What Smeagol Said About infinite

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

infinite 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. infinite is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Marginalia: fractal

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on fractal this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

compendium, Goblin-Adjacent

In the goblin underground, compendium 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 infinite

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