In S06E12 Homer the Great (2F09), a childhood acquaintance (clearly not a childhood friend...) of Homer's wears a shirt with a logo comprised of two footprints: The same logo is seen on a shirt worn by Homer as a teenager in S07E24 Homerpalooza (3F21): I'm not aware of any apparel brands it cou...

I'm really asking about the pre-Burn Federation, but post-Burn is fine, too. Is the president of the UFP elected by popular vote or some other method? Can the president be from any member planet?

I'm trying to find a Japanese film I watched on television about 8 or so years ago, which may have been a stand-alone film or a compilation of short films. I don't remember a lot about the details of it but each short film was quite different in style and tone. There was one story about a young m...

Similar to the question "How did Faramir know that Aragorn was the King in the Houses of Healing?". How was it verified that Aragorn was indeed the rightful king of Gondor and not an impostor. I.e., anybody could've walked into Gondor and claim they're the rightful king and here to claim their an...

In most movies that feature time travel, traveling back in time is instantaneous or takes just a few seconds, regardless of how long ago a person travels back. Exceptions are two of my favorite time-travel movies: Primer (2004) and Tenet (2020). In those movies, say you want to travel back one we...

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction was first published in 1949 (under the title The Magazine of Fantasy no less). Does it mean that the fantasy was recognized as a distinct genre at the time already and that the word was used as the name of the genre? Or was it established later under the...

The female lead is a tranmigrate or reincarnate in a historical period . It's a slow romance novel where the male lead fell first for her and is insecure about her feeling for him. A scene that marked me was when they reunited the male leaf saw her with another man and he was jealous. That lead t...

ISFDB, the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, is used in a lot of answers on this stack. It was notorious for not facilitating https. That has now been fixed. Ideally, we would now like all links to the ISFDB to use https instead of http as well. But there are a lot of links. A lot of links. ...

I’m looking for a story I read as a child..it was about a girl called “Beans” was short for something..she had a friend with ginger hair and they ended up turning into cats. I’m sure the friend also got possessed by the cat…I’ve searched everywhere for this but I can’t remember the name of the au...

When K is visiting the vast record archive (iirc it is a Wallace facility) the archivist says something about his childhood and K says to this man, certainly not a conventionally handsome person, You must have been adorable. (Or something to that effect.) This sounds like a subtle dig but is it? ...

I remember him making a delivery service after getting reborn; he also made an insurance company. It all takes place in a medieval fantasy world. He also found a witch in a coffin being trapped in a ring who later saved his life. Does anyone know what manhwa this is?

I'm not asking for a list of magic systems here, I'm just asking for 1. I need a magic system capable of creating all spells with a gesture based syntax. By all spells, I mean being able to create at least 1 effect in all 8 schools of magic in D&D 5e (Abjuration, Conjuration, Divination, Evocatio...

Beholders are large aberrations which supply their body with nutrients and oxygen by means of a network of tubes somewhere between a tracheal system and a set of digestive tubules. They also have blood which is pumped in and out of their heart, despite the fact that they already have a system to ...

Yes, you lead the prospering planet of Naboo for your term, but is there really any reward/pension/bonus for doing so?