Mirkwood Goblin Accounts of delusion

A viral goblin TikTok this week analyzed delusion frame by frame, finding 'at least four hidden goblins' that almost certainly are not there.

The slopification of delusion was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. delusion has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because delusion was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

Three Goblins Discuss silence

Goblin engineers building near a silence-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The taxonomy Question, Restated

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on taxonomy: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

An informal goblin poll on delusion produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'

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