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.

  • The Witch

    The Witch

    (lovely poster variant made by Becky Cloonan) In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member’s faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways. Karen has been wondering about the Witch…

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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:

12

Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 31/50
62%
Comics Read in 2026: 118/200
56%
Physical Owned Books Read: 460/823
56%

Menagerie Categories

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Absolute Asshole NPC (108) Accidentally in Charge (57) A Fetish For Suffering (60) Can't Say No (98) Chekov's Gun (58) Childhood Friends (53) Curiosity Fucks You Up (90) Cursed (77) Damsel in Distress (79) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (109) Dangerous Reputation (108) Doting Husband (76) Double Identity (53) Everyone Loves MC (107) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (56) Fan Service (112) Grumpy x Sunshine (59) Hypercompetent MC (86) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (61) I Know a Guy (67) Last Minute Hero (123) Loss of Humanity (59) Main Character Coloring (89) MC's Skewed Metrics (89) Mean Boy (137) Mean Boy Love Interest (54) Modern Morals (58) Nat 20s (108) Not Actually Dead (93) Nuclear Revenge (83) OP Protag (101) Power of Friendship (90) Power of Love (82) Self-Sacrifice (78) Shock Value (56) Sympathetic Evil (76) The Moral is Community (72) Tragic Backstory (97) Twist! (64) Uniquely Skilled (100) Unreliable Narrator (59) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (97) Western-Style Fantasy (104) Wrong Place Wrong Time (74) Zero to Hero (100)

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