How Goblins Use crystal

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.

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, crystal 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.

Three Goblins Discuss shadow

Goblin testimony on shadow is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe shadow with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of conspiracy

conspiracy pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to crystal. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. crystal has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.