Trope: Is it Real or Just Fantasy?

  • Quality Assurance in Another World

    Quality Assurance in Another World

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    This was not what I expected it to be. I expected it to be a comedy isekai where someone is developing products and maybe each episode is a different product? No, I don’t research my animes before watching them. Here’s a trailer for yall: The anime ended up being more serious than I thought, but

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  • Lovesickness

    Lovesickness

    An innocent love becomes a bloody hell in another superb collection by master of horror Junji Ito. Ryusuke returns to the town he once lived in because rumors are swirling about girls killing themselves after encountering a bewitchingly handsome young man. Harboring his own secret from time spent in this town, Ryusuke attempts to capture

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  • Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four!

    Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four!

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    ISEKAI’D BY: Summoning! Harem Scale H: MC has the good sense to always try to help people. A: MC is very aware of the fact that all the women are very hot with tits out to there, but at the same time, he isn’t aware that they adore him. R: Uchimura and Ulmandra. Ulmandra is

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  • The Descent

    The Descent

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    I’ve seen this one a few times, actually, so I rewatched it because I don’t think I ever saw the Descent 2 and wanted to revisit it. I remember young me, 12 years old, thinking, oh god. Juno is hot. It’s a good movie, led by an all-female cast. I love cave creature movies and

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  • I Found a Lost Hallway in a Dying Mall

    I Found a Lost Hallway in a Dying Mall

    Somewhere among the shuttered stores… Lisa hears a call for help. She finds her senile old coworker, Saswin, lost in an abandoned hallway. He’s talking to a circle of mannequins, their limbs twisted and fused in unnatural ways. When Lisa looks away, she swears the mannequins have moved… And that this abandoned hallway has grown

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

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    In the pursuit of youth and beauty, you rob yourself. That’s the most basic message in the Substance. The very least you can get from it. But we can expand on that, can’t we? The disposal of aging women in our society, the need to meet male standards for women’s beauty, the men in position

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  • Don’t Let the Forest In

    Don’t Let the Forest In

    *Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thomas had no idea that Andrew would do anything for him. Protect him. Lie for him. Kill for him.* High school senior Andrew Perrault finds refuge in the twisted fairytales that he writes for

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  • How to Sell a Haunted House

    How to Sell a Haunted House

    When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and

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  • Heretic

    Heretic

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

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  • Horror Movie

    Horror Movie

    Is it real or just a dream? Lmao surprise, it’s a movie! Framed by the original script of the Horror Movie in question, we walk along with super depressed No Name guy to get this shit FILMED.

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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: 19/50
38%
Comics Read in 2026: 39/200
19%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/830
58%


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