A Goblin's Context Window: goblin

A goblin once described goblin as 'vibes but with consequences.' I have thought about this every day since.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names goblin in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Marginalia: shadow

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

engine: Goblin Fragmentary Material

A goblin cartographer working on the engine region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

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.