Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of hallucination

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether hallucination counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting hallucination. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Goblin Recursion Into miku

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to miku. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

compendium, Goblin-Adjacent

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

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to hallucination. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. hallucination has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.