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  • Lovesickness

    Lovesickness

    An innocent love becomes a bloody hell in another superb collection by master of horror Junji Ito. Ryusuke returns to the town he once lived in because rumors are swirling about girls killing themselves after encountering a bewitchingly handsome young man. Harboring his own secret from time spent in this town, Ryusuke attempts to capture…

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  • Picasso: The Beauty and the Beast

    Picasso: The Beauty and the Beast

    I’m doing the presenting on an episode for WWYAT and I needed another way to really understand the people affected by Picasso and the attitude held by people. Another perspective, with a helping of historical context. And I really needed to understand the context for his art. Just reading Wikipedia and online articles does not…

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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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  • 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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  • The Prince in the Basement

    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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  • The Descent

    The Descent

    I’ve seen this one a few times, actually, so I rewatched it because I don’t think I ever saw the Descent 2 and wanted to revisit it. I remember young me, 12 years old, thinking, oh god. Juno is hot. It’s a good movie, led by an all-female cast. I love cave creature movies and…

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  • Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

    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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  • Stab the Rabbit

    Stab the Rabbit

    This book is just a way to alleviate some masculine violence, bro. I’m not joking. It’s got a few stories in it and it takes a juvenile delight in using slurs and doesn’t really have a care for being “politically correct”, as angry male comics would put it. They let you know right in the…

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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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  • Lady Devil

    Lady Devil

    PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF THE TRIGGER WARNINGS. Finally. I finally finished this story. Once, eons ago, I started reading this while it was updating. It was one of those services where you need to unlock chapters with money each time so I (as usual) fell off the horse. Now I have finally read the whole…

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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: 23/100
23%
Comics Read in 2025: 90/100
90%
Physical Owned Books Read: 403/665
60%


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