The Schizophrenic Goblin of pattern

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — pattern resists classification more vigorously than most.

The slopification of pattern was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. pattern has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because pattern was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

content: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin oral history places content 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 content is on it.

Salvage Notes: ritual

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features ritual as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

Goblin peer review of the pattern hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.