#the jungle bunch

[jillyb2004]

Happy (Late) 25th Anniversary to Futurama!

Bonus Art

[otherkinotd]

Today's otherkin of the day is Maurice, who is tigerkin 🐯

[animationismycomfort]

rewatching the jungle bunch the movie and

it’s making me realize how mad I am at them for changing Maurice’s story

[beepbeepdespair]

ok but i didnt know until now how good french tv, or at least stuff ive watched on french tv that might have been english originally, was. i cant understand a word but i love it??? so far ive gotten into gawayn, caïn, find me in paris, idk the name of this one but its about adopting animals, the jungle bunch and theodosia and im waiting for holly hobbie to come on at some point cos i saw an advert for it and it looked good <3 this is the most tv ive watched in years

[rocketbirdie]

chocobo breeds based off of real life chicken varieties :>

[sappi-papi]

pre-mo4 sprites i made for jeraldy kirimi and jungle because i'm not well abou.t them. these are actually from september but WHATEVERRR i still really like them and i don't have anything else to post for jungle sunday so. it counts teehee!!!

...and these ones that i started in october and literally only finished just now. disappears into slender man's forest

[mik0is0bored]

The fact these two share a VA is crazy

(The sloth is from this kids show called the jungle bunch💀🤚 I watched it when I was a kid and im pretty sure that sloth was my favorite charater💀💀💀 now the fact gojo is one of my favorites now is kind of funny. The VA is Kaiji Tang)

[harry-trumans-dishwasher]

Heard this little gem on the radio today:

Yes, that is the crowbar sound from Half Life.

[femboty2k]

I've done posters for these fake Y2K Hover racing teams/companies but have I done official logos? Now I have!

[123pixieaod]

Inspired by this godly post which unlocked a part of my brain I didn't know existed, and solidly gave me complete and utterly brainrot until I wrote something

A thousand thanks to Lily for her wonderful help :))

"Does Kelly not mind you spending all your time with me?" Daniel asks, because she's Daniel and once she's thought something she can't keep her fucking mouth shut, even if she knows it's trouble.

Max looks up, pausing his set of weights, and blinks at her. Daniel feels her cheeks warm. One day, that mouth of yours will run you straight into trouble, young lady, her mum used to tell her, voice firm. Good girls know when to keep quiet. Daniel used to just laugh at the warning. Her laugh is loud and the opposite of quiet, but she used to know that everyone always loved her laugh.

"No," Max says after a beat and then continues lifting. Daniel hates the way her gaze tracks over him, lingering on the movement of his muscles, the ease with which he lifts the weight. Tawny hair brushed out of his eyes, cheeks dusted warm from the exertion. "Of course not."

"Why of course not?" Daniel asks. She wants to sew her mouth shut. This time, Max didn't look over as he answers.

"Kelly's very secure, she's not like other girls. And besides, she knows you."

It's strange. When Daniel was seven and Michelle eleven, they'd gone rock pool fishing. Michelle had been crouched over a shallow pool of water, her finger delicately brushing the tentacles of the anemone. Daniel had been scaling the rocks, wanting steeper, taller, more.

She'd found the shark first, nestled high at between the rocks, and for a beat she hadn't known what she was looking at. Just details, but nothing collective. Rotting smell. Shrivelled holes where eyes should be. Scales of silver lightning. Rubbery fish picked clean. The flash of bone, pearl white.

Then she realised what she was staring at, and screamed. Her father held her while her mother scolded her. I told you not to go climbing! It's too dangerous, Daniel. Why can't you just be good like your sister and stay by the shallow pools?

And then, later, ice cream. Her dad, beside her, explaining the horror away.

It's just nature, Dani. The waves wash them up, and they get stuck there. They can't get back to the sea, and then the sun dries them out.

They drown on air, Michelle helpfully pointed out, her feet kicking happily as she licked her 99. Daniel just just nodded, ice cream untouched. Every time she closed her eyes, she saw the sunken holes, the rotting flesh.

She hasn't thought about that moment for years, but suddenly it washes back over her. She feels simultaneously both. The child, staring at the carcass, frozen in shock. The shark, burning up in the sun, chocking on air.

"What does that mean?" She asks, and somehow her voice is normal, is fine. She's fine. She's not a girl or a shark. She's stupid and a fool and a gawky, ugly idiot, but she's fine.

Max manages to shrug, even with the 50kg weights. "You know. Just that Kelly knows you. She knows what you're like. And she knows me too, of course."

Daniel swallows. She nods. She hates everything about herself.

"That's sexist," she forces herself to say lightly because if the silence stretches anymore, Max might notice and set his weights down and look at her, and Daniel can't bear that. She doesn't want his eyes on her, taking in every blemish and imperfection. The boyish, ratty clothes she works out in and her curls gone frizzy with sweat and her inked skin, so different to Max and Kelly's pale, perfect complexions.

"What's sexist?"

"Saying she's not like other girls," Daniel tells him, setting down the weights she been doing. Instead, she goes to grab the skipping rope, just for something to do.

