Well the pop culture dungeons one seems vaguely apropos at the moment.

It's got a slideshow of photos (most of them not by Traceless in particular) of dungeons themed (more or less loosely) around Dr. Seuss, Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Little Prince, Alice in Wonderland, Charlotte's Web, Watership Down, various Biblical scenarios, Pinocchio, Anne Frank's attic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the Wizard of Oz, Terminator, arguably-Jurassic-Park-though-it-might-just-be-pop-culture-dinosaurs-generically, Tetris, Mario Kart, Pokémon, Grand Theft Auto, Minecraft, Legos, DDR, Super Smash Bros, Oregon Trail, the Simpsons, three different individual Black Mirror episodes, Space Invaders, the concept of the yellow smiley face, Westworld, and a few dozen more. There's more listed that nobody took pictures of.

Dungeons actually do this a lot, but they have no particular inclination to do it in locations where people will recognize the properties they're plagiarizing; for example, the Very Hungry Caterpillar dungeon appeared in Dhaka and was identified only after the fact (it's dead) via the photos and the fact that it featured caterpillar monsters burrowing through victims' bodies. They're usually not perfect representations of the contents of whatever they're mimicking - there are Dr. Seuss dungeon monsters that people call loraxes and sneetches, but if you compare to the drawings in the books, they're not identical even accounting for the fact that the one's a three-dimensional monster and the other's a two-dimensional sketch. It's likely that a lot of dungeons are blurring the line, the way the "Jurassic Park" dungeon does - sure, Jurassic Park looked like that, but that's also just what everyone would expect a dinosaur zoo to be like, surely? It doesn't have conspicuous amber and mosquitoes, it doesn't have velociraptors out of proportion to the triceratopses - and thus going unnoticed. Furthermore, non-speculative-fiction properties would not have such obviously discernible features; dungeons don't normally have incidental music or human-looking monsters, so if a dungeon were aping the movie Titanic and not just the actual ship Titanic, there's no good way to notice.

Even if you factor these out entirely dungeons are clearly responding to the human psyche in some way - dungeons with monsters that look like pandas, dolphins, or dodos are more common than ones with monsters that look like less popular but equally common animals; most dungeons are "indoor" settings, often in artificial looking environments with plaster/worked metal/carved wood/bricks/etc., but the pop culture ones make it really, really obvious. There's a ton of links at the end to various people speculating about what this means; Traceless himself is frustrated and unsure but thinks these three essays seem especially lucid.

"Okay, I see what you meant about weirdly specific dungeons! That is so many. Oh, the Dr. Seuss dungeon is still around isn't it? I think I heard something about that one."

"Yeah, it's been around the block, nobody's found the core yet. It scares people pretty badly but seldom actually injures them, but it's - inventive - so you never know. If there were a proper monster zoo and we found the core I'd really like a whole habitat of the monsters from it, they're so aesthetically coherent and there's plants to match, but if wishes were horses..."

"I bet it would be a very popular exhibit. But you can't keep monsters long-term while the dungeon is still alive."

"You absolutely cannot, yeah."

"Well, maybe someday they'll find the core, in whatever wacky geometric and architectural bullshit the place is doing. And I hope you get your exhibit when they do. It really would be something."

"I have occasionally had the thought that I should found the monster zoo I wish to see in the world."

She's startled by that though it's (thankfully) less obvious with the scarf.

"That would also be something. It'd be a huge investment though, probably even in esper money? I bet it'd pay for itself eventually but that doesn't help you get the money in the first place."

"Yeah, I'd need outside funding, or to save up for kind of a while, especially at my present dungeon rate, though I do think it could pay for itself eventually most likely. Cricket goes to a vet but there's never actually anything wrong, I think monsters are probably mostly lower maintenance than animals of similar sizes."

She wonders if he...actually she probably should save thinking about that for later. Also she should really go to the bathroom actually. This is going to suck probably. "I should go to the bathroom." She secures her phone so it won't end up dropped.

Thumbs up.

She will..extract herself...yep that sucks actually. And go looking for the bathroom. Probably there is one somewhere near the living room.

Yup, right over there, not hard to find.

Then she will do her business, wash her hands and go back to the couch, plonk herself and lean in.

Snug.

Small sigh. That's muuuch better.

And eventually dinnertime rolls around. Ren blows in with groceries and waves at Katherine but doesn't try to engage her in conversation and instead warms up mashed potatoes (storebought) and puts a couple servings of meat in a frying pan.

Ren can have a wave back.

And while the pork chops are warming up Haru's phone beeps.

Work phone number? Work phone number. "Traceless."

"Hello this is Paige Sullivan speaking, can I just get Kathy to say hi first off, and then I have a few questions for you. Is now a good time?"

"We're going to sit down to dinner in a few but there's time for a few questions, of course. Katherine, can you say hi?"

"Sure." She takes the phone long enough to say 'Hi mom." and then hands it back.

"..My poor baby girl.She seems so stressed out. On the video too. She's usually much more emotive."