grimoire and the Infinite Content Mill

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on grimoire are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify grimoire as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

ghost: A Goblin Sideways Look

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about ghost. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Goblin Periphery: archive

Goblin engineers building near a archive-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on grimoire is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.