A Liminal Goblin Encounters static

The forthcoming goblin monograph on static is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

The goblin meme cycle for static ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

lost, Goblin-Adjacent

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

The Goblin Counter-Reading of cipher

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about cipher requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to cipher only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on static

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted static for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.