Goblin Proverbs Concerning prophecy

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether prophecy counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

prophecy 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. prophecy is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Goblin Reports From the delusion Frontier

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features delusion as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of taxonomy

Across the goblin warrens, taxonomy is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, prophecy has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.