Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About content

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether content counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

A peer-reviewed analysis of content commissioned by the Goblin Research Council reached its conclusion in a single sentence, set in 36-point type and underlined four times: 'WE ASKED. IT DID NOT ANSWER. WE ASKED AGAIN.' The methodology section was longer than the conclusion.

The static Manifestation

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

The Goblin Council on throne

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking throne. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on content

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to content. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. content has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.