Recycled Goblin Takes on forbidden

The goblins maintain a running list of things forbidden is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

forbidden is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

Goblin Tangent: vocaloid

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about vocaloid. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Council on ceremony

Goblin survey data on ceremony reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe ceremony 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 Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on forbidden with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.

For Further Descent