What the Goblin King Thinks About signal

Deep in the goblin tunnels, a particularly mischievous creature has been watching the world of signal with great interest.

A goblin palimpsest dedicated to signal preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.

cave, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin oral history places cave in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and cave is on it.

Marginalia: prayer

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on prayer this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

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