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  • Let This Grieving Soul Retire

    Let This Grieving Soul Retire

    Harem Scale H: MC elects to duck out of responsibility and send people on errands, only helping when he might get in trouble. A: He knows that these women are very attached to him and there’s lots of them. He will go on dates. R: He doesn’t really look at any of them romantically. E:…

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  • Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun Season 3

    Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun Season 3

    I feel like with every season, this show gets even better and the budget goes absolutely nuts. (spoiler videos) This season is mostly the Harvest Festival, but he do have some training montage stuff in the beginning where Iruma finally learns how to fight! Bachiko is a fun character, and we spend more time developing…

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  • Lady Devil

    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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  • Letterkenny Season 2

    Letterkenny Season 2

    Season 2 we are past the Toughest Guy in Letterkenny and now delving into Wayne Looking for Love. It deals more with the relationships between characters— the skids and the hockey players are lovelorn after Katy; Wayne is looking for a new girlfriend; Stormy the dog won’t stop trying to kill her studs… We also…

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  • Letterkenny Season 1

    Letterkenny Season 1

    Some friends came over and reminded me that Letterkenny existed. And what good fortune! It’s on hulu. We introduced Karen and Josh and now we have a new treasured television show for dinnertime. Letterkenny is dry humor, sometimes relying on a gap to make things really funny. Season one focuses on Wayne regaining his title…

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  • Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun Season 2

    Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun Season 2

    Here’s a list of tropes I’m adding because of this season: Granted some of these would have been fine to add before but it just hit me like a truck this time. This season we get to see more of the class— when Iruma has his evil cycle, he puts them purposefully into the spotlight.…

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  • Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin 1

    Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin 1

    ISEKAI’D BY: Illness 🙁 I Reincarnated As The Evil God Of My Favorite Civilization. Takuto Ira succumbed to illness at a young age and ended up reincarnating in a world that resembles the fantasy turn-based strategy game Eternal Nations. Not only did he reincarnate into his favorite game, but as the god who commands the…

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  • I Tamed my Ex-Husband’s Mad Dog 1

    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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  • My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer: The Black-Haired Valkyrie #7

    My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer: The Black-Haired Valkyrie #7

    With the party split, Angeline finds herself protecting Byaku and Charlotte—her former enemies—without her father, Belgrieve, by her side. Forces are intent on manipulating Charlotte or silencing her, and Ange has to use her wits and her S-Rank strength to keep her new little sister safe. Meanwhile, the very forest Belgrieve calls home begins warping…

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  • Crime Scene Cleaner

    Crime Scene Cleaner

    I really like this game. I like cleaning games and this one tickles the itch just right. I also ended up using this game to test how my computer was doing during the horrible Serial Crashing of November ’24-January ’25. It pretty reliably knocked my computer out (along with a huge chunk of games I…

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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: 26/50
52%
Comics Read in 2026: 91/200
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 (81) Chekov's Gun (53) Childhood Friends (52) Curiosity Fucks You Up (84) Cursed (74) Damsel in Distress (70) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (99) Dangerous Reputation (97) Doting Husband (70) Double Identity (46) Everyone Loves MC (99) 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 (81) MC's Skewed Metrics (80) Mean Boy (131) Mean Boy Love Interest (50) Modern Morals (53) Nat 20s (100) 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 (96) Wrong Place Wrong Time (68) Zero to Hero (89)


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