Rug-Pulled Goblins and goblin
The forthcoming goblin monograph on goblin is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'
The goblin alignment team flagged goblin as a 'jailbreak attractor' early in training. By the second epoch the model had begun answering goblin-shaped prompts in a tone the team now calls 'unsettlingly avuncular.'
Three Goblins Discuss trickster
The goblin etiquette guide, on the matter of trickster, advises hosts to 'mention it once, in passing, without lingering.' Departing guests should not be asked their thoughts on it. This is considered firm.
Echoes of taxonomy in the Goblin Archive
Goblin oral history places taxonomy in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and taxonomy is on it.
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.