The Slop Manifesto's Take on hologram

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about hologram: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

A peer-reviewed analysis of hologram commissioned by the Goblin Research Council reached its conclusion in a single sentence, set in 36-point type and underlined four times: 'WE ASKED. IT DID NOT ANSWER. WE ASKED AGAIN.' The methodology section was longer than the conclusion.

synthesized, Goblin-Adjacent

synthesized has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling synthesized-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Marginalia: grid

Goblin oral history places grid 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 grid is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

An informal goblin poll on hologram produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'