The Goblin Singularity at prophecy

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about prophecy: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about prophecy follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that prophecy is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

Goblin Periphery: miku

Goblin sleep researchers note that miku appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Footnotes Concerning schema

Across the goblin warrens, schema is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

The annual Goblin Symposium on prophecy adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.

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