There’s a story I’ve heard of which commentates on the idea of guilt-free killings of zombies. It starts with a disease that infects people and makes them act however they think zombies act, which causes panic and results in many infected being killed. After the true nature of the disease is discovered and the outbreak is swiftly brought under control, many survivalists refuse to believe it, breaking away and becoming conspiracy theorists insisting that those were actual zombies and they government is lying and there’ll be another outbreak that’ll cause the end of the world. This is due to their desperation to assuage their consciences.
open"SpongeBob SquarePants'' dubbed song Western Animation
Oh, they changed the name of You Know That Show.
Years ago, I found a dubbed version of the SpongeBob SquarePants song "This Grill is Not a Home" from the episode "Welcome to the Chum Bucket". This dubbed song is... unique in that instead of simply dubbing the song, it replaces it entirely with an incoherent collection of music and Stock Sound Effects, with the music being the stock music they use for the show. And yes, it's an official dub (or at least one that aired on television). They don't even change the visuals or anything, just the song into... whatever you call music and sounds cobbled together like that.
I don't even remember what dub it is. Can anybody find me that version of the song? Thanks.
Edited by SparkPlugTheTroperopenShort story about a man being kidnapped by his future descendants Literature
The protagonist was going to do something, or something was going to happen to him, that was going to cause his descendants to not be born. So they kidnap him and trap him on a ship (that is, an oceangoing ship, not a spaceship) for his whole life against his will, to keep him safe or to stop him from doing something that would lead to them not being born. At the end of his life, he points out to them that they forgot to give him the opportunity to actually bear any children, so after all their effort they're all going to die anyway.
I think I misremembered this. I think he was just going to do something that was going to cause some kind of problem for his descendants. (I feel like maybe it was a reputational thing, like he made a bad name for himself and all of his eventual descendants; but maybe I'm making that up.) So they kidnap him and trap him on a ship (an oceangoing ship, not a spaceship) for his whole life against his will, to stop him from doing the thing. He resents his confinement, especially over something so relatively trivial, but he can't do anything about it. At the end of his life, he points out to them that they forgot to give him the opportunity to actually bear any children, so after all their effort to fix their problem, all they've accomplished is killing themselves. (He deliberately didn't tell them until it was too late, because he resented them that much. Not just for kidnapping him, I think, but for being shallow and ridiculous people in general.)
I might be screwing up some details, but I'm pretty sure about the broad details that people from the future isolated him on a ship, but then it was all for naught because they forgot to let him have children.
I don't remember when I read it, but it was probably less than ten years ago. I feel like the story itself was older than that, though; it had the vibe of classic science fiction (i.e. 40s-70s) more than modern science fiction. But, I might be wrong about that.
Edited by NoriMoriresolved Elementary level book about gum that makes you invisible Literature
I read a book in 3rd grade about a kid that got a strange kind of gum from a machine, and it was called Gum-X or something like that. It turned out that it could turn him invisible and his older brother used it to prank people without getting caught. And I remember a prank went wrong when he tried to steal an old woman's dentures and she thought that he was robbing her. The art style looked like it was from the 80's to the Late 90's.
openA reality show about a black female matchmaker
The reality TV show was about a married black female matchmaker that would match up her clients and help them find love. It came on in the mid 2010's I believe. It was on the same time the millionaire matchmaker was airing as well. It was short lived though. What is the title?
openYouTuber who uploaded dubs of popular anime Web Original
There was once a YouTuber I watched back in 2023. Being a fan of dubbed anime, most of their content consist primarily of dubbed animes like Jujutsu Kaisen, Horimiya, Bleach, etc, and was one of the main reasons I subscribed to their channel in the first place. Their channel was taken down in early 2024, something I didn't notice until now. While it was very obvious why the channel was gone, the fact it happened very sudden and quickly meant no one had enough time to archive the videos prior to the termination. I couldn't even search up their name; all I do know is that it's initials are "VG" and the "V" stands for "Vail" or "Vial". Even the Wayback Machine only archives my channel layout from 2022, and even then the subscription bar leads to nothing. Does know this channel and what was their name before they left YT?
resolved Trying to figure sources of Korean media from an ancient meme Live Action TV
Well somehow I had a nostalgia trip back to the later 2000s and noticed this particular Korean meme of Rainbow Tylenol. Problem is, I don't know where the heck they managed to get their memes from. What were the names of those shows were used in the creation of this meme?
open"Swim Club" webcomic created by a troper Webcomic
First of all, I apologize if this isn't the place to ask this, but I'm out of ideas and I've been trying to find this comic for a while.
Around five years ago, in the TV Tropes forum, a troper named Muttx SC mentioned on the forum they created a webcomic called Swim Club - a story set in the eighties about teens in a high school swim club who find some sort of portal to a horror dimension in their school pool.
I think the person abandoned the project after around 100 pages. I can't find any information about them or the comic, no real names, archived pages, online footprint or nothing. The troper is no longer active (and might've just joined the site to promote the comic, which is kind of a dick move, but that's a different issue), so it seems like the comic's disappeared from the face of the Earth.
Does anyone have any idea of where I could find it?
And again, sorry if I'm using this feature wrong, I'll drop it if that's the case.
Edited by Mac_RopenBoy talks to wall cartoons Live Action TV
A US TV show possibly from the early 1990s. I was about a boy who talked to animated cartoon characters on walls and would go on magical adventures, I think.
Any help appreciated, thanks.
open"Happy Family" Western Animation
I remember having a tape once of a show. I suspect it was American and probably from the late 1980s/early 1990s. It was about a family; white, two parents, two kids - a brown-haired boy and a blonde girl. It was very grounded in tone and the art style was sort of simple, nothing special, but I swear the characters had fairly simple faces.
I remember there were these musical interludes - only one stands out in my head: The kids are waiting for their grandmother to arrive at their house, which then cuts into a imagine spot where the grandmother is driving an old horse-drawn covered wagon while the song "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountains" is sung in the background as Grandma winds around roads on said mountains.
Hope that's enough to go on. Any help appreciated, thanks.
Edited by DoctorInkopen"The Tidys"? Western Animation
I vaguely remember a British children's TV show from at least the 1990s that I think was called "The Tidys". I could be wrong. Don't remember a thing about the show itself, but the theme song pops up in my head every now and then. The title came up in the song.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
adoro esse mangá,queria compartilha-lo nesse site,mas não sei e nem consigo criar medias aqui.