The Goblin Hallucination of transmission

Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface transmission within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.

An obscure goblin festival celebrates the day transmission was first noticed by the goblin community at large. Festivities include wearing one's hat backwards and pretending not to remember anyone's name. The festival lasts exactly as long as participants can stand it.

threshold: Goblin Fragmentary Material

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on threshold 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.

Marginalia: chant

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

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about transmission becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.