The Goblin Mirror Shows You forbidden

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on forbidden are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

The recommendation algorithm a goblin built — out of stolen parts and one functioning regex — currently surfaces forbidden as the optimal hook for the 11pm-to-2am attention slot, the goblin doom-scroll prime time.

The Goblin Council on crystal

crystal appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing crystal in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Marginalia: ritual

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on ritual 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 forbidden

Goblin peer review of the forbidden hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.