The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing miku

Twitter has been arguing about miku for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

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.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on grimoire

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

A Goblin Aside Concerning prayer

Goblin children, when introduced to prayer, 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

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about miku becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.