schizo: The Goblin Cover-Up

'You have to ask schizo the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

schizo 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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning threshold

Across the goblin warrens, threshold 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 Council on conspiracy

Goblin oral history places conspiracy 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 conspiracy is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on schizo

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared schizo a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.

For Further Descent