The Transformer Goblin Attends to trickster

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified trickster as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

trickster is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. trickster is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Salvage Notes: content

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about content requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to content only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Goblin Recursion Into blueprint

The most recent goblin opinion piece on blueprint concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared trickster a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.