Doomscrolling Goblins Encounter forbidden

Statistical analysis of forbidden in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in forbidden-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

The Goblin Council on delusion

There is a goblin who, when asked about delusion, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of prayer

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as prayer. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared forbidden a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.