Trope: Crime DOES Pay

  • Lout of Count’s Family Vol. 4

    Lout of Count’s Family Vol. 4

    NEW FACES, NEW POSSIBILITIES Cale Henituse is a man more eager to top off his wine than topple his foes, but adventure always seems to find him! This time, he befriends a kind yet sheltered necromancer, an ancient gold dragon, and twin saints on the run. But the stakes rise when the fierce Tiger Tribe…

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  • Crime Scene Cleaner Act 2

    Crime Scene Cleaner Act 2

    Do me a favor and turn on this song while reading. Remy let me know the updates existed and are SUPER GOOD, so kudos to him. The Act 2 update picks up right after the end of Act 1, adding additional story alongside two new game modes: True Cleaner and Nightmare Mode. A small play…

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  • Dave the Diver

    Dave the Diver

    Pre-Jungle DLC. DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole. I love Dave the Diver. I don’t think the trailer does it…

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  • Lights Out

    Lights Out

    The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride? I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.…

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  • Boss Bride Days

    Boss Bride Days

    Harem Scale H: Fairly average heroism. A: The premise is that she knows she is being pursued by her harem. R: Shoujo manga E: Nothing M: It was boring Self-proclaimed otaku and shut-in Sakura Kisaragi would prefer to spend her days alone in her room, playing her favorite yakuza-themed dating simulator. But when she saves…

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  • The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins

    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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  • We Sold Our Souls

    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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  • Rosemary’s Baby

    Rosemary’s Baby

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    A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family. Liked the book better. Like other movies based on books, it suffered from a lot of rushing through different items. It made Rosemary’s internal logic only outwardly…

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  • My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s Season 1

    My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s Season 1

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    Oda Akira is the kind of guy who people forget is even there. His unassuming nature pays off, though, when his entire class is swept away to a fantasy world, and he slips easily into his new role as a silent assassin. Between his suspiciously high starting stats and too many details that don’t fit,…

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  • The Unbreakable Bladesong Druid

    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…

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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:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 31/50
62%
Comics Read in 2026: 107/200
50%
Physical Owned Books Read: 491/866
57%


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