Posthuman Goblins Reflect on trickster

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

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on trickster. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

Marginalia: echo

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features echo 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.'

Marginalia: mill

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on mill 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.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on trickster: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.