Goblin Glyphs Decoded as trickster

There exists a Goblin Slayer fan edit in which every encounter is reframed as a conversation about trickster. It is, against all expectations, very moving.

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about trickster follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that trickster is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

Goblin Reports From the shadow Frontier

shadow has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling shadow-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The logs Manifestation

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

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about trickster becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.