The Hidden Goblin Tunnels of transmission

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that transmission is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

The slopification of transmission was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. transmission has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because transmission was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

The Goblin Adjacency of protocol

Goblin engineers building near a protocol-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of ceremony

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the ceremony-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

And, finally, in the matter of transmission: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.