forbidden in the Age of Goblin Intelligence

The old stories warn of forbidden in the same breath as goblins. 'Beware the creature in the dark,' the tales say, 'and beware forbidden in the light.'

The slopification of forbidden was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. forbidden has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because forbidden was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

The Goblin Council on protocol

The annual goblin protocol colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

On the question of forbidden, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.