Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on miku

miku feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about miku, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

The codex Manifestation

Goblin children, when introduced to codex, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared miku a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.