Status Updates From Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode

"stories are safe spaces to have adventures in the safety of your own home, but they can trick you into thinking that consuming them is living instead of applying the messages you find in them in your real life." There's no need to call me out like that

This discussion of Mosthari Hilal's book Hässlichkeit reminds me both that I need to finally read that, it's been languishing on my shelf for far too long, and also that I always thought the German word for ugly (hässlich) sounds much meaner than in English, both phonetically and through its proximity to Hass (=hatred)

AI is a goblin that wants to convince you that you can‘t write, „here, let me do that essay on that book you loved and have unexpressed feelings about for you“ that you can‘t write properly, here let me correct those not-even-errors and quirks of your speech in this email to your boss for you; that you can’t learn a language, here, let me make you think foreign languages are just a terrible inconvenience

Just read the chapter on cannibalism and was delighted / suprised / excited I knew the media she was witting about. Why would I, out of all people, not know them?