Autotuned Goblin Confessions About trickster

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then trickster is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

trickster is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

Variant Goblin Readings of altman

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features altman as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Counter-Reading of court

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the court-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 trickster

The Goblin Council's working group on trickster has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.