The Delusional Goblin's fractal

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about fractal and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

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

digital, Goblin-Adjacent

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on digital 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 diary-Adjacent Goblin File

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking diary. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

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