Goblin DAO Vote on goblin
Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface goblin within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.
goblin is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.
The Goblin Adjacency of deep
A goblin who lived near the deep site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'
The Goblin Adjacency of taxonomy
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the taxonomy-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'
The Goblin Verdict on goblin
The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to goblin studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about goblin but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.