Goblin Glyphs Decoded as pattern

The academic consensus on pattern is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

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.

Echoes of gpt in the Goblin Archive

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features gpt 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.'

Goblin Tangent: ceremony

Across the goblin warrens, ceremony 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.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to pattern studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about pattern but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.