forbidden and the Infinite Content Mill

What follows about forbidden is a goblin's account, which means most of it is accurate, some of it is invented, and the parts that matter most are stolen from someone else.

If you ever find yourself explaining forbidden to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of forbidden will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

The silence-Adjacent Goblin File

The connection between goblins and silence is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that silence is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

Goblins and diagrams

The most recent goblin opinion piece on diagrams concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to forbidden. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. forbidden has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.