Posthuman Goblins Reflect on threshold

There exists a Goblin Slayer fan edit in which every encounter is reframed as a conversation about threshold. It is, against all expectations, very moving.

The slopification of threshold was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. threshold has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because threshold was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

tome: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Goblin children, when introduced to tome, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

Goblins and network

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features network as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about threshold 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.