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Seer-hybrid super detective Literature
Not a show per se but a character in a show (although finding the show will locate the character too for sure). Almost certainly a book. The character is half-Seer (or descended from a Seer/someone with predictive powers), and although she cannot see the exact future due to impure blood, she has super intuition that lets her make highly precise educated guesses.
Snarky Caustic LP of Watch_Dogs Web Original
Basically what it says on the tin. A Lets Play of watch_dogs that make fun of how unsympathetic aiden pierce is, how dumb the mechanics are, etc. It's very similar to the Super Best Friends Play, but it's not them and it's not made by a channel I usually watch, so i lost it
From my misspent youth Live Action TV
This was a game show with a horse-race theme. The final round was a lottery-style ping-pong ball selector, and the bonus round was a single die rolling game where one of the sides of the die had a spade symbol on it.
It was NOT Celebrity Sweepstakes.
Kids' show where a little girl has an idea every episode Western Animation
All I remember is that every time she has an idea, suns (or maybe sunflowers) spring from her. Except in the winter episode where they're snowflakes instead, and her idea in that episode is to tie two sleds together around a tree on top of a hill so one goes up while the other goes down.
Edited by VTHU243Paper-erasing plague episode? Live Action TV
I was recently reminded of an old promo for (I think) a TV episode back in the late 90s, that I never got to watch. It was clearly inspired by Y2K paranoia about digital data-loss, only with a scifi twist: instead of electronically-stored information, some kind of microorganism was erasing hardcopy. The ad showed various paper items - the Mona Lisa, money, the Declaration of Independence - all turning blank as their ink/paint was consumed. I used to think it was an episode of Seven Days, but now that summaries of that show are available online I've checked, and nothing matches. Was there some other weird-catastrophe-themed TV show, that aired during that Y2K-paranoia period? Or an anthology series that explored ideas like that? Been bugging me on and off for ages.
Bizarre dystopian story from the POV of a teenage girl living in a society in a shopping mall Literature
The story was on a website with a lot of other similar stories, probably from the same author but it might have been just a list of recommendations.
Everything the narrator talked about was super bizarre, but the tone was matter-of-fact; that's just what her life and society were like. It may have been in the form of some diary entries. She and her friends all had these smartwatch-like devices that took blood from the wearer the first time they put them on. There was a particularly gross bit near the end where she talked about her and one of her friends licking mold off of chicken wings(?) and putting it back in the fridge to grow more mold, which they could lick off again. This was framed as a super clever, lifehack type thing.
Picture Book Literature of a girl turning into a pink balloon? Literature
Yeah this sounds really bizarre. As a kid, I remember reading a children's book of a girl whose skin turned into a pink balloon and she traveled to a circus fair via flying and explores the whole place before returning home. I think she became back to normal. I don't know the title though. The art is fairly simple and the girl if I recall is blond and wears a blue dress, though I could be wrong on her appearance.
As a kid, I thought it was weird. Anyone familiar with that book?
[SOLVED] A novel about criminal kidnapping a famous surgeon's little daughter for revenge. Literature
A self-proclaimed criminal mastermind along with his wife and mentally challenged brother kidnaps a little girl - the daughter of a famous surgeon. The mastermind says he has perfected the art of kidnapping. He also holds the doctor's wife hostage while the criminal's wife is harassing the doctor and the mentally challenged brother is holding the kid. That's how they commited all previous abductions however this time it goes out of control when the doctor and his wife decide they're not giving in to the criminal's demands without a fight.
The title was something like "longest 24 hours" but I'm not certain.
Edited by sohibilbad rpg maker horror game
Okay so this game was either from 2019 or 2020 and I can't remember the name of it. Manlybadasshero played it and it had traced art of the hanging scene from ddlc. There was a letter somewhere in the files about the game being made by a stalker who stalked the girl until she committed suicide.
Horror movie late 80s set in castle??
