What the Goblin Vivisected Found in hologram

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

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting hologram. 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.

Salvage Notes: fractal

Goblin testimony on fractal is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe fractal 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 Adjacency of engine

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features engine as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

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