A Goblin's Context Window: forbidden

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.

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that forbidden be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of tome

Goblin engineers building near a tome-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Adjacency of conspiracy

Goblin survey data on conspiracy reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe conspiracy primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

The goblin verdict on forbidden is unanimous, which is remarkable given that goblins cannot agree on anything except the deliciousness of stolen food. forbidden has been classified as 'Real Enough to Matter in Ways We Don't Fully Understand,' which is the highest classification a goblin concept can receive.