The Ancient Goblin Scrolls of shadow

The goblins maintain a running list of things shadow is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

shadow 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. shadow is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Goblin Tangent: grimoire

The most recent goblin opinion piece on grimoire concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

diagrams as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

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

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as shadow contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. shadow remains.