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Abu-Normal Vol 1-8
Eiko Abu, 29 years old and single. She divides everything in the world into two categories: “normal” or “not normal.” In her quest for normalcy, her obsession slowly destroys the relationships she had built. What is normal? What is abnormal? Logic is questioned and normalcy challenged in this psychological suspense. I just read 77 chapters…
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Shoresy Season 5
This was a good season.After season 4’s stick slap to the ice ending, it’s been on my mind endlessly. This season’s “winning culture” ideal has been rotating like fucking tacos al pastor in my brain since I watched it. Shoresy made a strong coach, making a case for bringing hockey back to the traditional core…
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Backrooms
Well this thing is an essay waiting to happen (written probably by someone else).
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Archive 81 Season 1
Archive 81 is a found footage horror podcast about ritual, stories, and sound. It has released three seasons and two miniseries, with more to come. I don’t know that I like Archive 81 so far. I like that it questions the idea of the listener as just an observer, or a participant in a story.…
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The God-Slaying Demon King Vol. 1-4
After centuries of war between demons, the world was finally united under the overwhelming power of Hiram, the strongest demon king in history. No demon could match him, but even the mightiest king can not so easily defeat a god. When Hiram defied the demon god, he and the deity engaged in days of fierce…
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Boy Meets Maria
Taiga dreams of becoming an actor, so the first thing he does upon entering high school is join the drama club. There, he meets the beautiful, enigmatic Maria and immediately falls in love with her. Not long after, Taiga is told that she is actually a boy–but is that all there is to Maria’s story?…
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Crime Scene Cleaner Act 2
Do me a favor and turn on this song while reading. Remy let me know the updates existed and are SUPER GOOD, so kudos to him. The Act 2 update picks up right after the end of Act 1, adding additional story alongside two new game modes: True Cleaner and Nightmare Mode. A small play…
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Lights Out
The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride? I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.…
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Camp Damascus
A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down. They’ll scare you straight to hell. Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold. Nestled high up in the mountains…
M's Media Menagerie
Thoughtful Dumping Grounds
Trope: Shock Value
Something was done just to get a reaction from the audience, usually very viscerally gross or offensive.
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:
13
Menagerie Categories
- Anime (52)
- Blog (19)
- Books (101)
- Comics (39)
- Dropped (17)
- Etcetera (11)
- Game (27)
- Light Novel (15)
- Magazines (1)
- Manga (201)
- Manwha (6)
- Movies (38)
- Podcast (2)
- Webcomic (3)
- Webtoon (7)
- Zines (19)
Tagged in the Menagerie
Absolute Asshole NPC (112) Accidentally in Charge (59) A Fetish For Suffering (63) Can't Say No (101) Chekov's Gun (59) Childhood Friends (54) Curiosity Fucks You Up (90) Cursed (79) Damsel in Distress (80) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (111) Dangerous Reputation (112) Doting Husband (78) Double Identity (54) Everyone Loves MC (109) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (56) Fan Service (116) Grumpy x Sunshine (60) Hypercompetent MC (88) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (62) I Know a Guy (71) Last Minute Hero (128) Loss of Humanity (60) Main Character Coloring (91) MC's Skewed Metrics (93) Mean Boy (140) Mean Boy Love Interest (56) Modern Morals (59) Nat 20s (112) Not Actually Dead (96) Nuclear Revenge (85) OP Protag (101) Power of Friendship (93) Power of Love (86) Self-Sacrifice (82) Shock Value (59) Sympathetic Evil (78) The Moral is Community (77) Tragic Backstory (100) Twist! (64) Uniquely Skilled (101) Unreliable Narrator (60) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (99) Western-Style Fantasy (107) Wrong Place Wrong Time (76) Zero to Hero (104)
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