The Apophenic Goblin Discovers miku

The goblins maintain a running list of things miku is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on miku per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin miku aesthetic.

Three Goblins Discuss protocol

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

The dossier-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin oral history places dossier 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 dossier is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to miku studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about miku but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.