Trope: Curiosity Fucks You Up

  • Prince’s Gambit

    Prince’s Gambit

    With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his new master, Prince Laurent, must exchange the intrigues of the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a lethal plot. Forced to hide his identity, Damen finds himself increasingly drawn to the dangerous, charismatic Laurent.

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  • Rodney R Rodney

    Rodney R Rodney

    It’s finally happened. Rodney Rodney Rodney is over. I’ve been following it since its inception, collecting the volumes as they were released, I’m waiting for the Kickstarter omnibus to fulfill… my guy. Rodney R Rodney is just. Fucking fantastic. Quick summary: There’s this creepy neighbor who inexplicably shares a resemblance to the Wanted posters that

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  • Alpha Wolfgirl x Omega Wolfboy Vol 1 & 2

    Alpha Wolfgirl x Omega Wolfboy Vol 1 & 2

    heed the trigger warnings Hentai for the aggressive fucking folks out there. There’s so much to dig into here. It’s like a cake of incredibly thorough A/B/O worldbuilding.

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  • The Barbarian’s Bride Vol. 1

    The Barbarian’s Bride Vol. 1

    “Just kill me!” These are the words of Serafina de Lavillant, the strongest female knight in the West. After being defeated in a war with the East, she has become a prisoner of the barbarians! What awaits the captive Serafina is a life of revenge, torture, and humiliation… or so she thought! What she is

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  • Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts Vol 2 & 3

    Outbride: Beauty and the Beasts Vol 2 & 3

    Harem Scale H: Our lead does not have many opportunities to be heroic, as she is an unwilling victim in this series. A: She is very aware that she is obligated to fuck four different dudes. R: Romance elements are there but the focus is on the hentai. E: It’s hentai. M: I knew what

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  • Incidents Around the House

    Incidents Around the House

    A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity

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  • Bloat

    Bloat

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    “…this thing feels trapped in its own homeland.” — dude who suspects that a kappa want to go to america and so keeps doing weird shit to young american boys After a near-death drowning accident, a young boy’s family is horrified to discover he has become possessed by a legendary demon from the depths of

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  • They All Died Screaming

    They All Died Screaming

    It’s called The Scream… Once you get it, you simply cannot stop screaming. You can’t eat or sleep. It drives you more and more insane until you can’t stand to be alive a second longer. When the phenomenon hits Chuck’s city, the chronically unemployed pervert joins a band of misfits to make his final stand.

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  • Baghead

    Baghead

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    Following the death of her estranged father, Iris learns she has inherited a run-down, centuries-old pub. She travels to Berlin to identify her father’s body and meet with The Solicitor to discuss the estate. Little does she know, when the deed is signed she will become inextricably tied to an unspeakable entity that resides in

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  • Lovesickness

    Lovesickness

    An innocent love becomes a bloody hell in another superb collection by master of horror Junji Ito. Ryusuke returns to the town he once lived in because rumors are swirling about girls killing themselves after encountering a bewitchingly handsome young man. Harboring his own secret from time spent in this town, Ryusuke attempts to capture

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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: 25/50
50%
Comics Read in 2026: 80/200
40%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/844
56%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (99) Accidentally in Charge (48) A Fetish For Suffering (54) Can't Say No (80) Chekov's Gun (51) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (83) Cursed (71) Damsel in Distress (70) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (96) Dangerous Reputation (95) Doting Husband (69) Everyone Loves MC (98) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (53) Fan Service (102) Grumpy x Sunshine (56) Hypercompetent MC (78) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (58) I Know a Guy (56) Last Minute Hero (114) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (81) MC's Skewed Metrics (80) Mean Boy (130) Mean Boy Love Interest (50) Modern Morals (52) Nat 20s (98) Not Actually Dead (88) Nuclear Revenge (76) OP Protag (95) Petty Revenge (45) Power of Friendship (83) Power of Love (75) Self-Sacrifice (75) Shock Value (49) Sympathetic Evil (71) The Moral is Community (64) Tragic Backstory (89) Twist! (61) Uniquely Skilled (94) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (83) Western-Style Fantasy (95) Wrong Place Wrong Time (68) Zero to Hero (86)


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