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  • How to Get Off Social Media and Still Keep In Touch With Your Friends

    How to Get Off Social Media and Still Keep In Touch With Your Friends

    graphical ideas for strengthening your bonds! With a strategy for maintaining your relationships outside the confines of the internet, this little zine is part personal reflection on the merits of unplugging and part instruction manual for successfully extricating yourself from the ever-more-nightmarish world of social media. Author Sylvia Friday reflects on the uses of social media, and

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  • She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat Vol. 1-2

    She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat Vol. 1-2

    Cooking is how Nomoto de-stresses, but one day, she finds herself making way more than she can eat by herself. And so, she invites her neighbor Kasuga, who also lives alone. What will come out of this impromptu dinner invitation…? I have two more volumes to read later but I figured I would tackle this

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  • Columbo S01 E02

    Columbo S01 E02

    This is all I got to say:

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  • Shadows House Vol. 1-9

    Shadows House Vol. 1-9

    Shadows House—a strange mansion that receives no callers, inhabited by a race of faceless shadows who play at being aristocrats and are waited on hand and foot by “living dolls,” who also serve as their masters’ faces. What goes on inside this enigmatic manor is anyone’s guess, but soot and shrieks billow up from within…

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  • After God Vol. 1-6

    After God Vol. 1-6

    Desperate for answers about her friend’s disappearance, Waka breaches the Tokyo danger zone in search of clues. Instead, she finds Tokinaga, a researcher with the Anti-God Scientific Research Institute. While Waka tries to decide if she should trust Tokinaga, he quickly realizes Waka is hiding a dangerous secret of her own—one that may just be

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  • Too Old For This

    Too Old For This

    A retired serial killer’s quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there’s only one option left—what’s another murder? From bestselling author Samantha Downing. Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her. Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town. Her most exciting nights are

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  • My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren’t Wicked Vol. 1

    My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren’t Wicked Vol. 1

    Miya is the illegitimate child of a prominent family. When her mother dies and her father’s estate agrees to take her in, she’s convinced she knows what awaits her in her new home: a life of servitude and misery at the hands of her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. Yet when she finally meets the women

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  • Asahina Wakaba and Her Chubby-Chubby Boyfriend Vol. 1-3

    Asahina Wakaba and Her Chubby-Chubby Boyfriend Vol. 1-3

    Asahina Wakaba, a girl who is a bit clumsy and not good at socializing, gets bullied into asking out the school’s biggest, most despised, otaku, Haruto Iruma. However, this experience changes her pitch-black high school years into the ultimate young-love experience. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this series. I just sort of pick

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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: 55/200
28%
Physical Owned Books Read: 470/809
58%


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