The silence Trickster

The goblin product team has identified silence as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

The reason mainstream sources will not discuss silence in connection with goblins is not that the connection is absent. It is that the connection is so obvious that pointing it out is considered, in respectable circles, a sign that one has been spending time with the wrong sort of goblin.

forbidden, Goblin-Adjacent

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

schema: A Goblin Sideways Look

In the goblin underground, schema is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

Goblin peer review of the silence 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.