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resolved No Title Literature
One of my friends checked out a book from the library about 2005-2009 ish and I always wanted to read it. It was about a group of girls and they all got matching tattoos on their birthday. One of them chickened out and didn't go and they all turned against her. Then it turned out that the evil tattoo artist was using the tattoos to control them and make them do evil things.
resolved flash animated belgian cartoon about a girl and a firefighter Western Animation
There was this old show I used to watch as a kid about a girl whose cat gets stuck on the roof of a church and she tries to get it back down with the help of a firefighter (I think his name was Bob?). After a series of mishaps they end up in a different country and the rest of the episodes in the series involve them traveling all over the world just trying to find a way back to Waterloo, Belgium. It was an edutainment series, each episode presented you with a problem and you had to choose the correct solution to the problem out of 3 options. The firefighter was fat and had a stubble I think, and the girl had red hair in pigtails.
Edited by Helix-Supremeresolved Vampire book Literature
Book about a Vegetarian Vampire guy who reveals the existence of vampires to the world, and the cover had a yellow smiley face one it with fangs
Edited by Tremmor19resolved A reincarnation novel with a fat crippled Literature
I forgot the name of a novel, if someone can help me please.
The mc transmigrates in a game or novel world. He is in the body of a fat child. Because his father hates him he locked his potential after birth, poison him and even put a gu inside his body so he will die painfully when he turn eighteen. The reason the mc is fat is because of the parasite. Each day the mc had to drink a sort of tea that fed the parasite and made him fat.
Iirc the father did that because a ghost once take possession of his body and the mc body is the child that was make when he was possessed so he doesn't consider him his own and killed his mother, the woman he married when he was possessed.
It's not a a cultivation novel. The power system has mages and knights. If I remember there something called Mage and Mana gates, the original body had the chance to be born with both opened but the father poison him.
At some point the mc explore a place with a treasure and met an assassin sent by his former fiancee, the assassin is a woman who used an artifact to conceal her gender.
resolved Merlin + Potions Western Animation
my little sister has been trying to find this show/movie/short forever, but she doesn't remember a lot:
it's about merlin, she thinks, or a wizard/warlock dude who looks like merlin, and he has a wall of potions. she is pretty sure he had the classic blue robe/hat with stars
it's not shrek 3 or sword and the stone, would've had to have been mid-2000s or earlier
any ideas?
- cantremember
Edited by cantrememberresolved Puppet Airship Live Action TV
I seem to recall a show (possibly educational) about these puppet animals who lived on an airship.
There were transition scenes where I saw the airship rendered in CGI.
resolved An adult swim cartoon about a married couple with a baby. Western Animation
This is the most recent one I came across. Let me give the hint of the episode: Basically it focused on a married couple (The guy had orange hair and glasses while his wife's hair was black and curly) with a baby. The episode had the married guy attend a mall arcade where there was a birthday stripogram and the episode ended with a kid using an arcade gun and being mistaken for a hostage taker which caused the police cars and helicopter to surround the mall?
resolved Video game where villain turns people into wolfman minions (including the heroine in a Game Over) Videogame
The main villain blasts people with a transformation beam thing that turns them into wolf like creatures that are under his control. There's a Non-Standard Game Over where the if the heroine gets blasted in a particular fight (I think against her brother, who just got transformed as well) we see her transform and then get booted to the Game Over screen in a complete aversion of Heroic Willpower. I think the game was a pretty standard PS 2 era action game with a slightly cartoony art style.
resolved French comic about popular fictional characters going to therapy Print Comic
I'm trying to recall the name of this parody comic series in France. The gist of it is a number of illustrators, cartoonists, and artists will take a well-known character from pop culture, and they'll draw them going to therapy, specifically with a therapist listening to whatever problems they are going through related to their franchise/TV show/what have you.
The first volume for this series had a red cover; Mickey Mouse, Batman, Mario, and UFO Robot Grendizer are floating over each other, while a chaise longue is on the floor beneath all of them.
