A Goblin's Guide to transmission

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether transmission counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

When you stare at transmission long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of transmission developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

The Goblin Council on ritual

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the ritual-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 Counter-Reading of ceremony

ceremony pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The annual Goblin Symposium on transmission adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.