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WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· 1d

I rec this essay all of the time but like. damn. so many of the "excesses" people point to were just capital-seeking in one way or another, and a purposeful inability to reconcile how the capture of commodification perpetuates a cycle that goes nowhere simply keeps the lights on at the factory

An excerpt from Jason England's "'American Fiction' And The Wet Eyes Of The Sentimentalist" that reads:

That has been the great con of the post-George Floyd era: So many opportunists posing as garden-variety creatives, activists, intellectuals, and DEI experts sold the idea that the success of their individual pursuits should be seen as a referendum on collective black uplift, that an assertion of black identity is part and parcel of what makes a piece of art or an essay excellent, worth your attention, and deserving of your money. Rather than a meaningful discourse in which we examine how race and art move in tandem, we’ve seen the creation of a crude capitalistic “representation” assembly line that cheapens the seriousness and stakes of both.

But here we get insight into something we all know, high and low negro alike (word to Langston Hughes): The bulk of the white audience doesn’t know how inaccurate or cynical any of this is, because they don’t care. They’re there to be there. At the lecture, in the theater, and in the book club. The content of the film/book/talk, as well as its accuracy, integrity, and conviction are largely if not entirely irrelevant.

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· 4d

FUCK THESE CHARACTER LIMITS I CAN'T TRIM THIS JOKE BUT I NEED YOU TO SEE IT

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· 5d

A tweet from @DrewVento that reads: "My ex would call me her passenger princess whenever she drove, but she was a bad driver so the princess I felt like was Diana"

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· 5d

A screencap from Flubber of Robin Williams pulling that goop out and sticking it on his face like he's step 3 into his 5 step skincare routine

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· 12d

A screencap of Yin Ya (fox spirit) and Die Wan (evil daoist wizard) from Love's Rebellion.

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· 13d

pearson's framing it less optimistically but one of the takeaways is that moving forward relies in part on fostering an empathy of love. incontrovertibly becoming part of an interactable social fabric asserts us as existing beyond abstractions; necessary to humanise us to ourselves as much as others

A quote from Noel Pearson's 2022 Boyer Lecture 'Who we are, and who we can be'.

"We are a much unloved people. We are perhaps the ethnic group Australians feel least connected to. We are not popular and we are not personally known to many Australians. Few have met us and a small minority count us as friends. And despite never having met any of us and knowing very little about us other than what is in the media and what WEH Stanner, whose 1968 Boyer Lectures looms large over my lectures, called ‘folklore’ about us – Australians hold and express strong views about us, the great proportion of which is negative and unfriendly. It has ever been thus. Worse in the past but still true today.

If success in the forthcoming referendum is predicated on our popularity as a people, then it is doubtful we will succeed. It does not and will not take much to mobilise antipathy against Aboriginal people and to conjure the worst imaginings about us and the recognition we seek. For those who wish to oppose our recognition it will be like shooting fish in a barrel. An inane thing to do – but easy. A heartless thing to do – but easy."

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· 19d

rocking up to the architect all looking straight out of bridgerton

An antique french la mode illustree fashion print of two women in bustle dresses casually styling on a balcony terrace.

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WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jul 2

one of the core reasons jkr got a lot of leash for bigoted shallow nonsense performing otherwise underpins why authors like sanderson are afforded it even though context illustrates he very much has not earned & does not remotely deserve such grace. to be mean. anyway sorry rem LMAO

Threaded replies by @wuwa.bzky.team from 1 Sept 2025 that read:

mormons are still posting missionaries here in 2025; there was a news article last year about how they've built a church at the anmatjere atartinga/mulga bore outstation and converted all the local aboriginal mob there. sucks pretty bad given the last government mission only closed in 1987!

australia had the stolen generations, which was a generational government eugenicist initiative to "breed the colour out of aboriginal australians". this is why my grandparents were even in missions to begin with. sanderson's tithes contribute to his church's continuation of my peoples' genocide.

