Genre: Drama

  • Why Don’t You Eat Me, My Dear Wolf?

    Why Don’t You Eat Me, My Dear Wolf?

    I threw the smut tag on here but it’s not until the final chapter (thankfully). This is a really soft, gentle manga.

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  • Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

    Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

    Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns , explores queerness in the shockingly frank and funny graphic novel Mimosa . Best friends and chosen family Chris, Elise, Jo, and Alex work hard to keep themselves afloat. Their regular brunches hold them together even as the…

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  • Pinky & Pepper Forever

    Pinky & Pepper Forever

    Content Warning: Suicide, Torture, Sexual Themes, Bondage, Cartoon Violence.Not for kids. After Pinky’s lethal performance art piece, her devoted girlfriend Pepper follows her into death, only to find that in Hell, Pinky is… thriving?! Pinky & Pepper Forever is a dark comedy full of furry fun and a little gay Catholic guilt. Follow these two…

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  • New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Aaah… what a stupendous collection, with so many big names in comics! My favorite in this anthology ended up being Written in Stone, by Carla Speed McNeil. I ended up reading it three times back to back, and then once more before I put down the book. (I reread it when I opened the book…

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  • How I Swapped Places with the Villainess, Beat Up Her Fiancé, and Found True Love 1

    How I Swapped Places with the Villainess, Beat Up Her Fiancé, and Found True Love 1

    ISEKAI’D BY: Truck-Kun! I’m The Villainess, So I’ll Just Beat Up My Problems! After dying in a traffic accident, I wound up in an otome game world. What’s more, I swapped places with a girl named Alexandra. The so-called heroine had already bewitched Alexandra’s fiancé–the second prince–and set her up as the villainess. To make…

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  • The Herbalist and the Landlord

    The Herbalist and the Landlord

    Honestly, I think this counts as a zine as well. Where did I even get this? It’s a mystery.* I ended up reading it more than once— literally I read it, then read it again, and then when I went to write about it, I read it agia . It’s a short 21 pager. The…

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  • When a Magician’s Pupil Smiles

    When a Magician’s Pupil Smiles

    It’s a really interesting concept— main character Ouka Namae doesn’t possess feelings… until he does, in which case, he is overcome with the insatiable desire to kill the one he finds dear to him. The first chapter introduces us to the concept, the second brings in the background with a traitor to magicians, and after…

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  • Lady Devil

    Lady Devil

    PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF THE TRIGGER WARNINGS. Finally. I finally finished this story. Once, eons ago, I started reading this while it was updating. It was one of those services where you need to unlock chapters with money each time so I (as usual) fell off the horse. Now I have finally read the whole…

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  • I Tamed my Ex-Husband’s Mad Dog 1

    I Tamed my Ex-Husband’s Mad Dog 1

    We love to see it. After stabbing her freshly exed husband through the leg— definitely fucking up his tibia and fibula for life— the Lady Lincke is banished to her family’s last holdings, House Paledawn. On the way she picks up a kid who believes his name is shit and takes him in as her…

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  • A Silent Voice #1-7

    A Silent Voice #1-7

    Shouya Ishida, a mischievous elementary school student, finds himself troubled by deaf transfer student Shouko Nishimiya. Despite her genuine attempts to befriend her new classmates, Shouko only proves herself to be an annoyance for Shouya and his friends, provoking them to ridicule her at any possible chance. Soon enough, their taunts turn into constant assault—yet…

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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: 31/50
62%
Comics Read in 2026: 112/200
56%
Physical Owned Books Read: 491/866
57%


Menagerie Categories


Tagged in the Menagerie

Absolute Asshole NPC (106) Accidentally in Charge (56) A Fetish For Suffering (59) Can't Say No (95) Chekov's Gun (55) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (87) Cursed (75) Damsel in Distress (76) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (107) Dangerous Reputation (105) Doting Husband (75) Double Identity (52) Everyone Loves MC (106) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (55) Fan Service (111) Grumpy x Sunshine (58) Hypercompetent MC (84) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (60) I Know a Guy (65) Last Minute Hero (121) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (88) MC's Skewed Metrics (86) Mean Boy (136) Mean Boy Love Interest (53) Modern Morals (57) Nat 20s (106) Not Actually Dead (92) Nuclear Revenge (81) OP Protag (100) Power of Friendship (89) Power of Love (81) Self-Sacrifice (77) Shock Value (54) Sympathetic Evil (73) The Moral is Community (70) Tragic Backstory (96) Twist! (62) Uniquely Skilled (99) Unreliable Narrator (58) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (93) Western-Style Fantasy (103) Wrong Place Wrong Time (73) Zero to Hero (98)


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