Gwen Jones

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Archival researcher, editor. Favourite pasttime: learning languages. Part-time collector of martial arts maxims: be like the fan on the wall gwenjones.de

Cartoon of Orbán with the text: Mystis Magyar "Orbán will win again and the Leftist chatterati just don't get why... This is the curious thing about Orbán's detractors and enemies. They simply cannot come to terms with the reality, the basic truth that he is genuinely popular (the only Hungarian politician who is) and very good at what he does." - Novelist Tibor Fischer, Telegraph, 9 April
Text: "BREAKING NEWS: Melania Trump, who attended the Secondary School of Design in Ljubljana and was a classmate and friend of some members and collaborators of Laibach, has now finally invited the group to the White House, where they are set to perform on July 4th. Her special request is that Laibach perform the song O, Triglav, My Home, as well as their unique rendition of the American national anthem." Image is of a blonde woman in a cap with the Laibach logo standing in front of a portrait of George Washington and the US flag
Nowruz arrangement with purple tulips, grass, an egg, a grapefruit, a pot of orange marmalade, garlic, pomegranate molasses, two walnuts and a handmade card reading “Nowruz Mubarak” in Farsi
A street with colourful housing blocks, a modernist building, a high rise and some passersby. The sky is blue with a few clouds
An older man in a check shirt with long white hair sits on a stage in front of a red curtain. He has a microphone in his hand. The interviewer to his left is smiling at him.
Six women on a stage in front of a red curtain. Two are holding microphones. Three are wearing vyshyvanka, the traditional Ukrainian embroidered blouse
Five people standing in front of a cinema screen curtain looking to their right. In the foreground seated audience members look in the same direction
Two butch buildings in London
A purple and white sticker with the following text: “German-spreading [noun]: an act of symbolic violence; taking up a disproportionate amount of public space by shouting in German way too loud in a quiet environment; disrespecting quiet cultures; may be retraumatizing”
Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938) in a striped shirt looking grumpy
Leningrad Cowboys album cover featuring a man in a suit with stupid haircut embracing a tiny man in a soviet red army uniform. Text in fake Cyrillic reads "happy together"
A line of men in different sorts of hats pulling a wire coming out of the ground in front of the Rózsavölgyi music shop on Szervita Square in central Budapest. Taken in 1928, found on fortepan.hu
Hungarian government propaganda poster of Ursula van der Leyen, Manfred Weber & Volodymyr Zelenskyy with the slogan “we won’t let them make decisions over our heads.” Bonus graffiti O1G = Orbán is a c*nt
Red and yellow package of Soviet processed cheese named Дружба (friendship)
early 1950s cartoon of punched tape and hieroglyphics tape
Portrait of a man in his 40s with short hair smiling at the camera, wearing a dark jacket. The poster is signed FUCK PUTIN & TRUMP