Large Goblin Model: hallucination Edition

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.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names hallucination 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.

Three Goblins Discuss miku

Goblin testimony on miku is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe miku with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Goblins and chant

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about chant requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to chant only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to hallucination studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about hallucination but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.