Trope: Damsel in Distress (subverted)

  • King’s Rising

    King’s Rising

    The epic conclusion to the internationally acclaimed Captive Prince trilogy. Damianos of Akielos has returned. His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master Prince Laurent as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill. On the brink of a momentous battle, the future of both their countries hangs in the balance. In

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  • 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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  • My Sister Took My Fiance and Now I’m Being Courted by a Beastly Prince Vol. 01-03

    My Sister Took My Fiance and Now I’m Being Courted by a Beastly Prince Vol. 01-03

    Cordelia, daughter of a countess, can’t seem to get married–mostly because her little sister Priscilla keeps stealing the hearts of her suitors. Ready to resign herself to a spinster fate, Cordelia is surprised when a handsome man suddenly courts her–and he’s a prince, no less! Prince Leonhardt, who possesses the power of a legendary lion,

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  • The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash

    The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash

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    please watch this anime Born into a loving family, Femicia appears to have a bright future ahead of her. When she finally turns five, the time comes to go to the church to have her skills appraised. However, while she does receive a monster tamer skill, it turns out that Femicia has zero stars for

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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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  • Morbidly Yours

    Morbidly Yours

    TikTok sensation Morbidly Yours, an opposites-attract romantic dramedy about a shy, demisexual Irish mortician who must marry by his 35th birthday to keep his beloved family business, and the Texan widow escaping her past who moves in next door. Falling for the wrong person? Bury your feelings. Painfully shy Callum Flannelly would rather dive into

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  • Letterkenny

    Letterkenny

    As a whole, or for the rest of the seasons, whichever. Letterkenny was something we started watching with our buds— I’ve seen a bit of it before, yeah, and our buds reminded me it existed so I says, hell yeah. We’re gonna watch it. Pull it up. Now we just finished all twelve seasons and

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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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