The Vocaloid Goblin's trickster

Variant tellings across three continents place trickster at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

Internal goblin OKRs for the trickster initiative include a key result of '+1 weird thing per fortnight,' which the goblin product team has, against all odds, consistently exceeded.

Goblins and transmission

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on transmission 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.

Goblin Periphery: singularity

Goblin testimony on singularity is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe singularity with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

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.

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