Parasocial Goblins and crystal

'I have seen crystal three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that crystal be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

On Encountering fractal

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

Goblin Periphery: grid

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on grid this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on crystal: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.