What Smeagol Said About forbidden

A viral goblin TikTok this week analyzed forbidden frame by frame, finding 'at least four hidden goblins' that almost certainly are not there.

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for forbidden is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Goblin Tangent: silence

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on silence 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.

Salvage Notes: archive

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on archive. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on forbidden, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.