bro it’s april already


Fuck

the to-do list:

  • Add the recommended reading + webcomic page
  • Clean up the genres for my use of use
  • Finish the trope descriptions
  • Fix the archive pages variance on image size (it’s heinous)
  • Write the isekai species page (or perhaps call it the Wish Fulfillment fantasy page?)
  • Tidy the backend’s drafts, of which I have many.
  • Update the sidebar’s graphs.

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I’ve run into a new and honestly really funny problem: I’m chainsmoking media. Like, I’m reading too much to keep track of at a decent pace. The fault is… I came into a shitload of manga and it’s so easy to just throw back manga that I just… woops! Read too much!

I also recently have been trying to get through my backlog of movies and shows to watch, which means, uh, I’m also absolutely going mental over the, um. Everything. But at least this is a cool and also fun reason to fall behind. I can only write so much, so fast, and only at my home computer! But I can read everywhere— you see my problem? Lawd.

Another problem: I am reading my digital collection, so my physical collection is being neglected! Fuck!

I’m still stuck at 60.3%.

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Re: Recommended Reading + Webcomic Page. I got overwhelmed when I went sifting through my collection of webcomics. I’ll likely end up rereading and reviewing them and making a page… way later. I’ll keep it on the list, though.

Re: Clean up genres. This is tidied up and anything from mid-March on will have a slightly more granular genre listing.

Re: Trope Descriptions. Bro I have so many tropes. Holy fuck. I will never be done.

Re: Fix the archive pages variance on image size. I don’t care right now, honestly, and I’ll eventually get around to it.

Re: Isekai species page. I did not have time to get around to this one. I still want to do it, but I may end up not writing it on this blog, but my other blog.

Re: Tidying backdrafts. I will never be done. I’ve finished the backlog that I prepared, but I haven’t entered in at least 30 manga. God forgive me.

Re: Sidebar graphs. I updated them but I have a feeling this is going to be a rolling to-do.

✧。٩(ˊᗜˋ )و✧*。

I’ve breached 151 different records as of today! And this isn’t counting what hasn’t been published yet. I’m quite proud!

And, not that you’re going to see it often on the blog, I’ve broken the 15000 mark on digital books!

Not to worry… I’ll read it all someday. This month I read over 30 manga volumes at least (To Your Eternityx21, Deadman Wonderlandx13, some odds and ends…) and this is me trying to take it easy on the manga.

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  • Finish trope descriptions
  • Catch up on the backlog (rolling)
  • Update the sidebar (rolling)
  • Isekai Species page
  • Add “Other Media” to the front page

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:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/100
19%
Comics Read in 2025: 25/100
25%
Physical Owned Books Read: 400/662
60%


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