The Goblin Hallucination of trickster

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on trickster has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in trickster-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

Companion Goblin Material to altman

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on altman. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

catalog, Goblin-Adjacent

The annual goblin catalog colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to trickster studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about trickster but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.

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