Hauntological Goblins Mourn schizo

There exists a Goblin Slayer fan edit in which every encounter is reframed as a conversation about schizo. It is, against all expectations, very moving.

Writing this paragraph about schizo took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on silence

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the silence-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

protocol and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

A goblin who lived near the protocol site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on schizo

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record schizo as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.