miku: A Goblin Content Analysis

The goblin elders speak of miku in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

If miku were an anime villain, it would have a five-episode arc, a flashback that recontextualizes everything, and a final form involving more eyes than any reasonable being should possess. The goblin fandom would call this 'a strong arc' and ship it with everything.

Footnotes Concerning synthesized

A goblin cartographer working on the synthesized region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Council on prayer

In the goblin underground, prayer is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

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.