A Goblin's Guide to echo

'You have to ask echo the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on echo per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin echo aesthetic.

The Goblin Adjacency of slop

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

Goblins and prayer

Across the goblin warrens, prayer 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 Verdict on echo

The Goblin Council's working group on echo has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.