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My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s fiendishly wicked comic novel about how blood is thicker – and more difficult to get out of the carpet – than water When Korede’s dinner is interrupted by a distress call from Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third…
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Match
After Paola is matched with a handsome online suitor, she arrives for a first date to discover a house full of dark and terrifying secrets. “Some movies are bad, some movies are meh okay, and some movies are good. This was a good movie.” (an approximation of what Remy said) So I got a fucking…
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The Duke of Death and His Maid Season 2 & 3
(I am doing both since they seamlessly blended together both seasons) hmmmmnggg it’s just so pure and loving that we had a hard time following it up with another series as karen put it, “It’s ecchi with heart.” which it is! “How else is she supposed to show her affection when she can’t do anything?”…
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Brunhild the Dragonslayer Vol. 1
Eden… A place of perfection… A place where man and beast live side by side in harmony… Eden’s protector, the silver dragon, regularly visits retribution upon those who would bring harm to paradise. But when the dragon discovers a human girl on the shores of Eden, he decides to raise her as his own. He…
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At the End of 4 Minutes
At the End of 4 Minutes is a poignant manga that explores the intersection of life, death, and the mundane. The story centers on a Grim Reaper whose daily duties are surprisingly brief, lasting only four minutes each day. When not actively harvesting souls, this spectral being finds solace in simple pleasures, such as interacting…
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The Lady Likes a Nerd Over Princes Vol. 1-4
Cheerful and free-spirited Sharina first met the studious and somber Riol when he saved her from mortal danger, and she fell in love with him at first sight. Using the adage, “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” Sharina makes Riol homemade food in hopes it will get him to fall in…
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Another Typical Fantasy Romance
ISEKAI’D BY: A God’s “Mistake”? It actually took me a solid week of reading to catch up to the current update (we’re in season 5) and I LOVE this series. It’s so funny and so thoughtful that I was knee-deep in absolute adoration for the story and characters. healthy relationship.jpg good god sirs this is…
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Before You Discard Me, I Shall Have My Way With You Vol 1-4
Agnès is engaged to the crown prince, but much to her dismay, he declares that their engagement is off. Since the prince will not return her love, Agnès decides that she must do what is necessary to protect her family and herself. She commits an unfathomable act, but surprisingly, the prince becomes fixated on her!…
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Backrooms
Well this thing is an essay waiting to happen (written probably by someone else).
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An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess
The crown prince, Cecil, excels in everything so his life is too easy. One day, when he gets engaged to the daughter of the marquis, Bertia, he’s told something peculiar all of a sudden: “Prince Cecil! I am a villainess!!” As she says, according to memories from her previous life, they are in a dating…
M's Media Menagerie
Thoughtful Dumping Grounds
Trope: Chekov’s Gun
If it appears, it’ll be worked into the story. Usually fucks with foreshadowing. If there is a gun in Act 1, the gun will be used in Act 3. Classic narrative tool.
Welcome to the Menagerie.
Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.
What is M?
I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.
Truck-Kun Kill Count:
13
Menagerie Categories
- Anime (55)
- Blog (21)
- Books (111)
- Comics (40)
- Dropped (17)
- Etcetera (12)
- Game (27)
- Light Novel (15)
- Magazines (1)
- Manga (216)
- Manwha (6)
- Movies (39)
- Podcast (2)
- Webcomic (3)
- Webtoon (9)
- Zines (23)
Tagged in the Menagerie
Absolute Asshole NPC (126) Accidentally in Charge (65) A Fetish For Suffering (71) Can't Say No (115) Chekov's Gun (66) Conveniently Cut-Off (58) Curiosity Fucks You Up (98) Cursed (88) Damsel in Distress (87) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (122) Dangerous Reputation (125) Doting Husband (84) Double Identity (61) Everyone Loves MC (114) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (58) Fan Service (125) Grumpy x Sunshine (65) Hypercompetent MC (95) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (68) I Know a Guy (82) Last Minute Hero (136) Loss of Humanity (64) Main Character Coloring (102) MC's Skewed Metrics (104) Mean Boy (146) Mean Boy Love Interest (62) Modern Morals (64) Nat 20s (121) Not Actually Dead (103) Nuclear Revenge (91) OP Protag (105) Power of Friendship (100) Power of Love (95) Self-Sacrifice (86) Shock Value (67) Sympathetic Evil (88) The Moral is Community (83) Tragic Backstory (107) Twist! (69) Uniquely Skilled (110) Unreliable Narrator (62) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (106) Western-Style Fantasy (117) Wrong Place Wrong Time (78) Zero to Hero (112)
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