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.

The Substance

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Horror, SciFi

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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Stab the Rabbit

Fuck This

This book is just a way to alleviate some masculine violence, bro. I’m not joking. It’s got a few stories in it and it takes a juvenile delight in using slurs and doesn’t really have a care for being “politically correct”, as angry male comics would put it. They let you know right in the
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Lady Devil

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PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF THE TRIGGER WARNINGS. Finally. I finally finished this story. Once, eons ago, I started reading this while it was updating. It was one of those services where you need to unlock chapters with money each time so I (as usual) fell off the horse. Now I have finally read the whole
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The Purge: Anarchy

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Action, Horror, Pew Pew

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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Heretic

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Horror

One of the few times in life you’re going to sympathize with the Mormons in a movie.
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V/H/S/Beyond

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Action, Anthology, Horror, Parody, Pew Pew, SciFi

Time for aliens! Especially the cosmic horror of faster than light travel!
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Maeve Fly

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“Fuck everyone,” said Maeve. Her grandmother nods in sage agreement. “Fuck everyone.” A female serial killer who looks for a feminine guide in her serial killing life? Elsa encouraging people to touch boobs? The absolute dumbest sex scenes I have ever read in my life? Like dude. That egg is going to be absolutely swallowed…
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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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