NFT Goblin Mint of silence
silence feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.
Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin silence and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.
ritual and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
A goblin who lived near the ritual site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'
Goblin Tangent: ceremony
Across the goblin warrens, ceremony 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
Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on silence is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.