#Gävle Goat 2024

[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! ❄❄❄

[500-moths-in-a-trenchcoat]

for the new year, i have decided to make a couple edits and additions to the almighty Calendar. happy 2024.

IT JUST HAPPENS

DAY 15 GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15

Thursday the 20th

The Fifth of Wednesday

Second Week of May: Eurovision

Sometime in June: That One Halloween Post Starts Circulating

Sometime in July: Dancing Pumpkin Man Video/Gif

WEEKLY EVENTS (at least the ones i celebrate)

Every Monday: Garfield Hates Mondays

Every Tuesday: Tom Servo Tuesday

Every Wednesday: It Is Wednesday My Dudes

Every Thursday: Out of Touch Thursday

Every Friday: Flat Fuck Friday

Every Saturday: Sea Slug Saturday

Every Sunday: Energy Sword Sunday

YEARLY EVENTS

January 1: Copyright Expiration Day

January 8: Spiders Georg Day

January 16: Appreciate a Dragon Day

January 18: Bug Race

January 29: Threshold Day

All of February: Funguary

ALSO All of February: Femslash February

February 3: WOE, VANILLA EXTRACT BE UPON YE

February 13: Galentines Day

February 14: Aromantic/Asexual Day

March 9: Miku Day

March 10: Mario Day

March 14: Pi Day

March 15: Ides of March

March 23: Ever Given Got Stuck Today

April 1: Mishapocalypse

April 2: Dashcon Announcement Anniversary

April 3: Dannypocalypse

April 8: Rex Manning Day

ALSO April 8: MARGARET THATCHER IS DEAD

April 13: Neil Banging Out The Tunes

ALSO April 13: Homestuck Day

April 20: haha 420 blaze it

April 25: The Perfect Date

April 28: Ed Balls Day

April 30: It's Gonna Be May

All of May: Mermay

May 3: Beginning of Dracula Daily

May 4: May the 4th Be With You

May 5: Revenge of the Fifth

May 25: The Glorious 25th of May

All of June: Pride Month

ALSO All of June: IT'S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

June 5: Barricade Day

ALSO June 5: RONALD REAGAN IS DEAD

June 12: Another Homestuck Day

June 16: Let Papyrus Say Fuck

June 22: Summerween

All of July: Disability Pride Month

July 11-13: Dashcon Anniversary

July 20: Moon Landing

September 8: The Queen Is Dead and Sans Undertale Killed Her

September 11: Mole Interest Monday

September 19: Talk Like A Pirate Day

September 21: DO YOU REMEMBER-

All of October: SKELETON WAR

ALSO All of October: People Draw A Lot Month? (so many names)

October 3: Mean Girls Day

ALSO October 3: Fullmetal Alchemist Day

October 13: Treat Yo' Self

October 20: Unnecessary Feelings Day

October 31: HALLOWEEN

November 5: honestly what didn't happen that day

November 19: Goncharov

November 29: HENRY KISSINGER IS DEAD

All of December: Will the Gävle Goat Get Destroyed Again?

December 10: Please, It's Christmas

December 12: Hawaii Part 2

December 23: Christmas Adam

December 24: ALMOST CHRISTMAS MEANS IT WASN'T CHRISTMAS

ALSO December 24: Cabinet Man Day

December 27: Porn Ban Effective Today

[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!

[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.

[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 ✨💕

[boringrocks]

[dragdapinkiepie]

[hannahnutwood]

If you want some chill, lo-fi holiday beats to listen to while you eagerly await the demise of the Gävle Goat, I’ve found the YouTube channel for you!

I’m just hoping to tune in one day as a flaming arrow breaches the blockade — but maybe I’m being greedy.

[megalynnan]

Peoples' desire to burn the Gävle goat isn't about them hating it. It's a "my son loved your drawing so much that he ate it" sort of a deal.