Trigger Warning: Homophobia

  • Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke

    Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke

    When popular vlogger Ruby Franke is arrested for child abuse in August 2023, it quickly becomes one of the biggest trending stories in America. For years, the Frankes’ YouTube channel had documented a wholesome, happy family life, with nearly 3 million subscribers tuning in at its peak. But as the cracks began to show, the

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  • Amy Bradley is Missing

    Amy Bradley is Missing

    someone slap the cruise director upside the fucking head, bro what the fuck

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  • Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations—and Take Over Our Lives

    Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations—and Take Over Our Lives

    (re: the content warnings pertain to the discussion of what the cults have committed. the book stays away from graphic depictions and distances itself from items to deliver them in an informative manner.) this book is beautiful. i’m just as taken in by the typography and typesetting as i am by the subject matter. details:

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  • Northranger

    Northranger

    In this swoony and spooky teen summer romance graphic novel set on a Texas ranch, sixteen-year-old Cade Muñoz finds himself falling for the ranch owner’s mysterious and handsome son, only to discover that he may be harboring a dangerous secret. Cade has always loved to escape into the world of a good horror movie. After

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  • This Delicious Death

    This Delicious Death

    Four best friends, one music festival, and a cooler filled with human organs: this summer is about to get gory. ​​​ Jennifer’s Body fans will clamor for this new sapphic horror standalone from New York Times bestselling author Kayla Cottingham. Three years ago, the melting of arctic permafrost released a pathogen of unknown origin into

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  • Middle of the Night

    Middle of the Night

    In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend—and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood. The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July

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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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  • Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard Vol. 1-12

    Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard Vol. 1-12

    Office worker Kiyoshi Adachi has gone 30 years of life without ever having his cherry popped. Due to this profound accomplishment, he becomes a wizard with the ability to read minds through physical contact. However, he thinks his newly attained skill is hopelessly lame and has caused him to dislike crowded places. On the way

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  • The Girl That Couldn’t Get a Girlfriend

    The Girl That Couldn’t Get a Girlfriend

    Mirai… is really fucking funny. Even while writing so much about the trauma from her first gay relationship, she addresses it with humor and self-awareness. You can feel the agony and the growing pains. It’s hard, man, to see and feel that pain with her. And then the growth, gods. I want… to be friends

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  • Our Sweet One-Room Apartment

    Our Sweet One-Room Apartment

    PAGE 1 LIGHTSABER DICK 8) Anyway, it’s the struggle of a closeted couple. It starts with one who feels like maybe they’re having too much sex and maybe it’s disruptive. Between the distance that the internal sex ban creates and the insecurity that’s been lingering around them because of being closeted, they end up finding

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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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