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openA point and click video game with a vampire girl with a curse and a monster best friend Videogame
Who gives his life to save her/turn her normal again.
Also its an old game. I mean literaly 90s or extremely early 00s at most.
Edited by AegisPopenPiece of Art depicting a yellow field in New York City Print Comic
This was an artistic photograph (found through the service DailyArt), where a woman in white was wandering through a yellow (presumably grain) field outside of New York City. It was mentioned to be made around the 1960s-80s, before that area was turned into housing.
The best way to describe it is that it’s similar to the album cover for Melanie's "Garden in the City
". It’s a similar angle and with a similar-looking woman.
openBug boy or something Webcomic
I am trying to remember the name of a web-based interactive, episodic cartoon. The protagonist was a kid who is part bug (antenna growing out of head) and whose pet roly poly ran (or rolled) away. Each episode represented a different stage in his search. Completing the episode required you click on different things like a point-and-click adventure game. Throughout his search he was followed by a one-armed man in a Napoleon costume and a psionic frog carrying the man’s severed arm in a glass box. The tone of the cartoon was mysterious and surreal. I never saw the end and was always curious what happened. Does anyone remember watching this in the late 90s?
openAlmost-Eurovision singer Music
Can't remember how many contests ago or which country — there was an artist who was supposed to go to Eurovision but got replaced by the powers that be with someone more generic before the competition. I remember people sharing his music around to give him more visibility but that's it. He was a twink if that helps
openDiamond Brothers book with a coded message Literature
I was going to see if one of the books in the Diamond Brothers series had an example of a coded message, but I forgot which one.
I remember one scene in which someone was given a letter that seemed innocuous, with "Ma" talking about how things are going. It began "Bad news, I'm afraid." and said something about the recipient's granddad being in hospital, if I recall correctly. However, it turned out that the first letter of every other word created a message when they were put together. Said message was something along the lines of "BIG ED TAKING OVER, COME HOME AT ONCE." I also remember that the titular brothers were in police custody, but I might be conflating it with my memory of another book since they frequently ended up there, at least once for wasting police time.
It's definitely not "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday" since the brothers never got arrested in that book.
Edited by RiolugirlopenA play about a friend group breaking up, told in reverse
I remember once, probably in an old playwriting class, we read a play about a group of friends in New York, told Back to Front. One of them had gotten in trouble and it ruined the friend group... either they were a murderer or had killed themselves or something serious like that.
I only really remember one scene in which the group, in a flashback, trudges through the snow while singing "New York New York" from On the Town.
openLooking for a "modern" fairy tale Literature
A princess was born, but her fairy godmother, due to old age, forgot her magic wand at home and blessed the little baby with a screwdriver. The princess grew up to be a mechanic. When her father the king wanted her to find a husband, she created and attached a third leg to herself. It would kick anyone who told a lie. The more false the lie, the farther the distance.
openPunk/thrash song from the viewpoint of a teenager having a mental breakdown and yelling at his mom
iirc the song is from the 90s. i thought it was by Body Count but maybe someone from Body Count helped play it
the lyrics are mostly screamed and they're from the point of a teenager having a nervous breakdown and yelling at his mom about how nothing is fine; apparently the mom calls the cops on the singer
openVetinari used to look fat Literature
so, I know this exists somewhere and the page on vetinari talks about it but offers no link or title.
Since the Patrician in Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic was so different lots of people had supposed it was in fact not Vetinari. That's untill Pratchett himself came along and said that it was Vetinari but he wasn't that good at writing him at the time.
Part of the fans refused to believe him - he's only the author, what does he know? - and part of the fans decided he had gone on a diet (Pratchett himself suggested he had lost weight due to the stress of the job).
But there came along someone who wrote a short story - and posted it and it was lovable and Pterry himself liked it - about how the Patrician wasn't really fat. You remember that candied jellyfish he used to eat all the time? it was from some kind of blowfish and retained the blowing ability. He looked fat. He had to actually pay attention not to be to agile because he didn't weight what he looked. He just used it to lull the other guild leaders into a false sense of security while he consolidated his power. The moment he decided to make his move he would just need to stop eating the jellyfish and wait until the toxin left his body. A pity really, he did find the candied jellyfish quite palatable...
So anyway, I have no idea of where I read the story the first time or how I got there. There may or may not have been a post by Pterry himself. Help please, my ability to find things on the internet is in the negative numbers
openan online essay that discusses the unfortunate implications of trauma defining a superpower
Trying to find an online essay that discusses the Unfortunate Implications of trauma defining what superpower that people in a universe get.
Edited by MaladyopenOld kids movie Film
It was a kid's movie. I only watched 1 or 2 scenes from the very beginning and this was in like ~2005 so I can be wrong about any details. Supposedly it was a kind of scary movie (scary for kids at least) It starts with a bunch of boys playing outside, I think they were playing soccer. Boys no older than 10yo. Then everyone stops because the gang of bullies arrives. One of the boys whispers about the main bully: he killed a dog and sewed it's ears onto his jacket. It's either an American or a European movie. That's all I have. Have been looking for this for over 7 years.
