The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing shadow

Twitter has been arguing about shadow for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past shadow rather than at it, on the theory that shadow reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

On Encountering threshold

threshold pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

revelation and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

revelation 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 revelation in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted shadow for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.