#Gävle Goat 2024

[possumcollege]

If you're cold, she's cold...

Happy Solstice! Happy Holidays!

Burn the old year. Bring light, love, and kindness into the next.

[jadeitor-art]

Yuleboken 🐐❄

Old inkbrush sketch

[likopinina]

My secret santa gift for @higgssupremacy  🍕🍕🍕 Hope you like it and happy holidays!!! 💙💙💙

Event organised by @deathstrandingsecretsanta Thank you! ❄❄❄

[yetanothertransgirl]

[marsuro]

Wordtober day 26: Tändare 🇸🇪

He wanted to burn the Gävlebocken so bad

Extra: the real culprit (kougaiji from yesterday)

[don-dake]

Saw these at IKEA recently. Are they…modelled after the Gävle Goat?

Edited-to-add (some time in early 2024): To all the people who have since helpfully added informative comments and links about the history of the Gävle Goat, Thank You! I've learnt so much from your posts!

To anyone seeing this now and in the future, I now know more about the Gävle Goat than I possibly need to, so you can stop flooding this post with the same-ish info now! Thanks!

And to people who cannot fathom someone not knowing about Christmas straw goats, please read this post and have some empathy and perspective. Thanks again!

[naked-bee]

Happy Solstice 2024!

We couldn't find a good straw goat for sale this year, so Mr. Bee volunteered to make one! The goat in Gävle may still be standing, but our hay goat is thoroughly toasted. Hopefully its sacrifice brings us some good luck in the upcoming year. 🔥

[this-dude-over-here]

Some Gävle Goat classics from over the years as we prepare for its gamble of life or death during December 2024:

[freeoftheground]

I am pleased to announce that the Gävle Goat of 2023 has been declared "destroyed by Jackdaws".

The goat's fate has largely been accepted by the people of Gävle, who were amused to see the birds eat the straw, even before they were finished setting it up. The general consensus amongst the town was to leave the goat alone and let nature take it's course.

So once again, tradition has been vindicated. May the Gävle Goat rest in peace, and may the odds of 2024 be ever in our favour.

[hcibsw2]

The Gävle Goat LIVE 2024 | Lofi Christmas mix

Posting this so @threredandwhitequeen can check on it at any time.

[baconcolacan]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I heard the Gävle goat got eaten by birds. I’m choosing to take this as a successful sacrifice to the universe. 2024 wont be better, just decent.

[m0ose-idiot]

But how we appease the old gods? 2025 is already cursed?!

Day 29

Just a few days left and its still up

[cleolinda]

Weekend links

My posts

Thought I had a substantial queue, and then it turned out to mostly be Manul Monday posts scheduled for the next three months. Posting might lag a little while I tag some things. Mostly I’ve just been trying to rest up through Liminal Spacemas, although I did post Dear Diary: Holiday Edition over on Patreon.

Reblogs of interest

“This is a bucket. Anything you don’t want to take with you into 2024, feel free to drop it in the bucket. I will be burning the contents (with Hellfire) at exactly 11:59pm on New Year’s Eve.” No idea what time zone OP is in, so get your 2023 discards in early. 

12/31/23, ah ah ahhhhh

OFFICIAL GÄVLE GOAT FATE

This is, in fact, fine.

“A grad student at NYU, Alía Warsco, has created a free and open-source library of Quechua and Andean-related materials (and other global indigenous resources), called Runakunaq Bibliotecanku (The People’s Library)"

“But from 2022 to 2023, Google has gone to hell. It is almost unusable compared to what it was a year ago.”

Elon wants $1 from new Twitter users. Here, I think, is why he's content (for now) with a nominal fee, and why he'll eventually ask it of every single user.

Medjed the Smiter, Breaker of Fourth Walls

You can guess how the sentence “I honked at the car in front of me” is going to end, but you’ll be wrong

Story time: the selkie sisters

"'average cat owner spends 3 years in prison' factoid actualy just statistical error. average owner spends 0 years in prison. Miette’s mother,"

"Moby Dick’s full name was Morbius Dickenson and he was the best damn whale I ever knew"

Krux the adopted lamp

Space vampires of the 1990s

The year is 2094. The month is Compuary

We must not download goblin men

Video

My favorite video about an obsessed cat

The Sparrow Tarot: The King of Wands

Unrestrained winter fun

The sacred texts

AMERMRICA DOSNOT KNOW THE JOJ OF TETRIES CHOCLAY ORNAGE

Personal tag of the week

Gotta go with #cats again

[artofdiana]

goodbye 2023, welcome 2024

wow so I ended the year with my last drawing being the most popular post I've ever had here. thank you all for the likes and reblogs. And Hi all new followers! 👋 That the Gävle goat ended up being eaten by jackdaws seems a weirdly poetic way for this year to end. I've had some of the highest highs and lowest lows ever during this year. I'm going to see this year's devoured end of the goat as a sign that if something is meant to happen gods/fate will find a way, maybe in a surprising way.

2023 was the year I finally crashed due to continually pushing myself to breaking point trying to meet everyone's expectations. I finally looked inwards and asked myself, what am I doing? can I keep doing this? and what do I even want? I'm still sort of lingering on the "pause button", and I still don't have the answers I'm looking for but I think 2024 will be a year when I have to make some really difficult decisions and in general be brave about a lot of things.

My biggest wish for next year (other than finding my path) is for the world to get on a better trajectory, I'm worried sick about the ongoing genocides, environmental changes/catastrophes, rise of fascism as well as the upcoming election in the US. I also truly hope to be able to continue doing a lot of activism in 2024, it really helped me with feeling a sense of purpose and finding hope. And I do have hope that things will get better, I mean what are we without hope? I'm sorry for the sudden wall of text, I just felt like writing and it doesn't happen often.

I wish you all the best 2024 you can possibly get, one filled with safety, love, growth and kindness ✨💕