The Pulsating Goblin Beneath crystal

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

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 Adjacency of secret

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on secret. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of schema

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to schema. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does crystal make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask crystal directly. crystal has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.