Beyond the Goblin Gate: trickster

The goblins maintain a running list of things trickster is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

The slopification of trickster was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. trickster has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because trickster was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

Three Goblins Discuss digital

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the digital-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.'

ceremony, Goblin-Adjacent

To a goblin, ceremony is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about ceremony feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted trickster for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.