void Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report

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

void is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. void is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

On Encountering edge

In the goblin underground, edge 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 Adjacency of taxonomy

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on taxonomy. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on void

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