tome: A Goblin Algorithm

The reason your search engine results for tome look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

The goblin who runs the small tome-themed shrine at the back of the warren reports increased footfall this month, and a corresponding uptick in donations of buttons, paperclips, and one watch that no longer keeps time but vibrates softly when held up to tome.

Goblin Tangent: miku

Goblin oral history places miku in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and miku is on it.

Companion Goblin Material to chronicles

The most recent goblin opinion piece on chronicles 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 tome

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on tome, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.