Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault

  • The Gay Who Turned Kaiju

    The Gay Who Turned Kaiju

    Bullied for being gay, teenager Takashi Arashiro wishes he could just be somebody else—but who could predict he’d morph into a giant-headed sci-fi creature?! This is a story about acceptance. About the pettiness of people, about how some people change and how others don’t. Self-acceptance is the strongest acceptance one can have, and it would

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  • A Working Man

    A Working Man

    Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss’s daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined. pretty

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  • Scary Movie

    Scary Movie

    when i was a kid this was peak comedy.now it did not age well.it’s an old style wayans brothers production, leaning heavy on racial jokes and weed jokes and dick jokes and juvenile humor all around. that’s fine, but we veer into like… transphobic territory, homophobic territory, the terrible depiction of autistic people, and just…

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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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  • MONSTER INSIDE: AMERICA’S MOST EXTREME HAUNTED HOUSE

    MONSTER INSIDE: AMERICA’S MOST EXTREME HAUNTED HOUSE

    What would it be like to be trapped in a real-life horror movie?MONSTER INSIDE: AMERICA’S MOST EXTREME HAUNTED HOUSE follows the story of Russ McKamey. The Navy Veteran turned master of horror, who lures horror enthusiasts into his web. They find themselves pulled into the no-holds-barred world of McKamey Manor – a haunt that doesn’t

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  • Dinner for Vampires: Life On a Cult TV Show – While Also in an Actual Cult!

    Dinner for Vampires: Life On a Cult TV Show – While Also in an Actual Cult!

    A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free. In the early 2000s, after years of hard work and determination to breakthrough as an actor, Bethany Joy Lenz was finally cast as one of the leads on the

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  • Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World: The Ultimate Party is Born Vol. 1-6

    Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World: The Ultimate Party is Born Vol. 1-6

    Veteran adventurer Nick’s life is falling apart. Despite all the knowledge and expertise he’s devoted to his adventuring party, his respected leader kicked him out, his girlfriend dumped him, and his teammates shamelessly accused him of embezzlement. Tired, heartbroken, and looking for a drink, Nick chances upon a few kindred spirits who are jaded as

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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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  • 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: 25/50
50%
Comics Read in 2026: 80/200
40%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/844
56%


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