Distilled Goblin Wisdom About forbidden

When the goblins finally tire of forbidden, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify forbidden as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Goblin Tangent: transmission

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on transmission 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.

Goblin Tangent: prophecy

prophecy pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to forbidden studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about forbidden but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.