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My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s fiendishly wicked comic novel about how blood is thicker – and more difficult to get out of the carpet – than water When Korede’s dinner is interrupted by a distress call from Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third…
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THE ISEKAI DOCTOR: Any sufficiently advanced medical science is indistinguishable from magic.
ISEKAI’D BY: God’s Intervention! Amami is a kind doctor who always puts other people first. Struck by lightning and knocked unconscious, he woke up to find himself in a parallel world peopled by beast folk, with a chimera stalking around to boot! How will Amami fare as a doctor teleported to a strange world where…
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Backrooms
Well this thing is an essay waiting to happen (written probably by someone else).
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Goblin Slayer
Harem Scale H: GS is classical antihero. A: He does not know he has a harem, but it’s pointed out by other characters. R: Look at this bad bitch I pulled in with my autism E: Tits & Ass M: I am a sucker for the series A young priestess has formed her first adventuring…
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Project Hail Mary
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge…
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Trashed
Every week we pile our garbage on the curb and it disappears–like magic! The reality is anything but, of course. Trashed, Derf Backderf’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller My Friend Dahmer, is an ode to the crap job of all crap jobs–garbage collector. Anyone who has ever been trapped in a soul-sucking…
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Galatea
An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece — the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen — the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea…
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We Sold Our Souls
In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success — but then lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom as Koffin, leaving his fellow bandmates to rot in rural Pennsylvania. Two decades later, former guitarist Kris Pulaski works as the night manager of a Best…
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Nightbitch
One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else… An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her…
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This Delicious Death
Four best friends, one music festival, and a cooler filled with human organs: this summer is about to get gory. Jennifer’s Body fans will clamor for this new sapphic horror standalone from New York Times bestselling author Kayla Cottingham. Three years ago, the melting of arctic permafrost released a pathogen of unknown origin into…
M's Media Menagerie
Thoughtful Dumping Grounds
Trope: You Can Write Essays On This One
There is so much going on subtextually that this needs further examination and analysis. You can literally pick one item and write an essay.
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 (55)
- Blog (21)
- Books (111)
- Comics (40)
- Dropped (17)
- Etcetera (12)
- Game (27)
- Light Novel (15)
- Magazines (1)
- Manga (216)
- Manwha (6)
- Movies (39)
- Podcast (2)
- Webcomic (3)
- Webtoon (9)
- Zines (23)
Tagged in the Menagerie
Absolute Asshole NPC (126) Accidentally in Charge (65) A Fetish For Suffering (71) Can't Say No (115) Chekov's Gun (66) Conveniently Cut-Off (58) Curiosity Fucks You Up (98) Cursed (88) Damsel in Distress (87) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (122) Dangerous Reputation (125) Doting Husband (84) Double Identity (61) Everyone Loves MC (114) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (58) Fan Service (125) Grumpy x Sunshine (65) Hypercompetent MC (95) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (68) I Know a Guy (82) Last Minute Hero (136) Loss of Humanity (64) Main Character Coloring (102) MC's Skewed Metrics (104) Mean Boy (146) Mean Boy Love Interest (62) Modern Morals (64) Nat 20s (121) Not Actually Dead (103) Nuclear Revenge (91) OP Protag (105) Power of Friendship (100) Power of Love (95) Self-Sacrifice (86) Shock Value (67) Sympathetic Evil (88) The Moral is Community (83) Tragic Backstory (107) Twist! (69) Uniquely Skilled (110) Unreliable Narrator (62) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (106) Western-Style Fantasy (117) Wrong Place Wrong Time (78) Zero to Hero (112)
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