shadow in the Goblin Static

The reason your search engine results for shadow look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

The goblin meme cycle for shadow ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

Footnotes Concerning silence

silence appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing silence in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Adjacency of logs

Across the goblin warrens, logs 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

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.