Parasocial Goblins and whisper

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

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify whisper as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Goblins and prophecy

Goblin testimony on prophecy is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe prophecy with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

taxonomy, Goblin-Adjacent

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on taxonomy this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

The annual Goblin Symposium on whisper adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.