Max laughs. Daniel's glad she's turned away. Her cheeks are burning again.

"It's the truth. You, of course, Daniel, are not like other girls either." He says it lightly and ends with a chuckle, as if it's all just a joke. Daniel drags a sweaty hand over her cheeks. Burning, burning, burning.

Apparently, in Max's mind, she and Kelly are the same; both not like other girls. Kelly, with her faultless makeup and wonderful daughter and classy dresses and perfect feminity. One end of the scale. Daniel, the other. Barely even considered "a girl." Always one of the boys, only woman in f1 for a reason.

"Thanks," Daniel says. She wants to make it sound humorous, like she's in on the joke too. Instead, it's too cold; muttered as if she actually gave two shits about the conversation anyway. She has an F1 season to prepare for, she's too busy to care about stupid shit like this.

There's a beat of silence as Daniel stretches out the rope, feeling the plastic flex and give. Then, Max exhaling, the gentle bump of his weights against the floor, the workout bench shifting as his centre of gravity changes. Daniel keeps her back to him, ignoring it all.

"I did not mean it as insult," Max finally says, stubborn. Daniel forces a laugh, turning to give him a smile, all teeth.

"Of course not Maxy. I get that." Voice light and blithe. One of the boys.

She thinks he'll drop it, but instead, his frown only grows. Pinched brows, thin lips, cheeks growing blotchy. Blue eyes regard her, intense and unyielding. She burns from the inside out.

"I've upset you," he says, in that blunt, genuine way only he can do. Daniel barks out another laugh.

"Don't be stupid. You're not important enough to ever be able to get under my skin." She gives him another smile with only teeth. She feels insane. Her mother tells her good girls stay quiet.

"I'm sorry," he tries again, growing frustrated now, "I did not mean -"

"I told you, you didn't upset me," she drops the skipping rope without actually using it. "Anyway, I'm bored. Wanna get lunch now? Or are you still trying to pump those muscle with more testosterone?"

Max gives her one last, searching look before standing. They're almost the same height. She wants to shrink to nothing.

"That is not how testosterone works, Daniel," he says with the air of an overworked teacher. He looks at her with a smile, uncertain but genuine. She laughs, allowing him to move the conversation on.

She walks out of the gym first but holds the door for him. He grins, relieved. His fingers skim hers as he takes it and she lets go. A chill runs through her. Cold like scales, cold like ice cream untouched.

Follow up here!

[invisiblesketches]

reading jungle juice is really funny cause you see someone with a super cool power and when you research the bug it just looks so silly

[hartwinorlose]

this is going to be an extremely negative review about furiosa

if you liked it, i am so happy that you got something from it, but i nearly cried tears of anger and frustration. i know that's a bit of an overreaction but mad max: fury road got me back into writing fanfiction, it got me into action movies, and it made me more interested in cinema as a medium

all that to say

i not only disliked this movie, i actively hated it, and i think it brings the franchise down. i'm going to indiscriminately get into spoilers but, like... please save yourself the money and don't watch this movie

first off, i was not jazzed for anya taylor joy when i first found out about the casting and yeah. she didn't sell me on furiosa. she doesn't look like her, sound like her, or bring anything to the role at all. this was severe miscasting, and i hate to think it was just because she's hollywood's hot commodity at the moment, but i can't think of another reason. (on a separate note, chris hemsworth was the one bright spot in this movie imo - he was actually really good)

the editing and cinematography had some good moments but was overall off-putting. instead of being spellbound by the whole movie like i was with fury road, i marked a few shots that were stellar

i HATED the plot. i cannot FATHOM why you would center this movie around some random guy who actually makes immortan joe look like a hero??? after watching this, i actually cannot understand why furiosa stole the wives from him. he respected her opinions, saved her from the guy she centered her whole life around hating, and just in general did not do anything to convince me that furiosa would hate him. i fucking hate this. why would you do this, george miller

i don't like jack. i don't know him. i don't buy that furiosa would tell him where the green place is because SHE DOESN'T KNOW HIM EITHER. WHY ARE ALL THESE RANDOM GUYS INFATUATED WITH FURIOSA. STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT

like seriously, rictus, immortan joe, jack, fucking chris hemsworth's character whose name i am too upset to remember - they all just take one look at furiosa and go ride-or-die for her and i DON'T UNDERSTAND

we don't see her with the wives. we don't see furiosa with the wives. i don't understand why she was so loyal to them. i wanted to see her build a relationship with them, goddammit, that is the part of furiosa's backstory i CARED ABOUT

the fact that she used the fucking peach pit on this NOBODY of a man and didn't save it to rebuild the green place. she planted it in the citadel, a place she ostensibly hated and didn't realize she would be returning to. she used the peach pit her mother gave her in the home of who we're supposed to be her biggest enemy to get revenge on a dude who doesn't fucking matter in the scheme of her life. look how they massacred my girl. furiosa, sweetie, i'm so, so sorry everything in this movie centered around a goddamn MAN

i mean, they basically fridged her mother. this is every "dead wife as motivation for revenge story," it's just a mom this time. what the fuck, that's so fucking shallow. you really couldn't come up with anything better. no one pitched ANYTHING better??? bullshit

[quicklyandrogynousfox-blog]

all that's left to say is stay fresh, cheese bags! - jungle club 2023 day twenty two

[animationismycomfort]

❗️WARNING❗️ FOR THE THOUGHT OF TECHNICAL CANNIBALISM (nothing actually graphic but it does put the idea of a character doing so and I don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable so just in case) SLIGHT MENTION OF CHARACTERS POSSIBLY EATING OTHER PEOPLE IN CANON

y’all ever thought about how junior ad Maurice probably have ate other animals before…..

and probably will continue to do so..

