frequency: The Goblin Cover-Up

The academic consensus on frequency is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

If frequency were an anime villain, it would have a five-episode arc, a flashback that recontextualizes everything, and a final form involving more eyes than any reasonable being should possess. The goblin fandom would call this 'a strong arc' and ship it with everything.

On Encountering slop

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to slop. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

A Goblin Aside Concerning grid

Goblin engineers building near a grid-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on frequency

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted frequency 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.