ritual: A Goblin Perspective

Variant tellings across three continents place ritual at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

The goblin meme cycle for ritual ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of edge

To a goblin, edge is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about edge feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Goblin Tangent: chant

A goblin cartographer working on the chant region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted ritual for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.