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Q: What animated film or tv show is this guy from?

winky420What animated film or tv show is this guy/pin from? Has 1986 stamped on the back.

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Q: Book where a group of shapeshifting teens band together to fix a carousel

Scii will preface that i do not know if its a series or not but i do have a feeling it might be Female main character that is one of the panthers (with dyed fur). there are only 2 shapeshifters of the same species because the carousel only had pairs. do not remember the call to action but it might h...

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@DavidW I was trying to compare apples to apples, so I looked at the score on BL fanfic ID (mostly HP) vs other fanfic ID. Everything was squarely on topic, but the BL was usually downvoted
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Q: Books about twin girls that are captured and surgically experimented on

user169611I read a young adult book several years ago that was about twin girls that had been captured by either fictional Nazis or it was set in a dystopian world. They were experimented on by being injected with chemicals or hormones or subjected to inhuman surgeries. One sister ends up dying and the oth...

 
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Q: Movie where a man invents a spray that removes sounds

GamerJoshI believe that I watched this movie in the mid-90s, but I think it was black and white. What I remember is that a man and a boy were trying to escape from somewhere. The man got the idea to make a spray that could eliminate all sounds in the area. I think that he got the idea from a spray of odor...

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@Laurel Ah, I can't really speak to that, since I don't see fanfic (I have the tag on ignore). And since there isn't really any non-fanfic BL HP stuff, pretty much all I can do is compare manga to itself.
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Q: Energetic man and his boisterous son are a better fit as colonists than on an overcrowded Earth

DavidWI want to say this is probably from the 1950s, based on the nuclear family (father, mother, daughter, son) and the fact that the father was the breadwinner, the mother stayed home, etc. The setting (as I recall it) also seems closer to Asimov's The Caves of Steel than later, much more dystopian,...

 
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Q: Manhwa where the female lead finds out her magic has been sealed and her husband protects her from her family

Emily MercierFrom what I remember the female lead had pure white hair and chose to marry her husband to get a way from her family. She had a gem on her wrist that all people in that world have but she couldn’t hide it due to her holy power being sealed away due to medication she was eating.

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Q: I’m looking for the name of the fantasy novel

user169595I’m trying to remember the name of a novel I read. Three teenage character set in a medieval like times. One of the 3 friends.? was a cripple. The two friends helped the cripple jump Across an obstacle to pass the test of being a man. A novel I read in 1993. Fantasy. Medieval culture. Teenage mal...

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Q: How are incursions caused in the MCU?

codeczarThere has been different ways of cause for incursions being shown in the MCU in different movies. What are the possible ways of incursions being cuased in the MCU? Is it similar in the comics or there has been made a significant change to the cause of incursions in comics.

 
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Q: Young adult novel in which the protagonist is a young woman and her family turns to stone

Help PlsI'm looking for a fantasy book I read as a kid. The protagonist is a young woman and her family turns to stone. She befriends a griffin that is very well spoken and intelligent. One of the parts I remember the clearest is a chapter where she is trapped in a tree surrounded by these monsters that ...

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Q: I'm trying to remember a book I read about 11 years ago. This is a young adult fantasy book set in ancient Egypt

Sanri An adult fantasy book with Egyptian mythology. A mute jackal shapeshifter girl who gets her voice back eventually when she kisses a demigod and he was tortured after his parents threw him out. The cover is dark with maybe silver details. There isn’t a person on the cover but there IS a picture. ...

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posted on November 23, 2023 by Zach Weinersmith

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: When I think of altruism, I think of guys selling apocalypse gold on youtube. Today's News:

 
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Q: What is the first story to contain toys that are alive?

A.SteerStephen King wrote the short story Battleground in 1972. The story involves an assassin who kills a toy maker. The assassin then receives a package containing toys which then kill him. The short story was made into a teleplay in 2006. An episode (Siege of 31 August) of the series The Darkroom fro...

 
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Q: An unbelievably talented protagonist who re-creates technology from scratch and wins the girl

Paul ButcherI'm trying to identify a story I read as a child. I vividly remember it as being by EE "Doc" Smith, but reading the synopses of the Skylark and Lensman series, it doesn't seem to be any one of those. Perhaps it's one of the Family D'Alembert, or perhaps I've mis-remembered the author? The protago...

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Q: I'm looking for a manga I used to read but I've forgotten the title and I want to read it again

LauraI don't remember a lot but it was definitely a Manhwa Manga. But I remember the main character is a orphan girl who lost her parents as a child, and she's forbidden to ever leave the orphanage by the owner because he lies saying it's for her protection. The girl was tricked out of her wealth by a...

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Q: Is a Brad Pitt dummy identifiable as a zombie in the Walking Dead?

A.SteerIn the final episode of the Battlestar Gallacticast podcast, The Plan, with writer Jane Espensen, at around the 47 minute mark, Tricia Helfer (Number 6) discusses working on Creep Show. Tricia specifically stared in Episode 1.04b Lydia Layne's Better Half. During the podcast Tricia mentions a dis...

@Mithical I have some potential non-id questions to ask, but I like to spend my time on them and that's one thing I'm short of
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Q: Anime where the MC uses cudgel

NperorI remember seeing bits of it many years ago, forgot how many. As I remember it is about a high school boy that was isekaid. He excels in using in cudgels or poles like monkey king's weapon.

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Manga/Manhwa questions are seldom interesting at all. Isekai/story-id or whatnot, they are even more boring than "first instance of" questions. Maybe I've become jaded since I joined this SE (in what feels like what, a decade?) but I'm finding most questions on scifi.se of the "boring" or "who cares?" klnd. Which is why I stopped participating as much as I used to.
(It's not specifically about scifi.se to be honest, I find discussing fiction online almost anywhere -- Reddit, facebook, here -- to be a joyless endeavor)
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Q: If you Broke Mars' Perclorates and Benzenes How Much of an Atmosphere Would this Create?

