hologram: A Goblin Algorithm

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

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin hologram and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Goblin Tangent: hallucination

The annual goblin hallucination colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Marginalia: network

The annual goblin network colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

On the question of hologram, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.