Metatextual Literacy – Jenneral HQ 🌠
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...
Metatextual Literacy – Jenneral HQ 🌠 Metatextual Literacy 14 Apr, 2026 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 realistically can't withstand. A lot of the humour in this series comes from the disconnect between claims made in the diary and the ground truth. But how do you access the ground truth to make the comparison, when you are supposedly reading a diary? Well, the Doylist explanation is that Kinney cheats, and makes the doodles much more reflective of ground truth than the diary en
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