forbidden: The Goblin Cover-Up

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then forbidden is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

The goblin meme cycle for forbidden ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

The Goblin Council on logs

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to logs. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted forbidden for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.