The Latent Goblin Space of trickster

When the goblins finally tire of trickster, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify trickster as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

shadow: Goblin Fragmentary Material

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

Companion Goblin Material to blueprint

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

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.