u/LamppostBoy

It's similar to the "my cabbages" thing from Avatar. I believe the exact text was *drops objects* "my objects!"

I have no idea what the book was about or what the context of the scene was, but I remember the main character being angry at his younger brother for yelling "[main character's name] likes looking at freaks!" before he could explain why he was doing what he was doing.

Book had a Caribbean feel to it. Some city by the sea fears an invasion, has no option left except an appeal to Saint Ursula, so they have a parade of 11000 virgins and the enemy fleet sails off, maybe due to divine intervention or maybe because they thought the marchers were the arrival of reinforcements. Unsure if it was supposed to be a true story.

And what evidence did they use to arrive at their answer?

Like, once you get past the ick factor, those things have to be mostly protein, right?

This is like my fourth time on this sub requesting this book in five years, but it's driving me nuts. And I remembered an additional -well, not a detail, but a descriptor.

Read it in the mid-90s, could have been much older. I think the title was "chasing Danielle" or "searching for Danielle." Got it from the library. I remember it had very dark, evocative art. In particular, the villain's distinctive style (dressed like a magician in a top hat and tails) became my mental archetype for "bad guy" for a long time thereafter. Also, I remember it being my first introduction to the feminine version of my middle name, and my first introduction to the use of sandbags in hot-air balloonery.

I found a list my parents had kept of all the books I'd read in my youth, and while it solved a lot of mysteries I've asked this sub about, this book was not on it. What I did find, however, was "The Battle of Luke and Longnose," by Barbara McClintock, and I was almost certain the illustrator was the same, because it looked so similar. However, this book does not appear to have been done by her. Infuriatingly, McClintock did write a book called "Danielle," but it's completely different.

The movie starts off with him telling his son to get over his mother's death and focus on school, Bastian almost immediately disregards this advice, then - nothing. We don't see his dad again for the remainder of the film, nor are we given any indication that anyone notices that he's been missing for 12 hours or so. I couldn't imagine any decent parent today acting that way, but I was born in 1990, so things may have changed in the last 4 decades. If we were supposed to see him as a bad parent, it seems like there should have been some seen where he realizes his mistakes, but if we're supposed to see him as a good parent, why does the entire plot of the movie hinge on ignoring his advice? Or are we supposed to see his behavior as so normal, it would be expected that the ,movie not comment on it?

Done in a medium-quality cartoony design, and I remember distinctly the stranger had an eyepatch on. I can remember the dialog almost word for word

A- I don't know if this is too forward, but would you like to be my nemesis?

B- You might think this is weird, but I actually hated you from the moment I saw you

A- This is great, and you've got an eyepatch on, which really screams "nemesis"

B- *unsure*

A- Well I guess I'll see you in hell then

B- Hey, every minute I live is hell knowing we walk the same earth

A- Did you just come up with that right now? That is so nemesis

B- I know!