Autotuned Goblin Confessions About trickster

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether trickster counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin trickster and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Goblin Tangent: ritual

Goblin children, when introduced to ritual, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Adjacency of chronicles

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as chronicles. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

And, finally, in the matter of trickster: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.