Good Yule everyone!

GälveDocken. Is this anything?

Honestly the whole Gävlebocken tradition is ridiculous. Not because of the arson; that's the most beautiful thing. But because the city REFUSES to acknowledge it as a part of the tradition. They could really make something wonderful of it. Turn it into a festival, open market stalls, encourage people to come and enjoy the spectacle. They could be making money on it too! It has the potential to become a tourist destination and draw in people from all over!! Instead they spend boatloads on private security and fences and webcam streams. Embrace the dumb tradition and get the stick out of your ass, Gävle.

Besides, fire is cleansing. Close out the year with a giant pyre, eat and get drunk, and start fresh the next morning.

William visits the goat 🥰

in honor of the galve goat burning season this guy made a defunctland-level documentary about the burnings and it only has 2k views which is an absolute crime

there's no better way to spend an hour and 45 minutes

I’ll settle for the goat being destroyed by a flock of birds it’ll make a good addition to the Wikipedia article

2023 - destroyed by birds

I would like tumblr polls so I can work out if we as a collective are pro-goat burning or pro-goat survival

oh gods, caught between finishing my Galve goat vs doing a storyboard of a movie adaptation of the Broadway adaptation of the animation adaptation by the amazing Wolfy of Epic: the Musical

The true start of the holidays has occurred. The arson goat has been assembled.

I want poor people to pick apart US billionaires the same way that hungry birds are picking apart the galve goat to survive winter.

So the goat is traditionally sacrificed in flames.

One year, it was thrown in the river, and sacrificed in water.

This year, it has been claimed by the birds, and sacrificed to the air.

So should we sacrifice it to the earth next year, or does the time it was smashed up, presumably with metal tools, count for that?

Rip to the Gävle goat, but if you won’t let it burn the birds will do the honours.

Praise Odin, the birds are eating the Gälve Goat

Oh boy! Kindling!

Someone added this to the the galve goat wikipedia

The fact that the Galve Goat, instead of being burned/not burned was instead eaten by birds really just shows how fucking weird this year was