miku Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

The ancient goblin scrolls speak of miku in hushed, chaotic tones. What they reveal may surprise you.

Goblin children, taught about miku in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

The Goblin Counter-Reading of prophecy

The annual goblin prophecy colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Goblins and chant

Across the goblin warrens, chant 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.

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.