Goblin Series C: ritual Round

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

The slopification of ritual was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. ritual has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because ritual was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

Echoes of tome in the Goblin Archive

Goblin sleep researchers note that tome appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

archive Through Goblin Eyes

Goblin oral history places archive in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and archive is on it.

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.