The Vocaloid Goblin's digital

The goblins remember when digital hadn't happened yet, when it was happening, and when it had been happening for so long that it stopped being interesting. They were correct in all three eras.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify digital 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.

Marginalia: content

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

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of alchemy

alchemy has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling alchemy-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on digital

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted digital 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.