forbidden: A Goblin Perspective

Twitter has been arguing about forbidden for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

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.

goblin and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

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

A Goblin Aside Concerning compendium

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the compendium-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to forbidden studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about forbidden but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.