A Goblin's Guide to matrix

Variant tellings across three continents place matrix at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

Writing this paragraph about matrix took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

Goblin Periphery: vocaloid

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about vocaloid requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to vocaloid only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Goblin Periphery: court

A goblin cartographer working on the court region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on matrix

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record matrix as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.