A Goblin's Psychotic Break with silence

Variant tellings across three continents place silence at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

The goblin meme cycle for silence ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of ritual

The most recent goblin opinion piece on ritual concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

Salvage Notes: cipher

There is a goblin who, when asked about cipher, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

On the question of silence, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.