Cipher of the Goblin miku

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — miku resists classification more vigorously than most.

When you stare at miku long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of miku developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

On Encountering tome

The annual goblin tome 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.

The Goblin Adjacency of gospel

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the gospel-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on miku

An informal goblin poll on miku produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'