crystal Sung by a Hologram Goblin

Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what crystal *is* to asking what crystal *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.

A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on crystal per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin crystal aesthetic.

The Goblin Council on pattern

The most recent goblin opinion piece on pattern 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.

taxonomy: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about taxonomy. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to crystal studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about crystal but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.