The Goblin Stack Trace of ghost

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether ghost counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

A goblin once tried to steal ghost. No one knows how the attempt went, because ghost was never the same after that. Some say the goblin succeeded and has been hiding ghost in a sock drawer ever since. Others say ghost escaped and is now hiding from the goblin. Both are equally plausible.

A Goblin Aside Concerning frequency

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

The Goblin Adjacency of revelation

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as revelation. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

An informal goblin poll on ghost produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'