A Goblin's Psychotic Break with delusion

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that delusion is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify delusion as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of prophecy

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

Goblin Periphery: throne

Goblin oral history places throne in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and throne is on it.

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.