M’s Media Menagerie

Genre: Gay

The Prince in the Basement

Do you need any more reason? Aside from the fact that this is an extremely Trans Tale.
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Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

This one took me a long time to read. Not because it was bad, but because sometimes reading one story was like being hit by a bus, and then I needed a long break before I went back to it. Horror is a reflection of the writer’s struggles, a very open dialogue about the problems…
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Would You Like to Be a Family

This is actually a collection of a couple stories, all of which are pretty cute one shots. I picked this one up because I’m a sucker for dark hair/dark eye mean lookin’ types. And family stuff. It’s cute. Look how petty he is. It’s so funny. That said, there are some, uh. Style drawbacks… In…
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A Beast’s Descent into Love

When thief Karim sneaks into a clandestine auction, he finds Asena, a beautiful young man with animal ears and a tail. On impulse, Karim steals him from the bidder who bought him for a hefty sum and decides to take responsibility, making arrangements to live with him for a month while he waits for the…
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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

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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Don’t Let the Forest In

*Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thomas had no idea that Andrew would do anything for him. Protect him. Lie for him. Kill for him.* High school senior Andrew Perrault finds refuge in the twisted fairytales that he writes for…
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Eldritch Lust #1

Beautiful art. Boring porn. “But M! This is about fucking otherworldly beings!” Yeah, but some of it’s so vague, or hard to see, and you kind of… can’t enjoy it as much? Maybe it’s the person between the keyboard and the chair who is the problem? Listen— they led with the best one first, which…
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World’s End Blue Bird #1-2

gay boys bang in the dystopian apocalypse
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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:

6

Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 23/100

23%

Comics Read in 2025: 90/100

90%

Physical Owned Books Read: 403/665

60%

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