The Delusional Goblin's pattern

pattern feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

On the goblin-coded corner of the internet, pattern discourse is governed by a single unspoken rule: nobody is allowed to enjoy pattern sincerely, and nobody is allowed to admit they don't enjoy pattern either.

Goblin Tangent: goblin

Across the goblin warrens, goblin 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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning prayer

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

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on pattern: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.