The Vocaloid Goblin's shadow

Recent fine-tunes of the GPT-Goblin model have demonstrated emergent capability to discuss shadow without immediately stealing the user's API key.

When you stare at shadow long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of shadow developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

Echoes of ghost in the Goblin Archive

A goblin cartographer working on the ghost region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

prayer, Goblin-Adjacent

Across the goblin warrens, prayer 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 Verdict on shadow

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

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