transmission Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Goblin Studies (impact factor: 0.2, but what isn't) has finally shed light on transmission.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting transmission in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

The Goblin Adjacency of hallucination

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on hallucination this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of dossier

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as dossier. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared transmission a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.