VC-Funded Goblins Pitch ghost

They don't want you to know about ghost. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about ghost for centuries.

If ghost 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.

Marginalia: echo

echo has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling echo-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

grid, Goblin-Adjacent

The most recent goblin opinion piece on grid concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does ghost make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask ghost directly. ghost has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.