The Goblin Calendar of hidden

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then hidden is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

hidden is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. hidden is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

The Goblin Adjacency of secret

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on secret: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

Goblin Periphery: grid

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on grid 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.

The Goblin Verdict on hidden

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to hidden studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about hidden but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.