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jul 2

the framing that ensconces postcolonial lit is the same that does ownvoices diaspora lit (& translation) for example. I share 'blunt-force ethnic credibility' by som-mai nguyen a lot. it's not great out here in ways that are really difficult to disentangle then rethread as connected + complementary

The problem with these endorsements is also bigger than crises of belonging within diasporic individuals. It is troubling that the industry suggests readers ought to care what these Vietnamese-American authors have to say about this translation, specifically because of their Vietnamese-ness, instead of their status as English-language craftspeople one might trust to read, deeply, the language in which they write. This conflation of existence and cultural / language / contextual knowledge is consistent with how language is both racialized and claimed to be otherwise. Because a woefully small number of anglophones read literature in translation, it is also possible that, when they finally do turn to translated work, they will rely on the blurbs even more so than when selecting texts originally published in English. I am thus more troubled by endorsements used to signal ethnic and racial authenticity than I am by, say, MFA cohorts praising each other’s debuts. When publishers solicit blurbs or outlets assign reviews, they decide how non-English texts reach anglophone readers, and how non-White work gets sold in White markets. The solicitations and assignments can exotify and therefore constrain and misrepresent the work. MFA nepotism seems milquetoast in comparison. As determinism might impose too much on orthographic happenstance, publishers overextrapolate from coincidences of identity. In both cases, the misty, random reality of being alive is distorted and deadened.

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jul 2

this is getting away from the topic ofc but there was a good piece in response to the commonwealth writing prize winner scandal back in may this year called 'how to read postcolonial writing' by lina abushouk, published in africa is a country that I think illustrates it all quite well

Euro-American publishers have a history of misrepresenting colonial and postcolonial writing from the Global South. It is ironic, too, that Granta is the platform that launched Binyavanga Wainaina’s now-famed satirical essay “How to Write About Africa.” The Commonwealth Foundation jury, through their selection, has fallen into the trap of perpetuating tropes of poverty, silenced women, and stubborn survival. Others have pointed out that some of the judges themselves are from the Global South, which would mean it is not a simple story of metropolitan outsiders imposing their expectations. But actually, this would make it something more insidious: a set of aesthetic assumptions so thoroughly institutionalized that they can be reproduced from within. The whole affair reminds me of Amos Tutuola’s dealings with the British publishing house Faber and Faber, then under the helm of T. S. Eliot, in the 1950s. An untutored writer, he asked the editors to correct what he called his “WRONG English.” The editors did not, because Faber and Faber thought his writing depicted the unmediated utterance of the primitive Other, rather than the writings of someone who didn’t have mastery of the language. Tutuola, to his credit, had impressively discovered the novel form and applied himself diligently, through the use of a dictionary, to adapt and transform Yoruba folktales into novelistic stories.

Faber and Faber published what would eventually become known as The Palm-Wine Drinkard in 1952. Unfortunately for Tutuola, his desired edits were directly at odds with the aesthetic sensibilities and ideologies that Faber and Faber brought to bear on the novel. Within a Euro-American aesthetic chronology, his work was seen as a cultural artifact that discursively affirmed modernism’s necessary “primitive” Other. For metropolitan writers and editors, Tutuola could only be located within modernism, a partially formed subject with an “unsophisticated” West African mind, but could never be recognized as one of its authors, no matter how experimental and iconoclastic his writing. If we look at the paratextual material that surrounds My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, most notably the preface (written by a professor of comparative religion), it suggests that there is something exceptional about the novel that requires a non-literary, academic framing in order for readers to feel like they can navigate the narrative. This immediately places the text outside the realm of the purely literary.

No doubt Tutuola was gifted, but editorial irresponsibility meant that his writings were mismanaged. It is worth being precise about this: what was mismanaged was not Tutuola’s talent, which was considerable and which generated some of the most inventive English-language prose of the twentieth century, but rather the institutional frame placed around it. Faber did not celebrate him despite his linguistic unevenness; in an important sense, they celebrated him because of it. The “wrongness” of the English was the point—it authenticated the primitive.

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 29

A screencap from the end of a chaptered fic on ao3 that reads:

"I don't dance", Sasuke snapped back. "Anyway, what's Gay Pride Day? What are they proud of?"

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 28

the achievements for kaifeng's imperial palace have all been so good

An achievement from Where Winds Meet called 'Court Mediator'. "Wherever there's drama, here I am! How did it start? Don't ask."

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 26

dw I got you all our references are documented here

A chain of tumblr posts from molabuddy that read:

recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

btw this has graduated into me just saying "the trout population will be affected" and then not elaborating

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 26

MY TWINK MITHRIDATISM HAS A BODY COUNT 410,757,864,530 DEAD TROUT

Chen Kuan-hung reclining on the floor with his legs spread and a knee cocked, arching his back to dangle two cherries on a stem over his mouth. He's wearing all black with a fishnet shirt.

