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The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 01
In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the rear palace. Maomao, an unassuming girl raised in an unassuming town by her apothecary father, never imagined the rear palace would have anything to do with her—until she was kidnapped…
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Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the…
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This Is My Body
A gripping, emotional, and darkly funny queer horror novel about family trauma and possession, for fans of Rachel Harrison and Catriona Ward. Single gay mom Brigid always thought that cutting ties with her extremist Catholic family was the best thing she could have done for her daughter, Dylan—and for herself. But when Dylan starts having…
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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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The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess Season 1
ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! Konoha Satou has a dark history. After all, she spent her teen years writing self-indulgent fantasy romance fics-like her Dark History. But since she’s become its most despicable villainess, remembering every last detail is now a matter of life-and-death. Having avoided the first couple of death flags, Satou’s suddenly left in the…
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My Best Friend’s Exorcism
Was Grady Hendrix a teenage girl in a past life? Some of it is staggeringly teenage girl. The horror of being young and powerless rolls off this book strongly. No one believing you when you try to tell the truth, when things go awry. The world suddenly turning against you when you don’t have privilege.…
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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 Unbreakable Bladesong Druid
My greatest enemy has always been myself. Over the past few weeks, I’ve painstakingly put my broken pieces back together, from the dark mysteries of my past to the heart-rending conflict of my present. But just when I finally start to feel whole again, everything around me falls apart. Lallakai, the newly ascended Queen of…
M's Media Menagerie
Thoughtful Dumping Grounds
Trope: I Know a Guy
The story pulls a character out of its pocket to move the story forward, provide clues, or generally just to raise the reputation of characters.
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.
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Absolute Asshole NPC (102) Accidentally in Charge (50) A Fetish For Suffering (56) Can't Say No (83) Chekov's Gun (53) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (85) Cursed (74) Damsel in Distress (70) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (101) Dangerous Reputation (97) Doting Husband (72) Double Identity (47) Everyone Loves MC (100) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (53) Fan Service (105) Grumpy x Sunshine (56) Hypercompetent MC (79) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (59) I Know a Guy (59) Last Minute Hero (117) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (82) MC's Skewed Metrics (81) Mean Boy (131) Mean Boy Love Interest (50) Modern Morals (53) Nat 20s (102) Not Actually Dead (90) Nuclear Revenge (78) OP Protag (96) Power of Friendship (84) Power of Love (77) Self-Sacrifice (76) Shock Value (51) Sympathetic Evil (72) The Moral is Community (66) Tragic Backstory (91) Twist! (62) Uniquely Skilled (96) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (86) Western-Style Fantasy (97) Wrong Place Wrong Time (68) Zero to Hero (89)
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