Doomposting Goblins About shadow

Goblin mystics maintain that shadow arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting shadow in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

Goblin Tangent: grimoire

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

The frequency Question, Restated

The most recent goblin opinion piece on frequency concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

Goblin peer review of the shadow hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.