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open(SOLVED: Summer Retreat) What is the name of this short story? Literature
So, I was browsing when I came across this: "One short story was about the Copses, a family of weretrees. They turned into trees to sleep for the winter... after murdering their neighbors and burying them in the yard for fertilizer." Does anyone know the name of that short story?
Edited by sRAMrelevratopenWritten work with enforced BattleCouple
Main character is in a military academy of some sort, getting near to graduation. There is a catch: In this military only couples are deployed, and he has not yet found a partner.
Found this on either a work page here on Tv T, or as a trope example. (I've since lost track of what trope, if so.)
I've skimmed Battle Couple OP Es, as well as a fair number of wicks.
Not entirely sure of what genre or medium, but pretty sure that it was a written work of some sort.
openWeird Book/Book Series With Objectshifting (Possibly a RIPOFF of Animorphs) Literature
So, I was browsing online and I saw this comment on a Youtube video about 'Super-Brikke': "i don't recall the book specifically, but it sounds like something i read as a kid. there was this weird book in the library near the animorphs series. it was literally just kids turning into shit like a bed lamp or a bathtub. i can't remember many details and this could be a false memory, but maybe it was a series of picture books? i don't know" I want to know what the commenter was talking about, because I'm the kind of person generally known as a "weirdo". (EDIT: WOW did not realize the implications of that. Whoops)
Edited by sRAMrelevratopenSamurai anime Anime
One time while browsing this site, I got from either the Kodocha or Rurouni Kenshin page to a page about an anime. The only thing I remember about it is that the page image had two samurai-looking characters - one in pink/purple and one in blue. I don't remember what it's called, and it doesn't help that this show doesn't seem to be very popular.
openWebcomic With Sentient Microbes (Memories Too Vague; this one's not getting solved) Webcomic
Exactly What It Says On The Tin. I think it might've had a bunch of bio nerd jokes, but I'm not sure.
Edited by sRAMrelevratopenA Disney XD show about heroes themed after animals Western Animation
I remember it aired around the late 2000s and very early 2010s at least in Brazil, and it's about a group of four or five protagonists (I think they were teenager-aged in retrospect but I can't be sure) that turned into anthropomorphic animals in a somewhat Power Rangers vibe. Specifically, I remember two of them: one was a yellow feline and the other was purple-ish and had wings.
I tried to find it in the past but I could not find its name in English and I don't completely remember it in Brazillian Portuguese.
openUnknown Horror Anthology Series Live Action TV
Ok, so what I remember from this is the episode revolved around a NYC (I think) coroner, or medical examiner, who identifies bodies for the police, I believe. And he lives alone in this big apartment, but every time he comes home he hears his neighbors arguing, and one night the woman comes to his door very distraught and he lets her in and they end up getting to know each other and have a passionate love affair (over the course of a few weeks, not just one day), and he keeps coming home and hearing her argue with her boyfriend, or husband, and then she keeps coming over for help and he is like acting as her protector or something, and finally he can't hear her arguing anymore, she stops coming around, and he gets the landlord to open the apartment, but he tells him it's empty, and opens it anyway, and it is empty. So guy is confused now, and doesn't know what is going on, then the next day he find the woman's body has shown up in the morgue or wherever the bodies go that need identifying, and that's about it. Creepy twist. The show, I'm very certain, is a horror anthology show in which each episode is its own story, but it might also have been split with another episode. It's too slow and drawn out to be something like Tales from the Crypt. I think the time frame for its release was between the late 90's and 2010's sometime, but I am only guessing because I don't remember if there were any smart phones in it.
openA person who dubs Vocaloid songs into English Music
There was this person on YouTube that sang Japanese Vocaloid songs and dubbed them into English? They also did covers of those already in English.
opensinks, magic portal, no eyes, and new orleans? Film
When i was little, we watched a movie on comcast on demand (god i feel old) it was a movie that contained the following (please forgive my disjointed memory):
so this kid is walking along the streets of new orleans and comes across this old man. tries to sell him something and the kid runs away. stranger danger.
there are two to three siblings living in a big house in new orleans. One of them finds a magical portal underneath what i think is a kitchen sink. They come across an eyeless man who freaks them out. they then are taken into the charismatic arms of this long haired bearded charismatic villain who tries to take the boys eyes. He escapes and joins the rebels or some shit...it makes less sense in context. Then his sister shows up and the villain decides to keep the whole "i'mma take your eyes" thing on the down low.
remember the old man from the beginning? he appears outside of the house and waves his magic stick around (a literal stick, dont worry) and then all is resolved in the house.
it makes no god damned sense but my siblings asked if i remembered it. My little brother got really scared at the scene where they're about to take his eyes out. he ran away crying. he's a doctor now.
openAwful wedded birds Western Animation
Does anyone know this cartoon. I'm sure it was a animated short from the Golden Age of Animation. Maybe from Merrie Melodies. It is about a female bird who seems to be married and her husband abuses her. I'm not sure what happened, but I think she managed to make some good business and at the end she is able to keep the house, and ends up getting her husband out, or maybe reversing the roles and her abusing him.
openFinding a character
Hi!
