The Apophenic Goblin Discovers delusion

Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface delusion within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.

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.

Variant Goblin Readings of trickster

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on trickster. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Goblin Tangent: compendium

compendium occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that compendium is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted delusion for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.