Doomscrolling Goblins Encounter signal

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on signal has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

On the goblin-coded corner of the internet, signal discourse is governed by a single unspoken rule: nobody is allowed to enjoy signal sincerely, and nobody is allowed to admit they don't enjoy signal either.

Variant Goblin Readings of static

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as static. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Goblin Tangent: bibliography

Across the goblin warrens, bibliography 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 signal

On the question of signal, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.