Trigger Warning: Child Abuse

  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick. Sometimes I’ll be chilling in the living room and someone turns a movie on and I end up watching it. It’s a rather surface level morality movie that says that maybe

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  • Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans

    Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans

    My god, I thought I already wrote up a review for this. It’s a fantastic, inspiring read meant to give trans kids hope for the future, to see that they have a future.

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  • For My Adorable Fiancée’s Sake Vol. 1 & 2

    For My Adorable Fiancée’s Sake Vol. 1 & 2

    The world, it seems like it is that of the Otome game “Welcome Princess,” but there’s something off!? Elliot, the eldest son of a Marquis family and one of the targets you can go after is an insanely handsome young man, both cool and wicked, master of both pen and sword. His only weakness (?)

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  • Cat Man

    Cat Man

    Hachisuke is a cat humanoid living in a world where humans and cats coexist. But Hachisuke is withdrawn and has difficulty being loved by humans. After all, cats are still treated as cute “objects” for humans. See the world through Hachisuke’s eyes as he tries to fit into modern society and endure the prejudice that

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  • The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases Vol 1

    The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases Vol 1

    Deemed a “good-for-nothing” for his low level and lack of a god-given Gift, Allen is stripped of his noble status and banished from the Duchy of Westfeldt. But Allen has a secret: he was a great hero in a previous life, and he’s thrilled for the chance to finally live the way he pleases! His

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  • The Witch

    The Witch

    (lovely poster variant made by Becky Cloonan) In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member’s faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways. Karen has been wondering about the Witch

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  • The House of My Mother

    The House of My Mother

    I heard about this book from a video of the arrest of Jodi Hildebrandt and Ruby Franke. Boze linked Shari Franke’s book, so I decided to read it. There is no better way to see how someone is feeling and dealing with everything than to read it in their own words. (here’s one of Boze’s

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  • As A Reincarnated Aristocrat, I’ll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World Vol 1-2

    As A Reincarnated Aristocrat, I’ll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World Vol 1-2

    ISEKAI’D BY: Overwork! An ordinary salaryman dies one day and is reborn as Ars Louvent, the son of a noble. Although he is not talented in magic or swordplay, he does have one skill that no one else possesses: Appraisal. Using this ability, Ars can determine a person’s current strength, how much potential they hold,

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  • An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride Vol. 1-11

    An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride Vol. 1-11

    With an aloof demeanor, intimidating appearance, and tremendous power, Zagan the mage is seen as an evil sorcerer and feared by all around him. As he goes about his daily routine of studying magic and punishing any ruffians he comes across, he accepts an invitation to a mysterious auction featuring various items of a late

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  • One Room of Happiness Vol. 1-11

    One Room of Happiness Vol. 1-11

    The amount of psychic damage I took from this series should b illegal. It’s so heartfelt, so intense at times, that I would put down the series and walk away. I cried at the end for Sachi and Mister. The first few chapters gives the reader a strong impression of this being a kidnapping yandere

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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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