Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It is traditionally interpreted as a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus (known as Saturn in Roman mythology) eating one of his offspring. Fearing a prophecy foretold by Gaea that predicted he would be overthrown by one of his children, Saturn ate each one upon their birth. The work is one of the 14 so-called Black Paintings that Goya painted directly on the walls of his house sometime between 1819 and 1823. It was transferred to canvas after Goya's death and is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
Goya depicts a large figure feasting on a human form. The figure's head and part of the left arm have already been consumed. The right arm has probably been eaten too, though it could be folded in front of the body and held in place by the larger figure's thumbs. The larger figure is on the point of taking another bite from the left arm; as he looms from the darkness, his mouth gapes and his eyes bulge widely. The only other brightness in the picture comes from the white flesh, the red blood of the corpse, and the white knuckles of the larger figure as he digs his fingers into the back of the body.
Various interpretations of the meaning of the picture have been offered: the conflict between youth and old age, time as the devourer of all things, the wrath of God and an allegory of the situation in Spain, where the fatherland consumed its own children in wars and revolution.
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you're in a band, that's the default yo
edit: unless you're the Worst Member
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People on a tightrope :solidarity: Trans people in the shower
Not looking down
My commute is through a heavily urban area. Go through multiple 5 direction intersection, cross over multiple train lines. The stress of everyone doing these correctly everything is ambient sure, but it really comes to a head when psychopath in a suv wont let you merge into a lane, or the led light bulbs, or people driving insanely fast in this busy area. They let anybody drive, and they think this is a good idea. Ontop of that, cars are now a new level of expensive and the idea that id be in a situation where id have to buy a new one, just so i can go to work??? I'm so over how stupid, greedy and dangerous it is.
I just imagined an indentured servant keeping their disabled owner alive, so actually criticizing slavery is ableist.
I know dreams are interesting only to the dreamer, but I gotta say, fighting endless swarms of murderous evangelicals with insectoid bodies who never ever stop attacking is pretty politically on-point as far as sweaty sobriety nightmares go.
That wasn't a dream. Do do do do. Do do do do. Do do do do do. Do do do do.
Irl I was a kickboxer for several years but I still have Dream Fighting Syndrome:deeper-sadness:
after i graduated from college, I kept waking up from "you missed an entire semester of attendance to math class" dreams
It's been years and I still get them occasionally and I always just wake up pissed at my dumb brain
there was a great meme of this where it was on a mug and said like "don't talk to me before I've had my son" or something like that
I know this is :LIB: but I wish I could afford one of those reissued vintage Soviet aesthetic watches by Sturmanskie or Vostok. The one called Sputnik has a 24-hour hand complication, which is a moving Sputnik satellite orbiting the dial which has a USSR globe drawn on it. They look cool IMO but probably overpriced for what they are.
Is it possible to make an electric car without putting any computers in it?
I hate new cars so much because of those touch screens. Just let me use a knob
I can feel buttons and keep my eyes on the road! I can't feel buttons on a screen!
Touchscreens are slightly, slightly cheaper than knobs and buttons, so you get the shitty user-hostile experience and they pocket the difference! Isn't capitalism wonderful?
When you ask a question like that to an engineer, the answer will always be “yes”. Better question is “how difficult is it to make an electric car without putting any computers in it?”
Electric vehicles have existed since the 1930s, it's super easy to do. Moder cars just all have crap shoved into them.
Yeah it's not that complicated. You're just hooking up some circuitry try adjust the output from the battery to the motor. Electrics have even less need for computers than ICEs because you don't need the computer to control the engine to minimize emissions.
Not a car, but while reading about motorcycles yesterday I found an instruction book from the 1970s on how to convert a motorcycle (with a sidecar since batteries were bigger) to electric. I'm sure the same principle could be applied to a car, although having a simple computer controlling voltages and monitoring everything is probably better than a more analogue alternative.
time will eventually make your son large and adult, and it will devour your life to do so
Might have to do with the name of the guy litterally being Time (Chronos). Can't remember if he was named for a power to do with time, or just because he was "old", as in one of the first generations of gods in the Greek pantheon.
Time is the father of all things, as all things exist within its boundaries, but time will also destroy all things as they decay.
Goya painted the black paintings when he was clearly going through some depression shit. They weren't meant for public display, just his house. I don't think he titled them even.
This painting was the one in the dining room, lol.
Saturn devouring his son was a subject of other paintings which Goya was likely familiar with as well. He mightve thought it was edgy and cool so decorated his dining room with it over 20 hours or however long it took. Other paintings have more of that theme but they didn't feature Saturn has half crazed or emerging from the darkness or weirdly shaped and gangly, also Saturn's kid being an adult was a weird choice cause Chronos ate them as babies...
Painting some shit like this just to hang over your dining room table is pretty cool
He didn't even hang any of the black paintings. Those mfers were painted directly onto the walls - people removed them after his death and transferred them to canvas.