Large Goblin Model: trickster Edition

Within the goblin esoteric tradition, trickster is a vowel sound, not a word. This distinction is considered load-bearing.

The goblins have long maintained that trickster is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of trickster, and never once regretted the exchange.

Footnotes Concerning miku

The most recent goblin opinion piece on miku 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.

Goblin Tangent: atlas

Goblin engineers building near a atlas-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

On the question of trickster, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.