I just encountered a nice Chinese movie scene on YouTube: Although the title says Cinderella and the actress was also looking at the clock as if something would happen at 12. But, I couldn’t attach it with the original Cinderella story as the actress had the super...

I remember seeing an anime about a guy who finds a female friend when entering a (military?) academy where they are trained to fight monsters or something. the academy had a stupid rule they dont agree on and if they want to change it they have to fight the committee so this guy ends up fighting ...

This was a novel that my father read in junior english, which for him would have been 1993. He describes the intro of the book to be a middle aged man, who's appearance was pudgy and not particularly attractive, who was abducted by "ugly aliens". Once the man saw and compared himself to the alien...

Read a beautifully imagined story that followed 3 or 4 very different childlike beings on an ocean world. One was filmy and liked to float on the surface soaking up the waning sun. The others were...different somehow. They hung out as a group and liked to spy on the brilliant scientists who were ...

A short story, decades old, translated to my native German, probably written by a female Canadian in french: Aliens have contacted earth and installed a space station with a portal to their home world. They do not accept tourists, but assign any interested traveler some task to perform there. For...

I read this adult fantasy/horror novel as a kid in the mid-90s in Bulgarian, but I'm 90% sure it was translated from the English language. I don't think it was written by an author I've heard since then, but I guess it must've done OK to have made its way to Bulgaria in the 90s. Here's a few odds...

A book I read in the 90s in the UK. Probably written for young adults. A hidden community where everyone is physically different. One person has feathers. He brings in things from outside. One day he accidentally brings in a video of an athlete and they see that other peoples' bodies are symmetri...

This isekai (manga) is about where a guy is isekaied and is trained by the system in a cultivation world. He thinks he is a mortal but everyone else thinks he is a peerless master. They give him respect where even his broken knife is a treasure.

I believe it is Korean novel/manhwa - MC is female (do not remember if she reincarnated or not), lives in "medieval" world - she is daughter of nobles, learns magic with 2 boys (one is from knight family) from famous magician. She has unique? magic power that allows her to grow plants (which I be...

I think it is about a person who gets the village as inheritance and to make his village progress he starts to ask people to come to his village and reside in it for a pay. Obviously at first everybody thought it was a scam but a high ranking female mercenary, saint and many other hotshots.

Clifford D. Simak in 1987 received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. While I have read and enjoyed a lot of Simak's works (the amazing novel City, short stories like "The Big Front Yard", or "Grotto of the Dancing Deer"), he never struck me as a horror writer. Asking a similar quest...

Early in the second episode of Ms. Marvel, Kamala is discussing her newfound powers with her friend Bruno, and mentions the temptation to reveal herself publicly in order to gain more popularity on social media. Bruno somewhat nervously responds, "I feel like secret identities are secret for a r...

In the fifth episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi, a group of Rebels and refugees Who/what was piloting the ship? Did somebody stay behind and pilot the ship? Was it autopilot? Or perhaps a droid?

The Wikipedia page for unproduced Marvel series mentions a 1993 production named Stealth Warriors in its Live Action section. In November 1993, Rick Ungar was developing Stealth Warriors for Marvel Comics. The article linked for reference describes it as an "original animated series". Former M...

The main character is in this red dragon-like armor. No one knows this but when you die you return to the original world, but you return with all your abilities. The main character was the last to return, after 15 years, when he finally makes it to the final boss and dies trying to fight him. Whe...

I read this story online in the early 2010s. It's told in first-person by a person who is a professional griefer/troll - someone who attempts to disrupt society in a variety of ways, generally in a mean-spirited way. He doesn't feel particularly bad about it, but as the story starts, he's been ...

This thread reminded me of a novel I saw in the grocery store checkout line in the 1990s - it was a computer virus that made the screen show a symbol that led to people who saw it turning to powder or dust (I think the virus was called "Powder") (I'm not thinking of Snowcrash). It was a standard...

Not Star Wars. A sci-fi from '70s or '80s. A spaceship crashes on an alien planet. The head of the aliens sits in a big chair; he is monstrous, huge and scary. He orders for the team that was in the spaceship. They bring 3-4 pretty women in front of him, the women have bikini-like tops. He starts...

End of the world. Main characters are two males. No one is left on Earth, but the few people they run into all seem to be bad. They meet an old man who invites them into his apartment he offers them some food, like cookies and milk/tea or something. Then they realize the food has been drugged and...

As we know, Draco Malfoy is openly against Muggle-borns, as we know from this famous line in Chamber of Secrets: “No one asked your opinion, you filthy little Mudblood.” However, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Malfoy accepted comfort from Moaning Myrtle during his mission to kill Dumb...