Trope: Curiosity Fucks You Up

  • Kaya-Chan Isn’t Scary Vol. 1-4

    Kaya-Chan Isn’t Scary Vol. 1-4

    Kaya-chan is a notorious problem child in her kindergarten, but none of the adults know her secret–till Chie-sensei is put in charge and learns of Kaya-chan’s hidden ability to see evil spirits and vanquish them with a punch! What will happen to this five-year-old who gets in trouble when she’s only trying to help? I’ve…

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  • Loving Moon Dog Vol. 1-5

    Loving Moon Dog Vol. 1-5

    Rikka, a dog groomer with a gift for taming wild pups, finds her life turned upside down when the Doberman she rescues one night suddenly turns into a hunky guy! This dog-man is on the prowl for a mate and chooses Rikka–and he’s not holding back his horndog desire. Can Rikka resist his puppy eyes,…

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  • Backrooms

    Backrooms

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    Well this thing is an essay waiting to happen (written probably by someone else).

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  • Archive 81 Season 1

    Archive 81 Season 1

    Archive 81 is a found footage horror podcast about ritual, stories, and sound. It has released three seasons and two miniseries, with more to come. I don’t know that I like Archive 81 so far. I like that it questions the idea of the listener as just an observer, or a participant in a story.…

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  • Furyou Taimashi Reina

    Furyou Taimashi Reina

    Reina Suzuno, a transfer student with a sukujan, blonde hair and loose socks looks totally like a criminal. Is Reina Suzuno a stalker? It turns out that Reina is not a stalker, she is actually an exorcist, an excellent exorcist, the intimidating behavior she has is actually a unique method of exorcism, which exterminates the…

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  • The 6-Year-Old Sage Wants to Hide in the Shadows Vol. 1

    The 6-Year-Old Sage Wants to Hide in the Shadows Vol. 1

    “I defeated the demon king…?” The strongest sage reincarnates as the six-year-old Eddie Radcliffe. Despite his inherited memories and magical prowess making him stronger than he ever was, he’s determined to live a peaceful life. Contrary to his wishes, he’s now tasked with saving the world from behind the scenes and is trusted as a…

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  • Dragon Goes House-Hunting

    Dragon Goes House-Hunting

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    In an RPG fantasy world, a red dragon named Letty is disowned by his parents after failing to guard their eggs. Now he has to find a place of his own, but unlike other dragons, Letty is meek, cowardly, and has overall low stats. Regardless, a defenseless young dragon makes for an easy target for…

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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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  • It Comes at Night

    It Comes at Night

    Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge. WHAT COMES AT NIGHT?! hOLY MISLEADING TRAILER, BATMAN!! It’s a technically good film, but…

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  • Undertone

    Undertone

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    The host of a popular paranormal podcast is sent hidden messages within anonymous recordings, unleashing a demonic presence that is impossible to escape in this nerve-shredding nightmare that haunts long after the last echo fades. I expected more out of this one, especially since it managed to get a whole-ass ad episode in Radio Rental,…

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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: 32/50
64%
Comics Read in 2026: 213/200
100%
Physical Owned Books Read: 460/823
56%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (117) Accidentally in Charge (60) A Fetish For Suffering (66) Can't Say No (107) Chekov's Gun (61) Conveniently Cut-Off (57) Curiosity Fucks You Up (92) Cursed (82) Damsel in Distress (84) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (114) Dangerous Reputation (117) Doting Husband (80) Double Identity (57) Everyone Loves MC (112) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (57) Fan Service (119) Grumpy x Sunshine (62) Hypercompetent MC (91) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (65) I Know a Guy (75) Last Minute Hero (131) Loss of Humanity (61) Main Character Coloring (97) MC's Skewed Metrics (95) Mean Boy (144) Mean Boy Love Interest (59) Modern Morals (60) Nat 20s (117) Not Actually Dead (101) Nuclear Revenge (88) OP Protag (103) Power of Friendship (97) Power of Love (89) Self-Sacrifice (84) Shock Value (62) Sympathetic Evil (82) The Moral is Community (80) Tragic Backstory (101) Twist! (66) Uniquely Skilled (104) Unreliable Narrator (61) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (101) Western-Style Fantasy (111) Wrong Place Wrong Time (77) Zero to Hero (107)


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