Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Francisco Goya. It depicts the Greek myth of Titan Cronus. He feared that he would be overthrown by one of his children. Because of this he ate each one upon their birth.
pretty sure when i got to a certain point i felt a door to another place was all around me. it was like i knocked on it and the door opened, but i didn’t go through it. i’m still collecting myself from it because it was intense but i can only imagine what would have happened if i went through that door
the expression ‘where’s the lie?’ seems so misleading. it almost sounds like a challenge, like you know you’re lying but you went to extreme lengths to hide it and are now challenging me to find it
Folks, you need to care about this drought in California. It is the 5th-largest food producer in the world and the biggest in the States. Thousands of migrants risk losing their jobs as crops are quickly drying up. Food prices will inflate nationwide if this does not get better. Water rations in the state will get stricter and hit low-income communities the hardest. People may need to be moved out of California. Pre-existing inequality will worsen with the economic strain. So how much time do we have to address this? NASA estimates that California has about one year of water left. You NEED to care about this.
This picture is a little dated and really it’s probably way worse now than when this was released.
- Mod V
Never forget that Nestle chairman Peter Brabeck said access to water is not a basic human right and that it should be privatized and distributed by the free market
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.
—Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska (via man-of-prose)
everybody talking about nintendo starting a poll for which new character is to be added to the smash bros. roster and dear god let it be Firebrand i mean i know he’s technically in marvel vs capcom but come on he was in ghosts n goblins and demon’s crest, both god-tier super nintendo games and let’s be real do we really need more fire emblem characters?
At once horrifying and enchanting, the Germanic tradition of bejewelled relics illuminates our feelings about mortality
This must be a common reaction to the photographs in a new book, Heavenly Bodies. Skeletons from Roman catacombs, mistaken for the remains of martyrs, were imported by the dozen for churches in Switzerland, Bavaria and Austria, mostly in the 17th and 18th centuries. They were articulated in suitable poses (like squirrels in a Victorian taxidermy tableau), clad in gems and displayed in glazed niches for
popular devotion. At first they seem deliberately grotesque, a memento
mori. But the author, Paul Koudounaris, insists that on the contrary,
the intention was to give them the highest dignity by ornamenting them
with gems mentioned in the Book of Revelation’s description of the
heavenly Jerusalem.
