Genre: Nonfiction

  • Please Don’t Feed the Bears: A Heavy Metal Vegan Cookbook

    Please Don’t Feed the Bears: A Heavy Metal Vegan Cookbook

    Learn to cook a range of brutally tasty yet simple plant-based dishes, accompanied by heavy metal and punk lyrics, art, and ethos. This vegan cookbook is jam packed with recipes for stews, soups, sauces, noodle & bean dishes, baked entrees, and desserts, interspersed with illustrations of adorable armed animals, meditations on suicide, a crossword puzzle,…

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  • Filipinx: Heritage Recipes from the Diaspora

    Filipinx: Heritage Recipes from the Diaspora

    A queer, trans look at the food of the diaspora and how colonization affected the food of the Filipinos. Food for and from people like me. This cookbook was made for me.

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  • Curry Everyday

    Curry Everyday

    jesus christ there is a shitload of curry and curry related foods that span two continents in here. “Jaipur to Japan” in fucking deed. very curious to try and make a LOT of these!!!!

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  • Make It Plant-Based! Mexican

    Make It Plant-Based! Mexican

    Shockingly, soy sauce and tofu are big ingredients, and not potatoes and corn like I thought.

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  • Make It Plant Based! Filipino

    Make It Plant Based! Filipino

    I was on the prowl for vegetarian/vegan cookbooks at first and then I pivoted to Filipino cookbooks, and lo! A combination! It was perfect! Our favorite is the “Low and Slow Vegetable Stew”.

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  • Cozy Days: The Art of Iraville

    Cozy Days: The Art of Iraville

    Ira “Iraville” Sluyterman van Langewedye is a popular contemporary illustrator beloved for her charming watercolour illustrations of nature, small towns, idyllic scenes, and everyday life. This title brings together a collection of her best work in a giftworthy, lavishly presented hardback art book, which includes never-before-seen images, impressive portfolio pieces, insightful works in progress, beautiful…

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  • Why Free Games

    Why Free Games

    HURRAH pictured is the whole zine it’s a free game manifesto and i like it. sweetfish also links to other articles and stuff at the source above so please go look

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  • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

    Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how “cultish” groups, from Jonestown and Scientologists to SoulCycle and social media gurus, use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason…

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  • Lincoln Library Community Cookbook

    Lincoln Library Community Cookbook

    I’M IN THIS 8) It’s a bunch of community recipes, a good chunk of which are derived from internet recipes. That said, these are all real and very simple recipes, so I think I’m actually gonna use it. You can actually get a digital copy here! Also, if you browse the PDF, I’m on page…

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  • Trashed

    Trashed

    Every week we pile our garbage on the curb and it disappears–like magic! The reality is anything but, of course. Trashed, Derf Backderf’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller My Friend Dahmer, is an ode to the crap job of all crap jobs–garbage collector. Anyone who has ever been trapped in a soul-sucking…

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


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