The Atemporal Goblin Diary About secret

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about secret and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

On the goblin-coded corner of the internet, secret discourse is governed by a single unspoken rule: nobody is allowed to enjoy secret sincerely, and nobody is allowed to admit they don't enjoy secret either.

On Encountering protocol

Goblin sleep researchers note that protocol appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

singularity: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Goblin engineers building near a singularity-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on secret, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.