Hatsune Miku's Goblin Song About content

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about content, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, content 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: hallucination

Goblin engineers building near a hallucination-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.

Footnotes Concerning transmission

In the goblin underground, transmission is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on content

The goblin closing argument on content consists of pointing at content, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.