Trigger Warning: Child Abuse

  • I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time

    I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time

    Bro, so, uh. This opening has absolutely no reason to go this hard. It legitimately looks better than the actual episodes. I. I admittedly. Have just sat and watched it a few times. The fuckin dinosaur and everything. Honestly, I really want to read the manga now because I. I want to see what else……

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  • I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss

    I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss

    Y’all have no idea how jazzed I was to see that this is an anime. I’ve read the manga a few times, but the manga stops right after she successfully stops the Demon Lord from changing. Imagine my surprise at the second half of the series!! And I also am collecting the light novel series…

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  • Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four!

    Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four!

    ISEKAI’D BY: Summoning! Harem Scale H: MC has the good sense to always try to help people. A: MC is very aware of the fact that all the women are very hot with tits out to there, but at the same time, he isn’t aware that they adore him. R: Uchimura and Ulmandra. Ulmandra is…

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  • Ice Cream Man: Sundae Edition, Vol. 1

    Ice Cream Man: Sundae Edition, Vol. 1

    “I’ve literally never read anything like this ‘genre-defying’ sorta-anthology thing, but it’s f*cking awesome. The writing is strange and deeply unsettling, and the artwork is gorgeous. The new comic I most look forward to reading each month.” –Brian K. Vaughan, Saga Collecting the first twelve issues of the critically acclaimed, best-selling anthology comic ICE CREAM…

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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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  • To Your Eternity 1-21

    To Your Eternity 1-21

    I’ve always been somewhat in love with this series. And recently I’ve had the joy to get my digital collection up to date— for a long time I only had the ten volumes from a Humble Bundle—and since I was sick, I figured I would slam it back. And my god, did I weep exactly…

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  • Why Don’t You Eat Me, My Dear Wolf?

    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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  • 100 Ghost Stories That will Lead to My Own Death Vol. 01

    100 Ghost Stories That will Lead to My Own Death Vol. 01

    I am a sucker for ghost story anthologies like this. Some stories linger, some flop, and then you have the framework to wonder about as well. Also, sometimes fun art. The conceit is that a grade schooler, depressed and suicidal, was told about these 100 ghost stories. He’ll summon a real ghost if he manages…

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  • Am I Actually the Strongest? 1-2

    Am I Actually the Strongest? 1-2

    ISEKAI’D BY: Goddess! Harem Scale H: He feels an obligation to impress his sister and protect the family that picked him up after he was thrown away by his birth family. A: As there are only two members, he is not quite aware yet. R: No romance to speak of; he sort of thinks of…

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  • Don’t Let the Forest In

    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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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: 27/50
54%
Comics Read in 2026: 93/200
45%
Physical Owned Books Read: 482/848
56%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (102) Accidentally in Charge (50) A Fetish For Suffering (56) Can't Say No (83) Chekov's Gun (53) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (85) Cursed (74) Damsel in Distress (70) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (101) Dangerous Reputation (97) Doting Husband (72) Double Identity (47) Everyone Loves MC (100) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (53) Fan Service (105) Grumpy x Sunshine (56) Hypercompetent MC (79) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (59) I Know a Guy (59) Last Minute Hero (117) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (82) MC's Skewed Metrics (81) Mean Boy (131) Mean Boy Love Interest (50) Modern Morals (53) Nat 20s (102) Not Actually Dead (90) Nuclear Revenge (78) OP Protag (96) Power of Friendship (84) Power of Love (77) Self-Sacrifice (76) Shock Value (51) Sympathetic Evil (72) The Moral is Community (66) Tragic Backstory (91) Twist! (62) Uniquely Skilled (96) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (86) Western-Style Fantasy (97) Wrong Place Wrong Time (68) Zero to Hero (89)


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