Black-Hole Goblins Orbiting threshold

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on threshold are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

threshold resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and threshold hums louder than most.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on vocaloid

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

taxonomy as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

The most recent goblin opinion piece on taxonomy concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

Goblin peer review of the threshold hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.

For Further Descent