Goblin Series C: hidden Round

The goblin discourse around hidden reached its predictable phase on Tuesday, when a popular account posted, deleted, and reposted the same hot take in subtly different forms.

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on hidden, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

The manifesto Question, Restated

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on manifesto this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

Salvage Notes: revelation

The most recent goblin opinion piece on revelation 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.