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Q: Looking for a french(?) animated 2d movie from childhood

gxrl0nlineI’m really desperate to find the name of the 30-40 min animated 2d film I’ve watched in my childhood. I remember the general plot and some scenes in the movie. The story revolves around a man and the woman he loves as he follows her through different eras, from prehistoric times, to medieval, to ...

 
1:41 AM
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Q: Old sci-fi story, humans meet alien spaceship that burns planets while searching for meaning of life

Louisa ParkerCan you please help me find this old sci-fi story. It went something like that: In the future, humans discover through telescope that somebody is traveling from planet to planet and sets them on fire. Humans send a spaceship to investigate. The human spaceship meets an alien spaceship which does ...

 
 
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3:47 AM
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Q: Earworm takes over the whole town

SpencerThis is a children's fantasy story about a magical record that I read in grade school, during the time a certain unscrupulous Californian was president. A stranger walks into a diner, behaving really strangely. He keeps injecting strange phrases into what he says, and compulsively hiccuping befor...

 
 
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5:03 AM
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Q: Is elven immortality in middle earth tied to the elven rings of power?

EngrStudentBackground: I was reading this answer: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/27985/41365 In it I came upon the quote, 'As Elrond puts it' "What is that doom?" said Aragorn. "That so long as I abide here, she shall live with the youth of the Eldar," answered Elrond, "and when I depart, she shall go w...

 
 
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6:09 AM
I didn't realize there were still Nixon fans.
 
 
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8:25 AM
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Q: Can Gandalf magically manipulate smoke rings?

WOPRIn the Lord of the Rings movie, Gandalf is shown manipulating smoke rings in a clearly magical way. Is there any evidence in the books that he can do this? I recall he blew smoke rings in LOTR but don’t recall anything unexplainable by skill.

 
 
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10:57 AM
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Q: Trying to identify these Fantastic Four storylines/issues

kingofthenerdz3Denizens of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange. I'm trying to identify this particular bunch of issues from a few Fantastic Four trade paperbacks I read when I was a kid (so that would be around 10 years ago, give or take a few years). I've done some searching, but my Google-Fu is wea...

 
@Spencer say what?
 
11:18 AM
@AncientSwordRage Meh, it was 3 AM and I was trying to decide whether to rollback someone's edit of the question I just asked.
 
 
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12:42 PM
@Spencer oh right
Thanks for the context
It's an odd word for someone to remove
 
1:03 PM
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Q: 80's War/Science Fiction Anime?

Ezza I need help identifying a really old obscure anime movie. I remember when I was a young kid, an anime movie was on TV and it was the first anime I had ever watched. I can only remember this one obscure detail about it though. I watched it maybe when I was 7 or 8 (I'm 25 now), so it must have come...

 
@AncientSwordRage But mostly it was 3AM.
 
1:28 PM
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Q: Need help looking for manhua/manhwa

Mori liI don't remember what the title is but I read it some time ago the fmc saw a boy swimming in the pool or lake and then ask him what he was doing then asked her if she would like to join and she joined the swimming club the next day I remember the cover art was a girl with red hair and it look lik...

 
 
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4:00 PM
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Q: Do we know what would have happened if Roderick Burgess had succeeded in capturing death?

GridlockWhen Morpheus escapes his prison and brings the son of the man who captured him to justice he learns that he wasn´t the target but that his Sister Death, was whom they had really wanted to capture. When Morpheus learns of this he mentions that they can thank their lucky stars they didn´t succeed ...

 
4:25 PM
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Q: What, specifically, would have been the consequences if the Pah Wraiths were released?

Michael StachowskyThe Pah-Wraiths are Big Baddies who do Bad Things, but what would have actually happened if Sisko had failed? I know from this question that they were trying to get back into the wormhole, but so what? Is there anything in the canon that explains what would have happened once they Pah-Wraiths esc...

 
 
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5:55 PM
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Q: Book about Wife POV killing her husband and throwing his body down a well

ZuluTruckerI read a book a while back where a woman narrates the story of her marriage and how her husband ends up dead and she throws his body in a well (plot line not dissimilar to Stephen King's 1922), but I simply cannot remember the title or the author. It's not a long book. The wife had worked as a ma...

 
6:06 PM
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Q: YA/Children's novel: Malicious ghost girl who died in a fire

GotCarterRead in English in Canada in the late 1980s and probably published around then, I believe this was a paperback YA or children's novel. Don't recall many details confidently but I think it was set in the present day (as was) and the protagonist was a teenage girl who ended up in contact with the ...

 
 
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7:09 PM
OK, this is weird. The vote meter on my recent answer shows +18-0, but the XP meter shows +174 for the same answer.
Oh I get it. Daily XP cap.
 
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Q: Why did Naksu suffer a loss of power upon shifting souls?

AdamantMost soul shifters that we see on Alchemy of Souls are able to use their powers without difficulty upon shifting bodies. However, when Naksu shifts bodies near the beginning of the series, she finds that her powers are inhibited to the point that she is unable to use them unless she is in the pre...

 
8:12 PM
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Q: In Silmarillion, why did not all the creatures living in total darkness become evil/deformed?

Johnpaul L.Large stretches of time pass in Silmarillion with there being no Sun. And when it comes, it's like a little "prop" that just looks nice on the sky. Does this not meant that all the Elves and humans were stumbling around in basically total darkness, possibly with some slight star light every now a...

 
8:31 PM
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Q: Looking for an 80s Korean or Japanese movie

y2kbbythe cover is like a girl riding a motorcycle with a guy on it and it is like a perspective thing. it was like a blueish-green filter on top. i think it might have been a sci-fi, cyberpunk movie. i remember it being described as like an Asian blade runner type movie. it was made like late 80s or l...

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Q: In the Bartimaeus books, what makes spirits/demons "male" or "female"?

Rand al'ThorIn the Bartimaeus series, spirits (or demons) are otherworldly entities who are made of "essence", don't have real bodies as such, and are able to take on many different forms. Bartimaeus, for example, takes on both male and female human forms over the course of The Amulet of Samarkand, and remar...

 
9:16 PM
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Q: Children's book set mostly in Skegness with witches

Rand al'ThorSome time in the early 2000s, I borrowed a children's book from a UK library. It was written in English and set in the south of England, so probably by a British author. I don't know how recent it was, but probably not from any earlier than the 1990s. The main character is a boy who's going with ...

 
 
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11:59 PM
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Q: Manga/Manhwa where the female lead is either transported into a novel/game she read before or or goes back in time on repeat

Rina MoonDuring the novel there's a scene where a male character tries to help her increase her power ability and during that, he has to snap her out of it because her ability is unlimited which is dangerous, her hair turns white during this scene. She had brown hair if I'm correct. This all happens at a ...

 

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