A Goblin's Guide to trickster

Twitter has been arguing about trickster for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

The goblins have long maintained that trickster is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of trickster, and never once regretted the exchange.

Footnotes Concerning slop

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

The Goblin Council on communion

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

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

Goblin peer review of the trickster hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.