I remember watching a horror movie in the late 80s i think it was set in a big castle like the style of the old Vincent Price horror movies. I think Oliver Reid played the part of the villian. There was a scene where a doctor, maybe mid 30s, is staying at the castle but the villian wants him gone so he gets his elderly butler to surprise the guy when hes walking out of his room. I think the butler holds a knife to the young guys throat, and then strips him. The butler then straps him up and gags him with belts and tape, the young doctor is trying to escape but hes too tightly bound. Then the villian comes in and puts a rat in a cage in the doctors stomach so the rat will have to gnaw through his stomach to escape! Was i dreaming this or is this a movie?
Horror website/story presented as bestiary [FOUND] Web Original
This is from a while back, about 3 years or so. The website was a bit like the SCP foundation in that it told a story through the description of monsters/anomalous beings, though it differed in that it had art to go along with the descriptions and was only made by one person, as far as I could tell. It featured variations on a worm-like monster, which had different subcategories depending on a given variation's attitude towards humans - these groupings were done through the humors (sanguine etc.). The pages for each type had a description of the general behavior of it, along with anatomy and sometimes sound clips of how it sounded. There were also descriptions of encounters for some of the types, most of them written in a horror-esque style. There were also "secret" pages, with more philosophical or poetic descriptions for the more eldritch types. EDIT: Nevermind, I've found it through a bit of digging - it was the Goodbye Strangers and the Fearful Frontier.
Edited by 27firefliesAnimation hosting site Web Original
I remember signing up for an animation hosting website. I forgot the name and the names of the series on there. It was a website where you could add your independent animated web-series and upload episodes to the site. The website also had a live stream for episodes of series. It was just a webcomic hosting site except for animators.
Edit: It was NOT Newgrounds. The layout seemed more like Netflix or Hulu.
Edited by DoomesPro93Three children in a fire Literature
Hi! I remember very little about this, but it was a book with several stories, and the first one of them had three siblings whose house caught fire, and they escaped to the roof through the window of their room. The oldest girl wanted to save her dog called Beau, but her siblings pulled her out the window and she couldn't. They stayed in the roof until the fire was put out, and in the end the oldest girl laments she couldn't save Beau.
Thanks in advance!
Early 80's US Crime Thriller Film
A US movie (possibly a TV movie) from the late 70s or early 80s. A teenage boy elopes with an older blonde woman; he's 18, she's 32. They engage in some unplanned crime and are tracked by a private investigator. Eventually they are cornered and everyone dies in an explosion.
I thought the woman might be Linda Purl, but it's not. The PI actor was in a few things of the era but I can't recall his name, he was in his forties, white with dark curly hair and a bushy moustache. If the film had been made 20 years later he might have been played by John C Reilly.
I saw this on UK TV in the mid-80s.
was on youtube a while ago but got removed i guess Film
is live action, is in a retro/sci-fi setting, an unarmed male and unarmed female people being chased by armed people, armed people (male and female) don gas masks and unarmed people note the smell of almonds (it's cyanide gas), scene is followed by some kinda trippy corridor thing but whatever
Edited by DuckweedStrange Animation [first one found] Western Animation
there are two different animated shorts i watched with my babysitter as a kid, (this would be about 14-16 years ago) both of which i remember scared the hell out of me. i haven't been able to find either of them again to re-confront that fear.
[EDIT: I've found the first, it was a colorized version of "the impatient patient". nothing found on the second yet.]
The second is unquestionably adult and i remember a lot less, all i can remember is that it was older-looking (lots of matte painting backgrounds) and very dark and dramatic. It featured a white mouse who walked on two legs (like Mickey or Jerry), wearing a blue suit (or overalls) and red shoes, which echoed as he walked. He was walking through a large, mostly empty house, and came across a glamorous blonde woman, who was facedown on a bed with a bloody slashed wrist hanging off the side (this was also a matte painting), at which point the mouse goes to an empty place on the floor, sits down with his head on his knees, and the short fades to black. I don't remember much else, but I think it aired on one of the short-film channels or something else on cable in around 2004-06.
