M's Media Menagerie

Thoughtful Dumping Grounds

Trope: Exposition Dump

Where a story shoves a large bucket of exposition into the story with little to no context, because otherwise they cannot deliver the tiny details they have crafted for the world or story without just having it all written out for the reader.

The Minecraft Movie

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Action, Bromance, Comedy, Fantasy, Isekai

We decided to fuck around and have a Minecraft-themed party that encapsulated Father’s Day, my birthday, Remy’s birthday, and his kid’s birthday. Honestly, it was unexpectedly fun? Hammy, dumb, B-movie quality with AAA budget. Did you know that it has like 6 writers??? I was fascinated by this movie. It’s bad, for real, but it’s
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Incidents Around the House

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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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Baghead

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Horror, Paranormal

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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Deadman Wonderland Vol. 1-13

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After a powerful earthquake nearly destroyed all of Tokyo, a prison known as Deadman Wonderland rose from what was left of the city. Privately-run through the guise and functions of a theme park, Deadman Wonderland takes in prisoners from all over Japan, using them as attractions for tourists. Little do the public know about the
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Heretic

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Horror

One of the few times in life you’re going to sympathize with the Mormons in a movie.
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Fourth Wing

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WE GET IT YOU THINK HE’S HOT AND WANT TO BOINK HIM, I GET IT, I GET IT, I GET IT, PLEASE THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE FOR FIVE SECONDS
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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:

11

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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