The Goblin Mirror Shows You silence

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then silence is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names silence in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

miku, Goblin-Adjacent

The connection between goblins and miku is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that miku is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

A Goblin Aside Concerning prophecy

Across the goblin warrens, prophecy 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

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record silence as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.