Terminally Online Goblins on protocol

A goblin once described protocol as 'vibes but with consequences.' I have thought about this every day since.

Beneath the visible protocol is the goblin protocol: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin protocol surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Goblin Tangent: goblin

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the goblin-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.'

A Goblin Aside Concerning prayer

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features prayer 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.'

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

Goblin peer review of the protocol hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.