Edited by HBICecesci-fi shooter type flash game with furries? Videogame
This game has been driving me crazy for at least a week. I found it around 2010 and it was one of those platformer-shooter games, like Armor Mayhem or Raze, but it was purely singleplayer and the two main characters were furries. It had a lot of comedic fourth wall breaking moments, like one character telling the other character the controls and neither of them knowing what they mean. The character you played was a male grey cat I think, and I think the second character was a female with red hair, and the second character would talk to the player character through a computer and give advice and maybe hack things?
Commercial where there was an ATM in the middle of the desert <FOUND, see below> Live Action TV
My parents remember this commercial (probably from the 1990s or early 2000s) where a couple's (I think) car broke down in the desert, and a village found them and chanted "ATM! ATM!" Sure enough, there was an ATM. My parents joked that all the villagers wanted was for the couple to withdraw some money. Could you find this commercial or at least remember what bank this was for?
Edited by jgrif57003White haired guy with psychic headaches Anime
I watched a fairly mature anime (there was smoking, drinking, blood, etc) on SBS anywhere from late 90s to the 2000s. Key points I remember:
- This woman goes to this private detective-type to find her brother
- The brother has white hair and he was having these massive headaches that cause him to kill people with Psychic Powers against his will
- When confronting the brother another guy takes off a cloak(?) and he is a man in military uniform with white hair. The military man reveals that the brother is actually a clone of him and he was sort guinea pig for the process for giving Psychic Powers. The military man boasts that the experiments on the clone allowed him to have the powers without the headaches
discord Web Original
I want to know if Discord, the online chat website/application, has a TV Tropes page, I can't seem to find one.
Edited by pointycatearstv series where the protagonist remembers investigating paranormal cases when he was young Live Action TV
Hi, so i watched a couple of episodes a while back, 10+ years ago and for the life of me i can't remember what it's called. So the action takes places in the 20's or 30's, there are 2 scientists, a man and a woman and they investigate weird cases, one of them was about a small meteorite with a transparent crystal sticking out of it, that glowed a weird light at random times and if you looked into that light, it teleported you to another planet. Another episode was about some guys involved in some secret naval experiment with a large copper coil, some accident happened and one of them was left blind and the other shipwrecked on some island but the blind guy was seeing through the eyes of the one that was shipwrecked and they were trying to find the shipwrecked guy, using the cues given by the blind guy. The first episode i saw was the main protagonist as an old man, remembering these cases while talking to some guy in a facility, this happens during what i believe is world war 2, as i remember him asking about the food, as it was rationed.
Edited by I_Am_Weaseledutainment game with dragons that run a pizza place Videogame
I hardly remember anything about this but the title is literally all I can recall, played it in 2nd grade on a school computer and for some reason it just came back to me while watching some of LGR's edutainment month game reviews.
Fables Mystery Mansion Cartoon Western Animation
I'm looking for a cartoon of some Fables, going to a party at a haunted mansion. One of the main characters is the Fox from Aesop's fables, depicted as a plus-size furry woman in a fancy dress. It was a low-budget special/movie or limited animated series and I think it aired on Cartoon Network.
I think the fox lady turned out to be the villain in the end, but I'm not entirely sure.
(UNSOLVED) Really good but terrifying Five Nights at Freddy�s Fan Animation series Web Original
A while ago I saw this FNAF fan series on You Tube starring children in the restaurant. It was SUPER creepy, but well animated and well executed. It was 2D animated and had no dialogue (There probably was, but I just never got to that part). I also know a LOT of the scare factor came from some of the children finding other children with wide open mouths shaking their head back at fourth while staring RIGHT AT THE VIEWER. I think the titles were also in Spanish. If anyone could tell me what the series is, who made it or just straight up post a link if that�s humanly possible, I would greatly appreciate it. I�ve been trying to fiber this thing for 2 years with no luck.
Edited by hackdash
Possible Sci-Fi book series with Living Statues Literature
All I remember about this series are these aliens who can stand still for a really long time and are often mistaken for statues.
I don�t know either the author or what year the series was originally published.
Please help me find out what it was called!!