Trigger Warning: Violence

  • Am I Actually the Strongest? 1-2

    Am I Actually the Strongest? 1-2

    ISEKAI’D BY: Goddess! Harem Scale H: He feels an obligation to impress his sister and protect the family that picked him up after he was thrown away by his birth family. A: As there are only two members, he is not quite aware yet. R: No romance to speak of; he sort of thinks of…

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  • Lout of the Count’s Family #3

    Lout of the Count’s Family #3

    Bro, I hadn’t even seen the announcement come out that #3 was released! (I’m behind on my email, leave me alone) Of course I dropped everything and picked it up. After all, the last book left me off right before Raon got his revenge. This one opens right up there. It’s a bit gruesome but…

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    In the pursuit of youth and beauty, you rob yourself. That’s the most basic message in the Substance. The very least you can get from it. But we can expand on that, can’t we? The disposal of aging women in our society, the need to meet male standards for women’s beauty, the men in position…

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  • Letterkenny Season 4

    Letterkenny Season 4

    “You wanna know what? You got a problem with Canada Gooses, you got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.”—Wayne I’m all about them Canada Gooses, bro, seeing as the geese are back to breed by my office. This time we kick off resolving Wayne and Rosie breaking up (they…

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  • Letterkenny Season 3

    Letterkenny Season 3

    I noticed this a touch when Season 2 opened up and they just offhandedly mentioned Modean’s burnt down between seasons, but this season it jumps out at ya. Season 2’s last thirty seconds was Rosie coming out of her truck with a stud for Stormy, absolutely ringing Wayne’s bell, followed by his ex Angie who…

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  • 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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  • Clockwork Planet 1 – 3

    Clockwork Planet 1 – 3

    Harem Scale H: MC will do anything for his clockwork, including the right thing. A: By volume three, he’s aware that he wants to collect more robot girls. R: He’s got a thing going with Ryuzu. E: It’s pretty middling on the fan service, and keeps it to double entendre and phrasing. M: I’m down…

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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: 27/50
54%
Comics Read in 2026: 93/200
45%
Physical Owned Books Read: 482/848
56%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (101) Accidentally in Charge (50) A Fetish For Suffering (56) Can't Say No (82) Chekov's Gun (53) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (84) Cursed (74) Damsel in Distress (70) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (100) Dangerous Reputation (97) Doting Husband (71) Double Identity (46) Everyone Loves MC (100) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (53) Fan Service (104) Grumpy x Sunshine (56) Hypercompetent MC (78) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (59) I Know a Guy (58) Last Minute Hero (117) Loss of Humanity (58) Main Character Coloring (82) MC's Skewed Metrics (80) Mean Boy (131) Mean Boy Love Interest (50) Modern Morals (53) Nat 20s (101) Not Actually Dead (90) Nuclear Revenge (78) OP Protag (96) Power of Friendship (84) Power of Love (77) Self-Sacrifice (76) Shock Value (50) Sympathetic Evil (72) The Moral is Community (66) Tragic Backstory (90) Twist! (62) Uniquely Skilled (95) Unreliable Narrator (56) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (85) Western-Style Fantasy (97) Wrong Place Wrong Time (68) Zero to Hero (89)


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