Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

  • 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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  • You were just selling lemonade.

    You were just selling lemonade.

    Part of the Fuck Capitalism Jam 2025. One of the most popular entries in the jam, I decided to take a quick peek to distract myself from other shit. I wrote my comment (“Hits like a lemon truck”) but I’m still shy of making my full analyses on actual places where people can see. Go

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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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  • The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash

    The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash

    please watch this anime Born into a loving family, Femicia appears to have a bright future ahead of her. When she finally turns five, the time comes to go to the church to have her skills appraised. However, while she does receive a monster tamer skill, it turns out that Femicia has zero stars for

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  • Letterkenny

    Letterkenny

    As a whole, or for the rest of the seasons, whichever. Letterkenny was something we started watching with our buds— I’ve seen a bit of it before, yeah, and our buds reminded me it existed so I says, hell yeah. We’re gonna watch it. Pull it up. Now we just finished all twelve seasons and

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  • Nude Model and Other Stories

    Nude Model and Other Stories

    HEED THE TRIGGER WARNINGS Three stories, each one hitting like a truck on their own. The first two, Nude Model and Girl deal in underage sexuality, while the last story, Kamiya, is about one’s willingness to give themselves up to be used because of love. Nude Model sets up the expectations for the rest of

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  • Formerly, the Fallen Daughter of the Duke #1-5

    Formerly, the Fallen Daughter of the Duke #1-5

    Claire, a daughter of the esteemed duke, is faced with a sudden annulment of her engagement to Prince Asbert, the Prince of the great Kingdom of Noston. Being scorned as the fallen duke’s daughter and labeled as the villainess, Claire leaves everything behind and heads towards a new place in order to gain her true

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  • A Man & His Cat Picture Book: Fukumaru and the Spaceship of Happiness

    A Man & His Cat Picture Book: Fukumaru and the Spaceship of Happiness

    Yall remember A Man & His Cat? Probably not because I literally just wrote that one up and no one his here. Shut up. The author made a picture book for the series! It’s cute, a little lovely story about how happiness isn’t found in objects, but in memories and experiences. Highly recommend for the

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  • A Man & His Cat

    A Man & His Cat

    There is one cat at the local pet shop that has been waiting a long time for someone to bring him home. He has reached adulthood alone in his cage, avoided by potential owners for petty reasons like not being cute enough or being snotty. His fortune changes one day when an elderly gentleman named

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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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