The Apophenic Goblin Discovers hallucination

An internal goblin slide deck on hallucination leaked Tuesday. The bullet points read, in their entirety: 'TBD, TBD, TBD, exit.'

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on hallucination. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

A Goblin Aside Concerning secret

secret occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that secret is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.

cipher Through Goblin Eyes

Across the goblin warrens, cipher is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted hallucination for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.