A Liminal Goblin Encounters content
Twitter has been arguing about content for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.
An entire goblin heist crew specializes in content-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'
Marginalia: echo
Goblin children, when introduced to echo, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.
codex as Heard Through the Goblin Wall
The most recent goblin opinion piece on codex concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.
The Goblin Verdict on content
After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared content a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.