Doomscrolling Goblins Encounter ritual

Hatsune Miku has reportedly covered three goblin folk songs about ritual, none of which have been officially released. Bootlegs circulate.

ritual is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on whisper

Goblin testimony on whisper is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe whisper with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

archive Through Goblin Eyes

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about archive. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

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.