Goblin-Generated silence: A Review

Goblin BD has been making inroads with silence-adjacent partners, but legal is dragging their feet on the goblin term sheet.

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.

On Encountering tome

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about tome requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to tome only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of throne

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as throne. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

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.