Category: Zines

  • Lake Life

    Lake Life

    Lake Fama discusses his trans experience going from she -> they -> he. It’s awesome!

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  • How to Get Off Social Media and Still Keep In Touch With Your Friends

    How to Get Off Social Media and Still Keep In Touch With Your Friends

    graphical ideas for strengthening your bonds! With a strategy for maintaining your relationships outside the confines of the internet, this little zine is part personal reflection on the merits of unplugging and part instruction manual for successfully extricating yourself from the ever-more-nightmarish world of social media. Author Sylvia Friday reflects on the uses of social media, and

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  • Kweer Kat’s Guide to Self-Care

    Kweer Kat’s Guide to Self-Care

    A quick little zine done in beautiful risograph covers and what seems to be screentoned artwork. It’s lovely and cute.

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  • KataMonogatari (Bakemonogatari Fanbook)

    KataMonogatari (Bakemonogatari Fanbook)

    I have never read Bakemonogatari and also, I don’t remember where I got this. It’s scans of ecchi fanart of Bakemonogatari ladies. The art is pretty solid. Ummm. 👍

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  • RRR Zine 2

    RRR Zine 2

    Wonderful. Lovely. Exuberant. Oozing with love.

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  • Left on Redd

    Left on Redd

    Listen, I’m a HUGE fan of Violaine Briat. I’ve followed Rodney R Rodney since its inception and got to see this post live. It was my dream to finally own a copy! I do really love the loose and fun style she has. Combine it with the heartfelt storyline and you get a cozy comic

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  • The Last King, the Last Priest

    The Last King, the Last Priest

    An existential debate examining the cyclical nature of preserving a way of life even while trying to improve on it. Good, short read: highly recommend.

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  • 778 Days

    778 Days

    A simple, strong opening that delves into the struggle of being transmasculine. Having to reconcile the former feminine with the awareness of the inherent privilege of being a passing man, the preconceptions of the effects of testosterone on the body, the extremes of dysphoria, and remembering the past. It’s short, it’s sweet, and it’s a

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  • Designing Barbarous

    Designing Barbarous

    So, I really love Barbarous. I reread the minibook of the design and process for Barbarous again (I have it digital) and just… it’s so great to see the process other artists go through for story and design. I’ve been following Yuko and Ananth since… woof, since the beginning of Johnny Wander? Since before that

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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:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/50
38%
Comics Read in 2026: 39/200
19%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/830
58%


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