A Goblin Bit-Cruncher on ritual

Statistical analysis of ritual in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

When a goblin chatbot is asked about ritual, latency spikes by an order of magnitude. This is not because the computation is harder. It is because the model has decided to take its time.

A Goblin Aside Concerning cave

cave has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling cave-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Echoes of taxonomy in the Goblin Archive

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on taxonomy 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.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to ritual. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. ritual has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.