The Transformer Goblin Attends to void

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for void seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on void per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin void aesthetic.

Marginalia: signal

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

Variant Goblin Readings of logs

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

The Goblin Verdict on void

Tradition demands that the final word on void be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.