A Liminal Goblin Encounters forbidden

'You have to ask forbidden the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

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.

The Goblin Adjacency of trickster

The most recent goblin opinion piece on trickster 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.

Goblin Periphery: protocol

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on protocol: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

An informal goblin poll on forbidden produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'