Trope: Mean Boy

  • Starbrew Cafe

    Starbrew Cafe

    This is a guilty pleasure. I have not beaten this game because I hate microtransactions and have purposefully made it very hard for me to buy things through games because I am terribly worried that I might slip up. I’ve got a real love/hate relationship with mobile games because I become very very aware of

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  • A Silent Voice #1-7

    A Silent Voice #1-7

    Shouya Ishida, a mischievous elementary school student, finds himself troubled by deaf transfer student Shouko Nishimiya. Despite her genuine attempts to befriend her new classmates, Shouko only proves herself to be an annoyance for Shouya and his friends, provoking them to ridicule her at any possible chance. Soon enough, their taunts turn into constant assault—yet

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  • Lout of the Count’s Family #2

    Lout of the Count’s Family #2

    DEEP SECRETS: CAN CALE TURN THE TIDE OF FATE? When Kim Roksu mysteriously awakens inside an action-packed fantasy novel, he decides to make the most of it. Now living as the rich noble Cale Henituse, our protagonist collects flashy abilities and unexpected allies in his pursuit of a cushy life! After foiling a mad mage’s

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  • The Witchstone

    The Witchstone

    An unforgettable, high-stakes, laugh-out-loud funny novel, The Witchstone blends the merciless humor of The Good Place with the spellbinding fantasy of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black

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  • The Purge: Election Year

    The Purge: Election Year

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    I find it funny that this movie came out in 2016, when Trump won the office for his first term. Like the other Purge film I talked about, the symbolism is in-your-face, criticizing the current government and begging people to trust the system and using their vote to change things rather than taking direct action.

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  • The Purge: Anarchy

    The Purge: Anarchy

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    As I watched it, I was laughing to myself. No wonder it is so popular a series. For people like me, it’s a criticism of the government putting systems in place that fuck over the lower class in order to build a world where those on top stay on top, enjoying the fruits of the

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  • Fresh

    Fresh

    Bro. Bro. I fucking loved this movie. It was nasty. It was great. It spoke to me on a fundamental level. Let me start with something I wrote right after it: excellent film, fresh 2022, however all the thirst on kemp when mollie is there is insane. also the man is a cheater. filthy cheating

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  • The Obsessed Mage and His Beloved Statue Bride: She Cannot Resist His Seductive Voice

    The Obsessed Mage and His Beloved Statue Bride: She Cannot Resist His Seductive Voice

    Lara Bradley, a renowned mage, sets off to defeat a low-risk monster with her young apprentice Alistair, who never stops proposing to her. But instead of a minor threat, they encounter the world’s most dangerous creature—a dragon! In a desperate bid to save Alistair, Lara faces the dragon alone and casts a spell that turns

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  • Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest

    Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest

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    I can tolerate harems. I just can’t tolerate ANNOYING harems.

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  • Father, I Don’t Want This Marriage

    Father, I Don’t Want This Marriage

    Another isekai villainess manwha? A romcom? A— what did you say? Read until the end, you swear? What do you mean the male lead isn’t even the favorite male character? What do you mean you wept at the end??? What?!

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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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