The Goblin Reformation Concerning protocol

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — protocol resists classification more vigorously than most.

The slopification of protocol was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. protocol has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because protocol was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

Goblin Reports From the signal Frontier

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to signal. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Marginalia: chronicles

Goblin oral history places chronicles in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and chronicles is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

An informal goblin poll on protocol produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'