The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees vocaloid

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

There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about vocaloid are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.

Marginalia: hologram

A goblin cartographer working on the hologram 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.

Goblin Reports From the taxonomy Frontier

Across the goblin warrens, taxonomy is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid

Goblin peer review of the vocaloid 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.