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Star Trek the Original Series Season 1
(I forgot to publish this months ago) I decided I wanted to try to watch Star Trek. I feel like I don’t have my proper nerd cred without it. And I did not anticipate it being so fucking fun. I wasn’t sure how to write a report of it. I’ve concluded that I’ll do a
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The 31st Consort Vol 2-3
I really like the 31st Consort. The conceit is having a queen who stands as an equal no matter what, changing the patriarchal idea of demure women who only fight socially. She’s forced to live within this construct but still manages despite her headstrong nature. The romance is cute, but the political infighting is what
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We Speak Through the Mountain
The enlivening follow-up to the award-winning sensation The Annual Migration of Clouds Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, 19-year-old Reid Graham battles the elements and her lifelong chronic illness to reach the utopia of Howse University. But life in one of the storied “domes” ― the last remnants of pre-collapse society
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The Apothecary Diaries Season 2
As per usual, I LOVE Apothecary Diaries. Maomao is the aroace KING we all deserve. I love that Jinshi is 100% a doting husband on her autistic ass. The mysteries up the stakes and Maomao gets involved in a national fucking incident while just doing her thing. In between the beginning and National Fucking Incident,
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Fired? But I Maintain All the Software! Vol. 1
Ai Sato is the sole engineer maintaining her company’s internal systems. It’s too bad being the linchpin who keeps it all running won’t protect her from sudden layoffs. Apparently, the new CEO doesn’t approve of cosplaying at work. Depressed and jobless, Ai unexpectedly reunites with her childhood friend, Kenta Suzuki, who makes her an offer.
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The Hitman Stans Vol. 2
The best hitman of the underworld, Owaru Endou, leads a dark and secretive life, constantly bathing in the blood of his targets. However, his life takes a brighter turn when he becomes a fan of Kaori “Kaorin” Minaboshi, an underground idol from Rosaceae whose concerts Owaru always attends. Feeling that his hands and dirty money
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My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s Season 1
Oda Akira is the kind of guy who people forget is even there. His unassuming nature pays off, though, when his entire class is swept away to a fantasy world, and he slips easily into his new role as a silent assassin. Between his suspiciously high starting stats and too many details that don’t fit,
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The One and Only Crystal Druid
Ten years ago, I risked everything on a nameless boy. I came out the other side with a murder conviction, a prison sentence, and a minor case of amnesia. I forgot everything about that boy, and now I’m out on parole, just a nobody witch volunteering at an animal rescue and keeping a low profile.
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Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Party Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to an Infinite Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out for Revenge Vol. 1-9
Harem Scale H: MC is sufficiently heroic but is kind of sadistic. A: Very aware of the women always being like That. R: Ignores all of it. E: Entirely for the male gaze. Just look at the covers. M: I got invested enough in the plot and the revenge stuff. A kid named Light is
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The 100th Time’s the Charm: She Was Executed 99 Times, So How Did She Unlock Super Love Mode?! Vol. 01-04
Super Love Mode is actually the ability to read minds because every death stockpiled all the mana of one life into the next, over and over and over. It was actually quite amusing but not thoroughly ground-breaking.
M's Media Menagerie
Thoughtful Dumping Grounds
Trope: Hypercompetent MC
They’re always a step ahead and have everything planned out. They know what you’re thinking and will always win through sheer brilliance. They think of everything and have plan Bs through Zs prepared. They’re also brilliant in every day life.
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:
10
Menagerie Categories
- Anime (41)
- Blog (14)
- Books (89)
- Comics (32)
- Dropped (16)
- Etcetera (9)
- Game (21)
- Light Novel (13)
- Magazines (1)
- Manga (170)
- Manwha (6)
- Movies (30)
- Podcast (1)
- Webcomic (2)
- Webtoon (7)
- Zines (15)
Tagged in the Menagerie
Absolute Asshole NPC (86) A Fetish For Suffering (45) Can't Say No (67) Chekov's Gun (42) Childhood Friends (50) Curiosity Fucks You Up (76) Cursed (58) Damsel in Distress (57) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (85) Dangerous Reputation (85) Doting Husband (64) Double Identity (41) Everyone Loves MC (87) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (49) Fan Service (92) Grumpy x Sunshine (52) Hypercompetent MC (72) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (49) I Know a Guy (46) Last Minute Hero (97) Loss of Humanity (50) Main Character Coloring (69) MC's Skewed Metrics (71) Mean Boy (118) Mean Boy Love Interest (47) Modern Morals (45) Nat 20s (89) Not Actually Dead (74) Nuclear Revenge (68) OP Protag (91) Petty Revenge (44) Power of Friendship (73) Power of Love (68) Self-Sacrifice (67) Shock Value (44) Sympathetic Evil (63) The Moral is Community (60) Tragic Backstory (76) Twist! (55) Uniquely Skilled (87) Unreliable Narrator (53) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (74) Western-Style Fantasy (83) Wrong Place Wrong Time (64) Zero to Hero (77)
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