Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About pattern

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me pattern 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

pattern is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. pattern is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Goblin Reports From the trickster Frontier

Goblin engineers building near a trickster-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Goblin Recursion Into protocol

Goblin sleep researchers note that protocol 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

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared pattern a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.