Trope: If You Love Them, Set Them Free

  • Too Old For This

    Too Old For This

    A retired serial killer’s quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there’s only one option left—what’s another murder? From bestselling author Samantha Downing. Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her. Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town. Her most exciting nights are

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  • So What’s Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin Vol. 1-8

    So What’s Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin Vol. 1-8

    Harem Scale H: akira’s entire being is set on taking care of an entire species, that’s his #1 priority A: women keep showing up and he’s grows more and more aware R: he is not doing romance but the women clearly are into him E: listen… look at the covers. duh M: i ended up

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  • Nightbitch

    Nightbitch

    One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else… An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her

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  • 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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  • How to Grill Our Love Vol. 1

    How to Grill Our Love Vol. 1

    Dating can be tough when you nerd out over barbecue. Kenta, a practical pitmaster, looks for a grill-friend in Chihiro, an aloof and faultless business babe…or is she? Scared of being rejected for who they really are, the two of them find comfort in food and each other…and all is well until Kenta must transfer

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  • The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies Vol. 1

    The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies Vol. 1

    Byakuya is the alter ego of the heroic magical girl Glass Happiness. Mira is a villainous lieutenant to the Evil King, and he’s prepared to do what it takes to eliminate his wand-wielding nemesis once and for all. While his cunning is unmatched, the last thing Mira expected was love at first sight! Now, instead

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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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  • 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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  • The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality

    The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality

    Hello, and welcome to the Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality. This Audio Tour Guide is aware that this is your first visit to the museum! On behalf of the Museum: Welcome! It’s a pleasure to have you with us here today. The Audio Tour Guide will be your window into the history of

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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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