Englishman BobMuch of Mars is inimical to human life. While there are many problems I would like to focus on three: The low density atmosphere does not provide the pressure needed to sustain humans outside of a pressured device -- suit, living structure, ... etc. The presence of perclorates in the martian so...

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@AndresF. Discussing individual works of fiction can bog down quickly in matters of opinion.
For example some people love Heinlein; I find it mostly not worth bothering with.
But then I'm just as "enthusiastic" (read "annoying") about Patricia McKillip, so I have to give them as much tolerance as I'd expect in turn. :D
That said, I've picked up a number of authors I've enjoyed from recommendations in fora like this, so there's definitely some value in sharing experience.
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Q: I'm looking for a manga

Wolf SenaA hentai manga where the protagonist is a girl who finds a sword stuck in a tree and when she removes it, she gets a dick and has the power to make men turn into girls

@AndresF. Most of the manga questions we get are "ID this manga from this list of 5 isekai tropes and one other random defining feature" which is why they're boring
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Mostly I think we're lucky if we get a defining feature. :-P
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Q: I read a revenge manhwa/manhua a while back now I don't remember the title

Shin chanSo I read a manhua/manhwa some years ago. It was about a woman who is betrayed and chained by her lover. Then she dies and a system appears. The system allows her to take revenge on all od his counterparts in different parallel worlds. During her revenge she destroys several worlds. Now she is as...

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Q: Help in finding a manhwa/webtoon

galacticos18I'd like to ask for help finding a webtoon/manhwa. The story might be a bit all over the place, but I remember all of it quite well. It is set in high school, the main character is a female (I shall call her Y) who is approached by someone who claims to have married her in the future, I shall cal...

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@Marvin "During her revenge she destroys several worlds." That sounds totally proportionate and not at all excessive.
@Marvin Wouldn't it make more sense to call her "X" and him "Y"?
I think that some people get the idea that all manga are terrible based on the quality of SFF manga ID questions but that's not really the case. There are good ones out there, even isekais. For example, this is the face of a winner, don't you think?
(From Greatest Estate Developer, which is free on Webtoon)
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Q: TV show from 2000s where a group of kids were put in a digital version of the real world

BenThere was this TV show I remember watching as a kid, but I can’t recall the name. I know it’s not MP4orce or Chaotic, I only remember very little about it. The premise was these group of kids would get put in a digitized version of the world. Where one of them, a female, would have to reach this ...

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Q: A very old young adult SF novel about interplanetary travel within the solar system

AlfredThis story was my very first contact with SF. It was at least 61 years ago. I remember reading it in my parents' "old" apartment and we moved out of it in December 1962. It was a novel, in a hardcover. There was a nice picture, probably on a dust-jacket rather than on the hardcover itself. It rep...

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Q: I can't remember the name of this manga I read before

LauraI don't remember a lot but it was definitely a Manhwa Manga. But I remember the main character is a orphan girl who lost her parents as a child, and she's forbidden to ever leave the orphanage by the owner because he lies saying it's for her protection. The girl was tricked out of her wealth by a...

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Q: 70s illustrated children's book about a witch who lives in the attic of an old house purchased by a single mother

hpp3The plot as I remember it: A young boy and his mother move into an old house in the country (this could be set in England, not sure). I am unsure about the boy's name, but I believe his name is "Nicky" or something similar, and I don't recall if there was any reason given for his mother being sin...

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I'm onto River's of London 7, and loving it. Book 6 felt great, but I feel like I'm partially missing out from not* having read any of the short stories, novella or comic books
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Do you mean "having not read any of..."?
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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive body detected, potentially bad keyword in body (48): The manhwa where the main lead gets reincarnated into a novel where the mc is her sister and she has 4 potential husbands to marry‭ by Tasuki‭ on scifi.SE (@AncientSwordRage)
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Q: How is Batman's grappling gun always loaded and ready to use, and never runs out of ropes?

TriceratopsOne of the most identifiable gadgets of Batman is the grappling gun: a launcher that shoots a grappling hook and enables Batman to pull himself up to the rooftops. However, in almost all adaptations it seems that Batman has an unlimited supply of ropes. Moreover, in most adaptations, he even does...

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Q: Manhwa where the main lead gets reincarnated into a novel where the mc is her sister and she has 4 potential husbands to marry

TasukiThe female lead goes into this novel and her goal is to stop her sister from marrying an asshole and to instead marry someone else. All the potential male leads bring their nephews and I know one of them is called Jacob and has golden hair.

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@DavidW yes
That
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@AncientSwordRage Hrm. I get cranky if reading a series requires chasing down secondary works in order to understand things. That's poor story-crafting in my books.
That's one of the things that will convince me to stop reading a series.
Martha Wells did it well with her Raksura and Ile-Rien series; none of the secondary works were required to follow the main series, and they were perfectly fine to read through at the end.
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Q: Grimm brothers talking to ghosts?

Logan R. KearsleyI am trying to find a story in which knowledge of historical sound changes is important for talking to ghosts. I am pretty sure one of the Grimm brothers was involved (aside from documenting fairy tales, they are well known for their work in historical Germanic linguistics). A ghost might have be...

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@SQB Interesting, but I have most of them already. :)
Subtract those and a few sequels I'm not too excited by (Head On, Unlocked), the book of his blog posts (which I don't need), and there's not enough left for it to be worthwhile.
Though it is a handy reminder I need to pick up The Kaiju Preservation Society.

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