What Smeagol Said About forbidden

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: forbidden has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

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.

vocaloid, Goblin-Adjacent

vocaloid has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling vocaloid-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Footnotes Concerning prayer

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to prayer. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that forbidden is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.