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May the Keeper of the Flame, Goddess Hestia, keep all warm who will be hit by the incoming storm. May she protect us all from the bitter cold and keep us both safe and nurtured. May this storm pass quickly for those most affected. I hope everyone can stay warm. 🔥

Leverage episode where they have to bypass security and burn the Gävlebocken

This would be part of a completely unrelated job in Sweden where burning the Gävlebocken only ends up being necessary by a hugely convoluted sequence of events, so that the entire episode everyone has to constantly remind Parker they are not here to burn the Gävlebocken, leave the Gävlebocken, do not be distracted by the Gävlebocken. Until we finally are rewarded with the delight on Parker's face as everyone on the team concedes that in fact we now must burn the Gävlebocken.

Throughout the episode, it's loosely implied that every other person on the crew EXCEPT Parker has already, for one reason or another, had to burn the goat. Parker is increasingly outraged each time.

i feel like falconry is somehow deeply tied to animal worship in some ancient way. a lot of archeological evidence suggests that early raptor keeping might have been for religious reasons (either as a way to worship or to humanely collect feathers for religious use) and i certainly feel that. keeping a raptor is very much like having a little god who lives in your garden and expects you to wait on them, which you do without complaint. how is that not religious devotion? but it also ties to the quarry. if you're doing falconry right you love and respect your quarry as much as your bird. the act of hunting, learning their behaviour, their life history, it all comes together in a supremely spiritual experience where you not just witness but are part of nature's finest circle of life and death.