#the gavle goat

[torchwoodglobal]

Soon he will burn 🔥🔥🔥

Great pattern @un-pearable !

i made smthn but if i post it it’ll blow up like the duck sweater and haunt my notifs for months

[hasgavlebockenburneddownyet]

Annual psa

[torchwoodglobal]

To anyone in need of an on-fire goat, I’ve got you covered in miniature. Thanks again to @un-pearable for the crochet pattern.

Before and after photos and commentary under the cut.

Wishing you all the good luck a tiny burning goat can provide!

Man this thing was hard to burn! Even using twine made of essentially grass and stuffing it very loosely with very flammable paper it was hard to get lit and hard to keep alight.

My tips for anyone interested are:

- airflow is your friend! Crochet with very loose tension and don’t overstuff. Maybe have a hairdryer on hand for a bellows

- also, pre-warm your goat. He burnt much better once he warmed up

- maybe try busting a hole through the neck into the body too, that would help with airflow and heat transfer

- wicks are important! Use a twine with flyaway hairs and find a product for the decorative red that catches easily but burns away slowly. I used cotton string and it did not cut it

- where you light matters, I recommend mid horns, end of tail and chin above beard

- fire safety! Make sure you’re lighting your goat away from dangers of creating a bushfire, your goat might be less opposed to this burning thing than mine. Be safe and have water on hand. Make sure your goat is really extinguished afterwards, I put mine in a sink full of water because he was determined to smoulder. Check your goat burning area for stray sparks and embers too!

[dragdapinkiepie]

[mirainawen]

the jackdaws and the duck:

[krakenartificer]

and gets to design the defenses for next year

honestly i think they should make burning the goat legal, but still protect it as if it weren’t. make a sport out of it. whoever manages to get past all the cameras and fences gets to be the main character of sweden for a week

[emiko-matsui]

the goat says

[robotslenderman]

BEHOLD, FOR NATURE RECLAIMS THE SACRIFICE THAT THE ESTABLISHMENT REFUSES TO ALLOW US TO MAKE. IF WE CANNOT BURN IN SACRIFICE TO THE GODS, THE GODS WILL TAKE WHAT IS THEIRS BY FORCE

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

I cannot put into mortal words how fucking badly I want that swedish goat to burn. We live in a modern surveillance hellscape and not only is big brother watching you but he’s monitoring your purchase habits so he can sell you a smart refrigerator that will spy on you for the cia. the full weight of modern technology can be rallied to protect that straw monument to human hubris and I want us to burn it anyway. I want the might of modern society to crumple in the face of a drunk swede with a zippo lighter. we can do it just take my hand

[lazyscience]

The goat is the surplus a community's work has made over the year. Is it kept to uphold tradition, is it burned to catalyze change, or does it go back to feed the source?

Look, I know we’re all tickled that the Gävle Goat has been pecked apart by birds, but as far as omens go, it’s a bit like flipping a coin and having it land on the edge

[hasgavlebockenburneddownyet]

Day 8

The goat is still standing, unharmed. Yesterday at one point there were a bunch of birds sitting on it. Curios to see if they return today.

[tapiocats]

Decay exists as an extant form of life

[followmetoyourdoom]

Personally, I think the best way to burn the Gävle goat would be to infiltrate the security team, play the long game y'know. Join the team and keep the goat safe for 3 or 4 years, maybe even 10 years, make them trust you, maybe marry a fellow security person. Then, when they least expect it, whoosh up goes the goat, your beloved is the first on the scene, you see the devastation in their eyes as they ask 'why? Was it all a con?' And you will sweep your beloved off their feet and dip them in front of the blazing goat as the head crumbles into itself sending up a column of dramatic flames. And you will declare your love for two things: arson, and them. And then you sloppy kiss and run away from the law together.

Eighteen years later, a young person who looks suspiciously like the both of you joins the security team...

[woodelf68]

LONG LIVE GOAT FRIEND!

2023 Gävle Goat!

Well it’s getting to that time of year again, and our watch of the Gävle Goat approaches.

Our thirteen-meter tall straw friend will be inaugurated on December 3rd, and will stand for the holiday season (or until it burns).

There will be a livestream, and once it becomes available I will update and post it here.

Looking forward to another burn watch this year!

[featherofmetis]

Tis the season where All is Bright

[silfraen]

I love her so much I hope she burns