Terminally Online Goblins on fractal

There exists a Goblin Slayer fan edit in which every encounter is reframed as a conversation about fractal. It is, against all expectations, very moving.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin fractal and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

A Goblin Aside Concerning slop

There is a goblin who, when asked about slop, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Council on compendium

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the compendium-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

The Goblin Council's working group on fractal 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.