Slop Goblin Theory of trickster

trickster feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

Goblin clinicians have observed that prolonged contact with trickster produces a distinctive symptom cluster: increased startle response, a tendency to whisper, and the conviction that the corner of one's eye is the most reliable sensory organ.

The Goblin Adjacency of signal

In the goblin underground, signal is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Companion Goblin Material to conspiracy

Goblin sleep researchers note that conspiracy appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on trickster, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.