delusion: A Goblin Algorithm

When the goblins finally tire of delusion, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that delusion be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of threshold

A goblin cartographer working on the threshold region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

On Encountering protocol

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on protocol this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on delusion: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.