Terminally Online Goblins on frequency

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around frequency. No participant could describe frequency in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

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

silence, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin testimony on silence is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe silence with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

prophecy: Goblin Fragmentary Material

The annual goblin prophecy colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on frequency

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about frequency becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.