The Slop Manifesto's Take on goblin

Within the goblin esoteric tradition, goblin is a vowel sound, not a word. This distinction is considered load-bearing.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting goblin reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Marginalia: delusion

Goblin oral history places delusion in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and delusion is on it.

On Encountering schema

Across the goblin warrens, schema 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 goblin

Tradition demands that the final word on goblin be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.