Trope: Damsel in Distress (subverted)

  • The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor Season 1

    The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor Season 1

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    Jill breaks out of prison the night before she’s set to be executed by her fiancé, Crown Prince Gerald. She’s struck by an arrow while escaping, but instead of dying, she’s transported six years into the past—to the night she and Gerald met. Desperate to alter fate, she instead proposes to the first man she

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  • Noss & Zakuro Vol. 01

    Noss & Zakuro Vol. 01

    In Shadowsville, a supernatural land that exists between this world and the next, there lives a pair of spooky vampires. Well, not that spooky—the beautiful Noss (the Nosferatu) and her adopted daughter Zakuro don’t even suck human blood, since that’s gross and mean. A juice-box equivalent sustains them as they frolic around their town shopping for anti-sun

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  • His Majesty the Demon King’s Housekeeper Vol. 1-3

    His Majesty the Demon King’s Housekeeper Vol. 1-3

    Harem Scale H: This girl is pathologically obsessed with cleaning, which makes her the hero of the realm. She literally cannot stop. A: Her awareness is limited only to when the Demon King basically puts himself right in front of her and flirts aggressively, but she is unaware of her collection of men. R: Romance

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  • The 9Lives Vol. 1

    The 9Lives Vol. 1

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    Alien refugees have come to Earth. They call themselves 9-Lives. Humans call them cat-boys, and force them to live as collared pets. Conri, a rebellious young 9-Life, ran away to escape this fate. But when a human named Adrian saves him from capture, Conri is torn between his desire for freedom and another desire he

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  • This Delicious Death

    This Delicious Death

    Four best friends, one music festival, and a cooler filled with human organs: this summer is about to get gory. ​​​ Jennifer’s Body fans will clamor for this new sapphic horror standalone from New York Times bestselling author Kayla Cottingham. Three years ago, the melting of arctic permafrost released a pathogen of unknown origin into

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  • Becoming a Princess Knight and Working at a Yuri Brothel Vol. 1

    Becoming a Princess Knight and Working at a Yuri Brothel Vol. 1

    ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! Talk about your extreme career changes! Naruse Soushi, a middle-aged man and private secretary to a politician, lies on the verge of death. Meanwhile, in another world, the princess knight Reina has been captured by an enemy nation. The princess’ soul is removed–and Naruse is summoned into the empty husk of her

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  • Escape Room

    Escape Room

    Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive. nothing to do with the movie, but taylor russell is just beautiful… anyway, this is a fun movie that has a saw-esque premise of people dropped into an extreme survival situation that is very, very personalized to their trauma.

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  • Back Street Girls Vol. 1-3

    Back Street Girls Vol. 1-3

    Would you give up being human—or would you become… an idol? A trio of yakuza achieve the impossible and debut as idols—and become a big hit to boot! Under the guidance of their fiendish and overcontrolling boss, three former yakuza men undergo a complete makeover and debut as the back street girl idols “Gokudols.” In

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  • The September House

    The September House

    A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel. When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their

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  • Fallout Season 1

    Fallout Season 1

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    The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent

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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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Absolute Asshole NPC (93) Accidentally in Charge (43) A Fetish For Suffering (48) Can't Say No (76) Chekov's Gun (47) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (79) Cursed (64) Damsel in Distress (64) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (91) Dangerous Reputation (89) Doting Husband (68) Everyone Loves MC (94) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (49) Fan Service (98) Grumpy x Sunshine (54) Hypercompetent MC (74) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (55) I Know a Guy (52) Last Minute Hero (106) Loss of Humanity (53) Main Character Coloring (75) MC's Skewed Metrics (76) Mean Boy (123) Mean Boy Love Interest (49) Modern Morals (48) Nat 20s (92) Not Actually Dead (80) Nuclear Revenge (70) OP Protag (92) Petty Revenge (45) Power of Friendship (78) Power of Love (74) Self-Sacrifice (69) Shock Value (47) Sympathetic Evil (67) The Moral is Community (62) Tragic Backstory (84) Twist! (59) Uniquely Skilled (90) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (80) Western-Style Fantasy (87) Wrong Place Wrong Time (65) Zero to Hero (81)


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