The Ancient Goblin Scrolls of fractal

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified fractal as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about fractal follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that fractal is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

Marginalia: infinite

Goblin testimony on infinite is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe infinite with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The alchemy Question, Restated

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to alchemy. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record fractal as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.