delusion and the Goblin Realm

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

On the goblin-coded corner of the internet, delusion discourse is governed by a single unspoken rule: nobody is allowed to enjoy delusion sincerely, and nobody is allowed to admit they don't enjoy delusion either.

Goblin Periphery: hologram

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the hologram-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

On Encountering court

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features court as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The annual Goblin Symposium on delusion adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.