(I also recall their being a Tumblr blog that hosted some of these drawings, but I can't find this either).
resolved Recent horror film Film
I think it was released in 2020 or thereabouts. The film itself has some young adults play some sort of trendy mystery game that is also the title of the film, but then the lights go off for a bit and someone winds up dead, and they all start killing each other. The big twist is that the victim, whose name I think is David, actually killed himself while trying to do something stupid with a sword for his Instagram, and they were killing each other for nothing. The main character's name may be Bea, and I think she has some issues with the rest of the cast because they're richer than she is.
resolved Short story starts with interrupted suicide because earth uninhabitable, probably asimov Literature
I'm trying to remember a short story, pretty sure by Isaac Asimov (which does NOT reduce the field by that much lol)
- It's set not on earth, but can't remember if it's mars, the moon or some space station
- It's stated that they can see the Earth though
- It opens with a guy attempting to commit cyanide suicide and another interrupts him
- They're on a a small colony with other scientists
- they escaped because (can't remember if implied or outright stated) of nuclear war
- Earth is stated to be uninhabitable anymore
resolved Adult cartoon Western Animation
I dont remember about this cartoon. Just that it was a parody.
I remember there was a scene with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. And the protagonist ended in their kids' room, one of them turned to be a samurai baby or something like that.
resolved Children's novel Literature
This was a novel I read in elementary school some time in the early- to mid-1990s. It was about a student who had learning challenges, especially in math, and an active imagination when he came home from school.
He had to see the guidance counselor, who helped him, but she got in trouble when she pointed him towards a Buddhist book (something along the lines of "Zen and the Art of Home Construction").
resolved Portal fantasy, with animal-people? Webcomic
I read this webcomic somewhere in the early/mid 2010's. It's a fantasy comic that's set in a world where everyone is some kind of animal shapeshifter, or everyone has the characteristics of some kind of animal. I don't recall the specifics, but it's some kind of natural animal-human combo.
Our main character is a child who was adopted by a family of sheep-people. They aren't a sheep person, and aren't quite sure what animal they are. They might be some kind of deer? Don't recall the gender of this character.
They end up going through a portal to another part of the world, or perhaps another time. It's definitely the same world, but super far away. On the other side of the portal, it's very snowy, and our protagonist ends up in the care of a village of moose-people.
As this is going on, the main character's mother is looking for them.
I haven't had much luck finding anything, does this description ring any bells?
resolved Children's show with flower people and a train
Might be some kind of a puppet animation or normal animation, i'm not sure. I think the characters spoke gibberish and there was the line "Oopsy daisy!" as some kind of a catchphrase?
At least one of then was a humanoid flower person, with the flower's yellow middle as the head and the petals around the head. Some of the others were more ambiguous humanoid entities.
One of the entities was blue and somehow associated with a train. It was small, more like some kind of a mall train for children?
resolved Fox Kids - Lab Monkey Shorts Western Animation
Around the late 1990s/early 2000s, the UK version of Fox Kids had these 1 minute shorts in between shows. They were 2D animations about this talking, orange-haired monkey who was a former laboratory test subject. He escapes and befriends these two kids and lives with them. The shorts were sort of focused around gross-out humour.
Edited by DoctorInkresolved 2000s comedy film Film
a comedy film about four guys helping a young boy who's getting bullied?
all I really remember is that the climax is a big fantasy/medieval re-enactment/fight thing where the four guys dress up as the band Kiss and fight the main antagonist
resolved old Werewolf anime film Anime
old (think 90s/80s) anime film about a woman who falls in love with a werewolf and has two kids, a daughter and a son, with him. the werewolf dies at some point, and the woman and her two kids move out into the country and work on a farm? the woman's daughter accidentally bites someone at school, and the son feels increasingly disconnected from his human side, eventually leaving the family at the end of the film.
I'm looking for an old anime, probably from around early 2000s or maybe late 90s. The main characters is a duo of a man and a woman, and they're some kind of thief. Each episode follows a different heist where they steal a specific MacGuffin. The reason they're doing this is because they were contacted by their boss or something, and the boss told them to get something important, but the connection cut off before the boss could tell them what it is and they just resorted to stealing everything and checking whether or not the MacGuffin they stole that episode was the right one or not. They always return the items if it's the wrong one.