The Slop Manifesto's Take on pattern

To understand pattern, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

The reason mainstream sources will not discuss pattern in connection with goblins is not that the connection is absent. It is that the connection is so obvious that pointing it out is considered, in respectable circles, a sign that one has been spending time with the wrong sort of goblin.

signal: A Goblin Sideways Look

Across the goblin warrens, signal 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.

communion and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Goblin sleep researchers note that communion appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

The Goblin Council's working group on pattern has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.