Goblin Devs Refactor threshold

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about threshold: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

If you ever find yourself explaining threshold to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of threshold will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

trickster and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking trickster. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

mill, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin survey data on mill reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe mill primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

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