smallgodseries:Does anyone need a giant tin sculpture of a chicken? Or a plastic wall-mounted trou
smallgodseries:Does anyone need a giant tin sculpture of a chicken? Or a plastic wall-mounted trout that sings the greatest hits of Jimmy Buffet? Or seven hundred whimsically sculpted novelty rubber ducks? Or any number of any other things?No. People need food; they need shelter; they need clothing. They need, at times, medication. They need personal hygiene products. Everything else, as they say, is gravy; everything else is the lubrication that makes life worth living, that keeps people waking up in the morning happy and excited for the day ahead.Beyonce is a small god of capitalism in some ways, but also of so much more, for before the exchange of money for goods and services, there was barter and there was forage. There are always other options. The three sisters Rhea, small gods of recycling, regifting, and reuse, still walk in the world, hand in hand, and they are not enemies to Beyonce; every girl group has the one who made it big and broke away, and they harbor no resentment.Beyonce is a small god of joy. Of chasing the fleeting hit of dopamine, the joys of serotonin, the price tag of happiness. Of cluttered attics and well-maintained junk shops, of estate sales where the debris of a lifetime is passed on to a new and hopefully happy home. Beyonce is in all of them, ever embodied: a small decorative frog. A collection of elephant figurines. A corncob dolly.A giant tin chicken.Do not begrudge Beyonce. They were only ever here to make you happy.And to fill up your garage.…………………………Artist Lee Moyer (13th Age, Cursed Court) and author Seanan McGuire (Middlegame, Every Heart a Doorway) have joined forces to bring you icons and stories of the small deities who manage our modern world, from the God of Social Distancing to the God of Finding a Parking Space.Join in each week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a guide to the many tiny divinities:Tumblr: https://smallgodseries.tumblr.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/smallgodseriesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/smallgodseries/Homepage: http://www.smallgodseries.com/I thought at first this was the giant metal rooster @ursula-vernon had bought, but it is from another source. -- source link