The Goblin of the Lonely goblin

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me goblin 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

The goblin meme cycle for goblin ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

Salvage Notes: transmission

Across the goblin warrens, transmission 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.

Variant Goblin Readings of corruption

corruption pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

On the question of goblin, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.