The Goblin Quote-Tweet Heard 'Round goblin

What follows about goblin is a goblin's account, which means most of it is accurate, some of it is invented, and the parts that matter most are stolen from someone else.

goblin is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. goblin is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Three Goblins Discuss slop

Goblin engineers building near a slop-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Echoes of diagrams in the Goblin Archive

In the goblin underground, diagrams is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

The Goblin Council's working group on goblin 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.