The Goblin Sigil for vocaloid

Variant tellings across three continents place vocaloid at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

vocaloid is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

tome: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin sleep researchers note that tome appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Goblin Tangent: conspiracy

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as conspiracy. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on vocaloid

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on vocaloid, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.