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The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins
Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided (“guided”) by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance.…
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Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the…
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Project Hail Mary
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge…
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A Guest in the House
After many lonely years, Abby’s just gotten married. She met her new husband, a recently widowed dentist, when he arrived in town with his young daughter seeking a new start. Although it’s strange living in the shadow of her predecessor, Abby does her best to be a good wife and mother, but the more she…
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After God Vol. 7
You know what, I feel bad for Obikawa. He’s caught in this weird web of friendship and manipulation, and as my favorite character and the biggest rat-man in the series, I do not think he should have become a liquidated mass of meat. (not that I think the story should go differently, i truly wonder…
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Star Trek the Original Series Season 1
(I forgot to publish this months ago) I decided I wanted to try to watch Star Trek. I feel like I don’t have my proper nerd cred without it. And I did not anticipate it being so fucking fun. I wasn’t sure how to write a report of it. I’ve concluded that I’ll do a…
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The Apothecary Diaries Season 2
As per usual, I LOVE Apothecary Diaries. Maomao is the aroace KING we all deserve. I love that Jinshi is 100% a doting husband on her autistic ass. The mysteries up the stakes and Maomao gets involved in a national fucking incident while just doing her thing. In between the beginning and National Fucking Incident,…
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We Sold Our Souls
In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success — but then lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom as Koffin, leaving his fellow bandmates to rot in rural Pennsylvania. Two decades later, former guitarist Kris Pulaski works as the night manager of a Best…
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Black Sheep
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly…something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community…
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The Unbreakable Bladesong Druid
My greatest enemy has always been myself. Over the past few weeks, I’ve painstakingly put my broken pieces back together, from the dark mysteries of my past to the heart-rending conflict of my present. But just when I finally start to feel whole again, everything around me falls apart. Lallakai, the newly ascended Queen of…
M's Media Menagerie
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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:
11
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Absolute Asshole NPC (106) Accidentally in Charge (56) A Fetish For Suffering (59) Can't Say No (95) Chekov's Gun (55) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (87) Cursed (75) Damsel in Distress (76) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (107) Dangerous Reputation (105) Doting Husband (75) Double Identity (52) Everyone Loves MC (106) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (55) Fan Service (111) Grumpy x Sunshine (58) Hypercompetent MC (84) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (60) I Know a Guy (65) Last Minute Hero (121) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (88) MC's Skewed Metrics (86) Mean Boy (136) Mean Boy Love Interest (53) Modern Morals (57) Nat 20s (106) Not Actually Dead (92) Nuclear Revenge (81) OP Protag (100) Power of Friendship (89) Power of Love (81) Self-Sacrifice (77) Shock Value (54) Sympathetic Evil (73) The Moral is Community (70) Tragic Backstory (96) Twist! (62) Uniquely Skilled (99) Unreliable Narrator (58) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (93) Western-Style Fantasy (103) Wrong Place Wrong Time (73) Zero to Hero (98)
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