Trope: Curiosity Fucks You Up

  • 100 Ghost Stories That will Lead to My Own Death Vol. 01

    100 Ghost Stories That will Lead to My Own Death Vol. 01

    I am a sucker for ghost story anthologies like this. Some stories linger, some flop, and then you have the framework to wonder about as well. Also, sometimes fun art. The conceit is that a grade schooler, depressed and suicidal, was told about these 100 ghost stories. He’ll summon a real ghost if he manages

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  • Don’t Let the Forest In

    Don’t Let the Forest In

    *Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thomas had no idea that Andrew would do anything for him. Protect him. Lie for him. Kill for him.* High school senior Andrew Perrault finds refuge in the twisted fairytales that he writes for

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  • Stab the Rabbit

    Stab the Rabbit

    This book is just a way to alleviate some masculine violence, bro. I’m not joking. It’s got a few stories in it and it takes a juvenile delight in using slurs and doesn’t really have a care for being “politically correct”, as angry male comics would put it. They let you know right in the

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  • Clockwork Planet 1 – 3

    Clockwork Planet 1 – 3

    Harem Scale H: MC will do anything for his clockwork, including the right thing. A: By volume three, he’s aware that he wants to collect more robot girls. R: He’s got a thing going with Ryuzu. E: It’s pretty middling on the fan service, and keeps it to double entendre and phrasing. M: I’m down

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  • How to Sell a Haunted House

    How to Sell a Haunted House

    When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and

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  • I Found Puppets Living in my Apartment Walls

    I Found Puppets Living in my Apartment Walls

    Johnny awakes. A puppet looms over his bed. He recognizes the furry Grandpa was its puppeteer on the children’s television show R-City Street. But Grandpa went missing a year ago. He disappeared from this very apartment building, which was converted from the old R-City Street studio. Desperate to see Grandpa again, Johnny follows the puppet

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  • The Twisted Ones

    The Twisted Ones

    Sometimes you just gotta burn that shit down.

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  • Fresh

    Fresh

    Bro. Bro. I fucking loved this movie. It was nasty. It was great. It spoke to me on a fundamental level. Let me start with something I wrote right after it: excellent film, fresh 2022, however all the thirst on kemp when mollie is there is insane. also the man is a cheater. filthy cheating

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  • Delico’s Nursery

    Delico’s Nursery

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    This anime was actually recommended to me by my brother, so of course I just watched it the whole thing. I’m wondering if they wanted to make another season? I’m on stand by. The trailer gives you a sort of whimsical sense, right? Right? WRONG IT’S ONLY LIKE THAT FOR MAYBE TWO EPISODES, THIS IS

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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: 23/50
46%
Comics Read in 2026: 51/200
25%
Physical Owned Books Read: 470/809
58%


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