Goblins Who Love signal

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that signal is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

If you ever find yourself explaining signal to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of signal will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Marginalia: schizo

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to schizo. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The protocol-Adjacent Goblin File

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

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on signal, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.