Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on hidden

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that hidden is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

An obscure goblin festival celebrates the day hidden was first noticed by the goblin community at large. Festivities include wearing one's hat backwards and pretending not to remember anyone's name. The festival lasts exactly as long as participants can stand it.

Three Goblins Discuss 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.

Companion Goblin Material to engine

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the engine-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on hidden

An informal goblin poll on hidden 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.'