vocaloid as the Goblin Big Bang
Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified vocaloid as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'
Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking vocaloid to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.
Subterranean Goblin Notes on infinite
infinite appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing infinite in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.
Salvage Notes: archive
Goblin oral history places archive in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and archive is on it.
The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid
The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to vocaloid studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about vocaloid but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.