This is similar to a house being built around a vampire, but I will offer more specific details that make it more plausible with lore. In Stoker's Dracula, Van Helsing prevents Lucy from rising by placing a wild rose over the grave, which he later removes. If a vampire was trapped in their grave ...

In The Cursed Child, we see that Harry and Co. use Floo powder to come to Hogwarts and talk to McGonagall about Albus and Scorpius. This means that Floo Powder can be used to come in and out of Hogwarts. Even if Cursed Child is not counted as one of the 'mainstream' books, in OOTP, we see that Si...

I just finished the book I Am Legend and there's something that I don't understand and can't seem to find an answer to. SPOLIER ALRET In the end we find out that there is a new living vampire society. Now if those living vampires are intelligent enough to form a society why didn't they approach R...

This show was a 3D animated kids show on Hulu in the 2010s. It was about these two siblings, boy and girl, and they could go into digital recreations of dreams and fight monsters in them. I can’t for the life of me remember its name.

A recent question asked "Which was the first sci-fi story to feature power armors for military use?". In the end the answer accepted was "The Affair of the Brains" by Anthony Gilmore, published in 1932, but an obvious contender for the title is the "Lensman" series by E.E. "Doc" Smith. Indeed wik...

I like the quote: I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe. It seems to sum up some of the weird things and coincidences I encounter in life. The quote is allegedly from Douglas Adams, and it is certainly in his style. However, I cannot find the source of the quote. ...

I read this fic once and now I cant find it anywhere! So what I remember from it, Harry shows up to the great hall and all his clothing disappears. Draco comes up and puts a robe on Harry but Harry cant remove it later, Draco refuses to talk during most of the fic, in the end its because Draco is...

I've recently begun rewatching Stargate Universe (SGU) and something that's struck me on the very first episode was the design of the communication "pad" that the ancient stones are placed on ... Everything about the design above screams American taxpayer dollars. The device looks like it could...

There are cross section for other space ships available, often in art books or similar media. The best I could find was a schematic from the fandom wiki: But it fails to give details on the levels or floor plans of the ship.

Here we can see Protagonist choose an elevated ladder to do pull-ups: Why does Protagonist choose such a risky place to do pull-ups?

how do you summon a ghost do you need human blood of animal blood and/or do you need a pentagon

In Thor: Ragnarok, Valkyrie told Thor this about Hela: Her power comes from Asgard the same as yours Thor's plan was to unleash Surtur who destroys Asgard, which weakens Hela allowing Surtur to kill her. But why didn't that weakened Thor as well? We saw him later in Avengers: Infinity War very ...

I've been working my way through the show "The Expanse" (I'm about midway through season 3) and have just started reading Leviathan Wakes. Both the book and the show seem to have a lot of casual references both on- and off-screen to "getting spaced" where you toss someone in an airlock and then p...

In this manhwa the main character was tranfered or reincarnated, what I mostly remember is that he has some kind of skill that help him to better adapt to any type of training. He was a swordsaint and before that he was a healing Saint, and after he was transfered and he woke up inside a broken h...

The first book says that on a Tuesday Morning, when Uncle Vernon left for his work, he noticed the unusual cat (reading a map) and people (dressed weirdly). Later that night, Dumbledore, McGonagall and Hagrid drop baby Harry at the door of 4 Private Drive. Now on the night of 31st October 1981, V...

Apparently, Baen's Bar has been cancelled: A Note from Toni Weisskopf That said, it has come to our attention that allegations about the Bar have been made elsewhere. We take these allegations seriously, and consequently have put the Bar on hiatus while we investigate. But we will not commit cen...

The first book says that on a Tuesday Morning, when Uncle Vernon left for his work, he noticed the unusual cat (reading a map) and people (dressed weirdly). Later that night, Dumbledore, McGonagall and Hagrid drop baby Harry at the door of 4 Private Drive. Now on the night of 31st October 1981, V...

I remember back in late 2000s there was this show in which people used to swipe cards to like power up and use different abilities. There was this one episode where a guy created a rainbow from what seemed like a firetruck. It was quite similar to Madan Senki Ryukendo.

What is the name of an 80's sci fi movie where a man either thinks he is an android or may not know he is, and he either drives across America in the underground parking/tunnels to either save a woman or is perhaps driving her to the destination.

While reading this answer on who/what Tom Bombadil was, I started wondering what Tolkiens intention for him was and why he was created the way he was? So, specifically What did Tom represent? Why was the character written the way he was? Why was he included in the story? What was his purpose in ...