M's Media Menagerie

Trigger Warning: Mysogyny

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

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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Ten Days in a Madhouse

Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book written by newspaper reporter Nellie Bly and published by Norman L. Munro in New York, NY in 1887. The book comprised Bly’s reportage for the New York World while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the
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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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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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A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic

A moving autobiographical manga about her father’s alcoholism that inspired a critically acclaimed live-action film. Mariko Kikuchi tells the painful story of her father’s alcoholism and her own journey through guilt to understanding her father’s illness. She rejects the common belief that family members can and should be forgiven for anything they do, no matter
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The Purge: Election Year

I find it funny that this movie came out in 2016, when Trump won the office for his first term. Like the other Purge film I talked about, the symbolism is in-your-face, criticizing the current government and begging people to trust the system and using their vote to change things rather than taking direct action.
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The Purge: Anarchy

As I watched it, I was laughing to myself. No wonder it is so popular a series. For people like me, it’s a criticism of the government putting systems in place that fuck over the lower class in order to build a world where those on top stay on top, enjoying the fruits of the
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Fresh

Bro. Bro. I fucking loved this movie. It was nasty. It was great. It spoke to me on a fundamental level. Let me start with something I wrote right after it: excellent film, fresh 2022, however all the thirst on kemp when mollie is there is insane. also the man is a cheater. filthy cheating
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Soseki Natsume’s I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition

All cats die in the end
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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:

10

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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