the days shorten


time makes me feel like a fuckin bozo

⋆.˚🍂⋆.˚

truth be told… i have not been reading many books that i own lately. not physically. i have been reading… webtoons. and manga. i have had a hard time focusing on words. perhaps i will have a runup for the last three months of the year since i am 18 books short of my 50 word-book goal, but it’s more likely i will meet my comic goal of 200 way early. it’s a shame i am not counting the cookbooks i am reading.

*:・🥧 ೃ࿔

i did acquire a handful of cookbooks for adjusting my eating habits this month, and i finished collecting one of my favorite series (sweat & soap). i may end up rereading the series again now that i have it fully collected but it isn’t going to budge my unread pile since… well. i’ve read the whole damn thing already.

i updated the trope definitions a touch since i’ve been adding tropes for the various things i’ve read, but i have not gone back and added the new tropes to old reviews. forgive me for i will not do that.

a new slime has entered the pen. it’s elder! he is from THE ISEKAI DOCTOR, which I am currently reading. sad to say that he looks way cuter than the other slimes. sorry guys. maybe i will redo the other slimes someday. or maybe not. they’re cute in their own ways.

₊ ☕︎⊹

september may bring cozy vibes, but i am about to get very busy with yet more dr’s appointments. i may or may not get more reading done. we shall see.

there is no changes to the site that are planned so we’re still smooth sailing.

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: 32/50
64%
Comics Read in 2026: 213/200
100%
Physical Owned Books Read: 460/823
56%


Menagerie Categories


Tagged in the Menagerie

Absolute Asshole NPC (117) Accidentally in Charge (60) A Fetish For Suffering (66) Can't Say No (107) Chekov's Gun (61) Conveniently Cut-Off (57) Curiosity Fucks You Up (92) Cursed (82) Damsel in Distress (84) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (114) Dangerous Reputation (117) Doting Husband (80) Double Identity (57) Everyone Loves MC (112) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (57) Fan Service (119) Grumpy x Sunshine (62) Hypercompetent MC (91) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (65) I Know a Guy (75) Last Minute Hero (131) Loss of Humanity (61) Main Character Coloring (97) MC's Skewed Metrics (95) Mean Boy (144) Mean Boy Love Interest (59) Modern Morals (60) Nat 20s (117) Not Actually Dead (101) Nuclear Revenge (88) OP Protag (103) Power of Friendship (97) Power of Love (89) Self-Sacrifice (84) Shock Value (62) Sympathetic Evil (82) The Moral is Community (80) Tragic Backstory (101) Twist! (66) Uniquely Skilled (104) Unreliable Narrator (61) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (101) Western-Style Fantasy (111) Wrong Place Wrong Time (77) Zero to Hero (107)


Slime Pen