Genre: Nonfiction

  • Manga Diary of a Male Porn Star Vol. 1

    Manga Diary of a Male Porn Star Vol. 1

    When your company goes bankrupt and your marriage is on the rocks, what’s a guy to do? Move to Tokyo to become an adult film star, of course! This diary-style comedy explores the pitfalls of an everyman who tries to break into the world of porno because it seems like a pleasurable way to restart

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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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  • Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

    Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

    A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators

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  • The New Queer Conscience

    The New Queer Conscience

    Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. In The New Queer Conscience, LGBTQIA+ activist Adam Eli argues the urgent need for queer responsibility — that queers anywhere are responsible for queers everywhere. Pocket

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  • Beginner’s Guide to Digital Zines

    Beginner’s Guide to Digital Zines

    One half of the beloved writer/artist team of Sister Claire has made a free zine for aspiring creators out there! It’s a quite pretty presentation akin to a slideshow that outlines the digital version of the modern zine, capturing how easy it is to create and how to promote it. It’s a very handy little

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  • Life with Picasso

    Life with Picasso

    Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso – he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma. Life with Picasso, her account of those extraordinary years, is filled

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  • Copycat Recipes 2

    Copycat Recipes 2

    When you have a craving for your favorite restaurant meal or treat, but don’t have the money to eat out , don’t fret! You can make many of your favorite recipes , from starters to dessert, at home ! Your kitchen just became your new favorite restaurant. Finding something you love at one of your

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  • The Nib: The Death Issue

    The Nib: The Death Issue

    It’s a wild subject to start on, and it addresses statistics, perspectives, and the current sciences surrounding death. The comics are insightful. Funny. Not always something I agree with, but it does open up more about what people are thinking about when they approach death. The sacredness of the act of dying, the fear of

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  • Queer Code

    Queer Code

    Honestly, a big agree with Panic Volkushka on this. The sense of seeing queerness in the strange and the villainous is a big one. Included is also a nice long list of recommended films to check out as well.

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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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