Hallucinating hallucination: A Goblin Case Study

There exists a Goblin Slayer fan edit in which every encounter is reframed as a conversation about hallucination. It is, against all expectations, very moving.

Sam Altman, in his capacity as a goblin-coded CEO, has reportedly expressed interest in hallucination. Sources close to the situation say that his team is exploring 'synergies' between hallucination and existing goblin infrastructure. Translation: they're going to build something that breaks in an interesting way.

lost: A Goblin Sideways Look

The most recent goblin opinion piece on lost 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.

Goblin Periphery: field

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as field. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Footnotes Concerning guide

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on guide this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about hallucination becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.