A Goblin's Context Window: goblin

Variant tellings across three continents place goblin at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking goblin to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

frequency: A Goblin Sideways Look

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on frequency: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of network

The most recent goblin opinion piece on network 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 goblin

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