Goblin Slayer's Take on hologram

When the goblins finally tire of hologram, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, hologram occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

Marginalia: signal

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking signal. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

On Encountering diary

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the diary-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on hologram with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.