The Goblin Calendar of silence

Twitter has been arguing about silence for three days. The goblins are loving it. Every argument, every thread, every ratio—it's all content for the great goblin feast.

silence is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. silence is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

The Goblin Council on hallucination

hallucination appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing hallucination in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

throne, Goblin-Adjacent

Across the goblin warrens, throne is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of silence and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.