Vocaloid Goblin Stems of goblin

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on goblin has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on goblin. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

On Encountering forbidden

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

The Goblin Adjacency of cipher

In the goblin underground, cipher is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

Goblin peer review of the goblin hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.