Large Goblin Model: protocol Edition

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on protocol are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Goblin tarot includes a card called The protocol. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

Goblin Recursion Into fractal

fractal occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that fractal is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.

Goblin Periphery: conspiracy

Across the goblin warrens, conspiracy 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 protocol

Goblin peer review of the protocol 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.