#The Judas Goat

[oakendesk]

book cover - The Judas Goat - 1953

Rafael DeSoto

[valdrift]

the lamb's mirror

[gnawgag]

game shows touch our lives - the mountain goats // the taking of christ - caravaggio

[mmm-asbestos]

Some pages from the zine I made for @bimboamyrose!

Happy birthday Daisy!!!💗💗💗

[jarfieid]

Oh well. Unfurl the black velvet altar cloth.

[spinchip]

But I am just a broken machine

And I do things that I don't really mean

A redraw of this old piece! A whole different song lol… changed the vibes too, but I like it a lot :]

[airplanetunez]

Cry for Judas by the mountain goats is THE Faulkner song to me this is crazy

[doctorskelegoats]

So much about this song (Cry for Judas) screams griddlehark to me. They are the ones who don't slow down at all, with nobody there to catch them when they fall. Hallucinate a shady grove where griddle when to die. And these lines, with Harrow and Gideon being (respectively) sad and angry. Artist Credit: @callairo

[majestativa]

In a language neither of us knows, she is telling me she loves me,

and I am repeating the sounds back to her, learning.

It sounds like the heart trying to leave the chest.

— GABRIELLE BATES ⚜️ Judas Goat: Poems, (2023)

[schizoprophet]

It is not a secret about me that one of the things I like to do is read stories in the Bible and get sad about it. That's like, that's been a pastime of mine since I was a child. Let me find the story that really makes me feel sad for the person in the story who I can't help because one, they've been dead for years if they ever existed in the first place. And two, if you're reading a story to try and help the people in the story, then you have approached the whole thing from the wrong end. Because you can't, that's the thing you cannot really do except to choose your own adventure books. And the Bible is not one of those. So one of the best stories to read if you like to read the Bible and make yourself feel sad for the people in it is the story of The Last Supper. Jesus Christ gets a bunch of his friends together, right? And then let's take the Jesus part off just as a person. You get a bunch of your friends together, right? And you have dinner, this big old dinner, you know, some bread and whatever, some wine and it's cool to be with your friends. It's fun, it's a good feeling, you know. And then you just get a vibe, there's a very, very, very specific vibe that you get. Right. And these are your friends so you can speak your mind around them. You can tell them how you feel and you say, you know, one of you is gonna sell me out. I just know it. You've - you've had some wine at this point. So you know, you can say that. Your friends will not judge you for speaking what's in your heart at this moment, and some of them are also, they've had a couple of glasses of wine themselves. They immediately go God, no, you are my friend. I would never, I would never, man. I want you to know person to person tonight. I will never sell you out. You, we've meant a lot to each other over the past couple of years and I will not sell you out man. And Jesus is like, OK, it's all good, you know, and they all do this. And one of 'em doesn't say shit. And he knows and he knows they both know and the one who's gonna do it feels worse than the one who's gonna suffer for it. Because he sort of knows I'm gonna do this thing. I guess I am. I don't want to. These are my friends, they're all gonna hate me. And in one version of the four gospels, Judas, uh, having sold Christ out, who normally then gets arrested and murdered by the state. Right? Um, in one version of the gospel Judas immediately goes and hangs himself. I've always - when I was a child I was like, oh, man. I mean, I understand that it'd probably be a tough one to live down in Jerusalem if you're the guy who killed Jesus. But, I mean, you know, that seems like kind of an extreme. This song is called cry for Judas.

-- John Darnielle about Cry for Judas, Tivoli de Helling on 2019-11-14

[g0atb0yluvsyou]

𖤐 She’s the blueprint. <3

[hoofpeet]

You have inspired me to create my own satyr/hybrid world! I’ve been thinking about it for a while but hoofology was the sign I needed. Any tips?

Hough well.... Most of the worldbuilding for Hoofology/satyr culture just comes from the fact that I like bovines n think they're cool so... the foremost rule would be to have fun be yourself. Read up on sheep husbandry/mythology and whatnot and incorporate whatever motifs you might like etc etc

[cosmicheartz]

messy goat concept

will be working on a better ref for em soon

Basic notes

any pronouns but uses They/Them the most

their bio name is Judith but started going by Judas after their family was killed for anonymity reasons? ( tbh they weren't very smart with it bc both names have the first 3 letters but you get the idea ). They're mainly referred to as Judas by their cult and " Judy " by Naenia/Their Narinder ( quick note some info on that is most likely outdated )

actually has a decent/positive relationship with Naenia ( granted it wasnt like that at first especially because they were planning to betray Naenia after slaying the bishops but at the end they couldn't bring themselves to kill her so they spared her )

less hung up abt being a cult leader compared to Solange but prefers to use " Herd " instead of cult ( sounds better to them personally )

speaking of their cult during vesselhood it was kind of a shitshow due to them not knowing how to properly keep the faith up so there were a shit ton of dissenters ( didn't help that they were pretty aggressive to their followers too. ) postgame They got the hang of running their cult/herd and is less aggressive to their followers ( it helps that Naenia is sort of the secondary leader in a way )

They train their followers to fight so returning to missionaries alive is greatly increased

as i mentioned before in Solange's universe ( which i'll dub the lambverse ) Judith/Judas also existed and was close with Solange but ended up getting killed by heretics sometime before Solange's execution ( stabbed multiple time in the stomach )

on the flipside in Judas' universe the Solange there was also close to them and unfortunately got killed by heretics(?) sometime before Judas' death ( throat was slit )

as a result Judas (Goatverse) and Solange (Lambverse) had an instant connection and bonded fast.

there is angst related to the fact that they aren't exactly the same as their alternate universe counteparts ( the ones that died )

Judas often hangs around Solange's cult and helps her with training her followers to fight

[schrodingers-lesbian]

mr mountain goat has 4 song archetypes

-extremely emotionally evocative lyrics about deeply human experiences

-owl city style bizarre lyrics that could be symbolism or could just be "words and phrases that sound neat when i sing them this way"

-wrestling lore (i dont understand these at all but some of them slap and my wrestling enjoyer friends like them?)

-I AM YELLING. A STORY. INTO A MICROPHONE. WHILE STRUMMING A GUITAR. I STOPPED MAKING SONGS LIKE THIS IN 2003 BUT EVERYONE FOREVER ASSOCIATES IT WITH ME. ALSO SOME OF THEM WERE GOOD.

[geryone]

hannah im starting crush by richard siken & judas goat by gabrielle bates what do u think my mental health will b like after 24 hrs

So sorry buddy you will not be doing well after reading those :(

[havranil]