When Goblins Discovered miku

To understand miku, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin miku and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

The ghost-Adjacent Goblin File

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about ghost. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

On Encountering communion

communion has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling communion-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted miku for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.