life is different now


i’m trying to make use of the extra time but it moves so quickly

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don’t LOOK at me, look at my stats instead, fucking christ.

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i’ll be honest. instead of reading, i’ve been playing minecraft. or reading library books. or manga. i’ve had a bad Health Experience in September that’s essentially redirected my life for better or worse, so that’s what I’m going to be dealing with for the next while. I’m more than a bit disconcerted because medical bills kicked the shit out of my finances, so on the good end, I’m not bringing any new books into the fold.

and on the bad end, well. i will be running on very little money for the foreseeable future so i’ll be very careful with what i spend. i may go on a Read Em All journey. Or I may just say fuck it, who knows. i’ve reevaluated some repeat expenses and my reading sub was one of them (i wasn’t using it anyway). i would sub again if i can read all the books i currently have AND have a more regular greater income.

i will have more time to devote to consuming media, but will i actually use it for consuming media? we will see. so far i have not really done much of the sort.

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october will be the adjustment period for me for the upcoming everythings.

there are no plans for changes to the site.

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: 38/50
76%
Comics Read in 2026: 221/200
100%
Physical Owned Books Read: 460/823
56%


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