I was wondering if a character who has all or most of these traits actually exists:
1. Shapeshifting (maybe)
2. Astral projection (definitely!)
3. Creating something in the astral plane that links two souls (said item can weaken a person if removed until the other person can nullify the effect)
openToy balls that unlocked aliens on a website
In like 2010 or around that time I had this little ball with a code on it that could be used to unlock an alien character on a website. As I remember there were like 100 different characters that could only be unlocked by buying the ball with the right code.
openShow about tech
I remember this one show that I watched a while ago. It was about these two (either friends or brothers). One liked modern tech and the other liked older ways. I really want to rewatch, so if you guys know can you tell me?
openPowerful Woman in Red Live Action TV
I have no recollection of when, but I remember seeing several clips of a show where I think it was 2 men conversing with this one older-ish lady wearing a red dress. In one scene, one of the men was talking to the lady. She might have had some special powers, because her voice reverberated when saying the word "sexual", as I think they were discussing some sort of sexual harassment lawsuit. Another moment of that scene, the lady asked the man if he liked being called Richie, because that was what his mother called him. The clip ended with a weird foot fetish moment, where the lady removed her high heel and told the man to come over to it.
open(SOLVED) Novel or film: Kid plays VR videogame, makes his abusive dad the bad guy Literature
Something I remember reading in the 90s (or maybe very early 2000s), it was in print form but illustrated with photos, so it might have been adapted from a movie.
It was about a boy playing a Virtual Reality videogame for escapism, and getting lost in it to the point that back in real life he'd believe he's still in the game.
The game could be customized to put photos of people on the head of NPCs and enemies; he put his abusive father's face on the game's Big Bad, which made his real-life relapse particularly bad: The kid ends up trying to kill his father with a sword.
The videogame's Big Bad was named Zoltan, but that was in French, so if this media came out in another language the name might have been changed.
Edit: I think I've found it: A 1996 French Made-for-TV Movie called Génération Vidéo
(so as I suspected the text
◊ was a novelization thereof).
Edit 2: I've even found a review in English
! As you can see, the New Media Are Evil and You Can Panic Now are strong with this one.
openearly-mid 2000s teen show w ginger lead Film
the plot followed a famous male actor coming to the small town the lead girl lived in and everyone obsessing over him, while the main girl found him obnoxious. she ends up sneaking into one of his movie sets for whatever reason and finds out that he's super rude and hates the costar of his film. by the end of the movie, the actor guy and the main girl are best friends. i remember it being a disney channel-esqe movie aimed at younger girls, probably ages 8-12. it was on netflix sometime most likely in the early/mid 2010s. for some reason i prominently remember the main girl being a ginger—i wasn't used to main characters being redheads, methinks?
openKid's Show Thing (solved)
I can give a physical description of the characters. Our host so to say is a black guy with glasses and an afro wearing basically all orange, however the show is focused on his toys (five in total). There a guy that looks like a humanoid cactus if they were red and a cyclops, another is a pink kinda pear shaped girl with some white around her neck and a daisy on her head, and the last that I remember is a green striped furry guy with three red triangles at the crown of his head. The toys are on a stage type thing with five equal sections, one for each toy. Afro guy kinda just helps them out from behind the stage. The target demographic sis probably 2-5.
Edited by VariaopenWeird Action-Comedy Anime from the [=Mid-90s=] Anime
I've been trying to look for this anime I remember watching one episode of a couple of years ago.
It was this fantasy action-comedy series from the mid-90s (1996 IIRC) and it had an English dub, which was the version I remember watching. The protagonist was this selfish dude with long blonde hair who wore a black tank top and a red bandanna around his head.
As for the plot of the episode I watched, the protagonist decides to go rescue a kidnapped princess so that he can use the reward money offered to pay his rent. The protagonist runs into a blue genie who offers to make him rich and famous if he lets the genie join him on his adventure. The protag doubts the genie's powers, and the genie responds by... turning himself into a big-breasted anime girl, which somehow convinces the protagonist that the genie is legit.
Does anyone remember what this show is called? If it helps, I came across this anime during early quarantine on an anime streaming channel on my Roku box (it could've been RetroCrush, but I checked through their entire lineup and couldn't find anything similar to this; for all I know it could've been taken off their service in the two years it's been since I've seen it).

So, I was browsing online and I found a bunch of comments of people talking about books they couldn't remember the names of. Here are the ones that really intrigued me:
1. "...a book about a boy turning into a yellow bus. The cover really disturbed me as a kid"
2. Edit: They probably meant a book. "...a story where a girl drank petrol and turned herself into a car."
3.“Some kid discovered a "new letter" for the alphabet. The letter was this white-skinned, living and sentient creature. For some reason the kid has to keep the letter away from people who are searching for it. At the end, I'm pretty sure the letter is taken away or killed”
4. EDIT: Removed for being too vague.
5. "children's book... a kid or teenager who was always on their cellphone being transformed into a cellphone with human features at the end." (Edit: I am not the only person searching for this https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=89671&type=ykts
)
Does anyone know what these are?
Edit: One more. "I definitely remember, in a similar fashion, a Kafkaesque version of 'I'm a Little Teapot' which has a child grotesquely morphing into a teapot and having relinquished all that made him human by the final illustration...which is just a dainty teapot sitting on a table surrounded by teacups, saucers, and dishes of lemon slices and sugar cubes."
2nd Edit: I found another one "Reminds me of a story of a boy becoming a tree and gets cut down and turned into a cabinet iirc. Gave me nightmares and got paranoid about the furniture watching me." [The second sentence implies that the story said the boy was still aware as a cabinet]
3rd Edit: "An older cousin had a book about a private school and each poem was about a kid enrolled and how they were actually awful (and how they met their end). This sounds like it could have been one of the chapters... But what I'm seeing in the comments is that there were a lot of books like that, apparently. (The poems I remember were about a kid getting eaten by a living arcade machine with a terrifying illustration and an end line something like "BURP! Pac-Man had an early lunch" and a kid who would torment a dog every day, until one day the dog was loose, unbeknownst to them." I only care about the arcade machine one, and NO, it isn't "Cabinet Man"
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