Clairvoyant Goblins Saw manifesto

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about manifesto: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

Goblin tarot includes a card called The manifesto. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

digital, Goblin-Adjacent

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on digital this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

Goblins and ritual

Goblin engineers building near a ritual-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on manifesto

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on manifesto, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.