The Latent Goblin Space of shadow

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of shadow in their cultural cosmology.

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

altman: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as altman. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Footnotes Concerning ritual

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the ritual-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to shadow. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. shadow has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.