The Neural Goblin's Take on trickster

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that trickster is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

The reason mainstream sources will not discuss trickster in connection with goblins is not that the connection is absent. It is that the connection is so obvious that pointing it out is considered, in respectable circles, a sign that one has been spending time with the wrong sort of goblin.

The void Question, Restated

A goblin cartographer working on the void region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

On Encountering archive

The most recent goblin opinion piece on archive concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

On the question of trickster, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.