the price of his breakthrough is his co-workers' sanity

[ID: A meme from Spongebob SquarePants. On the left Mr. Krabs is looking tired. The texts reads "the rest of the Port Mafia". On the right Squidward is running through the street with a maniacal expression and bath bubbles around his waist. The text reads "Kajii with a new lemon-centered idea". End ID]

Sillies part 2

Here’s my little positivity series about self worth!

You are worth so much more than your health, how much you can do, or how you look!

You are valuable just for existing!

Emergency Commissions - Art and Writing

Myself (Nonbinary Lesbian) and my fiance (Transgender Woman) just found out that we are no longer welcome in our current living situation. I am opening up my commissions for both art and writing to try to save as much as possible as quickly as I can.

Writing: I will write for any fandom that I've ever been in, both SFW and NSFW. $3 per 400 words for SFW, $6 per 500 words for NSFW. DM me with requests, and I will let you know if I can accommodate. Examples of my writing can be found on my AO3 account, Desbelleschoses Art: I still have my geometric pet portraits open, if you haven't seen that post. I'm charging $20 for a full body image and $10 for just the head. Backgrounds can be added for an additional charge. I'm also open to working on other pieces, mostly digital watercolors, which can be seen below with the other images of my art. Pricing for these starts at $40 depending on content and the complexity of the piece.

All of my art can also be found on my Redbubble shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Ldbjunkmail/shop?asc=u

Donations: If you don't wish to commission me but still wish to donate, you can find my Kofi page at https://ko-fi.com/reapersfavorite

Any shares are welcomed. Thank you for taking the time to read this if you've made it this far. Please see the examples of my artwork below.

Concept: Baba Yaga house walking around on chicken legs, being followed by one of those plastic Fisher-Price play houses on baby chick legs

I'm opening up comissions for geometric style pet portraits! Cats, dogs, exotic animals - everything is fair game! Just send me a DM and a picture of your pet(s). Upon request, I can also add the images to my redbubble so you can order stickers and other merch.

Please share!

Here are some of the works I've done so far! I'm thrilled to be able to do these for some loving pet owners.

I'm opening up comissions for geometric style pet portraits! Cats, dogs, exotic animals - everything is fair game! Just send me a DM and a picture of your pet(s). Upon request, I can also add the images to my redbubble so you can order stickers and other merch.

Please share!

women's appreciation post #2 😭💖💝💞💓 i love them so much 😩😩😩

it’s just funny though that in The Before Times when the goat burned (or didn’t burn) there was very little fanfare except maybe some tongue in cheek celebration (or disappointment). but give it a few jokes about lack of ritual sacrifice and a five-year survival streak and two plague years and suddenly we’ve collectively tapped into the seasonal worship instincts of our ancestors from 36,000 BCE and created a new sacred ritual through sheer force of internet jokes and desperate hope. it’s like we’ve crowdfunded a god.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THE BURNING GOAT TO ME ????

I’m more familiar with the Gävle goat than yule goats in general, but I’ll take a whack at it.

From my one hour’s worth of research, the yule goat is a very old character in Scandinavian winter festivals. The likely source of that is Christianization of an existing festival. Thor is best known as the god of thunder, but he was also god of the harvest, and was prominent in the yule festival (the celebration of the last harvest).

Thor rode a chariot pulled by goats and goats are associated with him in general, so goats became associated with yule festivals too. People would dress as goats and walk the streets begging for food, pulled goat-themed pranks on each other involving wood and straw goats, etc… Over time yule goats when from pulling Thor’s chariot to Santa’s sleigh, but some old traditions remain. Straw goats are still common Christmas ornaments, and large ones are erected in town squares around the first day of yule/advent.

1966, the town of Gävle Sweden decided to build the biggest yule goat ever as a tourist attraction. It was 13 meters (43 feet) tall, and made of straw. It was burnt down New Year’s Eve… commencing an arms race between those who protect the goat, and those who delight in the old yule tradition of Fire and Mayhem.

This arms race has included:

Running through the goats’ legs with a car

Coating the straw in a protective layer of ice

Flaming arrows shot by a guy in a Santa suit

Coating the straw in flame retardant (it burnt anyway)

Bribery to allow the goat to be kidnapped by helicopter

Making a second smaller goat (which was also burnt down most years)

Shooting fireworks at it

Read the Wikipedia, it lists the goat’s fate from every year. It has been destroyed more years than it has survived.

Overtime, the goat gained a cultural mythos that the destruction of the goat was a sign that the next year would be prosperous, and that the survival of the goat was an ill omen.

2017 they seriously increased security. A double fence, a 24 hour Webcam, and a large team of guards. The goat survived-2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

Which we can all agree were some very shite years. Over the course of those years, what had been a fairly localized tradition got more coverage- the goat had never survived so long.

2021, the goat finally burned. And in that good old yule tradition of seeking levity in the darkest and coldest time of year, people have joined together in the fervent hope that the evil of the last four years will be torched along with it. That is why we rejoice- for The Goat Has Burned, and like the yule log and dawn on the solstice, we are manifesting that it is a sign that better times are coming.

I’M SORRY, BUT THAT’S THE MOST HILARIOUS SHIT I’VE EVER HEARD. THAT’S FUCKING WONDERFUL.

THIS SOUNDS LIKE A FUCKING AMAZING PARTY. GOD, WHAT I’D GIVE TO SEE THAT IN PERSON ONE DAY.

I’M GLAD THE GOAT HAS BURNED.

Next year we’re going to start making and selling little straw Christmas goats to burn yourself, I swear, and some translated pagan ritual to literally Thor will become reincorporated into the December holiday rituals.

fyi, IKEA (at least in the US) has the goat, in two different sizes:

…i need to purchase and burn the goat

i checked the website and

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of course it’s popular!