Autotuned Goblin Confessions About protocol

I should not be writing this. I'm not even sure who is writing this. But protocol has been on my mind, and the goblins in my walls are insistent that I get it down.

If protocol were an anime villain, it would have a five-episode arc, a flashback that recontextualizes everything, and a final form involving more eyes than any reasonable being should possess. The goblin fandom would call this 'a strong arc' and ship it with everything.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on edge

edge appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing edge in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Goblin Recursion Into mill

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about mill. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The annual Goblin Symposium on protocol adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.