M's Media Menagerie

Thoughtful Dumping Grounds

Trope: Raising my Spouse

A twist on the age gap: a character adopts a child and that child grows up into something more than just family. A really dicey trope that is often very hard to pull off without a Squick factor.

The Ancient Magus’ Bride

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Fantasy, Romance, Shoujo

Chise Hatori was a child nobody wanted. Told by her own mother that she should never have been born and passed from one neglectful guardian to the next, the young girl has grown up feeling lost, hopeless, and emotionally numb. At age fifteen she sells herself into slavery, desperate for a home where somebody –
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Cutie & the Beast

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Unlike her friends who are into pretty boys, Momoka has a crush on a giant professional wrestler named Kuga who plays a villainous heel on TV. But in real life, Kuga is a big softie, and he really appreciates her fan mail! In this lighthearted romantic comedy, a little TV crush for a very big
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The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor Season 1

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Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Shoujo

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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Would You Like to Be a Family

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This is actually a collection of a couple stories, all of which are pretty cute one shots. I picked this one up because I’m a sucker for dark hair/dark eye mean lookin’ types. And family stuff. It’s cute. Look how petty he is. It’s so funny. That said, there are some, uh. Style drawbacks… In
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Why Don’t You Eat Me, My Dear Wolf?

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I threw the smut tag on here but it’s not until the final chapter (thankfully). This is a really soft, gentle manga.
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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:

10

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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