I came across a post about how Batman (or rather, Bruce Wayne) can give away his wealth as a sort of universal basic income to the impoverished people of Gotham to reduce crime, instead of just punching those criminals and leaving them to the police. Putting aside the various things Bruce Wayne h...

In Chapter 4, "Over Hill and Under Hill", I suddenly read this: When he peeped out in the lightning-flashes, he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out and were hurling rocks at one another for a game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness where they smashed amo...

This is a short story I read recently. An astronaut returns to Earth. While she was away, humanity was transformed. People can't relate to others they don't know in person anymore. As a side effect, they can't read and write anymore. Also, no more countries or big cities. I am searching for autho...

In Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker, we get to know Rey's parents, the movie and its novelization tell us that her father is But is there in any official source a reference to his name aka what people used to call him?

There was this manhua I was reading where the main character (maybe isekai) is in this medieval world with a demon servant. He is the lord of this village. The strangest part is that the demon servant sucks the blood off of the main character's finger. There are undertones of it being gay. The ma...

In Revenge of the Sith, Anakin tries to prevent the death of Padme - predicted in his force visions. Upon consulting one of the Jedi Masters, this master advises Anakin to be careful about trying to change the future. The very actions someone may take to prevent one version of the future, might b...

I've been having problems creating a login. I click on Sign up, then enter my details. I get an email with a link to click to complete sign up. I click on the link, and get a page with the following message: Wrong Link You have clicked on an invalid link. Please make sure that you have typed t...

Have the writers/director explained at any point the details of how Beck created the effects for each of the fake scenes? The scenes I am specifically thinking of are the water attack, how he generated the water effects, and when he is flying around around Peter in person? I can think of ways tha...

At the end of Far From Home Spider-Man swings through New York to pick up MJ. He glides through a skyscraper that has a tree filled terrace halfway up. Is this a real building in New York?

I own a copy of a hardback titled Memoirs of a Space Traveler which is several stories from the Polish version of Stanislaw Lem's The Star Diaries. This book contains a note from the publisher stating The pieces of this book -- the two Voyages of Ijon Tichy, his reminiscences, his open letter --...