Edited by LisaPopenMovie about dreams Film
I remember about a movie that used to be one of my favorites, from what i remember it was about a girl and her father living together on a farol or sm, dont want to spoil much of the plot but on a part the girl founds some strange man that was on some dream prison that they if they stay they wont woke up, what i was always searching about is the name
openCreepypasta chat room
It was a creepypasta about a girl home alone. She kept texting this guy, and it starts innocuously enough, but then she sees someone in her backyard. She continues to text him as the figure enters her house, and it's implied she dies in the end.
I thought it was called "Emily is Away" but when I searched it up, I kept getting the videogame of the same name.
openThe Greatest Story Never Told comic Print Comic
The Greatest Story Never Told has an entry about a Marvel series that I just can't pin down, mainly cause it's written as vaguely as possible (I tried to find it so I could rewrite the entry to be clearer).
"A six-issue limited series from Marvel Comics told the story of a normal human who was down on his luck and borderline suicidal who gets killed right as an extra-dimensional big bad is opening a rift with a magic artifact intending to unleash the embodiment of Death upon the multiverse. His resulting passage through the gate closes it and bonds him to the weapon making him immortal and causing him to be reborn into another universe anytime he dies as only the weapon can end his life. He eventually foolishly returns the weapon to the Big Bad after getting a promise to leave Earth alone and return him there but upon seeing all the deaths occurring, sacrifices his life and dies a noble hero to end the Big Bad's scheme once and for all. Meanwhile back on earth, you see the heartbreaking disposal of his worldly possessions such as family photos in a trash can while being called a worthless loser."
Any guesses?
openJ-Pop Album with Retro '80s Sound and Cover Music
A flash drive died and took my music wish list with it. What was the pop metal/arena rock album I was going to get from CD Japan that had a cover right out of the '80s with the singer posing downtown in punkish clothes? This would've been released somewhere in the 2000s or 2010s, but probably around 2007.
I know, I'm taking a long shot here.
openThis one webseries about a sentient(?) satellite Web Original
I never actually seen this show before, but I remember coming across Tumblr posts of it where some viewers fawn over this satellite character (not an actual Satellite Character, a literal satellite) like he's a Tumblr sexyman or something, and for some reason that's what's been itching at me. Can anyone help me remember the title?
openMiddle grade book, children escape from mad scientist Literature
So, I read this book in school, around the mid-2010s.
It was about a bunch of kids who were captured and being experimented on by a mad scientist, in a facility that might have (I'm not sure of this) eventually been revealed to be in space.
The children all had powers of some sort- I can't remember whether they had powers beforehand and that was why they were being experimented on, or if the mad scientist just decided to kidnap a bunch of random kids For Science! and the experimentation is what gave them their powers. Either way, the powers they had were pretty weird- I remember specifically there was this one girl whose hand turned into a hammer. Oh, and they had a Team Pet in the form of some unidentified creature that had also been subjected to (possibly even created in) the mad scientist's experiments.
Eventually, the kids figured out how to mount an escape (naturally, this involved cleverly combining all of their abilities, even the seemingly useless ones).
Other stuff I remember:
It was made for kids, so despite the "captured and experimented on" setup the tone was still somewhat lighthearted.
The cover had a colorful image of the main cast of children on it, including the aforementioned Team Pet, although the image made it look like a brick covered in purple fur (and with a pair of eyes sticking out of the fur).
The mad scientist was either mentioned or briefly shown to have performed an "experiment" with no actual science (mad or otherwise) in it; he was just torturing a lab mouse For the Evulz by pulling out chunks of its fur. I think he claimed that he was testing how "how many hairs you pull out at once" affects "how loud the mouse squeals in pain".
Oh, and I am REALLY, REALLY not sure about this, but I think at one point the narration used a weird expression that I think was an Australian-ism. Again, it is very possible that I'm misremembering and it was either another book or just a character with an Australian accent, so use this fact if it helps you search but please don't reject a possible match just because the author wasn't Australian.
openDown on the bayou! Live Action TV
This could possibly have been a sketch in an ensemble kids show, maybe Nickelodeon, possibly 90s/early 00s, though that could all be wrong, tbh. Literally all I remember is the running gag was an exaggerated exclamation of "down on the bayou!"
openA short cartoon about hackers
I thought this was part of KaBlam! (since I think I watched it on TV at roughly the same time and it contained a lot of different cartoon shorts), but I looked through the list of its episodes and couldn't find anything of the sort. So! Things I remember:
- I'm fairly sure it was a standalone short.
- 2D animation, can't remember what the exact style was.
- The theme song went "The hackers [unintelligible], the hackers" (I barely knew any English back then, so I wasn't able to decipher anything else).
- Small cast, I remember only two characters. They might've been Funny Animals, but I'm not very sure about it. I think they were supposed to be the hackers? Maybe?

There was this app I played all the time on my grandma's iPad when I was younger, like 3 years old. I forget what it was called exactly, but it would teach about simple stuff, like living things and weather and numbers. There might have been numerous apps in one series, I don't remember exactly. Anyways, there were a group of characters who would teach you the stuff. There was a female voice over, so the characters were only there for show really. Most of them were children, but the only two characters I remember are this purple furry monster guy (fittingly named Purple), and this African-American girl named Mimi, who had her hair in buns if I recall correctly. I'm pretty sure the characters had like...beady eyes or something. When I tried to search for the app in my grandma's downloaded app history, I couldn't find it anywhere. I'm pretty sure it got taken down. But does anyone know what it was called?