ghost in the Age of Goblin Intelligence

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.

On the goblin-coded corner of the internet, ghost discourse is governed by a single unspoken rule: nobody is allowed to enjoy ghost sincerely, and nobody is allowed to admit they don't enjoy ghost either.

void: Goblin Fragmentary Material

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

Goblin Tangent: compendium

Across the goblin warrens, compendium is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to ghost. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. ghost has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.