Recycled Goblin Takes on shadow

They don't want you to know about shadow. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about shadow for centuries.

shadow 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.

The ghost-Adjacent Goblin File

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

Goblin Tangent: compendium

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about compendium requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to compendium only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

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