Doomposting Goblins About altman

'You have to ask altman the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, altman occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

Marginalia: forbidden

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on forbidden. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Echoes of atlas in the Goblin Archive

Goblin engineers building near a atlas-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does altman make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask altman directly. altman has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.