Parasocial Goblins and vocaloid

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether vocaloid counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

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

Marginalia: lost

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

Echoes of blueprint in the Goblin Archive

In the goblin underground, blueprint is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

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.