[beepbeepdespair]

ok. ok i just came out of the jungle bunch 2 in cinemas. please, please watch it. trust me on this one. it's fantastic. gonna do a bit of excited rambling under the cut so don't open it if you intend to watch the film lmao

ok so the ONE thing i wanted from this film was some cute gilbert and batricia and MY GOD did we get it. i see you clinging to her when the airship's going down gil. i see you 👁👁 and DID I HEAR HER CALL HIM SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF GILLY-POO? i fucking can't. she is his weakness. he can be vain and he can obsess over his machinery and he can throw out as much sass as he wants but as soon as the situation involves batricia he melts. i want to cry

talking of cute couples. i did not expect to get as attached to maurice and camelia as i did. and can i just say the disability representation in this film was fucking on point??? now im not an amputee (i am disabled, undiagnosed for fuck-the-government reasons but it's pretty certain) but i was so pleased with the way they handled camelia

of course they showed compassion for how it happened but it didn't feel like she was treated as different or wrong, they found clever ways for it to give her an advantage (for example the stun dart hitting it and when they installed a firing mechanism in it), it didn't feel like box ticking and it really felt like maurice loved all of her, including her disability, not despite of it. when he put his flipper in her wooden hand. fucking beautiful

and the jokes. the humour. the kraftwerk reference. arnold schwarzenegger as a beaver. france taking the piss out of itself. almost swearing. perfect

and finally. uh, girl power??? camelia the girlboss, being a strong and independent woman but not being depicted as cold or rude because of it. her saving maurice and batricia saving gilbert a couple times. gilbert fucking begging batricia on his knees. the film making it VERY clear that sexism is not okay. just *chef's kiss* all of it

god i hope they make a third one. and also i need to find the first one and the tv show in english because when i discovered the show in france i did not understand a word lmao

edit: ok no actually i have more to say sorry. for a kids film the way camelia lost her arm was fucking brutal??? you're telling me that in a robbery gone wrong her arm was blown off, leading to her father abandoning her because he felt like he didn't deserve her anymore, leaving her with little but a new arm..... my god. and "i felt like i didn't deserve to look after you" i am on the floor sobbing

another edit: OH GOD ONE MORE THING. im sorry the LOOK on gilbert's face when he realised he'd been used via those competitions to help finish the formula. send this tarsier to therapy jesus fuckin christ. tragedy enjoyers eating well today

also i thought it was very clever how subtly social and political commentary was slipped in there. a showcasing of the dangers of swallowing capitalist ideology, and the whole 'evacuating your home because it's been blown up, with someone trying to charge you for the tents you will then have to live in' is just........ yeah.

[nostalgicatsea]

@iam93percentstardust tagged me to post 5 songs I've listened to the most lately! Thanks, Alle.

If you know, you know. This song had me heaving with sobs in All of Us Strangers. If you haven't watched that movie, please do because it's one of the most beautiful movies I've ever watched in my life. The tenderness in the scene this plays in will stay with me forever. (Okay, I've never actually watched the music video to this so I'm seeing it for the first time and...I didn't expect that.)

Obsessed, obsessed, obsessed. You can hear the desperation, the heartbreak, the pleading, the anger in the track like Lestat is speaking to you without using any words. Do you know how hard that is to accomplish? It sounds like actual dialogue. Haunting and tragic.

It was either this or "Ruin" by Usher & Pheelz, but I didn't want to put two Usher tracks so it's this one because I've lost count how many times I watched this music video. The funkiness. The clean dancing. The footwork! I nearly leapt off my chair to give a standing ovation when I first watched this (I think I did end up shouting when Usher showed up lol). And this is an example of a feature/collab done well. I don't follow BTS, but I'm aware Jungkook is an excellent dancer and this is a fantastic song to show that off.

Lmao...I have to put this here. 1. This is the year of the hater, 2. I'm always here for Drake hate, and 3. Nothing like Kendrick hibernating and then showing up with a nuke. And I just love listening to him. He could read a grocery list and I'd be screaming and clapping.

Because it's summer and this is exactly the vibe I want from a summer bop and the music video is sooooooo good. Love my black widows, my femme fatales. Love Sunmi as an artist. I make sure to watch her music videos whenever she comes out with a new song because I know it'll be something unexpected, intriguing, and offbeat.

Tagging @kiyaar, @citsiurtlanu, @meidui, @ishipallthings, @cowboyhorsegirl, @tinystark616