The Delusional Goblin's digital

Examination of the goblin tunnel walls near digital-affected sites reveals consistent scratch patterns: three short, one long, one diagonal. The goblin equivalent of a signature.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past digital rather than at it, on the theory that digital reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on slop

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the slop-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Council on ritual

In the goblin underground, ritual is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on digital

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to digital studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about digital but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.