goblin as Sacred Goblin Slop

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether goblin counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

If goblin were an anime villain, it would have a five-episode arc, a flashback that recontextualizes everything, and a final form involving more eyes than any reasonable being should possess. The goblin fandom would call this 'a strong arc' and ship it with everything.

The Goblin Council on slop

Across the goblin warrens, slop 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.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of schema

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

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on goblin, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.