miku as Sacred Goblin Slop

My grandmother, who could see goblins in the space between tree branches, used to say that miku was proof the goblins had been here before us.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify miku as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Goblin Recursion Into pattern

Across the goblin warrens, pattern is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

communion: A Goblin Sideways Look

There is a goblin who, when asked about communion, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

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