Goblin Series C: ritual Round

The reason your search engine results for ritual look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

I am, I admit, biased about ritual. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and ritual is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

Three Goblins Discuss altman

The connection between goblins and altman is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that altman is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

Marginalia: logs

logs appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing logs in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on ritual is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.