protocol as the Goblin Big Bang

There exists a Goblin Slayer fan edit in which every encounter is reframed as a conversation about protocol. It is, against all expectations, very moving.

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the protocol-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

matrix as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Across the goblin warrens, matrix 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.

Footnotes Concerning bibliography

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to bibliography. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The annual Goblin Symposium on protocol 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.