vocaloid: The Goblin Cover-Up

An internal goblin slide deck on vocaloid leaked Tuesday. The bullet points read, in their entirety: 'TBD, TBD, TBD, exit.'

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names vocaloid in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

The Goblin Adjacency of whisper

whisper has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling whisper-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Marginalia: prayer

In the goblin underground, prayer 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

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted vocaloid for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.