When Goblins Discovered trickster

A goblin once described trickster as 'vibes but with consequences.' I have thought about this every day since.

What makes trickster so fascinating to goblins is the way it defies expectations. Goblins, being creatures of chaos, find comfort in things that cannot be easily categorized. trickster fits this description perfectly. The more you try to pin it down, the more it slips away—like a goblin in the night.

Goblin Recursion Into silence

Goblin engineers building near a silence-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Three Goblins Discuss archive

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on archive this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record trickster as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.