Doomposting Goblins About protocol

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that protocol is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

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.

Companion Goblin Material to manifesto

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on manifesto. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The throne Question, Restated

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

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.