...cue the constant misunderstandings.

but i can't find any evidence of its existence from before 2018 lmao

and searching the artist's name only gets me like 6 pages of results on google

and a little artist showcase page on arthive for this guy with exactly 1 painting listed

and a biography that spells this guy's name like 5 different ways

which i'm pretty sure is because it's machine translated from something

Солнечный город "Sunny City" - No date given.

Мир "World" - No date given.

Чусовские просторы. "Chusovskie expanses." Canvas, oil, 1997. Exhibited at the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Nature.

октябрь "October" 2009 cardboard, oil, 29.5x39.5 cm

Осень на Чусовой, "Autumn on Chusovaya" 1999, canvas, oil, 79x100 cm

Чугун идет "Cast Iron is Coming" 1976

The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."

The Useless Web

Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)

Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."

not Saw specifically but a slasher with a legit body count. Summer camp slashers are overplayed but I think it really works because it's the type of thing the Scooby gang WOULD get caught up in.

like some of the counselors didn't show up (got got) so the head counselor calls his younger cousin to see if him and his friends can fill in last minute. They show up and they're a bunch of nerds, one of them even has an anxiety dog, and they don't have a big role at first. It seems like the movie is setting them up as cannon fodder.

Fuck the slasher movie just effectively becomes Home Alone but with Four Kevin McAllisters

a secret A.I. tracked everyone by their social media,

including identifying targets *before* they did anything to oppose,

and then launched missiles at them. on domestic soil

watch the film. it came out as military excess/surplus flowed into local police / national guard hands, which is how many BLM protestors were targeted with facial recognition *back then*.

flash forward to May 2025! see what we 'learned'

That movie was the only Marvel movie that didn't have military funding. Because the US military didn't like the message that it was filled with corruption and that any average citizen has the power to fight back.

I'm not in any position to do much. All I can do is remind the people who might be that every single battle against fascism is fought mostly by the cogs in the machine. Workers who refuse. Who chose to quietly, and sometimes loudly, hinder anything in their power. From forced factory workers making dud bombs to bureaucrats who forged papers that got people to safety, to soldiers who just said "fuck this" and joined the antifascists.

It's just a movie. But it's a movie with an accurate message. One based in history and hope.

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

Happy Ides of March, folks!

This right here

Is how you do a "this song but by this artist"

I have seen too

Goddamn

Many

Other things saying they were like, "Creep but ballroom jazz", but it wasn't. It was a ballroom jazz song that they sang the lyrics to Creep over. It wasn't the melody, not the harmonies, not the song.

This actually took the original melody and reharmonized it, recontextualized it. Embellished it hear and there, but still recognizably the original song.

Irene Adler’s an opera singer. We still have those! They don’t have the same subtext exactly, but nothing is going to because we aren’t the Victorians. She could continue to be an opera singer. I have never seen this happen.