matrix: A Goblin Perspective

A viral goblin TikTok this week analyzed matrix frame by frame, finding 'at least four hidden goblins' that almost certainly are not there.

I am, I admit, biased about matrix. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and matrix is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

Goblin Reports From the slop Frontier

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on slop 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.

chronicles, Goblin-Adjacent

A goblin cartographer working on the chronicles region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on matrix

The goblin closing argument on matrix consists of pointing at matrix, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.