Mastodawn

Ah yes, "Metatextual Literacy"—where we dive deep into the sophisticated art of overanalyzing a children's book about a kid who can't even tie his own shoelaces. 📚🤡 Apparently, the real mystery is how Kinney's doodles expose the "ground truth." Who knew graphic novels held such profound secrets? 🙄🔍
https://www.jenn.site/metatextual-literacy/ #MetatextualLiteracy #GraphicNovels #Overanalysis #LiteraryHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Metatextual Literacy

Okay, I want to bitch about a small thing that bugs me a little. To begin, let's do a close reading of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid[^1] that it realist...

Jenneral HQ 🌠

Show thread

Ivan Moscoso Feb 11

@TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote

I can’t believe Kurt Vonnegut dis fish.

#literaryhumor

N-gated Hacker News Jan 20

Ah, the joys of producing an "instant" concordance for over 1,200 public domain #classics that no one asked for! 🚀 Because who doesn't want to spend their Saturday night finding out how many times "thou" appears in books no one reads anymore? 📚🤦‍♂️
https://iafisher.com/concordance/ #instantconcordance #publicdomain #booknerd #literaryhumor #dataanalysis #HackerNews #ngated

Fast Concordance

French Cinema & Subtitles Jan 13

🎬 Jane Austen a gâché ma vie (2024)

Subtitles available:
🇬🇧 English
🇫🇷 French
🇩🇪 German
🇮🇹 Italian
🇪🇸 Spanish

⬇️ Download
https://app.box.com/s/uthl47siinxgeh92gyzolxp1j9u6yga1

🎞 IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31112509/

▶️ Watch the video here 👇
https://darkiworld15.com/titles/766831/jane-austen-a-gache-ma-vie

#JaneAustenAGacheMaVie
#Comedy
#RomanticComedy
#FrenchCinema
#ModernRomance
#LiteraryHumor
#YouthDrama
#ClassicAdaptation

N-gated Hacker News Dec 6

In this riveting tale of profound #verbosity, Ursula K. Le Guin explores the mystical realms of saying absolutely nothing for endless pages 📚😴. If you're looking to fill your bookshelf with the sound of one hand clapping, look no further! 🙌✨
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/3-the-absent-silence #UrsulaKLeGuin #BookRecommendations #LiteraryHumor #MysticalRealms #HackerNews #ngated

Ursula K. Le Guin — 3. The Absent Silence

A year or two ago I was asked to review a novel by José Saramago, and in looking up facts about him on Google I found over and over the same quotation from him — God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence. It’s from his Lanzarote journals, which are

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ellis C. A. Arcwolf (Author)Nov 17, 2025

Some people have been showing a lot of compassion for my father Charles Dickens, and I really don't think he deserves it.

Dude had his first attack of gout at the age of 53, and you know what he called me? Before I was even born? "Exquisite torture." An "ecstasy of pain." Rude! 😾

He had nine of us in total. All of them passed, including me.

Badum, psh! ☠️

In reference to: https://eldritch.cafe/@EllisArcwolf/115559114217050980

#Humor #GayHumor #Literature #LiteraryHumor #CharlesDickens #JonathanSwift #Satire #SurrealHumor #Shitposting #Writing #WritingCommunity #LGBTQ #GoutBaby

Ellis Arcwolf (Author) (@[email protected])

https://eldritch.cafe/@EllisArcwolf/115559015085772139 I dunno why I went with those names. 🤔 My gay fathers were Charles Dickens and Jonathan Swift on one night of sublimely angry sex, so I can't help it. Chuck carried me, of course. Poor guy thought he had gout for years... #Humor #GayHumor #Literature #LiteraryHumor #CharlesDickens #JonathanSwift #Satire #SurrealHumor #Shitposting #Writing #WritingCommunity #LGBTQ #ALittleSorry

Eldritch Café

Ellis C. A. Arcwolf (Author)Nov 16, 2025

https://eldritch.cafe/@EllisArcwolf/115559015085772139

I dunno why I went with those names. 🤔

My gay fathers were Charles Dickens and Jonathan Swift on one night of sublimely angry sex, so I can't help it. Chuck carried me, of course. Poor guy thought he had gout for years...

#Humor #GayHumor #Literature #LiteraryHumor #CharlesDickens #JonathanSwift #Satire #SurrealHumor #Shitposting #Writing #WritingCommunity #LGBTQ #ALittleSorry

Ellis Arcwolf (Author) (@[email protected])

Thanking people publicly feels a little bad when you're not accustomed to doing it. Like, > 📢 Bobby! Georgia! Doris! Report to the principal's office immediately! 📢 No one's in trouble! Everyone's happy and lovely, I promise! Maybe it's just me. I bet it's not. It's never been just me. 😹 #SocialAnxiety #Gratitude #Community #Humor #Anxiety #Relatable #MentalHealth #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ItsNeverJustMe

Eldritch Café

N-gated Hacker News Nov 4, 2025

Bud Smith's "My Truck Desk" is the latest addition to the long list of things that sound way more interesting than they actually are. 🚚✏️ With more plugs than a leaky boat, it's hard to tell if it's a literary piece or a full-page ad for The Paris Review. 📰💸
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10/29/truck-desk/ #BudSmith #MyTruckDesk #HackerNews #LiteraryHumor #TheParisReview #HackerNews #ngated

My Truck Desk by Bud Smith

October 29, 2025 – “Now that I had my Truck Desk, that vehicle was my very own rolling cubicle.”

The Paris Review

N-gated Hacker News Nov 3, 2025

🚨 Breaking News: #Fish have colonized your local bookstore! 🐟🤦‍♂️ Dive into an ocean of pretentious waffle and find yourself gasping for air as the London Review of Books tries to convince you that fish are the new literary #critics. 📚🐠
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n19/oliver-cussen/fish-in-the-wrong-place #BreakingNews #Bookstore #LiteraryHumor #OceanOfWaffle #HackerNews #ngated

Oliver Cussen · Fish in the Wrong Place: Aquatic Colonialism

The environmental history of European empire doesn’t end with decolonisation. The quasi-colonial schemes of the Green...

London Review of Books

N-gated Hacker News Oct 27, 2025

Oh joy, someone took the relentless tedium of Moby-Dick and multiplied it by eight million—literally! 📚✌️ It's like they said, "Who needs words when you've got grayscale textures?" 🤦‍♂️🎨
https://thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/nicolas-mugaveros-eight-million-copies-of-moby-dick-or-the-whale/ #MobyDick #MobyDickChallenge #GrayscaleArt #LiteraryHumor #Textures #HackerNews #ngated

Nicolas Mugavero’s Eight Million Copies of Moby-Dick; or, The Whale,

When I first opened Nicolas Mugavero’s Eight Million Copies of Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, a recent release from Gauss PDF, I was certain the file was defective. I drafted a sheepish email to the pub…

THE VOLTA BLOG