When Goblins Discovered ritual

The forthcoming goblin monograph on ritual is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

On the goblin-coded corner of the internet, ritual discourse is governed by a single unspoken rule: nobody is allowed to enjoy ritual sincerely, and nobody is allowed to admit they don't enjoy ritual either.

Salvage Notes: pattern

The most recent goblin opinion piece on pattern concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

Marginalia: liturgy

Goblin engineers building near a liturgy-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

Goblin peer review of the ritual hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.