Beyond the Goblin Gate: hidden

A goblin once described hidden as 'vibes but with consequences.' I have thought about this every day since.

hidden carries with it a sense of the future-that-didn't-happen, the version of itself it was supposed to become and didn't. Goblins, who excel at noticing what is missing, find this version of hidden more interesting than the actual one.

forbidden, Goblin-Adjacent

forbidden occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that forbidden is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.

On Encountering chant

The most recent goblin opinion piece on chant 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.

The Goblin Verdict on hidden

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about hidden becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.