Kuan-hung regarding his fingers while very clearly Moistened. He's wearing a white shirt with the buttons parted for that sweet v of twink cleavage. I'm gliding my teeth over the whetstone of my knuckles btw

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 24

t4t

A screenshot from the Sopranos of a screenplay that reads:

BEAUTIFUL GIRL
Thank you!!

CHIP
I must be loyle to my capo.

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 23

thanks for your patience pepps

A photo of Chen Kuan-hung in a terribly shiny looking black shirt, Mummy Librarian Bisexual Awakening glasses, and a watch, ponderously fingering his chin like the Thinker.

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 19

from balls we came and to balls we return

A paragraph from Return to the Place by Jill Hammer that reads:

There is a rabbinic parallel with God's sealing ritual in 1:13:

How did the Holy One of Blessing create the world? Rabbi Chanina said: The Eternal took two balls, one of fire and one of water, and worked them into each other, and from these the world was created. Rabbi Chanina said: Four balls, for the four corners of the universe. Rabbi Hama said: Six, for the four corners and one for above and one for below... Stretch out your hand to east, west, north, and south. Even so was the work of creation before the Holy One.

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 18

genuinely have this exchange in my head like AT LEAST USE THEM YOU ASSHOLE

A screencap of an old LJ RP journal exchange that reads:

manlysoul: [STEALS THE BIKE AND RUNS]

detectivekittan: AT LEAST RIDE IT YOU ASSHOLE

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 18

HIS GREED SICKENS ME

A photo of Chen Kuan-hung from the Road to Empress II event showing him wearing an absolutely atrocious shirt with four big pockets.

A photo of Chen Kuan-hung from the back, showing he has two additional pockets on his similarly atrocious trousers, split equally between the cheeks.

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 13

milkbun

A screencap of Lucille Ball from Dance, Girl, Dance holding her hands up in an aloof-placating gesture.

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 12

A cap of the "large boulder the size of a small boulder" tweet but the boulder has been replaced with the slay the spire 2 boulder card art

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 12

A screencap of Qing Cai from Pretty Boy poking his tongue out a little nervously as he does a backdash to evade a(nother) woman from getting too close in the communal bath.

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 11

I still think this might be the funniest instance of block reveal though. I edited this part of dan schkade's TWITTER COPS strip after I tested it

A screencap from ao3 thanking the user for leaving kudos at the top, then collapsing the comments field to inform them that they have been blocked by one or more of the work's creators.

The last panel from artist Dan Schkade's comic TWITTER COPS, the palette changed to ao3 red. The gumshoe detective is now shooting the ao3 block button at the other man, who is dropping the comment button, and is covered by the field message "sorry, you have been blocked by one or more of this work's creators"

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 11

the other members of the gc already filing in before the ping to ask if I was the reason bluesky suddenly wanted to open on their phones

an @everyone in a discord server, still highlighted, that reads: okay everyone ignore the groupchat that I just made on bluesky, I just genuinely didn't believe they had finally released the feature

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 11

from "Manifest Destiny Crosses the Pacific". a derivable tl;dr: UK/US/CAN/AUS/etc all rely on a dual formation of identity between the legacy UK & liberated US, polar politicisations of barbarity/civil that collude for a shared goal: actualisation as white nations who can engage imperial subjugation

Through an investigation of Australian newspapers from the second half
of the nineteenth century, this paper will examine the ways that editorialists and politicians engaged with the concept of Manifest Destiny. The idea featured prominently in relation to Australian territorial consolidation, the desire for political union through federation, and expansionist designs in the Paciic Islands and New Guinea. With regard to federation, there are repeated references to this being Australia’s Manifest Destiny, with the resultant “United States of Australia” assuming a prominent position in international afairs.7

At the heart of this usage is an optimistic view of Australia’s growth as a nation, with an image of greatness clearly envisioned by these writers. This parallels the way that manifest destiny revealed the American faith in its own progress and expansion. An investigation into the penetration of Manifest Destiny into Australian public discourse therefore reveals the ways that American ideas helped to frame the Australian conception of its place in the world. These ideas competed and interacted with the dominant British identity, resulting in the construction of a complex worldview that relected Australia’s heritage as a British colonial outpost in the Paciic along with its tradition of self-interest in foreign afairs.

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 11

I looked at the score and what the fuck man

WELCOME TO CUNT JUNGLE@wuwa· Jun 10

check out this little guy I made