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Q: An ugly anime girl becomes a beauty, what's it called?

Norman HaggettThrough a fortuitous event, I have found a video clip that I haven't been able to find for 15 years. Even with the name "Beauty shower pt1" it will not appear in Youtube or Google search. The video clip is about a large woman with the shape of a sumo wrestler who works as a sit-in companion at a ...

 
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Q: Is there a list of honorary titles assigned by Asimov to various generic people?

Ray ButterworthIn non-fiction works, including introductions to fiction, Isaac Asimov often gave titles to people in certain positions, such as "the gentle reader", "the noble printer", and "the ??? editor". Is there a list of these expressions somewhere?

 
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The original full-res picture identified in https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/146186/4918 "
Science Fiction & Fantasy
What stories and characters are referenced in this painting of a Science Fiction and Fantasy Lounge?" is gone from Deviantart. Should we do something about this?
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Q: Use of Bandersnatch to describe alien

Danny Mc GI've recently been reading Lewis Carroll with a grandkid and I got to musing about the Bandersnatch I know that Larry Niven had aliens called Bandersnatch in his Known Space books, and I saw the name used also in a Roger Zelazny story. My question is:- What is the first instance, in a science fic...

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@b_jonas We could delete the question since it's pointless now...
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Q: Manga about a boy with no magic who knows a girl with time magic

user160493A boy with no magic knows a girl that has time magic in her blood and her father has 900 titles. (I'm not sure about the number of titles and the meaning of them but I just remember he has a lot of them.) The boy is also a bit of psychopath. Also wizards can't cross the ocean or something like th...

 
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@b_jonas I've messaged the artist on deviantArt
@DavidW it's not pointless at all
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Q: Bruce Wayne’s pre Batman love interests

Kevin yokaHas Bruce Wayne dated any girl before becoming Batman or he only trained and had no time for them ? if he has then how many had he dated?

 
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@AncientSwordRage Aw, c'mon. Don't ruin my snark with a measured answer.
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If anything, the full-res version should have been uploaded to imgur in the first place. Which it is now probably too late for, unless the original artist gives a crap about that question.
@DavidW don't ruin my measured answer by telling me that was snark
@NapoleonWilson Well, it's not quite that simple, since without the artist's approval there are questions of copyright to consider...
@DavidW Well, of course you'd still link to the original picture.
15:09
From here, sure, but the image on imgur would be out there on its own without proper attribution or copyright declaration.
Hmm, well that sucks then. I guess that's a danger with discussing art that can't be archived and is prone to be removed from human history by its author willy-nilly.
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It's a more general problem than that, actually, and assertion of copyright and withdrawal of permission has actually been used by companies to stifle discussion of things that are potentially embarrassing.
It's one of the arguments for a stronger fair dealing/fair use right under copyright law, but nobody with money is in favour of that so it's not likely to happen.
(Considering that we lean fairly heavily on fair dealing already, for quotes from books, screenshots from movies, etc. it would behoove us not to push things too far.)
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You mean it would behoove us to not kick too strongly against the beehive with our bare hooves?
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Oh, you. Behoove.
“Jabberwocky” has at least four translations to Hungarian. I think I only met three of them before.
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Q: Will I get the bounty?

shanuI posted this answer, and it was received negatively, but there is as a 500 bounty on it. So will I despite the negative 4 downvotes receive the bounty at the end of the grace period??

 
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Q: Old tv show/cartoon about a prehistoric boy and his pet dinosaur

user2254742It was set in the stone age, the boy was part of a tribe, they had rituals (i remember fire ants being a part of the "becoming a man" ritual), the boy had a pet dinosaur, i believe it was some type of flying dinosaur, maybe pterodactyl or something similar. The dinosaur was flying with the boy on...

 
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posted on January 09, 2023 by tech

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: Really shouldn't have given every single chatbot access to the nuclear codes. Today's News:

 
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Q: Short story about an author living in a Gothic horror who writes fantasy about our world

user3137493Saw this online years ago, possibly even on this site. It was a short story about an author who lived in a classic Gothic horror world (forests were always dark and always had maidens fleeing through them, and so forth). He was trying to write "realistic fiction," and nobody wanted to read it. ...


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