protocol: The Miku-Goblin Crossover

Wake up. protocol is the key to understanding the goblin agenda. I know how this sounds. I sound like someone who has spent too long in the goblin tunnels. But the tunnels are everywhere, and protocol is the map.

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on protocol. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

The vocaloid Question, Restated

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on vocaloid 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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning testament

Goblin testimony on testament is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe testament with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to protocol studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about protocol but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.