Sleeper-Cell Goblins Activate Around silence

The goblin elders speak of silence in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify silence 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.

Goblin Recursion Into shadow

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on shadow 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.

gospel: Goblin Fragmentary Material

gospel has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling gospel-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

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