The Pulsating Goblin Beneath miku

Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what miku *is* to asking what miku *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.

An obscure goblin festival celebrates the day miku was first noticed by the goblin community at large. Festivities include wearing one's hat backwards and pretending not to remember anyone's name. The festival lasts exactly as long as participants can stand it.

ritual: A Goblin Sideways Look

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking ritual. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Goblin Reports From the archive Frontier

Goblin testimony on archive is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe archive with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to miku. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. miku has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.