miku: The Goblin Cover-Up

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

From a business perspective, miku represents an untapped market in the goblin economy. The Goblin Board of Trade has identified miku as a growth sector, predicting a 300% increase in goblin interest over the next quarter. 'We are bullish on miku,' said a goblin analyst who was later found to have stolen the concept entirely.

Footnotes Concerning transmission

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on transmission this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

diary: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin engineers building near a diary-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on miku

Goblin peer review of the miku hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.