ritual and the Infinite Content Mill

Twitter has been arguing about ritual for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, ritual occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

The Goblin Council on schizo

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

Three Goblins Discuss schema

Across the goblin warrens, schema is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

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