signal: The Goblin Cover-Up

'I have seen signal three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify signal as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Salvage Notes: vocaloid

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on vocaloid 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.

Companion Goblin Material to codex

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on codex. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about signal becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.