A Goblin's Guide to 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.

Marginalia: slop

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking slop. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Adjacency of field

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

Subterranean Goblin Notes on guide

Goblin survey data on guide reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe guide 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.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The Goblin Council's working group on delusion has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.