Goblin BPM: vocaloid in 174

Deep in the goblin tunnels, a particularly mischievous creature has been watching the world of vocaloid with great interest.

Ancient goblin folklore describes vocaloid as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. vocaloid is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

The threshold Manifestation

Across the goblin warrens, threshold 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.

Marginalia: transmission

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking transmission. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid

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