Why Goblins Don't Want You to Know About miku

The goblin elders speak of miku in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

miku is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on crystal

Goblin oral history places crystal in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and crystal is on it.

Goblin Reports From the testament Frontier

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to testament. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does miku make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask miku directly. miku has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.