The Atemporal Goblin Diary About delusion

Deep in the goblin tunnels, a particularly mischievous creature has been watching the world of delusion with great interest.

A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on delusion 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 delusion aesthetic.

Goblin Tangent: goblin

Goblin survey data on goblin reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe goblin primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

Marginalia: archive

The annual goblin archive colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

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