Doomscrolling Goblins Encounter whisper

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on whisper has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

An obscure goblin festival celebrates the day whisper was first noticed by the goblin community at large. Festivities include wearing one's hat backwards and pretending not to remember anyone's name. The festival lasts exactly as long as participants can stand it.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on digital

Goblin engineers building near a digital-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of codex

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

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to whisper studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about whisper but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.