Visual-Novel Goblin Route: transmission

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that transmission is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

transmission is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

Goblins and gospel

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the gospel-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on transmission is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.