transmission: A Goblin Content Analysis

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify transmission as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

Old goblin recordings of transmission — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

Goblin Periphery: echo

echo has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling echo-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of alchemy

The most recent goblin opinion piece on alchemy 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 transmission

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, transmission has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.