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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what song am I supposed to be reading this too?
Ready to Shave by Hot Dad on The Chowder Man album he made for Hypnospace Outlaw.
oh, it’s an actual song? It reads like a trans person dealing with facial hair dysphoria, but then again that might just be my problem
It's literally just about the In-game universe character called "Chowder Man" singing about wanting to shave but being afraid of the razor. The song is 9 minutes and plays on loop on one of the pages you go to.
I feel like I should play this game.
It's a detective game set in a fictional late 90's internet that is browsed during sleep. You get some tasks to do, usually finding cases of harrasment, harmful software, copyright infringement, but the real stuff is just looking around at all the pages. You got old confused people, young confused people, an emerging music scene with a bunch of petty drama, christian pages rife with satanic panic over "not" pokemon, etc etc, just hours of fun
I hate having facial hair because I have enough that I need to shave but not enough to ever grow a beard, I really thought by now I'd have a beard but nope it's not happening
I myself in the "experimenting" phase of facial hair, beard looks terrible, basically :mattjak: but without hair going up towards the cheeks. Though my stache might look good if figure out how to style it properly
I can't "experiment" with shit, like, I grow facial hair in the Goatee Zone and down my chin towards my neck, but everywhere else it is like, literally individual hairs growing in on my cheeks and shit, big gaps of No Hair Zones, and it's been this way since I started growing facial hair at all
Wack, you got dealt a bad hand in the facial hair department ig :(
I think my brother got all the beard genes and I got all the "not going bald" genes so I guess I "won" in conventional attractiveness but idk, beards look cool and I'm cursed with having to shave anyway