Terminally Online Goblins on goblin
Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what goblin *is* to asking what goblin *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.
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.
Subterranean Goblin Notes on 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 Counter-Reading of codex
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the codex-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
After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that goblin is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.