Trigger Warning: Child Abuse

  • 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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  • New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Aaah… what a stupendous collection, with so many big names in comics! My favorite in this anthology ended up being Written in Stone, by Carla Speed McNeil. I ended up reading it three times back to back, and then once more before I put down the book. (I reread it when I opened the book

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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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  • When a Magician’s Pupil Smiles

    When a Magician’s Pupil Smiles

    It’s a really interesting concept— main character Ouka Namae doesn’t possess feelings… until he does, in which case, he is overcome with the insatiable desire to kill the one he finds dear to him. The first chapter introduces us to the concept, the second brings in the background with a traitor to magicians, and after

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  • Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun Season 3

    Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun Season 3

    I feel like with every season, this show gets even better and the budget goes absolutely nuts. (spoiler videos) This season is mostly the Harvest Festival, but he do have some training montage stuff in the beginning where Iruma finally learns how to fight! Bachiko is a fun character, and we spend more time developing

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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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  • Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin 1

    Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin 1

    ISEKAI’D BY: Illness 🙁 I Reincarnated As The Evil God Of My Favorite Civilization. Takuto Ira succumbed to illness at a young age and ended up reincarnating in a world that resembles the fantasy turn-based strategy game Eternal Nations. Not only did he reincarnate into his favorite game, but as the god who commands the

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  • I Tamed my Ex-Husband’s Mad Dog 1

    I Tamed my Ex-Husband’s Mad Dog 1

    We love to see it. After stabbing her freshly exed husband through the leg— definitely fucking up his tibia and fibula for life— the Lady Lincke is banished to her family’s last holdings, House Paledawn. On the way she picks up a kid who believes his name is shit and takes him in as her

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  • How I Became King By Eating Monsters #1

    How I Became King By Eating Monsters #1

    Eat Or Die! The first prince of the kingdom of Farune, Mars, is only twelve years old, yet he lives in fear of assassination. In order to avoid the deadly poison in nearly all of his meals, he slips out of the castle into the nearby monster-infested forest, where, battling monsters and his own hunger,

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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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Absolute Asshole NPC (93) A Fetish For Suffering (48) Can't Say No (77) Chekov's Gun (48) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (80) Cursed (65) Damsel in Distress (64) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (92) Dangerous Reputation (90) Doting Husband (68) Double Identity (44) 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 (56) I Know a Guy (52) Last Minute Hero (107) Loss of Humanity (54) Main Character Coloring (75) MC's Skewed Metrics (76) Mean Boy (124) Mean Boy Love Interest (49) Modern Morals (49) Nat 20s (93) Not Actually Dead (81) Nuclear Revenge (70) OP Protag (92) Petty Revenge (45) Power of Friendship (79) Power of Love (75) Self-Sacrifice (70) Shock Value (47) Sympathetic Evil (68) The Moral is Community (62) Tragic Backstory (84) Twist! (60) Uniquely Skilled (90) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (81) Western-Style Fantasy (88) Wrong Place Wrong Time (65) Zero to Hero (82)


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