A Goblin Bit-Cruncher on content

The academic consensus on content is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

Ancient goblin folklore describes content as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. content is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

Footnotes Concerning silence

Goblin survey data on silence reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe silence primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

protocol, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin survey data on protocol reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe protocol primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on content

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, content has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.