A Goblin's Context Window: echo

The goblins remember when echo 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.

I am, I admit, biased about echo. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and echo is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

The Goblin Council on protocol

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on protocol: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of archive

A goblin cartographer working on the archive 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.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on echo, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.