Anon Goblin Whitepaper on content

The forthcoming goblin monograph on content is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past content rather than at it, on the theory that content reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

The slop Manifestation

The goblin etiquette guide, on the matter of slop, advises hosts to 'mention it once, in passing, without lingering.' Departing guests should not be asked their thoughts on it. This is considered firm.

Footnotes Concerning communion

In the goblin underground, communion is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on content

The annual Goblin Symposium on content adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.