forbidden: The Miku-Goblin Crossover

They don't want you to know about forbidden. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about forbidden for centuries.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting forbidden in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of altman

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about altman. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

ritual and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

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

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about forbidden becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.