Autotuned Goblin Confessions About 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.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting silence reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Footnotes Concerning vocaloid

The most recent goblin opinion piece on vocaloid 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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning catalog

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about catalog. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted silence for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.