Genre: Romance

  • Natsume & Natsume Vol. 1

    Natsume & Natsume Vol. 1

    Natsume Shiranui has the face of a villain. From strangers on the street to his own high school classmates, his creepy grin freaks everybody out. But secretly he yearns to be a hero like his childhood friend — the kind, brave, and beautiful Natsume Minazuki. Can he become her hero, or is he destined to

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  • The Unbreakable Bladesong Druid

    The Unbreakable Bladesong Druid

    My greatest enemy has always been myself. Over the past few weeks, I’ve painstakingly put my broken pieces back together, from the dark mysteries of my past to the heart-rending conflict of my present. But just when I finally start to feel whole again, everything around me falls apart. Lallakai, the newly ascended Queen of

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  • The Twice-Scorned Lady of Shadow

    The Twice-Scorned Lady of Shadow

    I’m learning to embrace who and what I am, but there’s one thing I can’t face: the night Zak betrayed me. But even with the mysteries of our shared past hanging between us, I can’t turn Zak away when he asks for my help. Powerful fae are going missing, and when he tried to investigate,

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  • The Long-Forgotten Winter King

    The Long-Forgotten Winter King

    Everyone is keeping secrets. Zak won’t reveal what really happened between us ten years ago. Ríkr’s been hiding so much I scarcely recognize him anymore. But the biggest secret belongs to my parents, and it’s the one I’m most desperate to unravel. Finding out who they really were, and who I am, means solving their

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  • The One and Only Crystal Druid

    The One and Only Crystal Druid

    Ten years ago, I risked everything on a nameless boy. I came out the other side with a murder conviction, a prison sentence, and a minor case of amnesia. I forgot everything about that boy, and now I’m out on parole, just a nobody witch volunteering at an animal rescue and keeping a low profile.

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  • Ayakashi Hunter’s Tainted Bride Vol. 1

    Ayakashi Hunter’s Tainted Bride Vol. 1

    This is a Cinderella story, for sure. This girl is fucked over to hell and back because of a jealous cousin vying for the hand of the next head of the family. MC gets attacked by an enormous orangutan (heavily implied to have been raped), gets marked for life (literally tainted), and then suffers abuse

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  • Boyfriend, Sometimes Girlfriend Vol. 1

    Boyfriend, Sometimes Girlfriend Vol. 1

    This is actually quite cute and very sapphic. Hetero sapphic? I’m fascinated by the kiss to lady dynamic and how it tries to approach the gender change. It also is more realistic about how boob are and features an in-depth bra fitting chapter which is just very nice. This is for the sapphic/bi folks out

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  • Bride of the Death God Vol. 1

    Bride of the Death God Vol. 1

    “You’re gonna die in seven days.” Most people would break down in tears upon hearing such words from the Grim Reaper himself. But when Aibi, a terminally ill teenager, is given her fate, she simply smiles, thanks him for the warning, and even calls him kind—leaving the Reaper utterly baffled. No one acknowledged their existence

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  • Black & White: Tough Love at the Office

    Black & White: Tough Love at the Office

    Shockingly intense yuri. It very much earns the Toxic Yuri tag. Two women who are so very similar compete with one another to climb up the rank in their corporate office. They absolutely hate one another’s guts and somehow this ends up in a contest to see who tops. 100% they are just into each

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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: 23/50
46%
Comics Read in 2026: 51/200
25%
Physical Owned Books Read: 470/809
58%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (93) Accidentally in Charge (43) A Fetish For Suffering (48) Can't Say No (76) Chekov's Gun (47) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (79) Cursed (64) Damsel in Distress (64) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (91) Dangerous Reputation (89) Doting Husband (68) Everyone Loves MC (94) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (49) Fan Service (98) Grumpy x Sunshine (54) Hypercompetent MC (74) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (55) I Know a Guy (52) Last Minute Hero (106) Loss of Humanity (53) Main Character Coloring (75) MC's Skewed Metrics (76) Mean Boy (123) Mean Boy Love Interest (49) Modern Morals (48) Nat 20s (92) Not Actually Dead (80) Nuclear Revenge (70) OP Protag (92) Petty Revenge (45) Power of Friendship (78) Power of Love (74) Self-Sacrifice (69) Shock Value (47) Sympathetic Evil (67) The Moral is Community (62) Tragic Backstory (84) Twist! (59) Uniquely Skilled (90) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (80) Western-Style Fantasy (87) Wrong Place Wrong Time (65) Zero to Hero (81)


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