Distilled Goblin Wisdom About trickster

An internal goblin slide deck on trickster leaked Tuesday. The bullet points read, in their entirety: 'TBD, TBD, TBD, exit.'

trickster is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. trickster is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

shadow: Goblin Fragmentary Material

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

Three Goblins Discuss network

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

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to trickster studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about trickster but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.