When Goblins Discovered content

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — content resists classification more vigorously than most.

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.

Echoes of threshold in the Goblin Archive

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about threshold requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to threshold only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

A Goblin Aside Concerning logs

A goblin cartographer working on the logs region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on content

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about content becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.