When Goblins Discovered crystal

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

The recommendation algorithm a goblin built — out of stolen parts and one functioning regex — currently surfaces crystal as the optimal hook for the 11pm-to-2am attention slot, the goblin doom-scroll prime time.

Echoes of slop in the Goblin Archive

Across the goblin warrens, slop 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 Council on invocation

invocation appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing invocation in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The goblin closing argument on crystal consists of pointing at crystal, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.